The Australian nutter … Khaled Sharrouf …
New ASIO spy laws are not designed to combat jihadists: they are so ASIO and its “affiliates”can legally tap the mobile phones and laptops of presidents and prime ministers attending the G20 in Brisbane in November.
The laws are slated to be rushed through parliament in this current session. They declare a lot of what’s now illegal, legal. They will allow carte blanche for the domestic spooks, ASIO, the overseas spy agency ASIS and their special spy friends –called affiliates –to operate virtually without restraint at the G20.
Should Australia monitor the G20’s phone and data traffic? What are the ethics and morality of doing so? It’s a debate we should have but from next month, you won’t be allowed to air the issue, because any “special”ASIO operation may not be discussed.
Family photos of beheadings taken by an Australian nutter on a personal jihad were manna from heaven for Australia’s intelligence, security and national police agencies. The photos surfaced just as the secret agencies started to promote the new laws which otherwise were going to be a very hard sell.
Suddenly the spy elite was able to go public with a seemingly valid reason for the privacy-shattering legislation they were planning to sheep-dog through parliament anyway. The dramatic photos lifted the ASIO case to the front pages and the lead TV news items. Once again, the secret agencies were ramping up fear in the Australian community, when the official measure for the chance of a terrorist event here remains exactly the same as it was 13 years ago, before the 9/11 aircraft attacks on America. It has never varied.
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