HOW DARE THEY!

[catsidhe]

This is an abomination against every principle of the presumption of innocence, and must not be allowed to stand.


And anyone who tries on “Oh, but he might be a terrorist-supporter, and it is just too risky to leave him on the streets...“: fucking bite me, you fascist dickhead.

He has been found guilty, without any need to resort to some old-fashioned ‘trial’, of giving his cousin a phone card which would be useless in the country to which he was moving.

Or, in other words, not only is he being punitively detained (because there is no other rational explanation for this act of monumental bastardry but that it is punitive), but his ‘crime’ is that of innocently helping a relative. Even the charge brought against him is that he ‘negligently’, not ‘wilfully’, assisted terrorism. That means that he didn't have to have the slightest suspicion that there was going to be any terrorist act perpetrated by his cousin, it was up to him to ensure that there was no risk of that. The burden of proof is, I am willing to bet, reversed for this ‘crime’ as well. It will likely be up to him to prove that he didn't expect his cousin to be one of the most incompetent ‘terrorists’ of modern times.

I... I...
I simply can't express my outrage. Not even expletives are adequate.

Comments

[cthulu-for-pm.livejournal.com]

And that rat-bastard Howard wants to strengthen these anti-terror laws? Just what the flying fuck does he think he's doing?

No, don't answer that, I don't think I can deal with any more stupidity today.

[araquel.livejournal.com]

I simply can't express my outrage. Not even expletives are adequate.

I hit exactly the same problem. Nothing I could say felt remotely adequate, and simply howling with rage doesn't go down well in my workplace.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

This will blow back in their face in a most epic manner.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced of that. At least, Rudd is spending much time supporting the moves, unless he's only saying that in a misguided attempt to not lose votes.

Only hope we have is if the Greens recieve a massive increase in votes, and I think they have demonstrated they are quite incapable of that.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them. That's why Rudd is agreeing to everything and letting Howard take the flak.

[hege-mon.livejournal.com]

AhahahaHAHAHAhahahHA

Haha

*sigh*

...


optimist.

Um, well, er......

[wizard-foots.livejournal.com]

If it is any comfort, the legal profession are standing in line for this one.

This is all very odd, and indicative of a state of acute moral panic. I mean, hey, I could have sworn that conspiracy to murder had ALWAYS been a crime, so we need these new laws for....

.... of course! For dumbo guys who leave their SIM cards with relatives!!!

Well naturally that should be a crime!!! WTF???????

[(Anonymous)]

It's his own fault for having purchased a mobile phone. He should have purchased a landline, because we all know how much safer landlines are.