Tell me again, why do we need these laws?
ASIO has managed to obtain information from phone companies by lying about warrants being obtained. DIMIA has imprisoned Australians for up to 5 years because somehow they couldn’t manage to work out these people weren’t illegal immigrants… and all this under our current laws!
Now the state governments and territories are set to agree the laws with only a few minor changes.
Things are in a pretty poor way when the Citizens Electoral Council is on the side of those opposing these laws. These are the people who want to declare a real war on drugs…
The groundswell has started, problem is that there may not be enough time to get the critical mass happening…
Under the new laws the government opposition party is technically breaching the law as it wants to ‘bring down’ the government.
If public servants can’t manage to obey the laws we currently have, how can we expect to be protected when the new laws are so ambiguously framed? Public servants are no longer independent, they are rewarded when they follow the government line, not when they administer the laws of the land correctly..
You may not think this affects you, but it does. I’ve heard these laws called the most draconian in the ‘west’. So does that mean that we’re now slipping over to the side of the ‘bad guys’ like Burma, where house arrest (that’s what home detention is) is a tool to control dissent? Even Burma will be more free than us as there people can talk about it. Here it will be 5 years in jail….
If you still have doubts, read this: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/10/27/1130400311075.html?from=rss
As someone who fears that in the next couple of days one of their citizenship rights is about to be removed under the current laws, I’m not happy.
Now the state governments and territories are set to agree the laws with only a few minor changes.
Things are in a pretty poor way when the Citizens Electoral Council is on the side of those opposing these laws. These are the people who want to declare a real war on drugs…
The groundswell has started, problem is that there may not be enough time to get the critical mass happening…
Under the new laws the government opposition party is technically breaching the law as it wants to ‘bring down’ the government.
If public servants can’t manage to obey the laws we currently have, how can we expect to be protected when the new laws are so ambiguously framed? Public servants are no longer independent, they are rewarded when they follow the government line, not when they administer the laws of the land correctly..
You may not think this affects you, but it does. I’ve heard these laws called the most draconian in the ‘west’. So does that mean that we’re now slipping over to the side of the ‘bad guys’ like Burma, where house arrest (that’s what home detention is) is a tool to control dissent? Even Burma will be more free than us as there people can talk about it. Here it will be 5 years in jail….
If you still have doubts, read this: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/10/27/1130400311075.html?from=rss
As someone who fears that in the next couple of days one of their citizenship rights is about to be removed under the current laws, I’m not happy.
posted by UnAustralian at 11:38 am
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