Pixelated Semantics

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Not totally related to matters distant from expedience

A domestic terror threat conveniently arrives at the same hour Man of Steel needs support to pass his contentious, anti-democratic 'anti-terror' laws - yet it's revealed that a 'key national counter-terrorism body was not informed of the latest terrorism threat'. 'Purely coincidental' Howard says; meanwhile the 'public' terrorist threat level in Australia has not been raised as a result of 'advice' perfectly timed to provide credibility for a damaged government. His attempt to frame the domestic nature of the 'threat' with the sheer ambiguity of a statement that 'the concerns we have are not totally related to matters distant from Australia' demonstrates a contempt for clear communication and a preference for politicing that elevates rumour to a dangerously dictatorial position.

Note: Comments from writer David Williamson today eloquently convey the increasing concerns over a 'cultural blackout' held by creative contrarians:

'It's one of the major functions of art - to look critically at what's going on around you. I think this is the most authoritarian government this country has ever had and it doesn't like voices of dissent.

'You get the feeling that the concept of democracy is not strongly held by this government. It's as if there's only one political line, one opinion. Everything else is attacked with a ferocity unlike anything in our nation's history.'

The Australian records that poet William Blake was charged with sedition for shouting 'Damn the king and damn his soldiers' when he discovered a drunken trooper 'pissing in his garden'. Presumably our new sedition laws afford similar protections for spooks caught short while on surveillance detail?

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