Pixelated Semantics

A faster and quicker stench

The secret surveillance of Americans, GW Bush asserts, is 'faster and quicker' [sic] than having to request court warrants. He also said that his constitutional and statutory powers allowed the circumvention of the courts - a notion that many dispute. Authoritative commentators are openly canvassing 'a whiff of fascism in Washington' in recent weeks, with GW Bush's authoritarian behaviour finally being acknowledged (and demonstrating that contrarians are not simply reaching for hyperbole.)

In Australia, the Victorian government is proposing a 'Charter of Rights' - which ought to be laudable in the wake of unwanted, unwarranted attacks on civil rights from the Federal government; however the intention seems at face value to be more concerned with creating a legal instrument for the denial of rights. The announcement was immediately qualified by the Attorney-General's statement that 'a charter of this kind will not prevent the Government from taking strong action where necessary [...] it will provide a transparent process by which rights and duties can be appropriately balanced.' Doublespeak at it's finest.

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