Wednesday, February 17, 1999 Tent embassy protesters spear flag Aboriginal tent embassy protesters stabbed a spear into an ash-covered Australian flag today as they returned to their ceremonial fire site outside New Parliament House. The flag was covered in ashes from the fire which police extinguished when they moved the protesters off the site in violent scuffles on Monday. Tent embassy spokesman Kevin Buzzacott said the ceremonial spearing of the flag was an attempt to kill the evil spirit of the Government. "I'm going to kill that spirit of that thing here with this stick from that fire," he said. "It's travelled all the world, doing evil things, today this one's going to go. "They killed the spirit of the fire, the only part left is ashes, so we're going to kill the spirit with that." With the flag hoisted onto the spear, Mr Buzzacott called for it to be returned to Britain. "I want my mob to take this flag back to the Queen, back to Britain on this stick, via Geneva [the United Nations], right through and get out and demolish this country and pay for their sins." Mr Buzzacott called on Governor-General Sir William Deane to dismiss the Howard Government. "And charge him, and also charge the policemen who came in and desecrated this fire and manhandled and abused our families." - AAP ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
