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Australia Unleashes Draconian New Anti-Terror Law In Orwellian Orgy Of Baseless Fear-Mongering
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Understanding how the power structure thinks, and how it intentionally manipulates the emotions of the masses, is key to overcoming and rolling back totalitarian ambitions. I have spent the last few posts talking about how instilling fear throughout the general populace is one of their primary tactics. Indeed, to borrow a term from Glenn Greenwald, “fear-manufacturing” has been in overdrive across the Five Eyes nations over the past several weeks. In the UK, we saw it used to convince elderly Scots to overwhelming vote against independence, thus swaying the result decisively to the NO side. In the USA, we have seen it used to drum up support for another pointless war in the Middle East, which will benefit nobody except for the military/intelligence-industrial complex.
While these examples are bad enough, nowhere is fear being used in a more clownish and absurd manner to strip the local citizenry of its civil liberties than in Australia. This should come as no surprise, considering that nation’s Prime Minister is a certified raging lunatic. In fact, Tony Abbott is such a little nazi in disguise, I dedicated a post to him back in June titled: Video of the Day – Meet Australia’s Creepy Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.
Remember, when the power structure sees a meme is working they double and triple down on it. With the beheading videos effectively pushing the American public back into a post-9/11 fetal position, it became clear that the fear of “beheadings” is enough to send the Western public into a total panic state. Then, suddenly a plot emerges that ISIS related terrorists were planning to publicly behead an Australian citizen in the middle of Sydney. As usual, mainstream media rushed to scare the shit out of everyone. NBC reported the following:
An apparent plot to publicly behead a random civilian on the streets of Sydney in support of ISIS sparked counter-terrorism raids backed by nearly 1,000 Australian police, officials said Thursday. Australian Federal Police said 15 people were arrested in relation to “serious terrorism-related offenses” in a massive pre-dawn operation. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters that the raids came after intelligence showed an Australian occupying a “quite senior” rank within ISIS was making “direct exhortations” for supporters back home to kill. When asked about reports that those detained had been planning to publicly behead a random individual, “that’s the intelligence we received,” Abbott said. “This is not just suspicion, this is intent, and that’s why the police and security agencies decided to act.”
Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept had a very interesting follow up to this raid. He notes that:
UPDATE: A reader writes with an important clarification, supported by various media accounts:
Just one clarification on your article about the Australian ‘anti terror’ raids.
You said that 15 people were arrested. In fact, 15 people were detained under ‘preventative detention’ laws. But only one person has been charged under any terrorism related offence. A further 3 have been charged under non terrorism related offenses.
This despite the fact that the ‘threat’ was so high that the raids involved over 800 police.
A grand total of one person has been charged with terrorism-related crimes—one—and that has triggered a major fear campaign and a slew of legislative demands designed to dismantle basic legal protections. It is, indeed, a microcosm of a core disease of the 9/11 era.
Ah, but as we know, you never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Particularly a story that can be used to strip the plebs of civil rights. Which is precisely what happened last night at the Australian Senate. For details, let’s turn to the article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled, Terror Laws Clear Senate, Enabling Entire Australian Web to be Monitored and Whistleblowers to be Jailed. As an aside, ASIO stands for the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. We learn that:
Australian spies will soon have the power to monitor the entire Australian internet with just one warrant, and journalists and whistleblowers will face up to 10 years’ jail for disclosing classified information.
The government’s first tranche of tougher anti-terrorism laws, which beef up the domestic spy agency ASIO’s powers, passed the Senate 44 votes for and 12 against on Thursday night with bipartisan support from Labor.
The bill, the National Security Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2014, will now be sent to the House of Representatives, where passage is all but guaranteed on Tuesday at the earliest.
Anyone — including journalists, whistleblowers and bloggers — who “recklessly” discloses “information … [that] relates to a special intelligence operation” faces up to 10 years’ jail.
Any operation can be declared “special” and doing so gives ASIO criminal and civil immunity. Many, including lawyers and academics, have said they fear the agency will abuse this power.
Those who identify ASIO agents could also face a decade in prison under the new laws, a tenfold increase in the existing maximum penalty.
These changes have opposition support and would make it a criminal office to travel to a terrorist hot-spot without a reasonable excuse.
Oh, and this is just the first of three new anti-terror laws set to be introduced in Australia intended to neuter civil liberties. This is how freedom dies:
G’night mate.
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"The ULTIMATE nanny state/ police state"
Well, AUS did start out as a British penal colony. Maybe some need-to-incarcerate gene got passed down the DNA chain.
There are no 'men' left.
No independent. stand your ground, ethical souls who dare to say no, I will take my chances but I will not have a collar put around my neck kind of men.
Even if there was, they would be arrested and the MSM would ridicule them.
No, the likes of leaders who could raise huge numbers of followers and be successful in taking over and improving the quality of life as in freedom and liberty are few and far between.
There ain't no men left because they're ain't no morals left. It's all a gray area.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0105918
I am surprised that the USA has not run with this idea more. Simply make a "No travel country list'' and keep adding nations until Americans cannot go anywhere cheap, fun, or safe.
First on this list under Hillary will be Thailand, Philippines and Cambodia. China from the CIA goons, any ME nation due to anti-women laws, and keep on adding to that list.
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hell we all knew they would take over the internet sooner rather than later. the wild west days are gone, 1984 is all that's left.
We all get the governments we deserve.
"We" do not.
"We get the government that THEY create".
I can't think of a dozen candidates I voted for that, not one, delivered on promises in a campaign, the last one I voted in was George Herbert Walker Bush, "No new Taxes".
When you keep asking for more free stuff and for government to regulate away all your worries then you empower the regulators and get the government you deserve.
+100
Listen. This Australia place sound lovely, if your a "STUPID" sheeple. Fucking christ.
He whom has not a f***ed up government speaking for them cast the first stone!
Hey ASIO, I forgot my Gmail password... text me - you have the number - ta
So. . . they chose to conquer their own people rather than defend their own people as they were elected to do. What could possibly go wrong.
In 1994, accepting the inevitable destruction of the United State_, I got permanent resident visas for Australia. When we went there to visit, the federal gubbermint was using an isolated incident in Tasmania as justification to confiscate all private citizens' firearms. We also observed that OZ had even worse political, social, economic & environmental problems than the U.S., including the same brown invasion. It was then that I scratched the entire Anglosphere off the list, along with Europe, which impairs Plan A (urban survival) and Plan B (woods 'n water).
Plan C: Asia & Africa may prosper after the west collapses, but many places are festering $#!+holes and you can't assimilate, since a Crustacean is always an obvious foreigner. By process of elimination, this leaves South America for Plan C, where many countries are mostly of European heritage. Argentina is probably the best, but has a Marxist gubbermint. Chile offers the most political & economic freedom, but with volcanos & earthquakes.
Plan D is get a 50-60 foot sailboat and haul @$$, making sure you have a silver keel & more firepower than any hapless pirates. If any place treats you poorly, moon 'em on the way out of the harbor.
F***ing awesome to see our country being bagged for once rather than the yanks (THEY NEED A BREAK) - we are finally making an impression on the world! don't think it is what Tony had in mind tho...
F**K THE AUSSIES F**K THE AUSSIES OI! OI! OI!
Only 2 very simple laws are needed for all countries with populations still dominated by civilized humans to eliminate the threat posed by islamic cult worshipers:
1. All islamic cult worshipers are banned from entry along with all islamic cult worshiping info, including printed materials and web sites (block their addresses from access within each country).
2. Use the power of the free market to eliminate islamic cult worshipers by placing a cash bounty - exempt from all taxes - on their heads, any age or gender, ie open season + no bag limit, every day, forever. This will make the harvesting of islamic cult worshipers a profitable business, open to anyone with the skills & balls.
All you need is one law;
1) All media outlets, of any nature, must report the truth and never report opinion or lie as fact.
Guess this is another “conspiracy theory” per the Cartoon News Network? LOL
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/25/investing/zero-hedge-wall-street-blog-fi...
Perhaps "Just Us" believe that the public is only permitted to know what “they” report.
It's a criminal enterprise, what did you expect.
It appears the sickness of fear has spread beyond the shores of America. Will terrorists kill innocent civilians in the years to come? Of course. They did so more than 100 years ago, when they were called anarchists—and a responsible nation-state must take reasonable measures to protect its citizens. But there is no way to completely eliminate terrorism.
The challenge that confronts us is how we will live with that threat. We have created an economy of fear, an industry of fear, a national psychology of fear. Al Qaeda could never have achieved that on its own. We have inflicted it on ourselves. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-terrorist-under-every-bed.html
Tell me when the citizens were not slaughtered by the both the victors and the vanquished? Just the order of slaughter changes. At least today....for now...millions aren't being literally slaughtered.
I'm wondering why this constant covering up of the GLOBALIST ideology of TPTB and why the hiding, that the patriots and nationalists are their only political opponents?
The Nazis are as anti-globalist as it can be. Where is Abbot a Nazi?
Is he defending traditional values?
Is he defending his race?
Is he defending Australia's souvereignity?
Or is he supporting the NWO?
Or is he supporting the destruction of the European family?
Or is he supporting cultural Marxism?
Or is he supporting multicutluralism?
And why is the context of Goering's citation withheld? Is it, because it was his answer to the globalist enemies of Germany at Nuremberg, that they did exactly what he describes? Germany invading America, comes to mind... america always defending itself for more than twohundred years - across the globe...
For example, Roosevelt won his election with the promise to stay out of a war in Europe. After his election the fearmongering of the Jewish media began.
Calling Abbot, this globalist and anti-White and anti-Black and anti-Muslim and anti-Christian a Nazi, is like calling the worst enemy of the races their best friend.
there are no men left,,, there is no such thing as liberty. You can't leave a US hospital with a newborn baby until said baby has a SS number assigned to he or she. Just perusing the local paper there were roughly 30 properties being sold to highest bidder for nonpayment of property taxes. I spend roughly 1200 dollars a year just on tolls running appointments for my business. Recently buying 4 new tires I was charged 12.50 each for some government disposal tax. I pay roughly 7 k a year in property taxes to fund retirement plans for city employees, county employees, park district employees,,, county sheriff and fire district employees, hell even the coroner is retiiring on my dime. There is a 2.90 cent monthly charge on my cell phone bill by my local suburbs tax monster. That is 35 dollars a year in taxes on a contract between me and a private firm. We,, that is you and I pay .43 cents a gallon in federal gasoline taxes. There is a move afoot in DC to turn all interstates into tollways. You think food is expensive now,,, turn interstates into tolllways and see what happens.
It is last call boys and girls. Roughly half of my business gross yearly is now going to taxes in some way shape or form. I am 59. I have never been free. I live it the USA. When you sing,,,, land of the free and home of the brave ,,, remember this, we were brave once. We may have been more free once. The fat lady has sung. Go ahead and start a 3rd party,,, it isn't the vote. It is a plan. Is it paranoia if you are being watched. The FIRE businesses have you by the balls the day you begin your adult life and until you exit this life. The MIC run our govenrment spending programs. How the fuck can a jet possibly cost 60 million dollars. You could build it from its weight in saffron and it wouldnt cost that much. Hope you foodies like that reference.
We are not on a slippery slope,,, we are in the valley. It is not the shadow of death yet. I am an eternal optimist. If a leader were to rise that spoke the truth,, they would suffer brake failure or some such demise. One day at a time. A friend of my daughters who I have seen grow from 12 to 28 years old is getting married this weekend. We are going to the wedding. I will smile, i will share in their joy and optimism. If you are aware,,, you need to to take action. We can't be the squeaky wheel,, we need to be a well oiled wheel,, hope that didn't put me on a list
Oh,, all Ohare and Midway flights grounded. Fire at ground control radar unit in Aurora Il. All midwest air traffic stopped,, wow,, wonder if it was a terror plot????? 4 state area no air traffic,,,,
Well said
Thanks for the laugh.
You live in Illinois and bitch about taxes? There a Yiddish word that describes this. Be grateful you keep half.
What's so ironic is that military spending as a percentage of gdp or the federal budget has dropped to historic lows. Welfare spending eats the largest share of the tax slave booty.
I'd love to see a break-down of that welfare spending. I don't think the money goes where everyone thinks it goes.
It's a good thing the sheeple citizenry of Austrailia gave up their firearms. So much easier to manipulate with fear. At this point I can't even blame the politicians. I ultimately blame the cowardly masses for their inaction. It really is pretty simple to control large swaths of people. Just think, America its the bread and circuses (NFL, sitcoms, video games, porn, etc.) to pacify its people.
In the end, I blame society.
Welcome brother... you are society! Now have a beer with us and watch the shit unfold!
Whenever I see a can of Fosters Lager, I look at my American twelve-ouncer and say, "This is not a can of beer. THAT's a can of beer!"
So you've left the matrix, eh? Welcome friend, welcome!
I mean really....who do you have to blame for the Third Reich; the leadership or the People?
Dear Tyler Durdon
All this surveillance, we read again and again about it, but nobody writes about what really goes on. Follow the money. Tell us who takes how much out of the countries, making them poorer and poorer, Thats how all this violence can rise without borders.
Please with nice maps, i like maps. (but real maps, not like the one where the muslims are... )
You can have the Collectivism of Western Liberal society ... or the Collectivism of Islam.
There isn't much of a choice.
Quite clearly, there is no fucking prospect of you rejecting Collecitivism in its every manifestation.
Translation: F***ed if you do f***ed if you don't, but god is on your side!
Can't wait to read Salmon Rushtie's part 2 of the satanic verses - Budda you fat prick!
Always remember, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
What you can expect when you're an Eastern European Country that doesn't follow the NATO cabal's wishes...
You're a terrorist or at the very least a safehaven for them!
"Slovenia supports anti-terrorism, but it will not take part in military action against the Islamic State, Prime Minister Miro Cerar said in an exclusive interview with Radio Slovenia on Wednesday. Cerar was annoyed to learn that Slovenia is being made part of a U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition without being informed beforehand."...
Guess I'd be slightly annoyed as well!...
Miro Cerar is going to have to worry now about a bomb going off in his Country because he won't allow the use of force in Syria or Ukraine coming from his own Country!...
Yeah, it's all a big conspiracy by the secret hidden "power brokers & elites", and of course the eternal scapegoats, the jews, who are surely responsible for a lot of crap but just simply cannot be responsible for all human crap because no humans are that effective that consistently.
I wonder if the people who have been attacked, hijacked, tortured, imprisoned, and hacked to death by the islamic cult worshipers would agree with all this pure stinking shit propaganda commented here from socialist parasites, islamic cult worshipers, anti-Americans, and other assorted human garbage.
Got Damn! I'd like to have a beer with you Man!
if they even look at a gun bitchez
Cause for celebration. Like what Australia is doing with the "total fear inc." we're safer because of it! Right?!!
As a matter of fact the FBI just nabbed the guy with the English accent that was standing over Mr. Foley with a plastic knife. hey say he's actually from North America and to narrow the field in the words of Mike Rivero WhatReallyHappened.com
"He's from Langley:)"
http://abcnews.go.com/International/fbi-identifies-isis-executioner-bure...
On RT he's "jihadi john" can't wait for the action figure!
Lunitics to our left, Morons to our Right. Here we are stuck in the middle.
And if you're stuck with the likes of ISIS/ISIL and are an immigrant without official visa status in the U.S. as well as Australia and Canada and wish to "switch sides" No worries...
the United States military has an exciting offer for you!
Max Igan for Prime Minister of Australia!
Unfortunately the Aussies have already had their guns taken away.
Terrorist Hot-Spot?
By this point, hasn't that pretty much been defined as the entire globe?
Truth is the sausage ground out by the mincer of history from the offal of politicians .
You have to be smarter than now .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/09/prodigies-update-i.html
Terror Suspect Shot Dead After Two Police Officers Stabbed
Suspect shot dead by a Victoria police officer outside Endeavour Hills police station named as 18-year-old Numan Haider.
Several friends of Mr Haider confirmed to Fairfax Media that he had been killed after stabbing two police officers.
“He was the best kid, never harmed anyone, never missed a prayer,” said a friend.
Hey, Let's Play “Guess That Religion”
http://tinyurl.com/ma4y6lq
Pro-Zionist-led Coup ousts Australian PM Rudd
Australia has it's own disproportionately wealthy and whiney "pro-Israel" lobby. One can be sure Abbott is in the pocket of the MIC/banksters/usual suspects. Not even news, really.
Didn't realize the PM of NZ is Jewish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Key
add that state to the list of those with a ZOG.
You fckin humped-back troll:
https://news.yahoo.com/police-woman-beheaded-oklahoma-workplace-14445929...
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/26/obama-praised-muslim-cleric-who-end...
http://kfor.com/2014/09/25/reports-police-respond-to-possible-shooting-n...
Very sad, but not relevant.
This sick puke in OK, and every other loser like him who isn't too squeamish to so brutally slaughter someone, will be copycating the professional ISIS losers funded by our "intelligence" operations. "People don't kill people, knives do."
Doesn't justify government grabbing total Dick datorial power to ram it up our backsides forever.
One wonders - when will it be time to confiscate the authority's weapons, and shoot back?