Do not forget the context.

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His ‘crime’, remember — the only thing they could hang on him after twelve hours of questioning and two weeks of turning his life over with a fine-tooth-comb — was that he gave a SIM card, worthless to him, to his cousin a year ago. And as Julian Burnside points out, there are several layers of the betrayal of the presumption of innocence. He is to be imprisoned under the severest of conditions for an otherwise innocent act in another country to a person whose own guilt has been presumed. (Remember, technically, he is not guilty until a judge has found him so.)



This is neither the action of a rational executive, nor a sign of a free country.

If you're not angry, you are part of the problem.

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Don't blame me, i didn't vote to put that bastard into power back in the 90s. Well, actually I couldn't vote back then, but I've been trying to get rid of him ever since.

We lost our freedom with the GST ... we no longer have the right to choose what we pay tax on and what we don't, we're taxed regardless (except for a few daily essentials like lollies and chocolates that the democrats begged them for... no wait, we pay tax on those too! oh, ffs!!).

And after all this, I hope he has learnt his lesson: next time buy an iphone. Those things don't come with simcards, and are so ridiculously expensive that he will think twice before aiding terrorism. Silly boy.