Posters depicting world ‘leaders’ wearing Nazi uniforms have led to a cafe owner having to shut down an unrelated gig as Canberra police established a crime scene.
On Wednesday, ACT Police officers attended Dissent Cafe & Bar in Canberra after a complaint about “possible hate imagery”, and asked the owner to remove posters. The owner declined, so police established a crime scene, seized five posters, and said they will be considered under “recently enacted Commonwealth legislation regarding hate symbols.”
Cafe of Dissent. When satire meets hate speech laws
by Joshua Barnett
The posters depicted Donald Trump, J D Vance, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms, along with signs to “Sanction Israel” and “Stop Genocide.”