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There seems to be a trend in our newly tyrannical governments of using war and terrorism acts on their own citizens. It feels strange being subject tyranny for
by whdm2000 5y ago
There seems to be a trend in our newly tyrannical governments of using war and terrorism acts on their own citizens. It feels strange being subject tyranny for the first time in my life here in Australia. It is the first time in my life I have felt a government just threaten and bully people to get whatever it wants. There is no going back from this, whoever may win.
- Apocryphon 5y agoDidn't the Howard government enact the Anti-Terrorism Act 2005, which was your lot's equivalent to the PATRIOT Act? And other acts since then [0]. You've been subjected to tyranny all this time, you just weren't paying attention. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/07/how-australia-just-became-a-national-security-state/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/0... https://theconversation.com/before-9-11-australia-had-no-counter-terrorism-laws-now-we-have-92-but-are-we-safer-166273 https://theconversation.com/before-9-11-australia-had-no-cou...
- DoItToMe81 5y agoYeah. The sedition portions of the laws he passed have been toned down somewhat, but in exchange, we have clauses with many terror-related offences, even down to possessing banned literature, which eschew due process and force the defendant to prove their own innocence and that they had no intention to commit a crime, rather than the courts and police prove that the items are linked to intent to commit terrorism.
- Apocryphon 5y agoReally goes to show that observations of "newly tyrannical governments" are made by those who have had the good fortune to not be of demographics on the receiving end of these draconian laws. Decades of complacency and the weed of crime bitter fruit. Chickens come home to roost.