Posted on 08/19/2019 7:47:24 PM PDT by RightGeek
Authorities are investigating after fake Chinese police cars were seen cropping up in major Australian cities amid pro-Hong Kong demonstrations across the nation over the weekend.
Police in South Australia and Western Australia have in recent days confirmed reported sightings the cars, which have a Chinese Police logo and the word “police” written in Mandarin.
It’s been suggested the vehicles, similar to the police cars stationed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, are an attempt to intimidate local pro-democracy protesters.
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But Western Australia Police also noted that, while it is illegal to replicate the appearance of an Australian police vehicle, there is no law against decorating a car with another country’s police car design.
Greens MP Tammy Franks said the laws needed to be tightened to prevent people from impersonating foreign policy in Australia.
“It appears that our laws anticipate perhaps somebody impersonating an Australian police car but certainly not a Chinese cop car on the streets of Adelaide,” she told the ABC, adding she would introduce a private member’s bill to “ensure impersonating police forces is illegal in South Australia and send a clear and strong message that we stand for peaceful protest and democracy”.
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there are some pretty hysterical people in that story.
uh, you can buy those decals on eBay.
Actually, the writing is Chinese. China has many spoken languages but a common written language.
Somebody has some real money to invest in all that...
I doubt it’s a local student group...
Should people be afraid Nick Fury's come to bust them?
I wonder if you can be arrested for impersonating a Chinese Police Officer in Australia and if you hollered halt, would anyone listen? How do you say halt in Chinese?
Guerrilla theatre.
The rally remained peaceful after several scuffles previously broke out between pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing groups in Melbourne and Sydney.
Who would be Pro-Beijing? And how would there be enough of them to scuffle?
Huh, there was a Chinese parade in Queens where Red China flags were unfurled
Probably the Greens. They are trying to make all foreign symbols illegal to keep US flags from showing up.
there are better written stories about the “mysterious” chinese police cars in australia to be found on al gore’s innerwebz. none of them are this hysterical
“See you out on the road, skag!”
What a crock of shit. All the police would have to do is follow these cars until they broke the law and pull them over and give them a citation. Repeat it over and over again until China gets tired of hemorrhaging cash.
What city has those Sharia fake cop cars patrolling around?
Look very ‘official’.
Apparently the Chinese Communist Party is trying to undermine and crush any support for the Hong Kong protests now springing up among local Chinese communities in many countries.
Now that they realized their dirty tactics against the Hong Kong protestors so far had backfired (e.g., having thugs disguised as protestors to commit violent acts, brutal and excessive force by the infiltrated HK police, hiring gangs to beat people up, etc.)
And a repeat of TianAnMan is too risky for them because Hong Kong will immediately lose its special status with the US (about 60% of China’s international trade is currently done through Hong Kong, and the party elites will lose a reliable place to launder their ill-gotten gains.)
Unfortunately, what you have described is also true in many countries in the West, not just Australia.
I am always baffled that anyone can support a communist government.
The history is clear, communism leads to loss of human rights and mass murder.
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