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A gap-toothed fellow faces examination:

Police will force a man accused of violent protest at last year’s G20 conference to undergo a photographic examination of his teeth in an attempt to identify him in file photos.

Daniel Jones, 20, will have his teeth photographed by police later today to confirm that he was the man with a characteristic gap in his front teeth who was hurling abuse at police during the protests in November last year.

He allegedly hurled more than abuse:

Jones is accused of causing $9483 worth of damage to a police brawler van that was stationed on the corner of Flinders Lane and Exhibition Street.

No big deal, according to Dan’s spokeschick:

When asked whether rioting protesters should be held accountable for their actions, Anita told theage.com.au: “We think a distinction should be made between violence and property damage.”

Posted by Tim B. on 03/20/2007 at 09:48 AM
  1. That’s injury to a vehicle, and property hurt.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 20 at 10:10 AM • permalink

  2. Good, so I can go into their abodes and trash the places—no harm, it is only property and property is theft according to these nincompoops.
    Once again we see the violence inherent in the Left.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 03 20 at 10:30 AM • permalink

  3. During the ‘91 riots in LA, I rememnber the Mercedes and Beemers streaming down out of Bel Air and Beverly Hills, loaded to the dashboards with the rich white folks’ mere “property.”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 20 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  4. I agree. 

    The property damage should be compensated with cash.  Including the lost time and inconvenience.  Treble damages would be sufficient, I’d say.

    Violence should be punished with the appropriate prison sentence.

    Posted by MarkD on 2007 03 20 at 12:05 PM • permalink

  5. When asked whether rioting protesters should be held accountable for their actions, Anita told theage.com.au: “We think a distinction should be made between violence and property damage.”

    So if a mob sets fire to the spokeschick’s apartment and burns up all her patchouli, bong collection, macrame wall hangings, and ankle-length muslin skirts, she’s okay with that, then.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 20 at 12:26 PM • permalink

  6. Ah, very post-modern. If only us poor slaves to property could have the intellect and advanced dielectic to be able to attain a post-ethical, and very conveniently self-serving, state of social awareness and advancement.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 20 at 12:31 PM • permalink

  7. RebeccaH, we will be replacing her ankle-length muslin skirts with Muslim ones, as long as she doesn’t show any ankle.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 03 20 at 04:12 PM • permalink

  8. I make a distinction between protesters and worthless scum.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 03 20 at 04:21 PM • permalink

  9. You guys have the best expressions. “Brawler van.” I love that.

    Posted by CraigC on 2007 03 20 at 04:33 PM • permalink

  10. ‘Anita’ was probably the eye-wateringly fugly bint I saw on TV last night, equating the trashing of a police van with ‘legitimate protest’.  More leftist cargo culters: they really do think that no-one pays for these big shiny things, in quite the same way that, say, they pay for their double decaf chai latte.  Big shiny brawler van come down from great capitalist gods in sky - you trash ‘im one time, no biggie - white pella him make ‘nother by’m'bye.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 03 20 at 05:22 PM • permalink

  11. So basically the spokeschick is admitting their guilt.

    Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 20 at 05:36 PM • permalink

  12. I heard on 3AW this morning that Jones was on cult TV show “Nerds FC” a few years ago.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2007 03 20 at 05:46 PM • permalink

  13. Dan and Anita probably don’t pay tax at all, so any reparations are not coming out of their pockets.  So that’s OK.

    But let me get it straight.  If, for example, I want to clip Dan and Anita around the ears, it’s not OK. But if I throw a brick through Anita’s front window (assuming she has one, use a cricket bat to bash in her car’s windscreen (again, assuming she has one), twist the handlebars off her bicycle, set fire to her backpack or stomp on her iPOD, that is OK.

    Good.  Glad that’s sorted.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 03 20 at 06:39 PM • permalink

  14. Who the hell do they think pays for this damage, and their layabout lifestyle?
    Bludgers.

    I’m with RebeccaH. Although I think that when you don’t have much materially, and whatever you do have has not been laboured for, it’s all pretty value-less.

    Posted by kae on 2007 03 20 at 06:47 PM • permalink

  15. muslim village

    Posted by kae on 2007 03 20 at 06:51 PM • permalink

  16. #12

    This from Wikipedia entry on Nerds FC.

    Daniel Jones: Centre Back - Politics and Philosophy. Anti-VSU activist, reporter for Honi Soit.

    Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 20 at 06:54 PM • permalink

  17. Police also want to question this chap.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 20 at 07:07 PM • permalink

  18. #5 Spot on, Rebecca

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  19. This article neglects to publish the spokes-chick’s surname, but I’m guessing it’s Anita Thomasson

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 07:31 PM • permalink

  20. Did you see the wimp???

    Has there ever been a better poster-boy for the decadent West than this pathetic fraud???

    Didn’t look so brave without his mob behind him, and, of course, without the mask covering his spoilt, private-school-brat face!

    Posted by Brian on 2007 03 20 at 08:07 PM • permalink

  21. Loved the shoulder bag too!

    Posted by Brian on 2007 03 20 at 08:09 PM • permalink

  22. One of the revolutionaries is a librarian

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 20 at 08:23 PM • permalink

  23. #15 Another example of Blair’s Law.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 03 20 at 08:33 PM • permalink

  24. Funny how, when the damage was done in Melbourne, all these pricks are from Sydney.  Did they get a group booking discount on Virgin Blue?

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 03 20 at 08:35 PM • permalink

  25. Spokesferal: “We think a distinction should be made between violence and property damage.”

    Journo: “OK – may I borrow your phone for a sec – mine doesn’t seem to working.”

    Spokesferal: “sure –here ‘tis.”

    Journo: “Ta, oops, dropped it AND stood on it AND took out SIM card and buggered that too.  Sorry, but its only property.”

    Posted by Razor on 2007 03 20 at 08:54 PM • permalink

  26. ‘Anita told theage.com.au: “We think a distinction should be made between violence and property damage.”’

    Here’s the distinction.  If you deliberately damage MY property, that’s completely unacceptable.  When I respond to your unacceptable act by violently smacking your plug ugly face, that’s totally acceptable.

    So, Anita and I are in agreement.

    Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 20 at 09:05 PM • permalink

  27. I remember him from Nerds FC, he was put forward by the show (can’t remember if he said it himself) as an anarchist. He tried to argue with the team that they didn’t need a captain as that was elitist or some such blather. He was a petulant, self absorbed individualist. I watched the show praying that a high speed ball would smash him in the face or the stones.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 03 20 at 10:10 PM • permalink

  28. So, is this our brawler van bashing nerd?

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 20 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  29. Far left in the group picture. Bottom second right in individual click-ons. Mouth shut both shots.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 20 at 10:47 PM • permalink

  30. “We think a distinction should be made between violence and property damage.”

    And the distinction should be ... ?

    Posted by Bill Ramey on 2007 03 20 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  31. Helsta says:
    At the risk of sounding like a literary critic…Daniel Jones, if you’re looking for an interesting book on anarchism and the minimal state, Robert Nozick’s “Anarchy, State and Utopia” is great:


    23 April 2006

    Especially the chapter on van smashing. It’s a ripsnorter.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 20 at 11:30 PM • permalink

  32. We may have the bastard.

    That sure looks like a tooth gap to me. Certainly I would convict on the available evidence. Mind you that Nozick book should be enough to invite him to share that spacious cell we saw the other day with someone with a similar view to others’ rights.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 03 20 at 11:55 PM • permalink

  33. What if justice breaks out one day, and every vandal, graffitist, arsonist, etc. will be forced to pay for the damage, down to the last cent?
    Sorry, I got carried away…
    I mean we can argue on prison sentences, etc., but can never argue of, let’s say, the dollar cost of re-painting a wall because of a vandal spray painted it.

    Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 03 21 at 01:56 AM • permalink

  34. I guarantee you this fuckwit will end up as a teaching academic forever revelling in his G20 conviction, subverting the minds of your children, his gap toothed mug forever attached to the government nipple.

    Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 21 at 03:08 AM • permalink

  35. I have one question for these cretins:

    “Do you have contents insurance?”

    If the answer is yes, then they must care about their property more than they are letting on.

    It’s no good destroying the property of anarchists that have insurance - find some that don’t and wreck their stuff.  That will really hurt.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 03 21 at 05:00 AM • permalink

  36. #33 They’re kind of getting there, Honkie.  Victoria is considering laws which would make it an offence to be carrying around spray paint cans without a verrry good reason.  Of course, the civil libertarians are up in arms.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 03 21 at 05:18 AM • permalink

  37. Following their logic, I’m sure that Anita and Dan would approve of getting the ever loving shit kicked out of them, as long as it was under the auspices of a legitimate counter-protest.  Now where did I put those corcoran’s?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 03 21 at 05:28 AM • permalink

  38. Brawler van?  Even your vehicles lay out smackdowns? 

    I’m glad you folks are on our side.

    Posted by Achillea on 2007 03 21 at 09:46 AM • permalink

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