WAR: Australia and Britian Working to Create Terrorism Database.

Prior to Australia's national terrorism summit in Canberra next month, the Australian government is examining Britian's new terrorism laws. The government has stated that it does not want to commit to Britian's new laws as further meetings are to be held with the leaders of Australia's Islamic leaders.
It is understood that Australia and Britian are compiling a database of suspects.



I agree that a database is not a 'law' and any data can be put to good use, for the betterment of us all. But, every plus has a minus. This is what we need to be careful of. Personal invasion. Of course your privacy won't be 'invaded' if you are not doing anything wrong.

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But define what "doing anything wrong" is. We've seen peaceful political parties banned yesterday in Britain. Its all well and good making all these laws against "terrorists" but no one is adequately defining what a terrorist is.

Human rights advocaters go against the government. They can be deemed terrorists. Politcal dissidents go against the government. They can be deemed terrorists. All criminals generate fear and terror amongst the population. They can be deemed terrorists.

If all criminals can be classed as terrorists where do we draw the line? Does a speeding ticket get you classed as a terrorist?

Think this is far fetched? The American anti-terrorist Patriot Act was recently implemented against a drug dealer in Canada. What does dealing drugs have to do with terrorism? Nothing but when you write the laws you can interpret them how ever you want.

I totally agree

The new laws will state even publishing or writing anything that can incite terrorism...hmm speaking out against the government of the day will fit nicely onto that scenario.

But Apathy rules, people will be silenced with fear.

Originally posted by Mayet
But Apathy rules, people will be silenced with fear.

Mayet, that is spot on. Apathy will and to a certain degree is influencing people who i have spoken to in the last month. The level of deliberate ignorance, as in not watching or reading the news stunned me. These people have children and just don't care.

When i say, they "don't care" i mean they just don't read any form of news media, because they don't want to know.

The best/worst reply i got was, "I don't care what happens to anyone, anywhere as long as it does not involve me".
After that, this person immediately changed the topic and started ranting about the price of petrol.

Unreal, Sanc'.

I don't think I would want my name to show up in such a database. For one thing the database would be wrong and secondly, I could probably never get the data changed--assuming I even knew about it.