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Vic How would you rate Daniel Andrews' performance as Victorian Premier? - Part 2
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Australia's culture wars have been going on since at least the mid-90s. If you don't know about, read some back issues of Quadrant.
In the US, goes back even further to the late 70s.
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Out of interest, what would you have had them arrested for?
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It's just that you weren't particularly vocal in your support of people being allowed to protest at the time the BLM protests took place.
It seems that now you suddenly endorse the right to protest. I'm no language expert but that seems to be a pretty close definition of what a hypocrite is.
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because they aren't rapid rightists like the peanut. it wouldn't occur to him the restrictions have amped up since then.
The same thing they arrested people for today for planning a protest on Sunday
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... which is?
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So you don't endorse today's arrests because people now have the right to protest.
But you wanted the BLM protest organisers arrested.
Weird.
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so you're the one interested in his right wing s**t.
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Did they have a covid safe plan?
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I want to see how his mind works, why he wants to imprison people for protesting. I don't think arresting people for protesting is something that should happen in a democracy. Do you not think this?so you're the one interested in his right wing sh*t.
That’s because I don’t support protests during a pandemic and hell most of the time don’t support them at all.
I just want to know why in May, July and August people could be charged and arrested for protesting but June it was ok?
Other than the protests they fine people for were anti Government and the legal protest was supported by the premier.
Yet 5 people gathering is a public health issue but 10,000 causes no issues...
Well other than the protesters who attended, became ill and went back to their residences and now nearly 400 people have caught it...
Incitement or some rubbish i think
So you don’t think they should have been arrested? Yet I don’t see anyone complaining about it.
Oh so gatherings of 10,000 were legal in June? Then why weren’t we all at the footy?
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No, I don't. I also didn't suggest that people shouldn't protest the lockdowns, or the 5G protests; even if I don't agree with them or think that this is an appropriate time to protest, it shouldn't be for me or for the government to determine what can be protested or when or where it should occur.
So, when I ask you about this, I'm asking you a) if you know if they were imprisoned, and if you agree with the idea that they should be, and b) what specifically they were charged with. There is a difference between an arrest and being held in lockup, and being issued a writ of some kind; there's also the idea that people who haven't committed a crime yet shouldn't be charged as though they had already done it, but that's just me.
The right to protest should not be in question, the timing of that protest is certainly open to question.
Not a fan of people jamming their views down my throat at the front door or in the street.
The idea that Dan has no idea about how the hotel quarantine was set up is laughable at best, or at least he wants us to believe that for his reasoning behind the enquiry, surely him and his cabinet sat down and talked about the most important part in trying to combat this virus. If not then they are truly useless.
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Nor am I, nor I think is anyone.
Protest is meant to be disruptive, to break the complacency of a status quo and to point something out in a public way; correspondingly, it cannot be arranged to suit convenience, and people should instead of whinging about the protests look to the societal ills the protest is drawing attention to, and examine what they actually think about it. Instead, people react emotionally, and deride the protesters for getting in the way of their lives.
On one hand, I certainly don't need someone shoving their views in my face. On the other, they're there for a reason, and it behooves all of us to examine those reasons for merit. Sometimes, they'll be bat s**t crazy - a seventh day adventist at your door ranting against sin, a masked overweight man swearing about 5G - but at alternates there are plenty of protests that have legitimate causes and highlight problems desperate for a solution.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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