POLICE BLAME SOUTHERN FOR GETTING ATTACKED
How politically partisan is the Victoria Police leadership? First it demands $68,000 protection money from Canadian alt-righters Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux to save them from the city's notoriously violent Left:
Then, when fascist Left-wingers attack Southern and Molyneux's speaking event, police imply both sides are to blame:
“It is disappointing that we had to use significant resources to mediate between two groups with opposing views,” said Commander Tim Hansen.
Pardon? No, police were not there to "mediate between two groups with opposing views". They were there to save people at a peaceful meeting from being violently attacked and by the activists of the Left.
Why not say so? Why imply that Southern and Molyneux shared in the blame for the violence by simply speaking? Why suggest their audience was also complicit just for wanting to peacefully listen to them?
No one asked the police to"mediate". They were there to uphold a right to free speech that was threatened by Leftist fascists using violence, threats and intimidation to shut down speakers they disagreed with:
VIOLENT protesters clashed with police and closed down a major highway outside an alt-right commentator’s Melbourne show on Friday night.
More than 100 anti-racism protesters rallied outside La Mirage reception centre in Somerton, where Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern began her Australian speaking tour.
One man was arrested for assaulting a police officer and four others were kicked out of the venue. The officer sustained minor injuries...
The Hume Hwy was blocked in both directions for more than two hours as the demonstration spilt on to the road in an attempt to block buses transporting people to the event.
The riot squad, mounted police, dog squad and police air wing were called in to hold back the crowd as they charged at the bus...
Members of the crowd punched and shoved each other, with people pulled over the road’s rope barriers amid the melee.
Inside the venue, a young woman, Nita Habibi, was among several protesters who attempted to storm the stage while Ms Southern, 23, spoke to the crowd of about 800.
And this is after the organisers took extraordinary and expensive steps to protect their audience - steps that other organisers of Melbourne events with conservative speakers have also had to take:
Event organisers had attempted to keep the location of the controversial show a secret by instructing ticket holders to meet at nearby Broadmeadows train station and be shuttled into the event.
And that's what makes the Victoria Police demand for protection money so immoral and dangerous.
Conservatives and Right-wingers do not violently attack meetings of the Left. Only the Left- particularly in Melbourne - use that violence, so only conservative meetings need police protection.
That makes the police protection money a tax on conservatives - an intimidating tax that the Leftist fascists actually plan on. Between the violence of the Left on the one hand and the police demands for protection money on the other, the Leftist fascists figure on making conservative events too dangerous or expensive to hold.
Why are the police party to this attack on free speech? Why is the Victorian Labor Government party to the shakedown for protection money and to the erosion of free speech?The spokeswoman said under the Victoria Police (fees and charges) Regulations 2014, Victoria Police “has the right to charge any event organiser for the use of police resources”.
However she declined to confirm whether the union organisers of a large rally in Melbourne in April, which saw up to 100,000 supporters flock to the CBD and saw the closure of major roads and tram routes. A spokesman from the ACTU declined to comment, while Victorian Trades Hall Council did not respond to requests for comment by deadline.
The truth? Left-wing unions don't get charged protection money from the police, but conservative and Right-wing speakers do.
What I do very much oppose is the use of violence and threats - and police protection money - to shut down debate. This is now a tactic being used in Melbourne to shut down many more people than Southern and Molyneux. And one day it may be used against you or the speakers you'd like to hear.
Stop this fascism now.https://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/police-blame-southern-for-getting... 
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