ABORIGINAL CHILD ARRESTED OVER A FREDDO FROG

[cornishrob123]

then tell your goverment and stand against them ,play them at there own game and go in to politics

[cornishrob123]

no one owns anything we are here for for 90 years if lucky the earth is still there no need to worry of countries 

[bigmacktrucks]

Stealing is stealing. Sone kid stole it and gave it to his mate. The value has no bearing. He should have been charged and faced punishment. I was embarassed to be an Australian when I saw that the police backed down just because he was black.

[hazzabee100]

ohh so the queenslanders r the racists cus thats not a generalisation upon a group of people at all that is racism u silly victorian

[scoobaseth]

lol.... hes had 700 views and he expects plenty of americans to have seen this XD. give up please grampa.

[PerfectPudding]

lol umad? no need to swear bro, was gonna use this in a uni lecture but you sworse too much..

[saintfletcher]

@PerfectPudding No need, but life is so much more fun.

[bunsinspace]

Wow, the ugly racism of colonialism in Australia rears its ugly head. What does Australia think it is, USA part II? Wake up!!!

[jesperepourlamour]

you are not 'stuck here' either

if you are so dissatisfied get the fuck out.

[saintfletcher]

@jesperepourlamour No. YOU get the fuck out. This is MY country. And if you bother to look at my channel, you would know that I only felt about the flag at this point of time. At a later stage, I have put the flag behind me. Everthing has a time, a place, a context, and situations and people change over time. No more comments like this or I will stop all comments. This was a long time ago.

[PerfectPudding]

@jesperepourlamour

lol dude, you can't argue with him. He's saying that this is the abo's country then says its HIS country... hmm i think someone's disabled. Also, how was he put in goal?

[jesperepourlamour]

why would you burn our flag...what a horrible thing to say. sure this is a horrible thing to happen but dont go generalizing the whole country. i am proud to be australian, no our history hasnt been perfect but it doesnt mean that because of our founders mistakes we are too like them.

white australia has a black history, and we are moving forward to reconciliation.

[saintfletcher]

@jesperepourlamour My ancestors were the founders of this country, fucknuckle!!! My colonial background goes back a long long time in Australia. I'm far more Australian in my blood than you would ever have a wet dream about. I am just talking about this incident, and what I said was spontaneous in response, and is not generally my usual response. My ancestors, founders, fought for justice, and so will I. This is MY country mate!

[irepthebub]

@saintfletcher you're wierd mate, I bet you fuck kids.

[saintfletcher]

@irepthebub I bet you AU$100 thousand dollars that I don't. You're on mate. I could do with $100,000, especially from some dickhead like you!

[Apachepower1]

Had this been a white child, he wouldn't have been prosecuted. Irregardless of what any one thinks, racism is rampant and unfortuantley it is many times taken out on children. Someone needs to start filing lawsuits. Perhaps I will...

[TheBluelight87]

hes still committed an offence!! for him to have been sent to court means he has already been given juvenile cautions for similiar offences! (as per requirements of the Young Offenders Act). He clearly hasnt learn that stealing/receiving is wrong, so its completely the correct thing to happen to progress to the next stage of the justice system (ie: court).

think about the victim, the shopkeeper - he may get 15 juvi offenders shoplifting that day - without intervention it never gets better!

[notafraidtosayit]

serves the little fucker right, regardless of how much the item was stealing is stealing

[Scottholmes135]

Yea race has nothin to do with it. He committed a crime for recieving stolen goods. He and his friend probobly planned it. Who gives a shit if it is time for reconciliation wat so that means we let the aboriginies that commit crimes to get away with it?

[kekakukakeku]

What does the child being aboriginal have to do with it?

[saintfletcher]

@kekakukakeku Do you honestly believe that a child from a middle class Euro background would be locked up without rights and without consideration of child welfare. The child was locked up with adult criminals.

[irishgodfatherchris]

@saintfletcher do you even know what the capacity is for the juvenile remand centre in Perth is? its 94

[saintfletcher]

This was not in Perth, it was closer to Broome. Just a few thousand kilometres away. You wonna send an 8 year old child thousands of kilometeres to a remand centre over a chocolate frog? The cost of transport out weighs the cost of the 60 cent Freddo frog by a few million to one. Don't we have better things to spend our taxes on?

[irishgodfatherchris]

of course not but you're rambling about him being put into a prison with adult offenders guess what this isn't nearly as dumb as the Road Safety At in Victoria which states that it is still illegal to walk on the right side of the footpath

[saintfletcher]

@irishgodfatherchris And the relevance of the capacity for the juvenile remand centre is what? This kid was sent into a local gaol, there was no juvenile remand centre in the town. He was locked in with the adults. This was a while ago, I think it's time to cool down about this, or I will stop all comments.Things are going out of context.

[grant22310]

i think it was on the news that the kid got free

[mehquig]

AWESOME rant! Huge miscarriage of justice...

[mjfan123100]

my geo teacher said if a kid who we dont know who did it , dosent give back his sharpener in a while if they find out who did it will be arrested noone is coming clean

[saintfletcher]

@mjfan123100 I have been a geo teacher. I would say that a teacher needs more control of the classroom and rely more on their teacher training than making threats about the police. If I threatened kids with the Police in Australia, the Principal would give me a lecture about class room management and keeping the police out of children's development. It is wrong to steal the sharpener. If the class is convinced it is wrong, you'd be amazed who fesses up to who did it.

[saintfletcher]

But I was also told that I was not the best teacher in the world as I didn't get along with most of the other teachers. I always had control of the classroom and students passed in my classes who had failed before, but I wasn't old fashioned enough and was encouraged to leave my career. That's another story...

[Lavenderrose73]

...hope you don't mind if I'm tick off right there with you. I know how you feel, I know what it's like to just want to flee my homeland because of how people in authority treat others (cough, cough, Dr. Lemur's Story... cough). You guys are very much in my thoughts.

[Lavenderrose73]

I'm sure every country has something to be ashamed of. Don't be ashamed to be Australian, just be ashamed of those who have no business being Australian.

...oh and by the way, those "conservatives" might as well rip that title right off themselves because they're apparently no such thing. It's like someone claiming to be a Christian and then tearing people's lives apart with gossip or something. I would be very dismayed at such a thing too.

[Lavenderrose73]

Ok this isn't even the tip of the iceberg, but did that child even KNOW it was stolen? Also, what about the child who stole it?? Did even his parents deal with him for it? I may not be Aussie, but I'm right there with you, Saint!!!

My apologies to the Aboriginal child on behalf of the heartless, idiotic tyrants who just wanted to throw their weight around! Don't worry, I know plenty of you aren't necessarily racist.

[thedreamdealer]

it was a brown chocolate freddo not a white chocolate freddo correct?

Western Australia has the highest daily rate of child detention. Average 132 children in detention in WA each day.

[saintfletcher]

It doesn't really matter what colour the chocolate frog was does it. There are too many children in detention in WA and most Australian states which have a ancient opinions on child welfare the behaviour development. To have better citizens develop into adults, the last place you want to put them is in gaol. Especially Aboriginal children. Too many in gaol, and less that half as many counsellors, Aboriginal Education Assistants in schools and fun youth programs to help them along.

[dctcool]

good news Fletcher. WA Police have dropped the charges against the kid

[saintfletcher]

Not really David, they just transfered them from the Goal to the juvenile justice system. This is against youth policy even in WA, which clearly states that putting children into the juvenile justice system is a last step, not a first step in corrective services. You need to read the fine print David, and I know the policy, I used to be a youth worker, I know the protocol.

[RandolfeWicker]

Cops seem to be "over-enthusiastic" everywhere. They arrest

panhandlers in many cities in the USA. We Americans destroyed several "Native American" tribes---made some of them totally disappear. The survivors are "fenced up" on reservations. Australia is just one of many who have destroyed native peoples. Don't overdo the guilt & anger. Save some for those destroying rain forests, killing primitive tribes in South America, killing their neighbors in the Congo, etc.etc., etc.

[saintfletcher]

No what happened to Aboriginal Australians is not just like what happened in the America's at all. The America's didn't exterminate an entire race. Australia did. The Tasmanians. Also, the America's didn't have "the stolen generation" This happened over a long period of time when the authorities stole the babies from Aboriginal parents and forced them into institutions to try to "civilize" them. The children in custody were treated most harshly. This cannot be compared to other countries.

[saintfletcher]

This happened after the PM said sorry about the Stolen Generation where Aboriginal children are forced into costody for to make them "civilized". Australia has admitted guilt to the world. We thought this was over. Now this happens. It is also against WA policy to lock up children in the first instance, or put them in the juvenile system in the first instance as it is counter productive to their welfare and development.

[countoreilly]

this is just so fucked.

wished we lived in WA after what happend to stef

under the law in australia if you own the flag and we don't have a fire ban on the day you can burn the flag if you like

[saintfletcher]

That insidence was a big problem with the NSW Government that couldn't care less about it's employees. That was shocking what happened and that's all I will say, or have ever said on this topic. I'm not burning anything, don't worry!

[countoreilly]

thats WA not NSW coppers don't give a fuck here

[1GOD1JESUS]

your passion is wonderful to watch, and moving to NZ really shows how bad this really is lol

fucking chair sniffers lololololol

[1GOD1JESUS]

God bless Australia

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Its time to throw my weight around. Let me know who to call, contact, and introduce myself to there who can get the child freed or at least pardoned.

[saintfletcher]

He is released already. It was in the news, and now the post mortum. The Greens are already calling to change the policy.

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

I'm glad. There will still be fallout though, as it takes a bit for news to travel. Still, the "dress like" incident didn't really go international, this may not either.

[Lavenderrose73]

Yes, I hope those people who did that get locked away themselves.

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Is there an email or a phone number for the police that arrested him or for Kevin Rudd's office? Could you list those numbers and emails here. Fletch?

[saintfletcher]

The Westerm Australian Premier. It's really not the PM Kevin Rudd's fault, they are the State troopers of Western Australia. It is possible that the PM will intervene or condemn Western Australia as he is Labor and they are Conservative, so it is a political hot potato.

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

They have to release this child immediately. I don't blame you for being upset.  If you'd like to move here, I will help you. You were willing to help me when I was considering a move down there...

I suspect there will be more people complaining, but I shall make a video as well. Time to bring back the Aussie Noel also.

[saintfletcher]

Thank you for the offer. But I haven't given up just yet Ian. I said that I felt that at that point of time. I also said I felt like burning the Australian flag. I didn't, I just felt like doing it, at that point of time.

[saintfletcher]

I'm already copping flak for that from other Australians, like this "how dare you" stuff, haha. It's just a British colonial flag anyway, I really don't think its much to get all fluffed up about. We don't have our own flag yet. The flag we have is a colonial flag, and the treatment of Aboriginal people is from colonialism. I will cop it for saying this...

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Saint, it sounds lie Kevin Rudd is full of koala doodoo as usual. The apology is meaningless, kids were banished from England simply for being poor. FUCK ENGLAND, NATION THAT HATES POOR CHILDREN.

[saintfletcher]

Yeah, that is another issue. To his credit, Kevin Rudd apologised for that today. Not for anything he did in current times, but what happened about 50 years ago. It's to his credit that Kevin Rudd was the first to show compassion enough to apologise to allow some healing. Next year, it will be British PM Gordon Brown's turn.

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Hopefully. This incident with the child shows how bad it really is down there. Is it that adults hate children or is it that parent just don't teach their children morals. Child goes to jail for receiving a piece of candy - Merry Christmas. I'm very embarrassed as well, being part Australian.

[saintfletcher]

I wouldn't think too much about the Australian side after what the US does in the detention centres to the children of the detainees and refugees and immigrants. I just looked at wazoome. This could be a world wide awakening to something terribly wrong that has been happening for too long.

[wazoome]

I agree, and that is my point in placing the videos here about how we treat children.  Because these practices are human rights abuses that the WORLD should be coming down on the U.S. for. We shouldn't get a free pass to hurt children because we live in the U.S.

[wazoome]

Sounds like police all over have overstepped moral boundaries. We jail children in the U.S. for simply being the offspring of immigrants. Not only do we jail them at the Don T. Hutto Center, but we also deny them food if they cry, place them in separate cells from their parents when they are afraid, and we deny them education. Thank you for exposing this! It is despicable that we treat children this way! Can you please teach the U.S. that WE are the aliens here too, not the native people?

[LaReinaDelBarrio]

Wazoome, I know its tempting to say WE.  But its not everyone who does this to children.. Its HETEROSEXUALS. Balloon dads, families of molestors from Missouri, teachers in schools in California, Priests, celebrities, Sunday school teachers... STRAIGHT PEOPLE. If there was a gay molestor in the last many months of molestations we sure haven't heard about it. WE means heterosexuals I think, dear.

[saintfletcher]

Thank you Wazoome for commenting. I watch many of the Nazi parades, and Jeff's bikini men, in Arizona, and the crap that they wear shouting "Mexicans Go home" and so on. They were wearing German helmets, German nazi uniforms, and other non American shit. Ironic that Arizona was once Mexican and they were there before. The bikini men claim to be "chosen ones" in "the promised land" yet they hate Jews? The original Americans are the Native Americans, not men that wear German nazi uniforms.

[dctcool]

It is rather disgraceful to have him arrested and face court over a 70c Freddo that wasn't even stolen by him but rather given to him by his friend, this shouldn't even go to court, 1 it's A FREDDO 2. It was given to him he didn't do anything wrong there's no way he could have known it was stolen.

To say you would resort to burning the flag is a bit much though

[saintfletcher]

That was just some rheotoric. I wouldn't worry about it. It's not our flag anyway, it's a British colonial flag, so no reason to be too upset.

[sydneyaus747]

This story even reached the Dutch news papers, and let me tell you our government is top notch when it comes to fucking things up. How low can you go........I feel so sorry for this little chap who got raped by the system. Most of us are cowards saint as its easier and safer to look the other way than to undertake action.

[saintfletcher]

Oh I've been on various marches on Aboriginal rights. On this issue, this in an individual: an example of a larger disaster. The best I can do at the moment at short notice is do what I do best. Talk on YouTube. In context, this was in WA which is a conservative State, their police are employed by that Government. The difficulty is that WA don't tend to listen to us in the eastern states. The PM can override policy and call for investigations.

[moomay11649]

GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!

Luvs,

Mooz

[city0fj]

i enjoyed watching this! haha

this is fucked up tho...

[deadskippy69]

Great commentary. At least there are still decent aussies who sees the racism and ignorance of the wider community in Australia. Such blatant racism should be rightly condemned.

[Veloce3]

I understand your frustration. I just don't think that we should describe the morons that run our country as representative of Australia or the Australian people. They are a society all of their own and serve non of us. Their whole premise for the actions that they take are designed to serve their own interest and motivations.This of course does not apply to all of them, but certainly the majority. They are contemptuous of society and and the best thing that we can do is to refrain from voting.

[AustralianinfoWars]

Great video Fletch ! lets see all the Youtube Partners do and say a video on the matter ummm Nowhere to be seen old mate.

[AustralianinfoWars]

Its very sad Fletch Why why? This used to be a hell of a good country just don't know what happen to it...

[saintfletcher]

Look on the bright side. They didn't have tasers. That would be enough to really stuff up the growth of a child with psychological scars. Putting a child in a cell of an adult prison is enough scarring which may never heal.

[saintfletcher]

Absolutely. I feel so sorry for those kids. I'll tell you a secret. I stole a Freddo frog from Coles when I was 10. I was so ashamed I put it back. All of my peers laughed. They often pinched lollies from supermarkets. Most kids have. It does not mean they grow up to be thieves. Kids do this. If the cops gave the shop keeper 70 or so cents, consider it a stimulous package. It's not even petty cash. Today Kevin Rudd apologised for the treatment of "the forgotten people" from orphanages...

[nauiocelotl]

ABORIGINAL people should be arresting white squatters for stealing their land .

[saintfletcher]

That would be most interesting. What would they do with us all? If Australia was true to reconciliation, then I think most Aboriginal people would be willing to let it be. We've never had a treaty here as the colonials never admitted that there was a war. A trial would be interesting. What would they do with us? hmm

[qualqui]

Wow,....not a treaty with the aboriginals,...well, not that it would make much difference,....look at my northern american brothers,....treaty after treaty broken,......hopefully ya'lls prime minister Rudd will legislate some laws to better their lot in your country.

Xicmotla 'palhui nopampa Cem Anahuac, translation: Greetings to ya on my behalf from the One World(America).

[nikobrein]

That would be great irony, how can we claim this country as our land when Aboriginals have been the traditional custodians of this land for over 75,000 years!

[qualqui]

hmmm....after readin' your comment,....the wool is lifted from my eyes,.....thanx for the foresight nikobrein!

[slessorpr]

HEY Saint, As long as they steal a car to leave town the coppers are happy and won't intervene. They are glad to see the kids go somewhere else to do their petty crime. Aboriginal deaths in custody is an issue we rarely hear abt now but nothing changes, coppers pick and beat on maladjusted minorities all over the world. Same as it ever was. Thanks 4 keeping me aware the Aussie status quo still like to pick on little kids. Trust all goes well 4 you, Cheers from yr old mate Mackie (slessorpr)

[TrueBlueAustralian]

Here they steal a car and they let them walk away...

[saintfletcher]

I know. I've lived in shady parts of Sydney. Police wouldn't even write a ticket for a Freddo Frog in Kings Cross. They would have a serious talk and force some kind of settlement between the kids and shopkeepers. I mean, they are worth 20-50c. Crikey!

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love!

[gleegirloz]

BTW I slept next to Truganinnis grave when I was in Tasmania in my early 20's.I didn't even know why I did it then,but something in me drew me to it!Now I'm glad I did.....

[saintfletcher]

The Aboriginal people from Tasmania were known to be rather psychic. I've met a few who survived the abondonment on Flinders Island. You know the story, long story, we diverge. But there are still Tasmanian Aboriginal people who do tell stories of Tasmania being paradise, and they cultivated the land, had currency, and somehow shared dreams. Some of our ancestors lost such an opportunity to learn, if only they would look and listen rather than just want to colonise. That is hypothetical now...

[qualqui]

girl, you've piqued my curiosity, gonna do a wiki search on Truganinnis and tasmanian first peoples.

[gleegirloz]

She was the last Aboriginal Princess.

[qualqui]

thanx for the info gleegirloz.

[gleegirloz]

They are rednecks,unfortunately this just shows how ingrained the racism still is!

[saintfletcher]

Thank you for feedback and I encourage more. The more Australians that disapprove of this, the more assurance we have that surely this country can't be all bad. Some of us still have principles and know that you don't just throw an 11 year old in a general lock-up with other criminals, and criminalising them before they even internalise who and what they are, and what is right, wrong and where does everyone belong? You know that as well as I do as teachers that you just don't throw kids in goal.

[MAR4168]

That is positively egregious! Thank you for reminding me about Rabbit Proof Fence. I have seen it and must see it again. Your passion is very touching.