The government’s first tranche of tougher anti-terrorism bills was being debated in the Senate. The death of an 18 year old radical had already added fuel to George Brandis’s ‘big brother’ legislation.
On Thursday morning at 6.30 am a member of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) was attacked. The 41-year-old man told police he was threatened and assaulted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance while wearing his full uniform at Bella Vista, Sydney.
Suffering minor bruising, he reported the matter to police and then attended Kings Cross police station in person. All military personnel are warned. The fight is now on Australian shores. The media did their usual blitz.
Later that Thursday night legislation to beef up the powers of the domestic spy agency ASIO, pass in the Senate by 44 votes to 12 – with bipartisan support from Labor.
NSW Police issued a statement on Friday (11:52) announcing the “allegation of assault has now been withdrawn”. “NSW Police will continue to examine the circumstances that led to the allegation being brought to their attention”. The police media department did not want to provide me any more detail other than their 2 line media release.
What was passed in the Senate:
Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists, whistle-blowers and bloggers will face up to 10 years’ jail for ‘recklessly’ disclosing classified information. Are the crimes of 9-11 deemed classified? What happens if that intelligence operation being exposed is detrimental to the well being of the Australian community? That doesn’t matter. The rights to disclose secret criminality in government are gone.
At some point Brandis will be voted out out or he will retire. But, the ‘powers’ that control the secrets for the Australian people can’t be voted out. We don’t even know who they are. We are not allowed to know. It is secret.
This about freedom-deflation.
Dear Dahlia,
Re your previous article on the 18-yr old Numan Haider. The phrase “the flower of manhood” comes to mind. I see you are implying that he was killed in cold blood, hence out-of-view of cameras. If so, Melbournites need to deal with this. Can’t let this become a new standard.
We could try to find out exactly how Haider was prompted to stab the cops. Probably he was acting on a post-hypnotic suggestion. In other words, he was programmed to do it. A case can be made that all members of the Jihad groups are simply programmed. Indeed, a case can be made that every member of any cult is in a brainwashed condition.
Maybe I am naïve (“I was a teenage novena Catholic”), but I don’t think religious zeal is ever the motive for killing. As I said last week on Gumshoe, I doubt if the kamikaze pilots of WWII went on their missions voluntarily. These things can be easily organized from the top.
Please keep up your method of enumerating events that show similarity. The ancestors to Haider’s activities are, IMHO, all the Manchurian Candidates who were sent out to commit murder, including Martin Bryant of Port Arthur fame. But Haider’s ‘zealotry’ also finds an ancestor in David Hicks of Adelaide, a very uneducated boy with no Arabic background, who the media claimed was doing translations for Bin Laden!
Probably “they” publish absurdities like that to see how much the public will accept. I have a big surprise for “them.” The fact that the public does not react does not mean the public believes such nonsense. And don’t “they” ever feel embarrassed by their silly claims?
Back to your article several days ago about the doodler on the plane who wrote the cute phrase “TerrorisMadeup.” I suspect he is a plant. No citizen today would write provocatively like that while seated on a plane. (Would you?) It’s all part of the drill to make us think we need protection from our own ilk. In the US everybody takes shoes off at the airport, and in dong so gets conditioned to the notion that the guy next to him is untrustworthy.
So here is my ‘remedy’: talk about the normal way to do things. I saw a beaut manifesto by sober scholars of Islam who want to re-establish the wise teachings of the Prophet and his successors. It can easily be done — there are gobs of good literature. Here is a link to a short piece I penned for Rosh Hashanah, which was yesterday: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=158
— Mary W Maxwell
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