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06/03/2013 08:58 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Australia. More Nanny State Fear controlling tactics, hidden in smoke and mirrors Reports on Australian “terrorism” laws call for streamlined police powers
By Mike Head
22 May 2013
Late on budget day last week, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor government quietly released two official reports on the vast array of “anti-terrorism” laws introduced over the past decade as part of the bogus “war on terrorism”.
The Labor government sat on both reports for weeks. One, from the “Independent National Security Legislation Monitor” was submitted to Gillard on December 20. The other, by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), was handed to the prime minister on March 1.
The timing of their release indicates that it was designed to bury the documents amid the blanket media coverage of the budget. The government clearly wants to avoid public scrutiny of plans to strengthen the laws, more than 12 years after they were first introduced in 2001.
The “war on terrorism” was launched on the pretext of responding to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. But in Australia, as in the US and Britain, it immediately became a vehicle for the eruption of US-led militarism, starting with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and for a barrage of domestic police-state measures.
From the outset, the WSWS warned that the “anti-terrorism” laws had nothing to do with protecting ordinary people from terrorism. Fundamental legal and democratic rights were being trashed in order to deal with political and social unrest at home.
The legislation defined terrorism in sweeping terms that could cover many forms of political dissent, expanded the already far-reaching surveillance powers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and other security forces, and overturned core legal principles, such as habeas corpus (no detention without trial), the right to remain silent and the presumption of innocence.Break... In releasing the reports, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus exploited the recent Boston bombings, whose circumstances remain murky, to rule out any relaxation of the terror powers. “It is clear that it is as important now as it ever was to maintain strong capabilities in the fight against terrorism,” he declared.
Dreyfus refused to say when the government would respond to the reports, and specifically declined to commit to doing so before the scheduled September 14 federal election. George Brandis, the Liberal-National Party’s shadow attorney-general, said he agreed with Dreyfus on “looking very carefully” at the reports—underscoring the bipartisan consensus on suppressing any wider discussion on strengthening the arsenal of “anti-terror” laws until the election is out of the way.Funny that...it seems that all politicicians have at least one thing in common, control by FEAR, even when it never existed. If it does then Im calling you you out. Put up or shut up. Where are the convictions. Link here... [ link to www.wsws.org] Last Edited by arkay on 06/03/2013 08:59 AM |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Australia. More Nanny State Fear controlling tactics, hidden in smoke and mirrors good find op !   |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Australia. More Nanny State Fear controlling tactics, hidden in smoke and mirrors
Doesn't matter which wing of the political chicken is in power, they BOTH steadily erode our privacy, and give more power to the secret police and intelligence services. It is bad enough that the USA can point and pluck any one of us as a terrorist and drag us to military prison, without having to justify or present evidence - but now our OWN government can do this too? Nice find OP. |
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06/04/2013 12:08 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Australia. More Nanny State Fear controlling tactics, hidden in smoke and mirrors good find op ! Doesn't matter which wing of the political chicken is in power, they BOTH steadily erode our privacy, and give more power to the secret police and intelligence services.
It is bad enough that the USA can point and pluck any one of us as a terrorist and drag us to military prison, without having to justify or present evidence - but now our OWN government can do this too?
Nice find OP.
Quoting: InCogNeatOh Thanks folks. It disgusts me. And very soon they are again for the umteenth time going to TRY to get us to recognise local government in our constitution. Not before they remove State governments first! |
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06/04/2013 08:45 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Australia. More Nanny State Fear controlling tactics, hidden in smoke and mirrors good find op ! Actually I should have responded to this complementary post much sooner and I have to apolagise to the person who in fact gave me the heads up on this. I didnt find this article, rather it was PM'ed to me from a highly respected poster from another thread that I have been running for a while. Knowing this person rather well I knew that the info was passed on to me to protect that persons identity, but I failed to make that distinction early enough here. To that person, I thank you and also offer my deepest appolagies for not registering your work in this matter. You are never forgotten, Im just a bit too loose with the detail that I should be better at observing. Please forgive me. arkay |
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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 37129662 scary. 'confirmation' that, indeed, the state makes you free and brings you happiness im so happy i could just burst!!  cameron had a 'happiness' survey done in the uk  |
