Police rip 'clothes' (tent) off female ‘Occupy Melbourne’ protester
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They had the right to do this, honestly. It's just the protestors taking every small thing and posting it on the web with only their side of the story. No doubt another video will emerge with the cops warning her etc.
Fucking ignorant protestors.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33606651]and she was given [I]something[/I] to cover up afterward with? I don't see why you would continue defending her at this point really, the police did just about everything right.[/QUOTE]
The police didn't give her anything to cover herself with (on camera, at least). She covered herself with what appears to be their Occupy Melbourne banner. Watch the first video again, they cut it, pull it apart, and just leave her there on the ground.
The title is also full of bias by writing 'Police rip clothes off female protester'. IT paints the police in a bad position, as they didn't do that.
A protester has tent removed by police (not clothes, a fucking tent), and she denied to change in to some clothes before it happened.
Okay, and if they didn't give her anything, and the video doesn't exclude a part where the police did get around to giving her something, then I would certainly agree that it's regrettable the officers didn't give her something. Besides that, and I still think if she wasn't given something by someone else, an officer would have given her something, that is still really the only thing they did there that was morally wrong. But they asked her to leave and offered her a change of clothes before confiscating the tent, which was definitely fair.
[QUOTE=Noth;33607093]The police didn't give her anything to cover herself with (on camera, at least). She covered herself with what appears to be their Occupy Melbourne banner. Watch the first video again, they cut it, pull it apart, and just leave her there on the ground.[/QUOTE]
They asked her to change clothes before they did it at the start of the second video. She denied.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]I never mentioned that you had to be wearing a tent.[/quote]
Oh wow [b]MAJOR[/b] implied detail I missed.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]You're damn fucking right I'm angry.[/quote]
You'll cool down in a few hours, sport. And in a few days, you'll forget all about this nonsense.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]That 'thing that looks like a bikini'? That's called [I]underwear.[/I] Yes, girls wear underwear too. [I]Shocking.[/I][/quote]
Interesting underwear. Kind of a blue color with black blots on it.
Wonder if they sell it in a similar boxer design for men.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]Because women can't sexually assault people.[/quote]
Yeah they [i]totally[/i] were here. Definite case of sexual assault, not just female police officers doing their jobs. It was like a scene out of a lesbian porn fantasy shoot: the cops running their hands all across that red-haired protester's body, slathering her up in baby oil and squeezing her breasts, getting ready to fuck her with a strap-on.
Oh wait- it wasn't anything like that.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]Yep. Something isn't as traumatic if it's a chick doing it. Totally.[/quote]
Really traumatic experience. I mean, she [i]refused to leave and remove the tent and then willingly subjected herself to them to create a scene[/i] for Christ's sake.
Stop your foolishness this instant, you silly-billy.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33606578]Also, I'm pretty sure that it's a guy that does the first big rip.
Yeah, the guys are ripping it off too.[/quote]
Nope, just the women in sunglasses and the caps and the woman with the black hat on. One man picks up a piece of flexible metal that falls on the ground.
Damn, I'm late to the party. I don't understand why people feel so bad for her....... If the cops tell you not to do something, don't go ahead and do it. And if your not going to wear a shirt or pants under it don't cry when the tents gone. What did she expect to happen?
Have the police said anything yet? Or are we still only getting one side of the story?
If they have, then disregard this. Id like to hear from them though.
[QUOTE=shadow_of_intent;33607599]Have the police said anything yet? Or are we still only getting one side of the story?
If they have, then disregard this. Id like to hear from them though.[/QUOTE]
The police always have to keep their mouth shut with stuff like this, they can't argue etc, they have to wait for an official report.
[QUOTE=Last or First;33604326]And those strange people who visit your house once a year are actually vampires, tigers, trains, and Waldo.
.[/QUOTE]
Shit man You have Waldo and trains come to your door? All I get are door to door Mormons
[QUOTE=Jookia;33607141]The title is also full of bias by writing 'Police rip clothes off female protester'. IT paints the police in a bad position, as they didn't do that.
A protester has tent removed by police (not clothes, a fucking tent), and she denied to change in to some clothes before it happened.[/QUOTE]
I think if you're in a society where the cops arbitrarily get to determine what is and is not clothing and forcibly remove it from you for no reason other than convenience, the society in question is fucked.
Don't care if it was legal, don't care if the woman is a drama whore, it's morally bizarre. Not a great goddamn travesty, but bizarre.
I would have liked to see the protesters all come to help and perform citizens arrests on all of the offending police officers.
[QUOTE=Jookia;33607155]They asked her to change clothes before they did it at the start of the second video. She denied.[/QUOTE]
What I said was only a response to what I quoted, so the fact that she declined to change her clothes beforehand was irrelevant.
[QUOTE=Kopimi;33604341]and its being used by people, being slept in, its stationary, etc?
because if its not being used as a tent, i couldn't give fuck all what it is
why do you think tents are banned? because the city just hates the way tents look? i'm pretty sure tents are banned so that people aren't camping out inside the park, putting up tents and just living there for a while in protest. trying to strip a tent off of a woman because she's using it as clothing is moronic, not only because the tent isn't being utilized as a fucking tent, but because you're [b]publicly stripping someone's clothes off[/b]. handling someone like that and ripping their clothing off just to fit a moronic city ordinance is stupid in more ways than one.[/QUOTE]
She had the [b]POLES[/b] on her 'dress'. If she wanted to make a statement then don't wear a fucking pitched tend.
And lol at the "Does the city of Melbourne think they run this town?"
If she was wearing a massive dress that happens to be as huge as a tent, do you think it's right to start ripping that off her?
No, the tent is considered clothing.
Anyway, since when do they have authority to undress someone for wearing something they don't like.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;33608029]I think if you're in a society where the cops arbitrarily get to determine what is and is not clothing[/QUOTE]
Good thing they don't do that.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;33608029]and forcibly remove it from you for no reason other than convenience[/QUOTE]
Good thing they didn't do that.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;33608029]the society in question is fucked.[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;33608029]Don't care if it was legal, don't care if the woman is a drama whore, it's morally bizarre. Not a great goddamn travesty, but bizarre. [/QUOTE]
Yes, because getting a tent pulled off you because tents aren't allowed on the property is bizarre.
[b]If she was wearing clothes, this wouldn't be an issue, and she was given the opportunity to put clothes on multiple times, yet she didn't. This is her fault.[/b]
[editline]7th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608272]If she was wearing a massive dress that happens to be as huge as a tent, do you think it's right to start ripping that off her?
No, the tent is considered clothing.[/QUOTE]
It's a tent, not a dress.
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608272]Anyway, since when do they have authority to undress someone for wearing something they don't like.[/QUOTE]
Tents aren't allowed on the property, they took the tent away, the woman could've put clothes on, she didn't.
How would they walk through doors wearing a tent
[QUOTE=Jookia;33608284]
It's a tent, not a dress.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Tents aren't allowed on the property, they took the tent away, the woman could've put clothes on, she didn't.[/QUOTE]
Dress or not a dress, they don't have the right to decide whether it's clothing or not.
They can't simply rip it off her leaving her half naked.
I don't think you realise how disgusting it is.
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608341]Dress or not a dress, they don't have the right to decide whether it's clothing or not.
They can't simply rip it off her leaving her half naked.
I don't think you realise how disgusting it is.[/QUOTE]
They're not deciding that tents aren't clothing, tents have NEVER been clothing. They're not suddenly changing the rules.
She chose to not wear clothes and didn't want to wear clothes, it's not the police's fault.
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608341]Dress or not a dress, they don't have the right to decide whether it's clothing or not.
They can't simply rip it off her leaving her half naked.
I don't think you realise how disgusting it is.[/QUOTE]
That's stupid. That's like saying nobody can decide what's chicken, that I can serve beef and call it chicken.
They didn't simply rip it off her and leave her half-naked, you're being sensationalist here. They asked her to leave, she refused. They offered her a change of clothes, she refused. She refused to hand over a prohibited item and they were forced to confiscate it from her. Shortly after having it taken, someone gave her something to cover up, too. It wasn't taken in an unnecessarily harmful way.
[QUOTE=Jookia;33608430]They're not deciding that tents aren't clothing, tents have NEVER been clothing. They're not suddenly changing the rules.
She chose to not wear clothes and didn't want to wear clothes, it's not the police's fault.[/QUOTE]
I'm not talking about who's fault it is. I'm talking about how wrong it is to strip a young girl half naked.
Tents aren't clothing? Challenge accepted.
Lady Gaga wore meat, police tape and a curtain as clothing.
Whether she was using the tent as clothing or not, it was still a functional tent and she had it where it wasn't supposed to be. I could fill it with water and call it my water bottle, but that doesn't make it not a tent.
[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608781]I'm not talking about who's fault it is. I'm talking about how wrong it is to strip a young girl half naked.
Tents aren't clothing? Challenge accepted.
Lady Gaga wore meat, police tape and a curtain as clothing.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't make those things not meat, police tape, and a curtain, though. I can cover my nipples and dick in guns taped to my body, but once it's applied to my body, it doesn't suddenly make it clothing. You're an idiot.
[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]
And lol at using Lady Gaga as the standard for fucking society.
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608781]I'm not talking about who's fault it is. I'm talking about how wrong it is to strip a young girl half naked.
Tents aren't clothing? Challenge accepted.
Lady Gaga wore meat, police tape and a curtain as clothing.[/QUOTE]
And we ridicule her for it because it's, surprise, not clothing. Next.
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608781]I'm not talking about who's fault it is. I'm talking about how wrong it is to strip a young girl half naked.[/QUOTE]
You also conveniently and repeatedly forget that she was given something to help cover up with immediately after they took it from her, which occurred immediately after she refused their offer for a change of clothes.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33608799]Whether she was using the tent as clothing or not, it was still a functional tent and she had it where it wasn't supposed to be. I could fill it with water and call it my water bottle, but that doesn't make it not a tent.
[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]
That doesn't make those things not meat, police tape, and a curtain, though. I can cover my nipples and dick in guns taped to my body, but once it's applied to my body, it doesn't suddenly make it clothing. You're an idiot.
[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]
And lol at using Lady Gaga as the standard for fucking society.[/QUOTE]
How the hell did I use her as the standard of society? I used her as an example.
There's no need to go around and trash talk, I thought this argument was strictly based on the video and our opinions on it, not each other.
I never said it was clothing, I said they don't have a right to judge what is and isn't clothing.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33608838]You also conveniently and repeatedly forget that she was given something to help cover up with immediately after they took it from her, which occurred immediately after she refused their offer for a change of clothes.[/QUOTE]
Not by the police though
[editline]7th December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608853]
There's no need to go around and trash talk, I thought this argument was strictly based on the video and our opinions on it, not each other. [/QUOTE]
haha you've not been in this section long have you
half my posts start with a variation of 'you stupid dickhead cunt you're WRONG'
This thread
Marla vs FP
[QUOTE=MarlaCouture;33608853]How the hell did I use her as the standard of society? I used her as an example.
There's no need to go around and trash talk, I thought this argument was strictly based on the video and our opinions on it, not each other.
I never said it was clothing, I said they don't have a right to judge what is and isn't clothing.[/QUOTE]
but they do have a right to judge what is a [B]tent,[/B] and she was in possession of a [B]tent.[/B]
[QUOTE=Contag;33608856]Not by the police though[/QUOTE]
she was given that banner or whatever very shortly after the tent was taken, you can't exactly prove the police didn't intend on giving her anything
[QUOTE=Contag;33608856]
haha you've not been in this section long have you
half my posts start with a variation of 'you stupid dickhead cunt you're WRONG'[/QUOTE]
I don't usually reply or join in but I lurk.
Over my lurking years, yes I have seen how some of you act towards others.
I don't care, I won't trash talk you no matter how much I disagree with what you say.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33608874]but they do have a right to judge what is a [B]tent,[/B] and she was in possession of a [B]tent.[/B][/QUOTE]
this is a tent
[img]http://www.kangarootentcity.com.au/welcome/images/KODAInspire3EV4EVInnerTent2010.jpg[/img]
this is a tent
[img]http://www.justcampingfrance.co.uk/shopping/images/own-tent.jpg[/img]
this is not a tent
[img]http://www.freefoto.com/images/01/08/01_08_18---Duck_web.jpg[/img]
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