……“I’d throw myself down on a reasonable person’s
interpretation of the circumstances in Sydney streets last night, it was an
impossible situation,” Minns said on Tuesday.
“We had to keep the public safe, and as distressing as those
scenes were, it would have been far worse if it was … choosing your own
adventure, [if] the protesters breached police lines and we had conflict in
Sydney streets. That would have been terrible.”……
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, defended Herzog’s visit
and called on people to “turn the temperature down”. He told parliament that
violent footage of Monday’s protest was “devastating”.
“Many people who saw the footage, particularly
of the people who were praying and then action was taken,
will want to know all of the circumstances around that. I will allow the police
to do their job.”…..
Chris Minns defends police in ‘impossible situation’ after
video emerges of officers punching protesters in Sydney,
I was there at the
Gadigal/Sydney Anti-Herzog Rally on Monday 9-2-2026, and I breathed in the Capsicum
Spray. Journalist Michael West said of this historical landmark in Australian Politics, 'This is Chris Minns telling
people not to believe the videos that…of his police bashing people up,
including an elderly woman whose spine they broke in four places. And how many
people did they hospitalise?' He quoted George Orwell from 1984, here is the
full quote from me, and I remember the first time I read it at in 1974 at
Naarm/Melbourne's Brunswick Boys Technical School
'‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of
your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank
as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which
any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments
which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in
the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the
true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world
exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects
unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he was
speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he
wrote:‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was
their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the
enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual
would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able
to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong
and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended.
Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not
change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the
earth's centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that
he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two
make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
George Orwell 1984
I've seen the ALP do some pretty bad things, over the years
going back to Bob Hawke. But it' became the party from George Orwell's 1984 on
9-2-2026. And my ALP Blue Mountains MP,Trish Doyle is reading off the
script from Minns. I've lost all respect for her after seeing her waffle
on about 'social cohesion' on Blue Mountains Political Forum on Facebook. And I'm saying this as someone
who had a lot of respect for her over the years, including being on many NSW
Teacher Federation delegations to her office on behalf of my fellow teachers, including our successful salary campaign and public education.
With my retirement from teaching, I've returned to journalism
and wrote this here. A major part of journalism is good research, and
I've been doing that with reactivating my blog. With its reactivation, I’ve
been posting YouTube vodcasts and other podcasts. I've gone through Minns's
Police Riot on Monday, 9-2-26. All my posts are under the label on this
are labelled under Mossad Minns's Police State and it includes: from Michael West
Media: Michael West, Joshua Barnett, Zack Scho, from Crikey: Crikey’s legal
correspondent, Michael Bradley talking to Crystal Andrews, We Used to Be
Journos: Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf, and Antony Loewenstein as well as my
Comrades in the Socialist Party/ Vic & NSW Socialists, with The
Party Line: Anneke Demanuele, Jordan van den Lamb, Omar Sherrife & Josh
Lees & Red Flag Radio with Chloe Rafferty & Emma
Norton.
The historical significance of Minns's Police Riot has been
compared to the NSW Liberal Party's Premier Robert 'Run The Bastards Over'
Askin, with US president Lyndon Baines Johnson's visit to Sydney in 1966.
However, Askin nor any of the other Liberal or National Party state premiers of
that era never attacked their citizens en masse with the police against the
massive demonstrations opposed to the Vietnam War. The various state premiers
were violent during the 1971 Apartheid Selected South African Rugby Springbok
Tour against Anti-Apartheid activists. Although these were big protests, they
were not the massive size of the Anti-Vietnam Moratorium Marches.
It's also been compared to Queensland National Party Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's ban on Street marches in Brisbane in 1977. I was at one of those demos in 1977, but the Queensland Police did not do the widespread violence and bashings that we witnessed on Monday Night in Gadigal/Sydney. Mossad Minns wanted a Square Up with us over the success of the Harbour Bridge March last year, and he let the Cops of the leash to do it with their Kettling, the tactic of making cordon around people for hours, Mass charges of Police throwing people to the ground, Riding Horses into people, Bashing and Capsicum Spraying En Masse, all against NSW Citizens who don't approve of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza of at least 70,000 Palestinians, Over twenty thousand of them children. For what? To appease Herzog, a major player in this Genocide and a man who should face charges in the ICC for his role in it. Minns, the Police Minister and Police Commissioner, must be sacked for the 9-2-26 Sydney Police Riot.'
Yes, George was right. 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else.'
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