Melbourne

[Joanna Sheldon]

A protester was run over by an unmarked police car in Melbourne last night
(the woman's out of hospital now, though I don't know how since her legs
appeared to have been driven over by the front and back wheels of the car,
speeding away in spite of attempts by fellow-protestors to get the driver
to stop), and more truncheons made contact with innocent heads.  It's
probably pathetic, but I'm still capable of being apalled by the fact we've
let things get so out of hand that Big Money, through its police bodyguard,
can respond to civil disobedience with violence.  And then get its
government lackeys to label the popular action unpatriotic.

galled
Jo