Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars

www.sbs.com.au Why Australia’s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars

At 19, this climate activist is now facing serious legal consequences over a foiled protest outside the home of the boss of an energy giant in Western Australia. Here's why she still believes she's on the right side of history.

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TLDR, Australia is passing strict anti-protest laws and the police are bought by oil giants.
- Seeing as the UK did something similar, laws against protests appear to be the new weapon against climate activism.
  
  Outlawing protests is a surefire way to radicalize protestors. If you're gonna break the law anyway might as well go all out.
  
  The US has also been passing laws to clamp down on protesting in the wake of the Dakota Access, BLM, and Stop Cop City protests.
  The Drilled podcast is doing a season about the global legislative shift now.
  
  When we're all struggling to find food, water or livable homes, we'll look back in gratitude at how governments did all they could to save us from the inconvenience of teenagers asking them to take action.
- Jesus fucking Christ what a mess
- The police everywhere are capital's occupying army.
  
  Bootlickers can't accept this is self evident fact.
- Can we please all accept that free market capitalism is the death of democracy?

"Conspiracy to commit an indictable offence" sounds like Thought-Crime.
- It's common in English-speaking countries make it an additional crime to organize to commit crime.
- Lurking with intent to loiter.
  
  And an additional charge of layaboutism.

I don't like this tendency to compare every young or young looking activist to Greta thunberg. The oil shills use her name as an insult too.

Good thing the police are doing their jobs of protecting energy magnates by suppressing the most basic human liberties.
After all not like there's a no questions tax free money laundry on every corner for organized crime to use.
- The more it goes, the more I feel the surge to sharpen my guillotine. And I was an harmless long haired hippie in the 90's, listening to Led Zeppelin and the Doors instead of Korn or Sepultura. I am fucking pissed and it's getting worse by the day.
  
  Should have listened to Korn. 😉 There's still time! Load up some System of a Down while you're at it, too. They became more popular with me again over the last years.
  But don't do anything to get yourself in a bad way. Protect yourself.
- Cops are just doing their job, like literally.
  
  Well if your job is to obey a corrupt government and jail protesters you should consider changing sides.

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962
― John F. Kennedy

What kind of headline is that?!
“Answer to Greta” can mean against or pro-climate-action.
- Headlines are sometimes imperfect, but in this case, it's somebody who favors climate action and faces years of prison time for nonviolent civil disobedience

Inspiring woman. Fuck the cunts trying to get her charged with 5 years. As someone who lives in Perth I'll definitely be trying to get more informed and be more active with these issues. I'm probably just dumb but I had very little idea this was going on.

6% of Australian GDP is from mining and a large percentage of that is coal, could be related. Also, Australia has some pretty draconian laws in other circumstances as well so maybe it's just par for the course.
- 20% of Swedens GDP is from mining. Australia is just being a cunt.
  
  As an Australian, can confirm

"The corrupt ruling class is abusing the law to suppress legitimate and important protests of the people"

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