Nimbin raids

[Frazz]

Nimbim is to law enforcement what waving a red flag at a bull is

paint a big target on your butt of course its going to get a good kicking

whether this is all fair and correct is immaterial to LEO

NSW LEO is a law unto itself

 

[*Ryno*]

I don't approve of my tax dollars being used for nonsense like this

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http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2011/02/28/police-brave-taunts-from-protesters-drugs-nimbin/

 

Police taunted over Nimbin raid

 

Bit more on the subject.

 

Interesting comments on the bottom page.

 

Police taunted over Nimbin raid

Ava Benny-Morrison | 28th February 2011

 

Police and Immigration Department officers taking part in Friday’s drug crackdown in Nimbin being filmed by a member of the Nimbin Polite Police. Jay Cronan

CONFLICTING views on the police treatment of people in the Nimbin community were tested during a drug operation in the town on Friday.

 

The Northern Star trailed a team of nine police officers and two drug detection dogs during a sweep of Nimbin.

 

The police spent 30 minutes in the main street, walking the drug detection dogs through the town and taking the details of those who had a positive reaction to the dogs.

 

People were asked to empty their pockets if they gave a positive detection, including a woman with a pram who was questioned and the pockets of the pram searched.

 

Police also patrolled the infamous Laneway – a hot spot for drug dealing – where they seized several bags of marijuana and smoking materials from under buildings.

 

The police recovered the bags of contraband under a sign that read ‘pot dealers please stay outside.’

 

The officers were shadowed by a vocal group of 20 people who were yelling about injustice and for police to ‘get a real job’.

 

From what The Northern Star saw, the police were straight forward, calm and relatively polite in their dealings with the public.

 

They ignored the condemnations from fired-uponlookers, only once telling a woman to ‘shut up’ – which she did.

 

No fines were issued, only details recorded.

 

Officials from theDepartment of Immigration accompanied the police.

 

The Nimbin Polite Force – created in reaction to a police raid at Nimbin in 2008 – was also in tow filming the operation.

 

Cries of heavy-handedness and aggressive police behaviour often pour out of the town each time a high-visibility operation hits Nimbin

 

This time was no different.

 

“It feels like we are under siege,†HEMP Embassy president Michael Balderstone said.

 

“There were lots of reports of police being very aggressive. It’s an incredible waste of taxpayers’ dollars.

 

“We could at least sit down and talk about it. ‘A local solution to local problems’, as Kristina Keneally said.â€

 

 

 

 

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Posted by MyViewOnThis from Lennox Head, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 5:50 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

Is it just me or does it seem ironic to others that as the Police eradicate illegal drugs & drug paraphenalia they are heckled by people with nothing better to do with their lives but follow the Police around telling them to get real jobs...

I guess that given the damage drugs do to one's body & mind we shouldn't expect better from Nimbin, but from others on the Far North Coast, a big vote of appreciation to the Police for both their efforts & tolerance.

 

Posted by macadamia from Dalwood, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 7:08 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

Do the people heckling the police have a real job - or any job?

 

Posted by Cletus from Lismore, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 7:42 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

It amazes me that some of the population of Nimbin that are very vocal about marijuana and that it has no effect to their mental condition, rub this into the general population with their Big Joint Festival each year, and it is know around the district that drugs are easily available and offered openly to people walking the street, that the Police wouldn't come into town and clean it up every so often.

 

Keep up the good work Police and rid the society of this and many other drugs and unroadworthy cars that are in Nimbin.

 

At least some people do have a job and work, therefore not having time to film and heckle the Police about getting a real job.

 

Posted by norally from Ewingar, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 9:26 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

The police have a 'real' job it's catching criminals and marijuana is 'illegal' and now proven to have links to memory loss and schizophrenia. Keep up the good work at cleaning up Nimbin, I'm sure there's law abiding local people that want their town back from the druggy culture and wrongly has been labelled hippy.

 

Posted by india from Australia, None

 

28 February 2011 11:11 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

Simmer down - Bob Marley

 

Posted by scott_bubble from Murwillumbah, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 12:47 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

Although I appreciate investigative journalism at the cutting edge, it seems funny to be investigating reports of Police oppression like that. The Libyan police just shot 2000+ of their own people dead. I guess a bunch of useless hippies is such an easy target that people feel a bit sorry when the cops come and hurt their feelings. All you need to do to really hurt a hippy is take awy his lighter and matches, and they'll cry out "Halp, I'm being oppressed!".

In any case alcohol is proven in so many ways to be far far more harmful than dope. When cops can do the same to alcohol dealers I'll know there's some sanity in society.

[graceslick]

Ha ha. Once again the cops weren't good enough. In fact little old me even beat 'em.

[*Ryno*]

I wrote a reply to that article HHS under that name CommonSense4u that outlined the amount of people killed every year from alcohol and tobacco and explaining Cannabis is a relatively benign drug considered less dangerous than coffee, and that our tax dollars are being wasted etc.

 

I doubt they will publish it though, was a little too honest and truthful for a media group.

 

*edit* got published, I also replied to someone who was on their high horse going on saying "cannabis causes schizophrenia" I had to correct and clarify with them before they spread that bullshit too far,

Edited February 28, 2011 by *Ryno*

[STONEDAJ69]

rhyno i wouldnt of gone to the length of saying milk is more harmful - quite frankly even i have trouble beleiving that one and i personally feel canna is the patron saint of man...

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I wrote a reply to that article HHS under that name CommonSense4u that outlined the amount of people killed every year from alcohol and tobacco and explaining Cannabis is a relatively benign drug considered less dangerous than coffee, and that our tax dollars are being wasted etc.

 

I doubt they will publish it though, was a little too honest and truthful for a media group.

 

*edit* got published, I also replied to someone who was on their high horse going on saying "cannabis causes schizophrenia" I had to correct and clarify with them before they spread that bullshit too far,

 

 

Nice one Ryno

 

And here it is...

 

Posted by CommonSense4u from, New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 4:35 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

I'm sorry but considering Tobacco kills more than 12,000 Australians per year, Alcohol causes a massive 1 in 25 deaths worldwide per year, and Cannabis has caused ZERO deaths in the last 4000 years of documented medical use and is scientifically proven to be a relatively benign drug that doesn't cause cancer and can't give you anything worse than bronchitis, I can confidently say those cops deserved everything they got. Every year millions of dollars of taxpayers money is spent on fighting a war against a plant that cant seriously harm you and is considered in the scientific community to be less dangerous than coffee, and even less dangerous than milk. Why are people OK with this?

 

Posted by CommonSense4u , New South Wales

 

28 February 2011 4:52 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »

 

The documented memory loss is short term and considered less dangerous than the short term memory loss inflicted by the use of alcohol because it doesn't have the ability to become permanent. And as for schizophrenia, it doesn't cause schizophrenia, it can increase the onset by 2.7 years in people who will already get schizophrenia in their life and Cannabis shouldn't be used by anyone who has a personal history or family history of mental illness. The only other link to schizophrenia is the risk to young people rises from 3% to 5% which means even if affected there is still a 95% chance of not developing schizophrenia.

[ashka]

"For a town of some 300 people, it's quite ridiculous to have them all up here. There are usually just eight or nine police stationed in Nimbin," said Macciza Macpherson, a spokesman for the Cannabis Coalition.

 

Sorry tp stray off topic a little, but eight or nine officers would be regarded as a heavy police presents in most metro and regional areas, especially if the local population only consists of 300 residents.

 

There's one report I caught once that the Queensland State Government was content with one officer per 700 people. Even though I've lived in various country towns that has had 2000 to 5000 locals and yet only 2 to 4 officers to handle the towns criminal/traffic activities.

 

If those figures are correct (above that is quoted), Nimbin is surely getting shafted and the rest of the population of New South Wales should be informed of it. If other areas that have a heavier and more serious crime rate knew about it, there'd be some seriously pissed off law abiding residents watching their own suburbs go to shit. While police resources appear to be going to watse in Nimbin (mostly).

 

So true, it is such waste of public money.

[*Ryno*]

rhyno i wouldnt of gone to the length of saying milk is more harmful - quite frankly even i have trouble beleiving that one and i personally feel canna is the patron saint of man...

 

Without going into anything scientific, people (like my brother) can die from drinking milk, but you can't die from ingesting Cannabis.

Edited February 28, 2011 by *Ryno*

[roy]

50 cops wont break the spirit of nimbin. The people there wont allow it to dampen there lifestyle.Viva nimbin!