MEDIA RELEASE 3 JULY 2001
Sniffer Dog Resistance set to become
New National Sport
The HEMP Party candidate for Aston, Graeme Dunstan, has warned the Duty
Officer of the Tweed-Byron police command that sniffer dog resistance is
set to become a new national sport.
In a letter to Inspector Stan Single, the Duty Officer responsible for
police during at next Wednesday's Sniffer Dog Protest action outside the
Byron courthouse, Mr Dunstan said the sniffer dog operations were a no win
situation for the police.
"It is only a matter of time before the dogs, their handlers and their
armed guards are laughed out of town forever,' he wrote Inspector Single.
"The more citizens your police officers stop and search without warrants
and the more kids your officers strip and humiliate in our streets, the
more opposition you create to this kind of policing and the more friends we
cannabis law reformers gain."
As a last Sunday at the Byron markets, 70 new members signed up as members
for the HEMP Party. Mr Dunstan estimates this number to be more than the
combined membership on the National Party branches in Ballina, Byron and
Tweed Heads. At an art auction in Nimbin last Saturday $1500 was raised for
the Aston campaign.
"According to the answers given by the Police Minister to questions asked
in the Parliament, Area Commanders had to request the dogs. Presumably they
can request that they go away too", Mr Dunstan said.
Mr Dunstan promised Wednesday's sniffer dog protest would be a peaceful and
celebratory.
"We will be there to bear witness for justice, to make an Independence Day
call for independence from the US drug prohibition madness, to support
sniffer dog resistance hero, Rusty Harris", he wrote. "Please be assured
that no attempt will be made to obstruct the courthouse or the proceedings
within. Nor will there be any attempt to take the protest to the Byron
police station."
After burning a US flag, Peacebus.com and crew will be departing for
Melbourne and the HEMP Party's contest of the Aston federal by election of
14 July.
Further Information Graeme Dunstan, HEMP Party candidate for Aston, 0412
609 373 or 02 6689 7525 Michael Balderstone HEMP Party president, 02 6689
1842 website for Peacebus.com background
authorised by Graeme Dunstan Station Road Deep Lead via Stawell 3380
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