Australian PM Howard makes YouTube video to ask for good behavior before APEC meeting w/ Bush
News: Downtown Sydney near the meeting place of the APEC conference already has been fenced off. Now, Prime Minister John Howard has posted this video on YouTube to explain all the security and discourage any violent protests.
As the narrator on the video remarks, “Violent protesters will most probably target APEC. There will be other protesters who will do so peacefully but for those who don’t and seek to disrupt APEC, there will be significant policing and security responses taken.” (More)
September 9, 2007 at 1:43 am
There were more police than demonstrators from what I saw. I marched beside a seventy year old school teacher and a man in a wheelchair. Personally I’m a nurse. Just behind us were group of forty riot police and a $600,000 water cannon. It was like something from south america. $160 million spent on security and the hospitals are falling apart, trains don’t run and the schools are chronically underfunded. John Howard should be ashamed of overseeing such as spectacle. One can only hope the oncoming election will remove this nasty little auth0oritarian quisling.