I think parts of our judicial system, bureaucracy, the AFP and legislature are outmoded and archaic. What I witnessed happen in Woden Plaza today (to a kid, I might add) was totally appalling. When there's more police attendance for alleged petty theft by a minor (from a shitty, 3rd-world exploiting retail chain) than there is for the assault, battery and unlawful detention of said minor, we've lost sight of the big picture.
I know it's part of the job requirement for security workers to be both WANKERS and DICKHEADS, but putting a school aged girl into a wrist lock and dragging her crying and yelping a good 600 metres from Hoyts to the store is entering the realm of absurdity. For a country that claims to be “liberal”, we sure do favour the rights of corporations over the rights of individuals. WHO REALLY GIVES A FUCK about your two dollar sweatshop wares??? I, for one, definitely DO NOT - and I know I'm not alone. The icing on the cake was being ordered to leave the store when I explained to the staff and security that what they were doing was illegal. I just wish I could have told the girl (who they then detained in a closet, and refused to let me speak to) that her rights were being violated.
Bitch, manager of said third world exploiting chain, YOU PISSED ME OFF!!!!
