Parliament Invaders set to appeal conviction

[Ferre]

I just received this in my mailbox...

 

Media Alert

 

30th October 2005

 

Parliament Invaders set to appeal conviction

 

Three members of the NT chapter of the Network Against Prohibition

(NAP) will appear before the full bench of the Northern Territory Supreme Court tomorrow to appeal against their conviction for invading the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 14th May 2002.

 

Stuart Highway (currently in Darwin Prison for his involvement in a NAP-organised drug law-reform protest), Robert Inder-Smith and Gary Meyerhoff will appear before the Court of Appeal at 10am tomorrow to make their arguments.

 

The trio were part of a group of NAP activists who invaded the NT Legislative Assembly to protest against the draconian 'drug house' legislation.

 

The 'drug house' legislation, labelled as draconian by many, gave police the power to affix a 1.2 metre-high fluorescent green sign to your front fence or door, declaring your home to be a 'drug premises'.

 

No criminal conviction is required and no charges have to be laid for your home to be labelled a 'drug premises'.

 

NAP activist Gary Meyerhoff will appear before the Court of Appeal again on Tuesday (at 2pm) to appeal against his conviction for 'bill-pasting'.

 

For more information or to arrange an interview, call the NAP team on 0415 16 2525 (+61 415 16 2525 from overseas) or see the following web

pages:

 

Network Against Prohibition (NAP) – NT Chapter http://www.napnt.org

 

The 'Drug House' laws:

http://www.napnt.org/drughouse.html

 

Bill-pasting is not a crime: http://www.napnt.org/pages/billpaster1.html

 

To view this media alert with links click here: http://www.napnt.org/2005/10/parliament-in...-to-appeal.html

[WantDaChronic]

The 'drug house' legislation, labelled as draconian by many, gave police the power to affix a 1.2 metre-high fluorescent green sign to your front fence or door, declaring your home to be a 'drug premises'.

 

No criminal conviction is required and no charges have to be laid for your home to be labelled a 'drug premises'.

 

if the police erect one of those on your land, its well in your legal rights to smash the thing to bits or even sue the police because they'd have to power the fluros some how and if they are using your electricity to power those lights, technically the police are stealing electricity

 

as no criminal conviction is required and no charges have to be laid, it could even be seen as police harrassment, defamtion of character, etc. etc. etc....get a good lawyer and you could have a field day with the NT police if they put one of those signs in your front lawn

[Pickle]

Ok ok, if anyone comes on the forum looking to score again, just tell them to look for the big green sign.

[Dohmar]

Heh, so the cops are gonna end up giving free advertising for the local dealer.

 

Way to go!

-Doh