[ Below: Stay tuned - Provocateurs on sydney.indymedia.org ] http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5165734%255E15306,00.html
Call for protest website shut down Wires September 25, 2002 NSW POLICE Minister Michael Costa has asked the Federal Government to shut down websites with instructions to disrupt a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Sydney. Mr Costa said today he was deeply concerned about the websites which provided information to violently disrupt the WTO Trade Ministers meeting in November. "I support the community's right to peaceful, lawful protest but it's clear to me comments and information on these sites are designed to incite violence against NSW Police, who will be providing security at the meeting," he said. "These people have gone too far." He said the websites told people to arm themselves with baseball bats, slingshots, firecrackers, gasmasks and marbles. "They intend to harm police and police horses and put community safety at risk," he said. "That's why I have written to the Federal Government today asking them to shut down these websites or restrict access to them," he said. He said he would also take the matter to the next meeting of the Australasian Police Minister's Council. A spokesman for Communications Minister Richard Alston tonight said he would send the letter to the Australian Broadcasting Authority. "We would be urgently sending the letter to the Australian Broadcasting Authority who would take the appropriate action under the online content legislation," he said. "Whilst it's not possible to say definitively the website is prohibited under the legislation without a full investigation of it, Senator Alston shares Mr Costa's concerns about a website which may incite violence against police officers." A spokesman for Mr Costa said there were at least three websites involved. AAP ---- http://sydney.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=20726&group=webcast provocateur says 'shut up and shop' by Joanna 12:02am Mon Sep 23 '02 article#20726 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thankyou for including the link! It takes you to the original post plus 15 comments... http://melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33277&group=webcast The 'shopping list' was posted by a provocateur who has been spamming Melbourne indymedia in recent weeks. This is from the first comment I posted in response to that day's serving of provospam: More provocateuring by Joanna 11:29pm Tue Sep 10 '02 comment#33347 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For new readers: 'SUPPLIER' is a provocateur. This poster of many psuedonymns seems desperate to spread the belief that protesters are violent, and no doubt has high hopes that some impressionable youngster will read supplier's posts and take a smoke bomb to the Sydney WTO demonstration. As a last resort, 'supplier' might take a smoke bomb along in person. Because smoke bombs look bad on TV, and 'supplier' doesn't care about asthmatics. 'Supplier' no doubt also wishes to distract attention from the real issue at the WTO protests - the WTO. The WTO is an unelected, undemocratic organisation representing the world's richest corporations. Its agenda is to further concentrate power and wealth into the hands of these corporations. To this end, in secret courts, with anonymous judges, it makes decisions that devastate third world economies and our biosphere. Click on the link at the bottom of this post for facts about the WTO. All the best, Joanna http://www.s11.org/n14/facts.html -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
