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Lost Beliefs

Author: Jason Carroll

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We live in a democratic society where we have freedom to express ourselves freely, honestly and in many different ways but have we come to a point where protesting has become out of control from the sides of the protestors and the police who are involved to keep public order.

Let’s first look at it from the side of a protestor who believe strongly in their views about abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage, mining to name a few. Yes, these are very important issues and if you look at same-sex marriage bill that was past through parliament on the 09/12/2017 which paved the way for people like myself and my partner to be married. This shows that when protesting is done properly it can work and in this case worked very well. Then you look at protests in the recent past that have seen violent circumstances arise from people being very passionate about what they believe in becoming involved in situations that these normal everyday people would never usually get themselves involved i.e. being violent towards others because they want to get a point across or interrupting normal everyday life by holding up the majority of the community who do not see their views in the same manner.

Although the protestors opinions do matter to everyone it does not mean they can block people from going about their business of socialising, earning a living and going about their normal daily lives. And to see protestors becoming violent or abusive to get their point across to me makes what they say irrelevant because I’m not focusing on what they are protesting about, I am focusing on the people getting hurt because that becomes more important than their message.

I think it’s time for the protestors to take a step back before their message gets lost in all the hatred and dissatisfaction coming from the general community who want to go about their business without having to plan their days around whether they can go into a capital city or sporting events such as the Melbourne Cup because one day the general population will fight back and that could lead to things that we don’t ever want to face or hear about on any news channel in the country.

Now we can look at how the police are handling things at events like the IMARC convention held in Melbourne this week. I’m all for the police being able to do their jobs in a fair and lawful way but I must say the vision you see on news programs over the last 3 days does not look good at all. Yes, they are dealing with a huge amount of protestors this year, more than any other I can remember. But that does not mean that they forgo upholding the law differently when dealing with these protestors compared to the fair and lawful way they would normally deal with the community when any other crime is committed.

Violence from the people who are expected to protect the community doesn’t wash with me at all and police need to look at how they can protect you and me who don’t want to go out and express our views but also allow protestors to express their passionate beliefs in a safe and fair manner without being injured by the police who are supposed to stop harm coming to anyone be it protestors or not.

Let me finish by saying both sides have now gone too far and views expressed by protestors and police who defend their actions on news channels have been lost behind bullshit that is people getting hurt on both sides and it is not good enough from all parties involved.

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