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ANTITERRORISTIC  LAW

2002-05-15

After September 11 and global fight with terrorism called

by USA, Australian Government decided to change the law,

which would help fight with this matter better and more

efficient.  Normally all people should agree with that.

But of course there is something which make us nervous and

cautious about the changes in that law.

We have to be very wary if we are talking about giving

tremendous power to some group of people.

We have to understand very clearly what kind of power

is involved and precisely what kind of protection do citizens

have from abuse that power. The most important things about

such a matter are whether our rights in a democratic society

are protected or not. The new law simply want from us to prove

our innocence. How can we exactly verify that and provide any

evidence if we will be locked up without any contact with lawyers

and the outside world. They want to have the right to dissolve any

organization and arrest their leaders without justification.

That’s giving them power against opposition for keeping control

in Parliament forever. Look for example in Malaysia or Burma.

What kind of protection will we be having if special

forces or police abuse the power? Will they be accountable and

prosecuted if they are guilty of breaking the law? What about

the politicians who wants to give them that power with plenty

loopholes and gaps without responsibility and accountability.

Politicians are forgetting about our democratic rights.

These days they are not showing remorse for democracy.

We can say that democracy in Australia starting to go

backwards, only politician’s rights and privileges are growing

and they want more power than ordinary citizen have.

This is a very disturbing and dangerous situation that under cover

of fighting with terrorism, they want to terrorise citizens and

organizations, which think differently than official structure of

existing establishment. They want to liquidate the freedom of speech.

We shouldn’t and we can’t allow the government and politicians

to take our democracy to totalitarian society. That’s why we should

very strongly tell our members of parliament that their job is to protect

and represent us by listening to what we have to say and what kind

of future we would like to see for our country.

Ignorance lately is very popular in political section of our life.

We have to stop that before politicians do too much damage to our

way of life, which we use to call – freedom.

If you think that new changes in the law don’t relate to you,

don’t be surprise? We are talking here about our rights to be treated

fairly with dignity and respect by law and people representing this law.

Everyone should have the opportunity to be treated justly and equally.

Because equality of rights in Australia means that nobody is above

the law, that’s referring not only to ordinary citizens but also politicians,

particularly members of parliament and the Government.

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