Pixelated Semantics

"Barely justice at all"

The SMH reports the federal government has successfully applied to keep evidence from the defence in the trial of a suspected Australian terrorist. The defence team argued the government's applications to suppress information were "getting to the point where it's barely justice at all". The bottomless semantic pit of "privilege on national security grounds" has opened up and is swallowing our common law rights whole. Note, one is not arguing terrorism is right, but that a fair trial is a right. To try a person on unspecified evidence is against all conventions, regardless of the crime. The scope of "national security" is itself problematic: it is by nature indefinite and arbitrary, and the definition has been and can be abused.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 2:33 pm ::