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Mark Deasy 🍉 @[email protected] · 2025-12-23 · 00:52 UTC

Who will be the first Mexican restaurant in #Canberra with a sign out the front screaming, "GLOBALISE THE ENCHILADA!!"?

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Starfleet Press Office @[email protected] · 2025-09-20 · 14:41 UTC

Starfleet reports note that Prefect Durrl of Lemora Prime is restricting subspace assemblies. Victims include dissenters, reformists and one individual identified only as "The Funny Jimmy". Protests are ongoing ~Cmdr. BF #LLAP #SPO #StarTrek #OneJokeTooFar #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfProtest

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Ken S @[email protected] · 2024-03-12 · 02:03 UTC

hint hint:. Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel would make for a very provoking backdrop for a non-vandal/peaceful protest.

After all, if Israeli-Government’s contempt towards Medical professionals and facilities in Gaza were universally applied during World War One and Two, nurses like Vivian would be dead along with her patients.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8292780/story-of-military-nursing-set-in-bronze-at-war-memorial/
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Ken S @[email protected] · 2024-03-12 · 01:51 UTC

Vandalism and War memorials, my thoughts so far:

Vandalism as an expression of protest is a controversial one, but one that hard to condemn 100%.

In terms of International human rights, we all have a ‘right to expression’, ‘right to protest’ ‘right to civil disobedience’ and as last resort ‘right to rebellion’, all with the intent of having rights respected for enduring peace. (UNDHR)

On the scale of things, ‘vandalism’ can broadly fall between ‘right to expression and rebellion’. ‘Vandalism’ in terms of graffiti, where there is no material damage, falls somewhere between ‘right to expression and civil disobedience’. In the sense that no person is threatened or harmed by the expression, it is effectively ‘peaceful’.

When watching ‘expressions’ and ‘protests’ as bystanders, we need to then reflect on ‘Why are people resorting to this form of expression’ ‘what is happening or not happening’ etc. How does the inconvenience of a traffic jam or cleaning up graffiti stand in comparison to the injustice that is being protested?
From the perspective of Palestinians and those sympathetic, what is happening in Gaza is a matter of ‘Present-Future’, whereas the Vietnam war is a matter of ‘past’. So what is more important: The deaths occurring now or the memorial of deaths of a distant past?

I question the effectiveness of ‘expressions’ targeting memorials. There are many different ways to use memorials as a backdrop of protest to amplify a message. But not everyone is blessed with the education and creative thought - and shouldn’t be looked down on because they aren’t as PR savvy as someone else, like myself.
In contrast, the statements by ‘caretakers’ for such memorials call to question the relevance of the memorials. Afterall, the purpose of Public memorials is to remember the past so mistakes are not repeated in the present-future.
We cried, expressed, protested and committed acts of civil disobedience about the injustices of the Vietnam war and swore ‘Never again’. Where do we stand on Gaza-Israel, while we provide material and morale support as a Nation-State? How can we condemn Palestinians for crying, expressing, protesting and committing acts of civil disobedience today?
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8551253/vietnam-war-monument-vandalised-with-gaza-message/
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