undercover police
At Sydney Uni this morning there was a message chalked onto the path which runs between the library and the quad, it went something like this:
The message left me mildly paranoid. Who would write something so indefinate, and why?
are you aware that undercover police are targeting activists on campus, 3 students have been arrested in the last 2 weeksIt's rather sinister, the use of the adjective undercover rather than plain clothes suggests police infiltrating student groups. And what kind of police, federal or state? And what were the students arrested for? Normal style crime - drug selling, theft, rape, murder. Or the more difficult to pin down terrorist threat type stuff.
The message left me mildly paranoid. Who would write something so indefinate, and why?
posted by lynn at 7:24 pm
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It's true lynn... the activist lists are running hot with news on police tactics. It seems they are targetting uni activists, especially those involved in the current VSU (Voluntary Student Unionism) campaign. One activist was returning from a meeting at the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre to his home recently and the cops followed him to the back streets. There they arrested him. A friend of his apparently asked what the charge was. 'If you do bad things, you will be punished' replied the cop.
Scott Parkin? Civil liberties? The innocent Brazilian electrician shot to death in London. If we oppose the new order, we will be punished they tell us. So we gotta oppose more, they can't punish us all.
So are these people being arrested and held under the new legislation where the police can hold you without charge for 5 days? Are people then getting released without charge, if not what are they being charged with?
Actually it's 14 days, not 5 days that you can be held without charge. Hmmm.
I don't know enough about this - can the state police make that kind of arrest? or does it have to be federal police or agents with "special" powers?
just a note... the cop said 'if you do EVIL' not 'bad things'.
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