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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 13. 14 June 1972

Professionals trained at special school..

page 24

Professionals trained at special school...

"Professional demonstrators are being trained in special disruptive tactics" claimed last Saturday's Sports Post under the incredible heading below.

The 'punchline' of the article had an unnamed, undescribed demonstrator claiming that his trainers pay him $50 for each appearance on a demonstration. But did the 'Post' have to claim that ah anarchist group, pledged to the total destruction of the present state of NZ, was behind the training centre? For at this point the article lapsed into the usual hilarious Anarchist spiel, so extreme that surely even the Post's readers are beginning to wrinkle their brows.

Okay Sports Post, so you're desperate to boost your sales.

But be warned, the last bastions of free speech and straight facts, that is the student press, will soon have to run articles like -

$50 A Scandal!

Professional scandalmongers are being trained in political disruptive tactics at Blunder Bros — and they're being paid to write such drivel!

NB. It is drivel you've been fed, by the new wave of hippie con men who are unafraid to tempt the latent fascist in every sports lover. The $50 figure is actually a seemingly too subtle reference to the standard fine paid by the Mt John demonstrators. — The anarchist spiel is taken word for word from the glee-sheets of the Dunedin anarchist army (3 members at the last count).

And the yippie tactics outlined are common knowledge, but useless knowledge. The real hard core demonstrators have far subtler tactics to stop the tour, etc. Tactics which wont require training camps, bribes, wont even require confrontation with the packs of dogs and vigilantes gathering against us.

But we'll tell you about those another time you do bore easily dont you!