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In Australia, most major criminal matters are handled at the state level. The Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions has form for this. They don't do much other

In Australia, most major criminal matters are handled at the state level. The Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions has form for this. They don't do much other than welfare fraud cases, and so when they get a brief that's actually interesting for a change, they tend to go full ham. Whether it's actually in the public interest for them to prosecute isn't a factor they seem to give much consideration. Another recent fiasco caused by their heavy handedness: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/11/afp-counter-terrorism-operation-that-targeted-13-year-old-with-autism-cost-more-than-500000 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/...

trhway 2y ago
>Another recent fiasco caused by their heavy handedness: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/... "He spent three months in custody before he was granted bail in October 2022, after an earlier bail was revoked because he failed to comply with conditions." a 13 year old with autism "failed to comply with conditions".
- mrkeen 2y ago
  That kid stated he tried to contact ISIS, had pledged allegiance to the current ISIS leader, expressed a desire to be an ISIS recruiter, and to build and detonate a bomb at a government building. (June 2021). It looks like he was searched on 6 October 2021 and granted bail on 8 October. I don't know what the conditions of his bail were, but when it was revoked in June 2022, his Google searches involved topics such as “10 ways to cover up a murder”, “how to murder”, “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught” and references to a schoolteacher. https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Application%20for%20bail%20by%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2022%5D%20VChC%204.pdf
  - nukem222 2y ago
    Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
    - msm_ 2y ago
      The 13 year old ISIS supporter is a different person than the 24 year old plutonium science nerd. You're discussing a different person than TFA was about.
  - trhway 2y ago
    That exactly sounds like some unhealthy obsession of a mentally unhealthy individual. It should be treated as mental disease, not as a crime, especially given the age and already established medical condition of autism.
    - bigfatkitten 2y ago
      And that's how it was being treated by the state police, before the feds engaged the kid online, and actively and deliberately undermined his rehabilitation.
nukem222 2y ago
Surely there's some sort of safeguard in the Australian government preventing this sort of embarrassment. The second anyone hears how much was involved they're gonna know this prosecution makes a mockery of their own laws.

trhway 2y ago

>Another recent fiasco caused by their heavy handedness: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/... "He spent three months in custody before he was granted bail in October 2022, after an earlier bail was revoked because he failed to comply with conditions." a 13 year old with autism "failed to comply with conditions".

mrkeen 2y ago
That kid stated he tried to contact ISIS, had pledged allegiance to the current ISIS leader, expressed a desire to be an ISIS recruiter, and to build and detonate a bomb at a government building. (June 2021). It looks like he was searched on 6 October 2021 and granted bail on 8 October. I don't know what the conditions of his bail were, but when it was revoked in June 2022, his Google searches involved topics such as “10 ways to cover up a murder”, “how to murder”, “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught” and references to a schoolteacher. https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Application%20for%20bail%20by%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2022%5D%20VChC%204.pdf
- nukem222 2y ago
  Damn, why didn't they prosecute that instead? Probably would have won some public support. Declarations of a desire to commit violence are an entirely different beast than purchasing plutonium, and far more worth prosecuting.
  - msm_ 2y ago
    The 13 year old ISIS supporter is a different person than the 24 year old plutonium science nerd. You're discussing a different person than TFA was about.
- trhway 2y ago
  That exactly sounds like some unhealthy obsession of a mentally unhealthy individual. It should be treated as mental disease, not as a crime, especially given the age and already established medical condition of autism.
  - bigfatkitten 2y ago
    And that's how it was being treated by the state police, before the feds engaged the kid online, and actively and deliberately undermined his rehabilitation.

nukem222 2y ago

Surely there's some sort of safeguard in the Australian government preventing this sort of embarrassment. The second anyone hears how much was involved they're gonna know this prosecution makes a mockery of their own laws.