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"TERRORISM"
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WHAT TERRORISM???
I am
constantly amused by the level of stupidity and utter nonsense that flows from the
mouths of our elected party politicians. Take the following for example.
In early
2003 every household in Australia was sent an Anti-Terrorism 'fridge sticker' by
the Federal Government with instructions to display it prominently on their
household refrigerator.
Well... I can assure my
fellow Australians that as my family and I are conscientious and proud
Queenslanders, I immediately affixed our 'fridge sticker' in a very conspicuous
centre position on our ageing Westinghouse (frost-free).
Now, I am delighted to
report… there have been no terrorism attacks in our home so, obviously, it
works!
While the above may be
a little tongue in cheek stuff, consider the following pertinent quotes:
"The great privilege of habeas corpus, and of trial by jury, which are the supreme protection invented by the English people for ordinary individuals against the State.
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers - is, in the highest degree, odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments".
Winston Churchill
“Our
government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ... kept us in a continuous
stampede of patriotic fervour... with the cry of grave national emergency.
Always
there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that
was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it..."
General
Douglas MacArthur, 1957
“Terrorism
is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of
sudden death."
Adolf
Hitler
"Civil
disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or
corrupt. If man will only realize that it is unmanly to obey laws that are
unjust, no man's tyranny will enslave him."
Mahatma
Gandhi
"Once
a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants,
it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants.
A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a
government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the
populace, that government is finished."
Michael
Rivero
I repeat, Terrorism…
what Terrorism???
