Pixelated Semantics

We will decide who thinks here and what they think

Now there's a proposal for legalised brainwashing for those with an ideology that is not state-approved, whether Islamic, terrorist, or otherwise; the explicitly fascist nature of the suggested 'solution' is both a corruption of the role of the state and potentially a severe threat to civil liberties for dissidents of any kind. And comparing terrorists to drug addicts (and saying they 'may need similar treatment') is like comparing politicians to human beings. As an Australian Council for Civil Liberties spokesman points out, the proposal also fails to address political or ideological discontent at the root of (non-state) terrorism - not that causes will receive attention when there's money to be made from conducting a campaign based on fear, civil destruction, and clever graft.

To put this 'proposal' in some kind of perspective, there have been more than 30 documended terror bombings in this country perpetuated by neo-nazis and right-wing extremists since the early 1960's - yet there are no calls for the compulsory 'deprogramming' of these citizens, who also arguably hold 'irrational' views. These attacks are never described when discussing terrorist threats here - despite the involvement of some of the same elements in the Cronulla incident, and others.

As if to further amplify the one-sidedness of much 'terror' reporting, news from Turkey today points to right-wing military involvement in terror bombings in that country, carrying out illegal activities as undercover agents of paramilitary forces: yet such threats from 'within' ruling political cabals are almost always ridiculed and diminished.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 9:11 am ::