US STATE TERRORISM-LINKED AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT VIOLATING AUSTRALIAN CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS

The 2002 ASIO bill was passed with bipartisan support. It allows for 7 days detention without charge or evidentiary basis; possible revolving door re-arrest after 7 days; potentially 5 years imprisonment if Security is not satisfied with non-supply of answers or requested documents (noting that in Science it is impossible to prove a negative); unless approved in the first warrant nobody outside can be contacted; and anyone reporting the detention within 2 years faces 5 years imprisonment. These draconian measures violate the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights to which Australia is a signatory (notably articles relating to free speech, due process and no detention without charge).

The Conservative Coalition Australian Government has recently obtained substantial agreement from the Labor-ruled State Governments for draconian extensions to the present anti-terror laws, namely: 12 month control orders on court warrant (no charges, trial, employment, telephone, internet; further communication restrictions and tracking device tagging); preventive detention (detention without charge extended to 14 days); shoot to kill (plain clothes Security can kill if they deem fit); directly or indirectly praising “terrorists” (as defined by US state terrorism-complicit Government and Security) and “sedition” (saying anything They deem to cause public disturbance or worse) are serious offences; “recklessly” giving money directly or indirectly to a “terrorist”-related organization (as defined by US state terrorism-complicit Government and Security) attracts LIFE IMPRISONMENT; urging someone to help an organization of a country in declared or undeclared war with Australia is punished by 7 years imprisonment.

The proposed laws clearly violate the UN Declaration of Human Rights, notably articles relating to freedom of speech, association, employment and movement; the right to presumption of innocence; and the right to due process and habeus corpus dating back centuries i.e. the right not to be detained without charge and trial.   

These appalling laws have attracted cogent condemnation from the distinguished former Conservative Coalition Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the highly responsible and humane Conservative Coalition Federal MP Pietro Georgiou, civil liberties groups, lawyers, law academics, the Law Council of Australia, the Australian Greens and Jon Stanhope (the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory who defied the Australian Federal Government and put the draft legislation on the Web for ordinary citizens to see) . Nevertheless it is likely that poll- and public hysteria-driven State and Federal Labor will join forces with the Conservative Coalition to force through this legislation, which has been allowed only 2 days for parliamentary discussion.

The Conservative Coalition rejoinder is essentially “terrorism hysteria” (notwithstanding the absence of domestic incidents) and the demand to “trust us” – trust the same Government and Security who lied about the pre-war reasons for illegally invading Iraq? Trust the US state terrorism-linked Australian Government and Security with resultant CLEAR COMPLICITY in the criminal, post-2001 deaths of about 2,000 Australians?

Through its slavish association with US and Indonesian state terrorism, Australia has already become COMPLICIT in gross abuses of human rights and the Geneva Conventions. The circumstances of the US Coalition occupation of Iraq violate virtually EVERY article of the UN Declaration of Human Rights for many Iraqis. Now this gross violation will extend to ordinary Australians. Already in Australia TODAY, the wife who publicly demands the freedom of her innocent but detained husband - or even reports his detention to anyone - will be imprisoned for 5 years.

What is most alarming about this lurch of Australia towards becoming a proto-Nazi rogue state is the sheer hysteria, dishonesty, inhumanity, racism and irrationality involved. Not only  the physical safety of Australians  is under threat from US state terrorism - Australia’s reputation, civil rights, human rights and democratic way of life are now acutely threatened by the US state terrorism-complicit Australian Government and a politicized Australian Security establishment. Peace is the only way but we must inform everyone about abuses of humanity. 

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