Protesters – lock em up

Go to any protest organised in your local area and take note of the type of people that attend. I can bet my wallet on the fact they will be shaggy haired, smelly hippie types. You know, the kind that don't eat animal products, only wear hemp clothing and argue about pretty much anything the government does? Well I can guarantee they will be at any protest you'll see around your area, everything from governmental protests, animals, power plants, refugee issues or the typical forest protection.

There is one thing that really bugs me about these protesters, and its at its worse here in Australia than in other countries. Its the Police bashings and their inability to act on the protesters criminal behaviour. These protesters are committing a crime every time they protest, whether its blocking traffic, burning things in the street, trespassing or stopping industry from working. And because they are a group, the Police don't want to intervene, because it may cause bad headlines. Yet if one person was to go and do those crimes, they would be locked up, regardless of their protesting intentions.

They think that just because 200-300  people out of the 21 million in Australia complain about something, it will go their way. Case in point was a situation today, where protesters jumped fences and attacked Police at Hazlewood Power Plant, their request was for the plant to shut its doors, in favour of solar or wind power, instead of coal. They caused havoc and for some reason, figured that if they ran onto the grounds, they might find the switch the shut the place down.

My view on what we should do with these public degenerates is simple. If they break the law, lock them up, I don't care how much it costs. They waste our time, lets waste theirs. In fact, strip them of their rights to protest. If they cannot do it in peace, then they should be banned from protesting in groups. Forcing them to go it alone.

There was a time when student unions used to cause lots of problems, because as their title suggests we thought they were unions for students, not a union for protesting about refugees and other various non-student related topics.  There was a particular case a few years ago, when a student union official was fined in court after smashing glass doors to enter a building in the city, his fines were paid for by the student union, which at the time was a mandatory payment from students.

Protesters would do the world a favour if they just stayed in that forest they protest in, we will just cut in down with you still attached. And maybe they could crawl into the coal oven at the power station to stop it working, try that.

Seriously your wasting your time.