Occupy Melbourne

[Booney]

Police brutality generally gets hippies moving.

Correct. Some might see me as a hippy in many respects and I'd get up and about if some police brutality was being offered as a "move along" initiative.

[dedja]

Police brutality generally gets hippies moving.

Correct. Some might see me as a hippy in many respects ...

not sure if you have the hair for it?

[Wedgie]

They wouldn't have lasted too long there when my old man was a copper.
Ahhh, the good old days.

[Sojourner]

Occupy Wall Street Lego set!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQKcM48 ... e=youtu.be

[Booney]

Occupy Wall Street Lego set!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtQKcM48 ... e=youtu.be

"Occupy my night stick..."

[Dogwatcher]

They wouldn't have lasted too long there when my old man was a copper.
Ahhh, the good old days.

The good old days was when this sort of activity was at its peak and judging by the Vietnam moratoriums and the visit to Australia by LBJ those involved didn't move on too quickly..
Today's lot are just pointing their finger at some sort of generality hoping it will stick.

[Psyber]

They wouldn't have lasted too long there when my old man was a copper.
Ahhh, the good old days.

The good old days was when this sort of activity was at its peak and judging by the Vietnam moratoriums and the visit to Australia by LBJ those involved didn't move on too quickly..
Today's lot are just pointing their finger at some sort of generality hoping it will stick.

The lady who later became my second wife was involved in the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam, and joined the Quakers at the time.
She told me she got pushed and bruised a few times in the crowd, but was never arrested, nor assaulted, by police.

Her strategy was to not initiate violence herself and just speak to police quietly and politely about the law as it stood when confronted at the rallies.
Thus she avoided giving them an excuse to claim she was being violent and so had to be arrested/manhandled.
She said there were insincere hotheads posing as "peace activists" among the genuine protesters, and they gave the police grounds/excuses for aggression at times.

I was more self-interested, and stayed out of the front line, but wrote to MPs, and on one occasion - as a joke - to the USSR Embassy in Canberra.
(My return mail was opened and efforts were made to make it look like it had come undone in the mail accidentally.)

I freely admit my primary motivation was to avoid being sent to Viet Nam to take part in a war I thought was inappropriate and unnecessary.

[Sojourner]

The lady who later became my second wife was involved in the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam, and joined the Quakers at the time.

Interestingly Psyber in contrast to your own Salvationist backround, the Quakers are the only other mainstream Christian denomination that reject all Sacraments.

Another interesting observation I was told about the Quaker hall in North Adelaide is that the land its on as well at St Peters Cathedral was owned by a resident of SA and left in their will to "the church". Problem is the person leaving the land in the will was in fact Catholic. The story goes that it was contested in court and ruled that the Anglican Church was representative of the State Church, hence they were given the land allocation. I am told the Quakers eyed off the piece of land at the back and made the point that they too could be considered "the church" and were then also allocated the portion of the land at the rear of St Peters in the same way as the Anglican church was.

[Psyber]

The lady who later became my second wife was involved in the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam, and joined the Quakers at the time.

Interestingly Psyber in contrast to your own Salvationist backround, the Quakers are the only other mainstream Christian denomination that reject all Sacraments.

Another interesting observation I was told about the Quaker hall in North Adelaide is that the land its on as well at St Peters Cathedral was owned by a resident of SA and left in their will to "the church". Problem is the person leaving the land in the will was in fact Catholic. The story goes that it was contested in court and ruled that the Anglican Church was representative of the State Church, hence they were given the land allocation. I am told the Quakers eyed off the piece of land at the back and made the point that they too could be considered "the church" and were then also allocated the portion of the land at the rear of St Peters in the same way as the Anglican church was.

That is interesting history Sojourner.
By the time I met my wife to be she was semi-jokingly referring to herself as a "spiritual Catholic" on the grounds that "The Church" had all the best music, which was what mattered most to her.

[Sojourner]

Police brutality generally gets hippies moving.

Correct. Some might see me as a hippy in many respects and I'd get up and about if some police brutality was being offered as a "move along" initiative.

1. Hunt: They reckon you've got concussion – but personally, I couldn't give a tart's furry cup if half your brains are falling out. Don't ever waltz into my kingdom playing king of the jungle.
Tyler: Who the hell are you?
Hunt: I'm Gene Hunt. Your DCI. And it's 1973. Nearly dinner time. I'm 'aving hoops

2. Hunt: You're nicked for the murder of Delphine Parks, the rape and attempted murder of Nina Akiboa. Anything you say will be taken down, ripped up and shoved down your scrawny little throat until you've choked to death.

3. "Anythin happens to this motor and I come round your houses and stamp on all your toys" - good kids.

[Leaping Lindner]

The lady who later became my second wife was involved in the Campaign for Peace in Vietnam, and joined the Quakers at the time.

Interestingly Psyber in contrast to your own Salvationist backround, the Quakers are the only other mainstream Christian denomination that reject all Sacraments.

Another interesting observation I was told about the Quaker hall in North Adelaide is that the land its on as well at St Peters Cathedral was owned by a resident of SA and left in their will to "the church". Problem is the person leaving the land in the will was in fact Catholic. The story goes that it was contested in court and ruled that the Anglican Church was representative of the State Church, hence they were given the land allocation. I am told the Quakers eyed off the piece of land at the back and made the point that they too could be considered "the church" and were then also allocated the portion of the land at the rear of St Peters in the same way as the Anglican church was.

Not quite. The land was owned by Augustus Short , Bishop of Adelaide at the time. If the story you have heard involves Short and a gentleman named Benjamin Da Costa I'm afraid it's just a good old Adelaide urban myth.