Aussie Cops Bring Dogs To Concerts, Check Testicles For Drugs

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[Leads the young man to a makeshift tent with temporary cubicles.]

Pick up your balls and move them to one side…now the other… [peers closely and searchingly]

The words above might sound like they were pulled from homoerotica, a bad porn script or a black market sado-masochistic screen play. In actuality, it’s been a common occurrence at Australian music festivals since cops have swept through with drug-sniffing dogs.

America has yet another foreign export – sexual assault from law enforcement.

Should Police Sniffer Dogs Be Banned From Music Festivals? a Buzzfeed report asks. The now global and failed so-called ”War on Drugs” has somehow twisted naive or lazy minds into allowing traumatic sexual assault on young men from deviant law enforcement who “do their duty” on young men’s privates while they are trying to enjoy a concert. In other words, the average person is not even allowed to enjoy a day of entertainment that he was fortunate enough to afford. Not without molestation from an officer pretending to look for drugs, which is what happened to Jordan, the 23-year-old med student above at last year’s Defqon. While he was being exploited and ogled at, he could hear other guys being subjected to the same thing in nearby cubicles.

Believe it or not, it is the Greens that speak out the most about police violence in Australia. Particularly, the NSW Greens (New South Whales). Drug sniffing dogs are the foot-in-the-door to personal violations. They threw a “Sniff-Off” party (flyer pictured above) as a statement that police and their menacing dogs were not allowed. They say the above encounter happens to hundreds of people and drugs aren’t even found two out of three times.

From Buzzfeed:

according to the NSW Greens, drug dogs are wrong 64-72% of the time.

And they say when they do find drugs they’re often not busting dealers, just people who have small amounts for personal use. 

“We’ve been compiling statistics and they paint a clear picture of a program that’s a comprehensive failure and an assault on civil liberties,” says Greens MP and justice spokesperson David Shoebridge. 

“In the last year of figures there were more than 17,000 occasions where police searched people and in more than 11,000 cases the dogs got it wrong and the people had no drugs,” he told BuzzFeed News.

Law enforcement there vehemently denies that, saying “Over 70% of indications by the dogs result in either drugs being located or the person admitting recent contact with illegal drugs. Any suggestion otherwise is incorrect.”

The Greens responded:

“Police now pepper suspects with questions while they are searching them, demanding information like ‘have you ever been in contacts with drugs?’ and if they get any positive response they record that as a success for the dog,” says Shoebridge. 

So even if you’re not carrying drugs but you admit to using them in the last month, police will chalk that up as a win.

The Greens have introduced a bill to ban drug detection dogs in public places. The Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Amendment (Sniffer Dogs—Repeal of Powers) Bill 2015 wants an end to the practice at festivals, bars and public transport. Yeah, it’s fully expected to be shot down which really tells you the state of things in 2015.

It should definitely give pause to everyone, everywhere that the draconian police state practices of the U.S. are simultaneously installed globally. To what purpose – to whose benefit?