Media Release 9 April 2001
Peacebus.com goes to Byron Bay
Peacebus.com, the colourful, campaigning, myth-making, s11 hippy bus,
will be bearing witness in Byron Bay this Good Friday, when a rainbow
region citizens gather to protest the sniffer dog operations against
cannabis users inByron last month. The action assembles:
noon Good Friday 13 April 2001
Apex Park (opp.Beach hotel) Byron Bay
On 9 March, without warning or consultation, Byron police, using a
cannabis-only detecting Labrador named Thor,stopped and searched in the
street scores of Byron citizens and visitors. Fifty five people were
found to be carrying cannabis, about 30 cautioned and the rest charged.
The Drug War suddenly got hot in the Rainbow Region of NSW.
"NSW already has 4,000 more full time prisoners than Victoria because of
past law and order campaigns of the Carr government", said Peacebus.com
captain, Graeme Dunstan
"Now Bob Carr is now making it clear (page 1 SMH 28/3/01) that he will
build as many jails as it takes to enforce drug prohibition."
"The man loses all respect. It is simply un-Australian to build jails.
Carr is in total betrayal of the underclass and social justice roots of
the Labor movement that gave birth to his ALP," said Mr Dunstan.
Peacebus.com will be in Byron to say:
No more Drug War jails! End the Drug War and release the prisoners. End
this war by police against their communities. End this war against our
youth!
Let's make peace on cannabis and recover its God given benefits and
blessings as a medicine, fibre, food, oil and fuel.
No more sniffer dogs, no more street searches, no more undercover
bully-boys packing Glocks and sneaking about to intimidate citizens and
visitors who are strolling or sitting in cafes at ease and at peace -
until the blue meanies intrude.
Local solutions to local problems.
The responsibility of police is first to make safe community. The Byron
Bay police forgot that when they brought the Drug War into the streets
of Byron last month. No warning. No consultation.
Tossed aside were the lessons learned in the community safety
consultations that pulled the police out of the troubles they had
created in Byron around NYE five years ago. Knuckleheads rule once
again!
Come Good Friday, Peacebus.com will be outside the Byron Police station
with drums and horns to remind Byron police of their duty and ultimate
accountability.
Come Good Friday, we who believe in freedom - for our times and the
times ahead of our children and our children's children - will be there
to remind every police officer in NSW that we are Australians and that
we will never let this land become a penal colony again.
For Justice! For Freedom! For the Earth! Viva Timbarra!
Graeme Dunstan
Peacebus.com
0412 609 373
9 April 2001
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Media Release 9 April 2001
Peacebus.com goes to Byron Bay
Peacebus.com, the colourful, campaigning, myth-making, s11 hippy bus, will
be bearing witness in Byron Bay this Good Friday, when a rainbow region
citizens gather to protest the sniffer dog operations against cannabis
users inByron last month. The action assembles:
noon Good Friday 13 April 2001
Apex Park (opp.Beach hotel) Byron Bay
On 9 March, without warning or consultation, Byron police, using a
cannabis-only detecting Labrador named Thor,stopped and searched in the
street scores of Byron citizens and visitors. Fifty five people were found
to be carrying cannabis, about 30 cautioned and the rest charged.
The Drug War suddenly got hot in the Rainbow Region of NSW.
"NSW already has 4,000 more full time prisoners than Victoria because of
past law and order campaigns of the Carr government", said Peacebus.com
captain, Graeme Dunstan
"Now Bob Carr is now making it clear (page 1 SMH 28/3/01) that he will
build as many jails as it takes to enforce drug prohibition."
"The man loses all respect. It is simply un-Australian to build jails. Carr
is in total betrayal of the underclass and social justice roots of the
Labor movement that gave birth to his ALP," said Mr Dunstan.
Peacebus.com will be in Byron to say:
No more Drug War jails! End the Drug War and release the prisoners. End
this war by police against their communities. End this war against our youth!
Let's make peace on cannabis and recover its God given benefits and
blessings as a medicine, fibre, food, oil and fuel.
No more sniffer dogs, no more street searches, no more undercover
bully-boys packing Glocks and sneaking about to intimidate citizens and
visitors who are strolling or sitting in cafes at ease and at peace - until
the blue meanies intrude.
Local solutions to local problems.
The responsibility of police is first to make safe community. The Byron Bay
police forgot that when they brought the Drug War into the streets of Byron
last month. No warning. No consultation.
Tossed aside were the lessons learned in the community safety consultations
that pulled the police out of the troubles they had created in Byron around
NYE five years ago. Knuckleheads rule once again!
Come Good Friday, Peacebus.com will be outside the Byron Police station
with drums and horns to remind Byron police of their duty and ultimate
accountability.
Come Good Friday, we who believe in freedom - for our times and the times
ahead of our children and our children's children - will be there to remind
every police officer in NSW that we are Australians and that we will never
let this land become a penal colony again.
For Justice! For Freedom! For the Earth! Viva Timbarra!
Graeme Dunstan
<http://www.peacebus.com>Peacebus.<http://www.peacebus.com>com
0412 609 373
9 April 2001
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