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Strip searches approved in massive police powers boost for G20 forum in Brisbane CBD

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Fuck this! Watch yourselves people...

POLICE will be granted extra powers inside a "declared area" of inner city Brisbane stretching from South Bank, to Kelvin Grove, Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley and Wooloongabba in a bid to stop the violent chaos that has crippled other G20 host cities.

Inside the zone, police will be able to strip search anyone they fear is carrying a weapon or prohibited item that would not be found in a pat down, while civil libertarians claim the police commissioner can put people on a blacklist without explanation.

Premier Campbell Newman said the government had taken the advice of security professionals and they saw "no other way forward" to stop the violence that saw one death and hundreds of injuries at the London and Toronto G20s.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-in-brisbane-cbd/story-fnihsrf2-1226703817810
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People arrested and charged will be refused bail, almost without exception, while police will also be able to give orders for vehicles to ignore road rules.

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In the "restricted area", the confined space around the Convention Centre, police will be able to search premises without a warrant. Fines for public order offences will be $11,000.
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Fucking pigs
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean if you live in the 'restricted area' the arseholes are allowed to just bust on in to your home?
 
That's some serious bullshit right there. Assuming its just for the G20? Not permanently of course?
 
No one lives in the Brisbane CBD. Besides protesting out the front of the G20 is so 2003. Anarchists with face masks throwing bricks at Starbucks is just white noise to the majority of society today. Time to find a better way to get the message across.
 
DigitalLove said:
That's some serious bullshit right there. Assuming its just for the G20? Not permanently of course?
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Yeah it's only supposed to be during the weeks surrounding the G20

One Thousand Words said:
No one lives in the Brisbane CBD.
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This isn't just the CBD

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One Thousand Words said:
No one lives in the Brisbane CBD. Besides protesting out the front of the G20 is so 2003. Anarchists with face masks throwing bricks at Starbucks is just white noise to the majority of society today. Time to find a better way to get the message across.
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The fuck you mean no one lives in the CBD? Are you blind? There are fucking heaps of people that live in the CBD of brisbane. I have plenty of friends that live there.
 
Take some Viagra just to make it awkward as Hell for them.
 
gimpan said:
You make sound like we would usually have rights to protect us from searchs without a warrent. Australia has no bill of rights, the Police can search any house or person if they believe a crime has or is likely to take place.
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They need a warrant to enter a private residence regardless of their 'suspicions', and when it comes to stop & search tactics, you can refuse it.

We do have rights protecting us from being unfairly targeted and violated. But this G20 thing is abolishing them all.

http://www.caxton.org.au/pdfs/Police Powers Your Rights.pdf
 
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^ Nope. They can search your home without your consent or a warrant for many reasons including: preventing domestic violence, investigate traffic offences e.g. to take a breath test for alcohol, to catch someone who has escaped from prison or from being arrested, to search if they reasonably suspect there is evidence which may otherwise be hidden or destroyed, to arrest someone, or reach a crime scene.
 
No, they can enter your premises for those reasons, they can't search it.

If you happen to have drugs/paraphernalia in plain view then they have reason to search.

And in the case of getting evidence they think will be destroyed/arrest someone etc, they must already have evidence that shows beyond reasonable doubt that they are justified.
 
If the government wants in your home they will get in G20 or not.

You might be right that they are expanding their powers for G20 but I can understand them wanting to protect the most powerful people in the world, what worries me is the way they legally expand their powers day to day.
 
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This is total horse shit, I didn't see the part where the people of Brisbane had a consensus that they wanted this shit in their backyard, so why should they lose their rights over it? How can anyone claim there is fucking equality in this society when a relatively small group of certain people being someplace for a summit is grounds to take away the rights of thousands of people who have lived there for years?! It really is ridiculous and I don't really see why any of those cocksuckers lives are more valuable than anybody elses. Aside from that, this just makes no sense, if people want to riot they will riot and whether police can strip search people or not is really not going to prevent this, neither are warrantless property searches. This probably is more for show than it is some ploy to take away citizens rights, but on principle I can't help but be vehemently opposed to this legislation.
 
By the same token all those hundreds of businesses have the right not to receive a brick through their shop front window every time a few unwashed gather together in protest. Such is the pattern in every G20 summit for the last 15 or so years.

Nothing stopping a large peaceful gathering at ANZ stadium or the Gold Coast beach front that doesn't impact on security of the 40 biggest terrorist targets on the planet.
 
^ The difference is that rioting is done by individuals, they are not making a fucking law that is oppressive towards businesses. How does being able to be strip searched stop people from rioting anyway? It doesn't make any genuine sense it is just giving police extra power for the sake of looking like it might make a difference.
 
The point is that these changes aren't meant to stop rioters. They're operating under the guise that the G20 will be bombed. But it's not like they're going to ignore the hundreds of drug possessions they find and I'll put money on the fact that there will be zero bombs found or attempts stopped.
 
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