Pixelated Semantics

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Roadkill on a one way street

The ABC reports a Melbourne lawyer defending "terror suspects" says recent raids are designed to help justify increased anti-terror powers with the legislation being under review.

"I think it's sinister in its overtones, because I think what's happened is there's been a vilification of people in a defamatory and cowardly way to the point that they're not permitted to defend themselves... One would have to be suspicious as to the political motives"

The ABC fails to mention in context that current anti-terrorism law prevents anyone implicated from making a public reply. The SMH reports his comment that:

"There can't be any proper examination either through the media as a form of scrutiny or through any sort of public debate."

Even former Liberal PM Fraser commendably offers concern that Australia is "losing its democratic values" and expresses the Kafkaesque nightmare that our "system" has become:

"You can be arrested because ASIO thinks you know something which you don't know and then your defence is to prove you don't know it."

Our "rights" are becoming like roadkill on a one way street. Ask your local "moderate centrist" conservative politician to explain again why this country does not seem to need a constitutional Bill of Rights - the "trust us" response is as worthless as Man of Steel's respect for democracy.

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