Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Who is going to become the first nazi gauleiter of fascist australia?
This is now the country where the opposition party has connived with the government to bring us the modern police state of 2005.
It is alarming to say the least when the senate inquiry into the proposed anti-terror bills recommends removing or softening the sedition parts of the bill.
So we have the attorney general saying that under no circumstances will he change that part of the bill and just watch his face while he is saying all this!
Where does that leave us? This blog item will be labelled subversive and seditious and sedition carries all sorts of penalties with it.
Cartoonists have expressed their outrage and concern and so have some satirists such as Max Gillies.
The media generally are compliant, and we have no courageous editors or newspapers in Australia such as we had in South Africa with the Rand Daily Mail. Its closure was a tragedy for apartheid South Africa in the early 1980s when it was one of the few remaining voices of opposition to the apartheid police state regime.
Here in Australia there is no equivalent, which leaves us even more out on a limb with the only voices of protest those of us who have seen it all before.
And the left wing groups who no doubt risk being silenced because they are seen to be subversive and seditious!
CONTINUE TO BE AFRAID! VERY AFRAID!!!
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This is now the country where the opposition party has connived with the government to bring us the modern police state of 2005.
It is alarming to say the least when the senate inquiry into the proposed anti-terror bills recommends removing or softening the sedition parts of the bill.
So we have the attorney general saying that under no circumstances will he change that part of the bill and just watch his face while he is saying all this!
Where does that leave us? This blog item will be labelled subversive and seditious and sedition carries all sorts of penalties with it.
Cartoonists have expressed their outrage and concern and so have some satirists such as Max Gillies.
The media generally are compliant, and we have no courageous editors or newspapers in Australia such as we had in South Africa with the Rand Daily Mail. Its closure was a tragedy for apartheid South Africa in the early 1980s when it was one of the few remaining voices of opposition to the apartheid police state regime.
Here in Australia there is no equivalent, which leaves us even more out on a limb with the only voices of protest those of us who have seen it all before.
And the left wing groups who no doubt risk being silenced because they are seen to be subversive and seditious!
CONTINUE TO BE AFRAID! VERY AFRAID!!!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
This photo was taken in Johannesburg around 1928. The photo shows my father, Morris De Saxe, standing behind the rest of us sitting, me - Mannie De Saxe (aged about 2) on the left - sitting on the lap of my mother Annie De Saxe in the middle, and my sister Molly De Saxe (aged about 5) on the right.We lived with my grandparents Pesa and Moshe Kuper in their big house at 51 Soper Road, Berea, Johannesburg, because my father was a struggling young barrister in the early days of his professional career, and could not support us in a home of our own.
My father was a passionate and comitted Jew and Zionist who worked actively and tirelessly with the Jewish community in Johannesburg for what he believed in. His upbringing must have been a very disrupted one due to tragic family circumstances, and he was probably determined that his life after marriage would be very different and more stable.
Disaster struck two years later, when he died tragically of myasthenia gravis at the young age of 31!
What happened then for the next 50 years is a long and complicated story, but by 1978 South Africa had become a police state and life there was becoming unbearable. I got married in 1954 and by 1978 had three children, the middle one of whom was a boy who would have had to go into the South African army and fight an illegal war in Angola as well as fighting in the South African black townships which had become virtually war zones because of the South African government's apartheid regime.
So we escaped to Australia, where my father Morris had been born in 1898, believing that we would be safe and have nothing to fear from the government - or any future government - which would never attempt to remove the democratic rights and freedoms which had been so hard won and which were taken for granted by the majority of the Australian population.
How wrong can one get!!!!!
In the year 2005 the Australian government under John Howard had a majority in both houses of parliament - the senate majority given to him on a platter by the kind hands of his supporters the Alternative Liberal Party, known as the ALP, so that any legislation the government dreamt of could now be enacted.
So, the Industrial Relations bills and anti-terrorist bills at the end of 2005 are about to be passed by both houses of parliament, setting the ground work for an Australian police state.
I am now 79 years old and have been living in Australia for nearly 28 years. It would be extremely difficult to pack up and leave with my 83-year-old partner for another country such as South Africa, which, since the end of apartheid in 1994, has one of the most democratic constitutions in the world!
So, today, Monday 28 November 2005, we stood on the steps of the Victorian parliament and protested at the new sedition laws which will make such protests as today's illegal, and for which we would be able to be detained and eventually charged with sedition!!
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Life around the world grows daily more bizarre! Iran is busy executing more gay men, the Australian government is pretending to do something about a young Australian man in a Singapore prison, while continuing trade negotiations with Singapore, Singapore says the death penalty has been a deterrent to drug traffickers - in the mean time of course it continues unabated, the USA and China have the greatest numbers of murders sanctioned by their governments as death penalties for crimes of all sorts, drug trafficking has been one of the greatest tools of the CIA for decades - and the list goes on and on!
Bizarre for me too - there is a report from Poland that a gay pride march was not going to be allowed in Posnan - the present Polish government is homophobic and acting accordingly in total contravention of its membership of the EU - and my greatgrandfather Emanuel Mendelssohn was born in Pakosch, a town near what was then Posen and is now Posnan!!
Back on home territory in Melbourne, Australia, and the Federal and Victorian state governments have combined to raid a porn shop in Fitzroy and seize material because what is sold there will seriously corrupt us adults!! How many of their government members surruptitiously use such organisations or get their minions to purchase items for them??
The meeting in Darebin Shire Council rooms last week on the State government's Racial and Religious Vilifications Act saw the hall filled with 60 to 100 people to hear such speakers as Dr Helen Szokes from the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Mayor of Casey, Mr Thomas from the Islamic Council of Victoria, Peter Stokes from that homophobic institution SaltShakers and Brian Walters QC of Liberty Victoria debating the Act.
One of the audience questions came from a member of the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby about a certain visiting sheikh's homophobia on a commercial television channel, and Mr Thomas dismissed the complaint angrily saying he was not responsible for what such people said.
The Industrial Relations bill looks set to pass in the senate next week with Barnaby Joyce from Queensland ready to do his next backflip - it really is all so predictable, and then soon the anti-terrorism legislation will also become law and we will be living in the early stages of a police state - which we are already, if you look at censorship and homophobia!
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Bizarre for me too - there is a report from Poland that a gay pride march was not going to be allowed in Posnan - the present Polish government is homophobic and acting accordingly in total contravention of its membership of the EU - and my greatgrandfather Emanuel Mendelssohn was born in Pakosch, a town near what was then Posen and is now Posnan!!
Back on home territory in Melbourne, Australia, and the Federal and Victorian state governments have combined to raid a porn shop in Fitzroy and seize material because what is sold there will seriously corrupt us adults!! How many of their government members surruptitiously use such organisations or get their minions to purchase items for them??
The meeting in Darebin Shire Council rooms last week on the State government's Racial and Religious Vilifications Act saw the hall filled with 60 to 100 people to hear such speakers as Dr Helen Szokes from the Equal Opportunity Commission, the Mayor of Casey, Mr Thomas from the Islamic Council of Victoria, Peter Stokes from that homophobic institution SaltShakers and Brian Walters QC of Liberty Victoria debating the Act.
One of the audience questions came from a member of the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby about a certain visiting sheikh's homophobia on a commercial television channel, and Mr Thomas dismissed the complaint angrily saying he was not responsible for what such people said.
The Industrial Relations bill looks set to pass in the senate next week with Barnaby Joyce from Queensland ready to do his next backflip - it really is all so predictable, and then soon the anti-terrorism legislation will also become law and we will be living in the early stages of a police state - which we are already, if you look at censorship and homophobia!
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
I wrote to Margo Kingston's webdiary in reponse to the ongoing debates about the Howard government's attacks on the industrial relations legislation and the proposed alterations to anti-terrorism legislation.
The attacks against me in response were rude, unwarranted, racist and personal.
I am aware that many blogs have personal attacks taking place in them much of the time, but find that if those who write to blogs would address the issues rather than the people, the results might be more productive and edifying.
After the attacks in the items below, I have decided not to contribute to Margo's webdiary any further, as I believe the insults are just not worth the effort. Of course what I said is open to correction, as would anybody who makes assertions, but assertions are not necessarily incorrect and vituperative attacks are simply not warranted!
MARGO KINGSTON’S WEBDIARY – ON THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S ANTI-TERRORISM AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LEGISLATIONS – COMMENTS ON 3 AND 4 NOVEMBER AND 8 NOVEMBER 2005
There are a few important points in the ongoing debate on IR and AT. There is no opposition in Australia, the media are practically all Howard's yes men and women, and the population at large simply aren't aware of how all the new laws will affect them until it will be too late.
No new legislation is required as far as national security is concerned - the government has had for many years - since the Hilton bombing of 13 February 1978 in fact - all the legislation it has needed. And, as yet, 28 years after the Hilton bombing and several prison terms served by those innocent of any involvement in the bombing, no one has been apprehended and charged - and jailed - for that act!
The South African apartheid police state learned a great deal from Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda machine and the Nuremberg race laws, and the Howard government has learned these as well.
They are playing the race card for all it is worth - the Hanson legacy - and it all ties in with the Howard plan to turn Australia into a dictatorship where opponents are locked up.
And if you still think there will be elections in a few years time and the government can be got rid of, remember that if a state of emergency is declared, then a ban on further elections can be instituted because it would be against the national interest and security and we can all be locked up as subversives. Remember what Hitler did after February 1933! I came from the South African police state and I know how these things can happen.
And yes, it is very depressing! I left South Africa in 1978 believing I would never again live in a police state - how wrong can one be!! And at 79 I don't think I can have another such upheaval in my life! However, to be positive about it, most of the regimes have collapsed in the end and the leaders have - mostly - been called to account.
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 03/11/2005 6:32:32 PM
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Is no-one listening? How many links to the Constitution have to be posted here before some of you actually go and read the frigging thing. Why do so many Australians think our Constitution is the same as the US Constitution? It isn't.
Why is it that so many of you reffos come here without any course in civics and just assume that it works here the way it did in the old gulag? My favourite story is the Headmaster of Vaucluse High having to explain to Russian emigres after the collapse of the Soviet Union that it was not actually necessary to bribe him to get their children into the school.
Now, Mannie De Saxe, gotcha. Read s28 of the Constitution for pity's sakes. It provides for a maximum term of three years for the House of Reps. We HAVE to have an election at least every three years.
State of Emergency my fat aunt (only got one left). This is Australia not South Africa. Now can I get on with something useful?
Posted by: Malcolm B Duncan 03/11/2005 6:56:13 PM
Getting on with something useful (with apologies to Malcolm B Duncan) - Section 28 of the Australian Constitution states:
DURATION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Every House of Representatives shall continue for three years from the first meeting of the House, and no longer, but may be sooner dissolved by the Governor-General.
Section 5 of the Constitution states:
SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT. PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION:
The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives.
Now why would one think about 11 November 1975??
"The powers accorded to the Governor-General in the Constitution are considerable. The Governor-General may (amongst other things)command the armed forces (section 68) appoint and, on address from both Houses of Parliament, remove High Court Justices and other Justices of a court created by the Parliament (section 72).
And people think it can't happen here because they don't have any fat aunts left and find the topic boring!
Remember Pastor Niemoller and remember other democratically elected governments, and NEVER forget that anything can happen in a country where the government has complete control of both houses of the parliament ably assisted by the assistant prime minister and his Alternative Liberal Party!
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 08/11/2005 12:00:03 AM
Parse s5 carefully, Mannie de Saxe.
"The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives."
Also look as ss7, 12, 13, 28, 32 and 57.
First, the difference between prorogation and dissolution is important. The G-G prorogues either house by suspending its sitting, that does not end its existence. Dissolution does. He only has the power to dissolve the Senate under s57, the double-dissolution clause.
My beef about 1975 arises from this: at the time Fraser sought a double-dissolution election on the basis of Labour Bills (they could spell in those days) which had been twice rejected by the Senate, he had lost the confidence of the House and was by convention bound to resign his commission. He did not. In my view, Kerr would have had power to dissolve the House of Representatives if it were the case that only Whitlam could command a majority in the lower House but could not guarantee supply (which was not the case because in between Fraser being commissioned and him losing the confidence of the Lower House, the Senate had passed supply) but Kerr never had the power to dissolve the Senate.
The system, as designed, was to give three year terms to the House of Representatives unless the G-G of his own motion (in the case of a deadlock) or on the advice of his Ministers disolved it earlier by issuing writs for an election. The Senate was supposed to be elected in two halves, each going to the people at a fixed three year interval unless a double dissolution intervened and was necessary to resolve a deadlock between the Houses. Note that it is the Governors of the States - not the G-G - who issue writs for Senate elections.
There is no power whatsoever to declare a state of emergency although there are Aid to the Civil Power provisions in Part IIIAAA of the Defence Act.
Why do we let people into this country without requiring them to pass a test in Civics?
Posted by: Malcolm B Duncan 08/11/2005 9:32:49 AM
"Why do we let people into this country without requiring them to pass a test in Civics?"
Now let's see, those who came to Australia from 1788 were well versed in the civics of the indigenous people of Australia when they stole the land???Malcolm, it is irrelevant how long people have been here and what civics or other they may have studied. A course in demographics and sociology and anthropology might help your own education. Some of us have been "allowed" into Australia because we escaped from Nazi-like regimes and hoped for something better here, only to be disappointed some 30 years later.
Just for your historical, genealogical records, my father, his mother and her mother were all born in Australia, although I believe that to be irrelevant to an interpretation of the Australian constitution. This is a case of teaching your grandmother to go and suck eggs, although in my case it is your grandfather - heaven forbid!
None of your pedantry removes the aspects of the bills before the present parliament and our future lives in this country. A country in which there is no parliamentary opposition and in which every state and territory leader is in agreement with the proposals of the federal government to restrict our freedoms. And you attack my knowledge of the Australian Constitution!
To quote Alan Paton yet again, "Cry, the beloved country!"
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 08/11/2005 4:46:11 PM
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Mannie De Saxe you are upset that I point out that you do not know what you are talking about yet claim some "ancestral" connection with Australia. Doesn't seem to have communicated knowledge through the gene structure.
I'm not here to be nice to people or court popularity, I'm here to contribute to proper understanding. What was the problem? What you said was wrong. How do we fix it? We point out you were wrong, how you were wrong and give you the information you need not to be wrong in the future. Do we have the will to fix the problem? In spades sweetie.A lesson in civics as you were escaping from a repressive regime would have taken about a day. Small price to pay for freedom I say.
If you now want to preserve that freedom, it is better that you attempt to do so from an informed point of view.
Posted by: Malcolm B. Duncan 08/11/2005 8:09:01 PM
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The attacks against me in response were rude, unwarranted, racist and personal.
I am aware that many blogs have personal attacks taking place in them much of the time, but find that if those who write to blogs would address the issues rather than the people, the results might be more productive and edifying.
After the attacks in the items below, I have decided not to contribute to Margo's webdiary any further, as I believe the insults are just not worth the effort. Of course what I said is open to correction, as would anybody who makes assertions, but assertions are not necessarily incorrect and vituperative attacks are simply not warranted!
MARGO KINGSTON’S WEBDIARY – ON THE HOWARD GOVERNMENT’S ANTI-TERRORISM AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LEGISLATIONS – COMMENTS ON 3 AND 4 NOVEMBER AND 8 NOVEMBER 2005
There are a few important points in the ongoing debate on IR and AT. There is no opposition in Australia, the media are practically all Howard's yes men and women, and the population at large simply aren't aware of how all the new laws will affect them until it will be too late.
No new legislation is required as far as national security is concerned - the government has had for many years - since the Hilton bombing of 13 February 1978 in fact - all the legislation it has needed. And, as yet, 28 years after the Hilton bombing and several prison terms served by those innocent of any involvement in the bombing, no one has been apprehended and charged - and jailed - for that act!
The South African apartheid police state learned a great deal from Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda machine and the Nuremberg race laws, and the Howard government has learned these as well.
They are playing the race card for all it is worth - the Hanson legacy - and it all ties in with the Howard plan to turn Australia into a dictatorship where opponents are locked up.
And if you still think there will be elections in a few years time and the government can be got rid of, remember that if a state of emergency is declared, then a ban on further elections can be instituted because it would be against the national interest and security and we can all be locked up as subversives. Remember what Hitler did after February 1933! I came from the South African police state and I know how these things can happen.
And yes, it is very depressing! I left South Africa in 1978 believing I would never again live in a police state - how wrong can one be!! And at 79 I don't think I can have another such upheaval in my life! However, to be positive about it, most of the regimes have collapsed in the end and the leaders have - mostly - been called to account.
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 03/11/2005 6:32:32 PM
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Is no-one listening? How many links to the Constitution have to be posted here before some of you actually go and read the frigging thing. Why do so many Australians think our Constitution is the same as the US Constitution? It isn't.
Why is it that so many of you reffos come here without any course in civics and just assume that it works here the way it did in the old gulag? My favourite story is the Headmaster of Vaucluse High having to explain to Russian emigres after the collapse of the Soviet Union that it was not actually necessary to bribe him to get their children into the school.
Now, Mannie De Saxe, gotcha. Read s28 of the Constitution for pity's sakes. It provides for a maximum term of three years for the House of Reps. We HAVE to have an election at least every three years.
State of Emergency my fat aunt (only got one left). This is Australia not South Africa. Now can I get on with something useful?
Posted by: Malcolm B Duncan 03/11/2005 6:56:13 PM
Getting on with something useful (with apologies to Malcolm B Duncan) - Section 28 of the Australian Constitution states:
DURATION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Every House of Representatives shall continue for three years from the first meeting of the House, and no longer, but may be sooner dissolved by the Governor-General.
Section 5 of the Constitution states:
SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT. PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION:
The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives.
Now why would one think about 11 November 1975??
"The powers accorded to the Governor-General in the Constitution are considerable. The Governor-General may (amongst other things)command the armed forces (section 68) appoint and, on address from both Houses of Parliament, remove High Court Justices and other Justices of a court created by the Parliament (section 72).
And people think it can't happen here because they don't have any fat aunts left and find the topic boring!
Remember Pastor Niemoller and remember other democratically elected governments, and NEVER forget that anything can happen in a country where the government has complete control of both houses of the parliament ably assisted by the assistant prime minister and his Alternative Liberal Party!
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 08/11/2005 12:00:03 AM
Parse s5 carefully, Mannie de Saxe.
"The Governor-General may appoint such times for holding the sessions of Parliament as he thinks fit, and may also from time to time, by Proclamation or otherwise, prorogue the Parliament, and may in like manner dissolve the House of Representatives."
Also look as ss7, 12, 13, 28, 32 and 57.
First, the difference between prorogation and dissolution is important. The G-G prorogues either house by suspending its sitting, that does not end its existence. Dissolution does. He only has the power to dissolve the Senate under s57, the double-dissolution clause.
My beef about 1975 arises from this: at the time Fraser sought a double-dissolution election on the basis of Labour Bills (they could spell in those days) which had been twice rejected by the Senate, he had lost the confidence of the House and was by convention bound to resign his commission. He did not. In my view, Kerr would have had power to dissolve the House of Representatives if it were the case that only Whitlam could command a majority in the lower House but could not guarantee supply (which was not the case because in between Fraser being commissioned and him losing the confidence of the Lower House, the Senate had passed supply) but Kerr never had the power to dissolve the Senate.
The system, as designed, was to give three year terms to the House of Representatives unless the G-G of his own motion (in the case of a deadlock) or on the advice of his Ministers disolved it earlier by issuing writs for an election. The Senate was supposed to be elected in two halves, each going to the people at a fixed three year interval unless a double dissolution intervened and was necessary to resolve a deadlock between the Houses. Note that it is the Governors of the States - not the G-G - who issue writs for Senate elections.
There is no power whatsoever to declare a state of emergency although there are Aid to the Civil Power provisions in Part IIIAAA of the Defence Act.
Why do we let people into this country without requiring them to pass a test in Civics?
Posted by: Malcolm B Duncan 08/11/2005 9:32:49 AM
"Why do we let people into this country without requiring them to pass a test in Civics?"
Now let's see, those who came to Australia from 1788 were well versed in the civics of the indigenous people of Australia when they stole the land???Malcolm, it is irrelevant how long people have been here and what civics or other they may have studied. A course in demographics and sociology and anthropology might help your own education. Some of us have been "allowed" into Australia because we escaped from Nazi-like regimes and hoped for something better here, only to be disappointed some 30 years later.
Just for your historical, genealogical records, my father, his mother and her mother were all born in Australia, although I believe that to be irrelevant to an interpretation of the Australian constitution. This is a case of teaching your grandmother to go and suck eggs, although in my case it is your grandfather - heaven forbid!
None of your pedantry removes the aspects of the bills before the present parliament and our future lives in this country. A country in which there is no parliamentary opposition and in which every state and territory leader is in agreement with the proposals of the federal government to restrict our freedoms. And you attack my knowledge of the Australian Constitution!
To quote Alan Paton yet again, "Cry, the beloved country!"
Posted by: Mannie De Saxe 08/11/2005 4:46:11 PM
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Mannie De Saxe you are upset that I point out that you do not know what you are talking about yet claim some "ancestral" connection with Australia. Doesn't seem to have communicated knowledge through the gene structure.
I'm not here to be nice to people or court popularity, I'm here to contribute to proper understanding. What was the problem? What you said was wrong. How do we fix it? We point out you were wrong, how you were wrong and give you the information you need not to be wrong in the future. Do we have the will to fix the problem? In spades sweetie.A lesson in civics as you were escaping from a repressive regime would have taken about a day. Small price to pay for freedom I say.
If you now want to preserve that freedom, it is better that you attempt to do so from an informed point of view.
Posted by: Malcolm B. Duncan 08/11/2005 8:09:01 PM
Thursday, November 03, 2005
2 NOVEMBER 2005
This is the day that Australia has finally become a police state. The prime minister John Howard is strutting the stage just like other infamous figures of the past, not listening to any feeble protests from anybody in the community, determined to get his way and do as he wants.
This is his way of finally silencing all those who oppose his policies and are actively involved in vocally and vociferously demonstrating that what he is doing is disastrous destruction of our civil liberties and house arrests and prison arrests will follow as and when he wants to silence dissent.
How very convenient!! The Australian Prime Minister, frustrated by the delays to his anti-terrorism bills by a few politicians with doubts about the police state aspects of the new bills, announces to the Federal Parliament at the same time as the introduction of the Industrial Relations bills, that Australia has received definite information that there are acts of terror about to be launched in this country and we need the protection of the bills for the sake of the security of the citizens of Australia!!
Cynicism?? I don't think so! Lie after lie after lie, and still people believe the latest lies spewing forth from Canberra and act accordingly. Two things to remember:
South Africa the Police state and
The Hilton Hotel bombing of 1978, a mystery still unsolved and evidence still suppressed!
The truth of all these stories is that Howard now has control of both houses of parliament and intends to assume dictatorial powers, for him a long time in the coming - Tampa, children overboard, no gst, the list is endless-------
Let's face it - the Industrial Relations and anti-terrorism bills are designed to cow the population into abject terror and complete submissiveness, and any opposition and/or protests will be put down with force and detention, either home or prison.
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!!!!
A dictionary definition of "to cow" is TO TERRORIZE INTO SUBMISSIVENESS!
You have been warned!
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This is the day that Australia has finally become a police state. The prime minister John Howard is strutting the stage just like other infamous figures of the past, not listening to any feeble protests from anybody in the community, determined to get his way and do as he wants.
This is his way of finally silencing all those who oppose his policies and are actively involved in vocally and vociferously demonstrating that what he is doing is disastrous destruction of our civil liberties and house arrests and prison arrests will follow as and when he wants to silence dissent.
How very convenient!! The Australian Prime Minister, frustrated by the delays to his anti-terrorism bills by a few politicians with doubts about the police state aspects of the new bills, announces to the Federal Parliament at the same time as the introduction of the Industrial Relations bills, that Australia has received definite information that there are acts of terror about to be launched in this country and we need the protection of the bills for the sake of the security of the citizens of Australia!!
Cynicism?? I don't think so! Lie after lie after lie, and still people believe the latest lies spewing forth from Canberra and act accordingly. Two things to remember:
South Africa the Police state and
The Hilton Hotel bombing of 1978, a mystery still unsolved and evidence still suppressed!
The truth of all these stories is that Howard now has control of both houses of parliament and intends to assume dictatorial powers, for him a long time in the coming - Tampa, children overboard, no gst, the list is endless-------
Let's face it - the Industrial Relations and anti-terrorism bills are designed to cow the population into abject terror and complete submissiveness, and any opposition and/or protests will be put down with force and detention, either home or prison.
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!!!!
A dictionary definition of "to cow" is TO TERRORIZE INTO SUBMISSIVENESS!
You have been warned!
