I was at the Sandgate meeting and what I witnessed was completely inappropriate. Someone flipped a table and another person made personal threats to an EPA officer and that was only while I was there. Violence will not stop Green Zones.
Perhaps we are 'KNUCKLE DRAGGING BOTTOM DWELLING NEANDERTHALL CREATURES' after all?!
Well done to the knuckleheads for making our task just that little bit harder - if you're reading this, give yourselves a pat on the back champions! I'm sure you can portray the events to your kids/grandkids in years to come about your heroic deeds and contributions...
Take Care T
wow - just logged on and read this.
flipped a table you say? that is pretty silly - you're right Shane, it will only damage our argument if this happens.
Thats all we need... Those Idiots just help the critics. The Bribie session was very tame as it should be.
I'm kinda glad I missed the meeting now.
My daughter is cutting teeth and I had no
chance of getting there.
Giving people ammo to brand us as
fish killing thugs sure doesn't help the
cause any
Its always one boofhead who makes everyone else look stupid ,good onya goose ...matt
A bad days fishing has got to be better than any day at work......
Very sad indeed, what if the media had of attended.....it would be all over the evening news.
It is always such a shame to see grown men resort to violence simply because they cannot debate rationally. It plays straight into the hands of the EPA and Greens.
To be honest, as soon as I saw the meetings advertised I wondered how long it would be before some Neanderthal carried on this way.
With friends like this who needs enemies.
Thats Society for ya. 95% doing the right thing and 5% %$^%ing it up for the rest of us.
shane
Good on you IDIOTS job well done .
While these meetings are important to have , something tells me that nothing will change and the proposed plan will be "the' plan.
But all the same we do not need these idiots turning up to those meetings.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear they had a gut full of grog aswell.
Mick
Re: Violence at EPA meetings
Flipped a table you say? I also was at this meeting and witnessed nothing like that!!
I was there from the start to the very end... There was one person (reportedly a trawler man) who stormed out of the venue (pushed a friend i was talking with in the process) and hit one of their many plastic leaflet stands on the way out. This did create a lot of noise as it hit the ground with paper flying everywhere (due to the chatter stopping also), but its a lot different to a table being flipped over!!! Now I don't condone this behavior at all but, i also don't like it when people exaggerate about anything but their fish sizes
I know there are other members on Ausfish that were at this meeting that can confirm my side of the story.
I didn't hear anything about an EPA employee being threatened, this may of happened and it may not have I don't know. There was quite a few heated discussions but this is to be expected!!! ( I wonder why most of the EPA employee's were young women).
Brandon...
rightyo then - back to you Shane....
so who's telling the truth then?
the greens peerfected the protest actions..blockades etc..chaining to trees and resisting arrest..Franklin Dam blockade..well over 1000 arrected and a lot jailed..perhaps we need to do some blockading ourselves..and if it takes flipping one lousy table..then do it..sick of this namby pamby crap..like the MBAA...we don't like your green zones so how about our green zones..we are all being shafted and everyone seems to be in favour of it...why didn't some group stand up at the start and scream out NO to any green zones..well Sunfish...QAFCA..MBAA..BIA..the silence would be deafening...those that purport to represent us are gutless and kowtow down to the Govt..why?..cos they get Govt money..funny that isn't it.Originally Posted by Poseidon
I happened to finish a job for one of the above mentioned clubs president just before chrissy..He said its gonna happen no matter what and its not worth fighting a lost battle .So they surrendered before its even begin.Then again he knows much more than me .
George
At Heaven's gate a soldier stood,
his story ready to tell,
St Peter said, 'no need my son all is understood,
Go right in cos you've already served your time in Hell'
Nothing wrong with protest actions, blockades or chaining one-self to trees, bulldozers, marker bouys, artificial reefs or whatever else anyone wishes to protest about, it is a free country.
Violent threats (if this is being accuratley reported) is unwanted, and will not serve the cause in any positive way.
Last edited by Poseidon; 30-01-2008 at 06:57 PM.
Priceless, one of your best. So you propose public insurrection do you?
I wonder why didn't the suffragette movment didn't try blockades or chaining themselves to things and resisting arrest?
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