Bob Brown Arrested at Lapoinya

[photohiker]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-25/b ... pe/7112220

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has been arrested at the contentious Lapoinya logging coupe in north-west Tasmania, activists say.

The Friends of Lapoinya Action Group said Mr Brown and three other people walked into the Lapoinya Forest exclusion zone this morning.

Mr Brown and another man were arrested, while the others were escorted out by police and were fined.

[north-north-west]

Good ol' Bob. Wonder if he'll get the same cell he had back during the Franklin protests . . .

[South_Aussie_Hiker]

I find this so conflicting.

Absolutely support his cause. Australia seems intent on destroying anything above ground, and digging up anything which exists underground. I worry about what - if anything - will be left for my kids.

Absolutely don't support anyone breaking the law. The lack of respect for police these days is a disgrace.

[photohiker]

I kinda doubt Bob would not respect the Police. They are just doing their job.

The problem is that people who we would think have a right to protest about logging particular areas have been placed in a legal bind. As I understand it, the Tas government has made things very legally difficult for anyone who wishes to protest.

[north-north-west]

There are good laws and bad laws. And any law can be used inappropriately or unfairly. You have to consider the reason for the law - exactly what it is designed to achieve, how it tries to achieve that, and the consequences of using those means to achieve those ends.
The laws in question were specifically designed to prevent protests - including peaceful protests by those directly affected - against resource extraction. This government does not pay any attention to petitions, letters, anything of that nature. There are virtually no effective legal ways to prevent them carrying out their agenda in regard to the destruction of our native forests (amongst other things).

And Bob is not going to be violent or abusive towards the cops. Never has been, never will be.

[Lophophaps]

There are good laws and bad laws. ... Never has been, never will be.

+ lots.

[South_Aussie_Hiker]

Yeah I know all that. And he was a gentleman when be police officer told him he was being arrested. I'm not suggesting he was anything else.

The cop was certainly squirming uncomfortably at having to arrest him in front of the camera.

[Nuts]

Does 'getting arrested' help large crays or save every standing publicly owned tree? Does getting arrested help the cause for further law reform? (Bob must think so).

Was an EIA or audit needed?, i'm sure it is a reasonable public expectation they are. That (given the obvious political investment) the standing government will have done everything reasonably possible to protect a listed endangered species (trees aside, tourism aside).

Bob can come to my workplace, is welcome. That'll make two of us- V the corporate world.. it is 'my' workplace however.. and so I wonder, if the effect, in that case by government sponsored incursion, is in fact now 'illegal'.