Who cares about history and legal precedence when 3,000 people died in 9-11 in the USA?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when john HoWARd took us to an illegal and degrading war that would last for years and terrorise the whole community at large?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when our citizenry have been kidnapped and tortured?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when our citizenry are alleged to be terrorists, suspected, and detained indefinitely as scapegoats for the war on terror, which is terror?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when 182 people died in Bali?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when 50 people died in bombings in the UK?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when you can't go on holiday's and travel oversease in peace?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when 27 people died in Bali?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when the major political parties do not oppose illegal and degrading war?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when we are surrounded by 80 terrorists who have done training and are ready to blow us all up?
Raising the stakes
Who cares about history and legal precedence when we could be taken out by a dirty bomb any time soon?
Who cares about history and legal precedence when we are surrounded by 800 terrorists who have done training and are ready to blow us all up?
So for all these reasons you should be terrified of history and legal precedence?
ARE YOU TERRIFIED ENOUGH TRUTH-SEEKER?
THEN - DON'T BE SILENCED! DEFEND CIVIL RIGHTS, MUSLIMS, BRING THE TROOPS HOME
12 noon NOVEMBER 5 @ BELMORE PARK, SYDNEY, opp. Central station
SPEAKERS:
* Daryl Melham (ALP)
* Senator Kerry Nettle (Greens)
* Socialist Alliance
* Council for Civil Liberties
* Australian Muslim Civil Rights Network
* CFMEU
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By Borofkin 2 November 05
On the first of November ASIO and the federal Government of Australia settled out of court with a couple whose house had been raided a couple weeks after the 11 September 2001 attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers in the USA.
ASIO mistakenly raided their house when they had a search warrant for another house.
The couple were detained for a hour and claimed they were assaulted, wrongful detained and experienced severe shock when, according to their claims, ASIO officers threatened to destroy their door and then held them at gun point.
It is also claimed that until an hour after the attack, ASIO officers would not allow Mrs Fatme Iali to put on her clothes. As compensation, the couple asked the court for Aus$1.5 million in damages. Although it is unknown how much Bilal Daye and his wife received in the out of court settlement (under the terms of the deal, the settlement cannot be disclosed), they stated that they where satisfied with the result.
"Just relieved, I can take care of my family now, that's all I wanted," Mr Daye said.
Mr Daye's solicitor Stephen Hopper said the victory was very important for civil rights, but suggested that close scrutiy of government actions was required in the future.
"What this case demonstrates is that ASIO can be held accountable ... the government can be held open to scrutiny," he said.
"Control orders can be slapped onto a person before the evidence can be tested in court ... they should have to justify why such orders and restrictions should be put on a free person before they do it."
"The government's got to be scrutinised for all of its actions and if they make a mistake they should be held accountable."
Mr Hopper argued that the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill could prevent media reporting of incidents such as this.
"If the new laws were brought in and it was an issue of preventative detention no probably not, no," he said
"If it's an issue of an ASIO warrant, under section 34d of the ASIO Act, no, you wouldn't and the Government's got to be scrutinised for all of its actions and if they make a mistake they should be held accountable," he added.
It is unclear what implications it could have for websites like Wikinews, which are hosted on servers outside Australia.
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By Chinese hunger strikers in Villawood posted 2 November 05
Posted at the request of the Chinese hunger strikers in Villawood, on strike since 19 October
Statement
(translated from Chinese)
We are six hunger strikers from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (VIDC) in Sydney, Australia. In order to protest against the compulsory detention policy and mental and physical impairment caused by the long-term detention in VIDC, during which many people have suffered from long-term insomnia, dysphoria, and even mental breakdown, six of us detainees started the hunger strike on 19th October, 2005.
Six of us all came from the mainland China, among us five people are seeking refugee status while another person is asking for family reunion.
We were persecuted by the communist regime in our own country where people lost their fundamental freedom, human rights, democratic rights and rule of law. We were forced to flee from China to come to Australia where people enjoy their fundamental freedom, human rights, democratic rights and rule of law. Like newly born babies, we are seeking protection here in a democracy. But due to the inadequacy of the detention policy in Australia, we were forced to lose our freedom again and may, at any moment, be deported back to China and face severe persecution again.
Our hearts are bleeding.
Is it that hard for us to live as a normal human being? Is it that hard for us to be treated like the staying Chinese after the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
Has the communist regime in China returned us the fundamental rights of freedom, human rights and democratic rights? Has the rule of law become dominant in China now?
Has the Chinese Communist Party stopped persecution against political dissidents, "underground churches" and Falun Gong?
All the above questions explain themselves, and certainly do not need our explanations.
Hereby we solemnly declared that we request the Australian Government to provide us the refugee status, family reunion and humanitarian refuge. It is also the aspirations of all the detainees at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, Sydney.
Australian people, we need your help!
From six hunger strikers in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, Sydney 30th October, 2005
