Re: Reason 5 to avoid the police


"Mike" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Uno Hoo!" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> "Mike" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:5je4a3-6ji.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > "Uno Hoo!" <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >>
>> >> I suspect that the main reason the NATS did not want to surrender into
>> >> police custody for temporary detention was the fact that their
>> >> vehicles
>> >> (which were invariably travelling drug dens) would be searched in
>> >> their
>> >> absence!
>> >
>> > No, the reason they didn't want to surrender to the police is that they
>> > knew that the police would beat them up if they did. As indeed
>> > happened.
>>
>> Nonsense. The violence occurred because the NATS did not 'peacefully
>> surrender' !
>
> Nonsense. The violence occurred because the police decided to beat up
> the travellers. !

The police violence occurred because police officers were sent into the
field to arrest people who did not want to be arrested. Had the NATS
peacefully surrendered, as requested, there would have been no requirement
to use force to make the arrests!
>
>> > By "search" you mean "unlawfully destroyed", by the way. HTH.
>>
>> No - I mean search.
>
> Humpty Dumpty. There is no evidence that any vehicle was searched.
> There is incontrovertible evidence that many vehicles were detroyed.
>
> Please get the facts straight !

We are not talking about what *did* occur - we are talking about what
*would* have occurred if the NATS had peacefully surrendered into temporary
detention as was being requested!

Kev



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