In an unbelievable display of ARROGANCE and SELF-IMPORTANCE, the Australian government recently announced the most sweeping changes to their national security legislation since 9/11. The new laws will give the Australian government more powers to MONITOR ALL TYPES OF COMMUNICATION, both phone and internet. What’s more, telecom companies will be required to store searchable metadata of all activity for two years, enabling the authorities to access details of every phone call made and every website visited. Powers for “extended detention” and ‘preventative detention’, (pre-crime) have also been extended. I’m sure it makes you feel better knowing that you could be PREVENTIVELY DETAINED, without actually committing any crime—you know, JUST IN CASE… It will also become a crime now to travel to a country where terrorists are ‘conducting hostile activities’ unless you have a ‘legitimate excuse’. Just how these travel bans will be decided upon is unclear. Is Ukraine off limits? Spain? Northern Ireland? Thailand? Russia? All of this is supposedly necessary because, according to the government, there are 125 Australian citizens currently part of terrorist groups overseas. Even if correct, 125 people represent 0.0005% of the population of Australia. So for 125 people, the other 24+ million must be subjected to a Big Brother POLICE STATE. Basically they’re telling everyone that they should just be afraid… and that the government MUST SPY ON CITIZENS in order to PROTECT THEM. This is how it always happens… and we can watch yet another country slide rapidly into a POLICE STATE. zerohedge/news/2014-08-07/heres-dumbest-thing-youll-hear-all-week
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 21:44:54 +0000
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