#criminalisationofdissent — Public Fediverse posts
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It was sickening though also enlightening to hear NSW Premier #ChrisMinns on the radio (ABC) this morning. It helpfully clarified that fundamentally, the public reason for all the chaos in Sydney's CBD last night, the reason Minns insisted NSW police prevent any march from occurring, is at its core quite deeply bigoted and racist.
What Minns admitted to in that interview this morning is that he did not trust rally organisers to do what they said they would do. He did not trust that a rally route ending at parliament house wouldn't actually be a Trojan horse for protesters to suddenly break off through police lines and go rampaging on a pogrom through the streets, looking for Jewish people to harm. That is why there couldn't be a march.
Something like 100 rallies organised by the same people, at which we have followed the agreed route every time. A hundred rallies without any arrests for violence or flouting lawful police directions (indeed, the only charges of violence in the context of 28 months of anti-genocide protest are from a police officer recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to a political candidate who ran against Prime Minister Albanese and came second to him in his electorate).
#NSWpol #NSWPolice #protest #Sydney #Gadigal #CriminalisationOfDIssent #HerzogNotWelcome
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Thinking today of mob around this continent feeling unnoticed and unwanted (again).
If (almost) any other community had been targeted by an attempted mass murder (likely mass casualty bombing attack) at a gathering marking a sacred day of mourning, do you think it might have made a few more headlines? Might there be a bit more discussion in parliament? Calls for a #RoyalCommission, extensive community discussion of how to address the pervasive #racism very likely at the root of the attack?
There already exists a comprehensive national #antiracism strategy developed over years in consultation with a wide number of relevant experts and stakeholders. It was delivered to the federal government and tabled in parliament over a year ago. The government is yet to respond.
Instead, the duopoly reaches for knee-jerk rushed legislation, atrociously designed, with almost no opportunity for genuine scrutiny, that relies purely on the discredited approach of further #CriminalisationOfDissent Indeed, the existence of these laws is already being weaponised by the #MurdochPress against the very group targeted by the attempted bomb attack, claiming that #Indigenous criticisms of white Australia are racist hate speech and the groups organising the #InvasionDay rallies ought to be proscribed.
Jesus wept.
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CW: Chris Minns: you're picking today to attack an anti-racist movement (again)? #auspol #InvasionDay #26thJan #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWpol
Premier Minns, you claim that your draconian suppression of criticism is motivated by pubic safety and wellbeing.
How does it make Aboriginal people more safe to face increased police powers, when racialised violence from NSW police is one of the core complaints Aboriginal people want to raise with your administration?
Your new anti-protest laws have been used precisely *once* so far: to shut down a peaceful walk by an Aboriginal man accompanied by a few hundred friends, who intended to walk a few hundred metres, not disrupting any traffic or making anyone's life harder. To stop this, your government thought it was worth allocating about as many police officers as there were protesters, in order to physically prevent this dangerous and divisive event from occurring, using extreme force if necessary. What was the grievance of this individual and his friends? The racist violence of NSW police against his people. Yep, that's the perfect moment to premiere these shiny new anti-protest laws.
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Today's enormous march was also a powerful repudiation of Premier Chris Minns' attempts to criminalise and demonise public protest in NSW over the last 21 months—efforts that have seen Premier Minns awarded a special medal by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, an individual many believe to be guilty of the crime of incitement to genocide due to numerous public statements he has made in support of the Netanyahu government's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Minns has faced no public consequence from his federal counterparts for accepting this award, despite the notorious origin of the award, and despite the apparent over-reach of a state government official receiving an award for a foreign power for his efforts in suppressing public criticism of that power (as a state representative, he is not meant to meddle in federal foreign policy).
Minns attempts to stifle this march were rejected by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday in a powerful ruling affirming the fact that protest will always involve inconvenience and disruption, and consequently, NSW Police were directed to facilitate rather than suppress today's march.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckirKaU8_94
#ChrisMinns #NSWpol #protest #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWSupremeCourt #NSWpolice #IsaacHerzog #IncitementToGenocide #MarchForHumanity #Sydney #Gadigal