From:  (St.Athanasius)
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Please Read this Brothers & Sisters
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:15:45 GMT
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In the Name of the Father,the Son and the Holy Spirit,the One God,
Amen. Peace and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Dear Theo,
                   Greetings, Thanks for supporting the fact that
Bathurst Bike Races in the early eighties were like a war zone. I was
not there in 85, but 82/83. When I was there the guns were heard
during the day from down in the valley behind the camping area, so we
knew the guns were in the crowd. Now as to the Police starting  the
riot(s) I can understand from your perspective that charging  Police
in Battle array looks like starting the blue. But remember that we
were there to 'protect' people and whenever the crowd turned on anyone
or the media we had to charge in and free the person. This was our job
you know.  We had plainclothes Detectives in the crowd dressed as
Bikers with a distinctive piece of clothing on so we knew that they
were ours. They would radio to us that someone in the crowd was in
trouble and in we would charge. From your view it would have looked
like the Police being agressive-it wasn't. Even lighted sticks of
gelignite were thrown during those riots. You  jest about the petrol
but have you ever been on the receiving end of a molotov cocktail or
had to extinguish a mate who had  been set alight for no other reason
than he was  trying to save some silly person who was in the wrong
place at the wrong time. In any case glad to cross swords with you
again in this much more peaceful environment. Sad we are still on
opposing sides though. I will let you answer but I will not respond
as this really is off topic for this NG.

The riot was caused by drunks who had lost control.

In Him,
Greg  Scully.

On Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:56:19 +0800, "Theo Bekkers" <>
wrote:

>
>St.Athanasius wrote in message <>...
>>
>>Whilst a TRG Officer I attended  the Bathurst Motor  Cycle  (riots)
>>races two times  where at night fellow officers were set on fire by
>>Bikers,  my job was  to put them out with a fire extinguisher. At that
>>time  petrol bombs and gunshots were common  in the crowd.
>
>
>Hey, I was there in '85, on my bike, I was a spectator. Wasn't it fun to see
>all the police in their fortress scurrying about in their combat gear. A bit
>silly to charge a crowd of people with batons when they have bottles of
>petrol, isn't it? I didn't hear any guns though.
>
>None of the police looked like saints to me.
>
>Cheers
>
>Theo
>There are two sides to every story. The "riot" was caused by the police.
>
>