Three irritants
first the deportation from Australia of Scott Parkin, an US peace activist accused of terrorism... His 'crime' was that the security services believed that he was a threat to Australia as he was going to run a workshop to teach Australians how to resist police. As I understand it, the workshop was supposed to be about non violent resistance as a way to ensure the protest messages are not drowned out by the sensational reporting of violent responses to police heavy handedness. He claims that when interviewed by the security service here no-one mentioned this and never told him why he was being deported. Welcome to the beginnings of the totalitarian state.
Australia certainly beats Israel hands down in this. Australia didn't try to hide the fact they want him gone, refused to give reasons, and billed him for the privilege. The reason why he went quickly and voluntarily was that they were charging him for his lodgings whilst they had him in jail. All up the bill came to AUD 11,000 - pretty impressive. This is something Israel should certainly consider if it's really serious about deporting all those pesky activists that it calls terrorists - after all, done this way and with a large bill to be paid if they every want to re-enter the country, it would cut down on the number of people wanting to try to stop them breaching all those UN Resolutions (I think there's around 64 of them that Israel is currently ignoring) and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
second is the proposed introduction of new 'terror' laws. What can I say? They rarely use the current ones, and these new ones seem to be more about controlling the actions of the population rather than targeting terrorists. Unsurprisingly, our Muslims are concerned. When you look at how the current laws have been applied to the Scott Parkin, we all should be.
Third is that council in Sydney refusing an application for someone to have deckchairs on the beach and hire them out. One of the council called it UnAustralian. He was right - as an UnAustralian I would certainly have appreciated it.
Australia certainly beats Israel hands down in this. Australia didn't try to hide the fact they want him gone, refused to give reasons, and billed him for the privilege. The reason why he went quickly and voluntarily was that they were charging him for his lodgings whilst they had him in jail. All up the bill came to AUD 11,000 - pretty impressive. This is something Israel should certainly consider if it's really serious about deporting all those pesky activists that it calls terrorists - after all, done this way and with a large bill to be paid if they every want to re-enter the country, it would cut down on the number of people wanting to try to stop them breaching all those UN Resolutions (I think there's around 64 of them that Israel is currently ignoring) and the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
second is the proposed introduction of new 'terror' laws. What can I say? They rarely use the current ones, and these new ones seem to be more about controlling the actions of the population rather than targeting terrorists. Unsurprisingly, our Muslims are concerned. When you look at how the current laws have been applied to the Scott Parkin, we all should be.
Third is that council in Sydney refusing an application for someone to have deckchairs on the beach and hire them out. One of the council called it UnAustralian. He was right - as an UnAustralian I would certainly have appreciated it.
posted by UnAustralian at 9:29 pm
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