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Rape Culture

Integrity watchdog to examine allegations of police misconduct during Bruce Lehrmann case | Australia news | The Guardian

Bruce Lehrmann

A case for the Prosecution vs the case for the AFP aren’t they on the same side? If so who is Brittany?

Drumgold’s letter, released under freedom of information, made a series of extraordinary allegations about police conduct during the investigation and trial stages, saying he felt there was “a very clear campaign to pressure” him not to prosecute the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins.

He alleged investigators had bullied Higgins, forcing her to insulate herself from further contact with them, and that police “clearly aligned with the successful defence of this matter” during the trial.

Drumgold told Gaughan he wanted a public inquiry into police and political conduct during the case.

Integrity watchdog to examine allegations of police misconduct during Bruce Lehrmann case | Australia news | The Guardian

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Bruce Lehrmann case: police union condemns ‘smears’ against investigators and backs calls for judicial inquiry

LNP, LNP Corruption

A reluctant thank you, Mr Christensen: what we learnt about a travelling MP – Michael West

A Federal Police warning to the Coalition government over the conduct of one of its MPs was kept secret until it was too late for his constituents, writes Rex Patrick.

A reluctant thank you, Mr Christensen: what we learnt about a travelling MP – Michael West
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Is Rupert Murdoch bribing police again for stories given an ABC journalist says the AFP are giving scoops to News Corp?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Rupert Murdoch has a history of bribing British police for stories which News UK CEO Rebekah Brooks admitted in 2003 as per the below video. So, is Murdoch now bribing Australian police given ABC journalist Mark Reddie has publicly accused the Australian Federal Police of giving special treatment to the News Corp paper Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph?

Is Rupert Murdoch bribing police again for stories given an ABC journalist says the AFP are giving scoops to News Corp?Kangaroo Court of Australia
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The AFP is at a crossroads, and Peter Dutton’s ‘old school’ style isn’t what it needs – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Commissioner Colvin prepares to talk into a microphone

via The AFP is at a crossroads, and Peter Dutton’s ‘old school’ style isn’t what it needs – Analysis & Opinion – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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AFP’s media raids risk eroding business sector’s confidence in Australia, expert warns – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Innes Willox

Australia has a habit of shaming itself on the world stage generally at the hands of the LNP. Kevin Andrews did it Tony Abbott made us a laughing stock and now Peter Dutton’s defence of the AFP raids on the Press have convinced the world we too are like Turkey and Bangladesh. (ODT)
Photo: Innes Willox said investors would be unnerved if public servants could access confidential data. (ABC: Jeremy Story Carter)
Related Story: Labor should ‘think carefully’ about national security laws in wake of AFP raids, MP says
Related Story: AFP raid was consequence of ‘shining lights in dark corners’, says Buttrose
Related Story: What do the AFP raids mean for journalists and their sources?

Key points:

Australian Industry Group chief says the AFP raids “set back Australia’s reputation internationally”
He is concerned the precedent set by the raids could extend to business
He says the AFP’s reputation has also been damaged

AFP’s media raids risk eroding business sector’s confidence in Australia, expert warns – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

National Security, Uncategorized

Let’s Stop The Hysteria, The Press Are Still Free! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Well, it’s quite simple. Let’s imagine for a moment that I’m working for a highly sensitive department… Say something to do with stopping the boats. As we all know, “on water” matters are highly confidential… Or at least they became highly confidential after Scott Morrison became Immigration Monster; before that, everyone was free to publicise any information at all about boats arriving whether they were real or only imagined. Anyway, let’s imagine that I’m working in the department that’s in charge of stopping the boats and I discover that, in fact, the boats haven’t stopped and that there are boats arriving, sometimes carrying as many as twenty people. I quickly work out the realm is under threat because the government is secretly sneaking these so-called asylum seekers into the community and nobody has noticed even though we know have as many as three or four hundred happily minding their own business and enjoying their new life in Australia.

As a patriotic Australian, I’m outraged. I make copies of the necessary evidence and I smuggle it home where I… suddenly remember the AFP raids. And then it hits me. I can’t go to the media because I’ll almost certainly be exposed. No, I decide. I can’t take the personal risk.

See, it’s not the press that will have the problems. It’s the whistleblowers themselves. There’s no need for concern because in the future, the press won’t get the information so we won’t know whatever it is the we should be concerned about so we can all just keep going in blissful ignorance, happy that the government knows best and is having a go and helping me with my aspirations.

How good is Australia, eh?

*Just for clarification, AFP stands for Australian Federal Police and not Anti-Free Press.
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Liberal's man James Ashby, Michael Danby

EXCLUSIVE: AFP refer James Ashby to CDPP over perjury allegation: When the Liberals throw there own under the bus

The Ashbygate Trust reveals that Federal Police have investigated allegations James Ashby perjured himself in his court case against Peter Slipper and have referred the matter to the Commonwealth prosecutor. 

The AFP are an enigmatic lot. Like any police force anywhere, there are good cops, bad cops, diligent cops, bludging cops, smart cops, dumb cops.

And like any police force anywhere, upper command levels are subject to a range of political pressures — from demands of performance to demands of look the other way.

The role of the AFP in Australian life is both subtle and overt. From deep surveillance to the gaudily-painted vans at any airport. The Bali 9 busts will forever haunt their corporate memory, but other things you’ve never heard of have saved our collective bacon.

So we’re not sure what the AFP are up to in the matter of perjury allegations against Ashby.

Back on 8 September last year. Michael Danby MP. Labor member for Melbourne Ports, wrote to Robert Bromwich, Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions, pointing out that, in an interview Ashby had recently given 60 minutes, he’d more or less confessed he lied in his affidavit:

To its credit, the DPP acted and referred the matter to the AFP. On 21 October, AFP Assistant Commissioner Ian McCartney, National Manager Crime Operations, wrote to Danby,

‘The AFP has assessed the matter and will undertake an investigation into the allegation. You will be advised of the outcome in due course.’

A reference was given to ‘Mark McIntyre, National Co-ordinator Special Reference’ for any further enquiries.

Then, on Tuesday 17 February, Danby’s office wrote to Channel 9, producers of the 60 Minutes programme, to advise them:

‘Our office has just been advised that the AFP have referred the issue back to the DPP for them to make a final recommendation on whether perjury was committed.’

 

We don’t know what they have advised the CDPP, but we shall see — good, bad, diligent, bludging, smart or dumb.

We live in hope it is the former on all counts.

Nanso44 @Nanso44

Michael Danby refers James Ashby to Federal DPP http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/michael-danby-refers-james-ashby-to-federal-dpp,6876#.VA-MJKNFwmE.twitter … @IndependentAus -Danby compares Ashby integrity to a $3 note.

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Michael Danby refers James Ashby to Federal DPP

Melbourne Ports MP Michael Danby alleges James Ashby has perjured himself by his comments on 60 Minutes last night. The Ashbygate Trust reports.

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Corporate Politics

Koch Group Flexes Its Muscle, Blocks Tennessee Medicaid Expansion

Koch Group Flexes Its Muscle, Blocks Tennessee Medicaid Expansion

Susie Madrak

You know, I have to wonder how many of these old farts aren’t just bored. If they lived on the East Coast, they’d hop a free bus to Atlantic City for the day, get a free buffet lunch and a roll of quarters to gamble with. So the Kochs offer them a free lunch and a comfortable bus ride — maybe they’re just doing what they’re told. Legislators act like a deer in the headlights with these people, but I do wonder how much of a threat they really are. Readers?

NASHVILLE-In December, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, got the deal he wanted from the Obama administration: Tennessee would accept more than $1 billion in federal funding to expand Medicaid, as allowed for in the Affordable Care Act, but Obama aides would allow Haslam to essentially write staunchly conservative ideas into the program’s rules for the state. He dubbed the reformed Medicaid program “Insure Tennessee.”

But the state’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the national conservative group whose foundation is chaired by controversial billionaire David Koch, argued Haslam was just trying to trick conservatives into implementing Obamacare in their state by giving it a new name. AFP campaigned aggressively against Haslam’s plans for the next six weeks, even running radio ads blasting GOP state legislators who said they might vote for it.

On Wednesday, Haslam’s bill died in a committee of the Tennessee state senate. The vote was one of the clearest illustrations of the increasing power of AFP and other conservative groups funded in part by the Koch brothers.

When the coalition of conservative groups allied with Charles and David Koch announced recently they would spend $889 million over the next two years, much of the discussion was about how that money could shape the upcoming presidential election. But AFP and other Koch-backed conservative organizations may be having their biggest impact on state politics, where targeted advertising and a strong organization can make a huge difference.

“We’re the third-worst state in the country for accepting federal dollars,” said Andrew Ogles, AFP’s state director said in an interview here. “It’s time for us to stop. Anytime we have a problem, instead of coming up with a Tennessee solution, we run to the federal government with our hands out. No more.”

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The aggressive action in Tennessee by AFP was not unusual. The group, started in 2004, now has chapters in 34 states. The state operations’ general goals, like AFP and other Koch-allied groups nationally, are to oppose tax hikes, increases in government spending and what they view as excessive regulation.

But AFP is playing a unique role in effectively serving as a conservative watchdog against fellow Republicans at the state level. In many states in the West and South, like Tennessee, both houses of the state legislature are controlled by the GOP and the governor is also a Republican. The policy debates are between more moderate Republicans and the party’s conservative wing.

Humour

Sunshine State Shocker: Federal Law Enforcement Authorities Manage To Do Something Useful: How is it that our Australian AFP and ASIO have the money but lack the skills of their Florida counterparts?

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ORLANDO-Citizens of the “Sunshine State” were left stunned this week after federal law enforcement agents took time off from drug-interdiction duties long enough to round up a group of miscreants in central Florida’s Osceola County. In a shocking deviation from the norm, federal agents participated in a well planned and effective sting operation that netted around a dozen members of a white supremacist group, “The American Front.”

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The U.S. Justice Department has long considered central Florida a hotbed for white supremacist recruiting. A spokesman for the FBI, Corporal Robert ‘Bat’ Guano, stated that “We keep a close eye on central and northwest Florida because of the low average IQ of its citizenry. It’s really easy for a charismatic leader to convince these idiots that all sorts of weird conspiracy theories are actually true. Combine that with the native population’s hatred of minorities and love of firearms and you have a volatile combination.”

Over the weekend FBI and ATF agents posed as rodeo clowns in an operation code-named “Roundup” that took place at a barbecue and picnic held at the American Front HQ in rural Osceola County. The headquarters consists of a modified 1986 vintage mobile home and an above ground swimming pool (stocked with catfish) resting at the center of around ten acres of partially wooded property.

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The agents cleverly ingratiated themselves by entertaining kids at the event while the adults were attending mandatory automatic-weapons drills and a grenade-toss contest. The miscreant offspring were treated to traditional Cretonian children’s games such as “pin the crime on the nigger,” “kick the Jew into the minefield,” and “beat on the fag with a baseball bat.”

After a laid back afternoon of barbecue, draft beer, and plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government, the group members were surprised to learn the clowns they had hired to entertain the kiddies were actually highly trained undercover agents from the FBI, DEA, and ATF.

“We certainly did surprise them,” said Special Agent Matt Helm, of the Orlando Field Office of the FBI. “We recovered AK-47’s, grenades, night vision equipment, and a lab apparently set up to manufacture the nerve agent ricin, among other things.” Agent Helm was quick to point out that there was no threat of a chemical weapons stockpile in the area because all the group had managed to manufacture so far was a particularly impure batch of methamphetamine.

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Local law enforcement officials were not surprised at the haul of illegal weapons and drugs. They have expressed concerns about the group and had plans to infiltrate it. However, they have been consistently thwarted by county and state elected officials who depend on under-the-table cash donations from the American Front and other right-wing groups for both their campaigns and vacations to Bangkok. It seems the Justice Department had to get involved to get anything done, as is so often the case in Florida.

Arrested were Marcus and Patricia Faella, Christopher Brooks, Richard Stockdale, Kent McLellan, Diane Stevens, and ten other group members. They have been charged with a wide variety of crimes ranging from plotting to overthrow the federal government to bestiality involving unwilling miniature goats.

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According to court documents the group had planned to cause “some kind of disturbance” at the Orlando city hall building, and were also looking forward to the yearly counter-protest of May Day activities this spring.

The property on which the American Front headquarters stands was found to be honey-combed with mysterious tunnels leading nowhere. Sandbags and  railroad ties were stacked in defensive positions around the trailer and swimming pool area. The trailer itself was riddled with holes caused by inaccurate machine gun fire from the mandatory weapons training sessions. There were also gaping holes in the walls of the trailer that authorities believe are meant to be rifle ports but could just be caused by rats.

Marcus and Patricia Faella were released after posting one million dollars bond. As is usually the case, their henchmen were left to rot in jail.

Media

Journalism is not a crime. So why are reporters being referred to police?

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Harsher penalties for intelligence whistleblowers in Australia will deter future whistleblowers like Edward Snowden from speaking about Australia’s surveillance and intelligence gathering.’

The referral to the federal police of journalists covering asylum seeker policy raises serious questions about the freedom of the press in Australia

Journalism in Australia is not a crime. Despite this, journalists who have reported on immigration and asylum seeker issues have been referred to the Australian Federal Police for investigation in a series of attempts to prosecute confidential sources and whistleblowers.

This is a move that should alarm all citizens. It’s not an attack on any particular news outlet. It’s an attack on those who have reported on matters of significant public interest in the increasingly secretive area of asylum seeker policy.

Journalists from Guardian Australia, News.com.au and the West Australian have all had their stories sent to the AFP by customs, the immigration department and the defence department to ask the AFP to track down their sources. There may be journalists from other news outlets involved.

All journalists have confidential sources to help gather information and build their stories. Sometimes those sources speak out at great risk, and that confidentiality must be protected. The free flow of information is the bedrock of a journalist’s work.

These kind of attacks severely damage the confidence between reporters and their sources and pose a grave threat to effective and responsible journalism. When the federal police go knocking on the doors of a reporter’s sources, sources will soon dry up. People will be scared. And that is exactly the point.

Part of the problem is that the laws surrounding leaks are so broad. The Commonwealth Crimes Act criminalises essentially any disclosure of government information, regardless of the seriousness, regardless of the intent, and regardless of the public interest. Despite recommendations by the Australian Law Reform Commission to amend these laws, we have yet to see any change.

The whistleblower protection scheme introduced in 2013 under the previous Labor government provides limited protections for disclosures to the world at large, and favours protected disclosures internally or to oversight agencies instead. This means that whistleblowers who provide information to journalists can still be left with little protection from the law.

This can’t be viewed in isolation. There is a much broader series of measures at play that all point towards an increasing overreach by the federal government into legitimate reporting and public interest disclosures.

Any of the journalists that are listed in the AFP referrals could have had their phone and web records accessed. It doesn’t take a warrant, just a short one-page form. And there is no privilege or special protection for journalists, a consideration that is being debated right now in the UK. The looming mandatory data retention legislation will compound the problem by ensuring a much greater range of web data is consistently available to government agencies for up to two years.

The insertion of a new offence into the Asio Act that criminalises any form of disclosure about “special intelligence operations” could see journalists jailed for reporting on important intelligence related stories. Harsher penalties for intelligence whistleblowers in Australia will also attempt to deter future whistleblowers like Edward Snowden from speaking about Australia’s surveillance and intelligence gathering.

The Australian government has shown great concern for the awful plight of Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues who have been jailed in Egypt. They have shown great concern for freedom of the press in the wake of the terrible Charlie Hebdo attacks in France.

That concern must extend to the work of serious public interest reporting in Australia.

Corporate Government

Corporate greed, environmental decay and the police state

Would you be like to live in a police state where untrammelled greed has knowingly destroyed its environment for the benefit of the elite, asks Sydney bureau chief Ross Jones.

Ladies and Gentlemen, if I may, I would ask you one question:

Would you like to live in China, a police state whose untrammelled greed has knowingly destroyed its environment for the benefit of the elite?

No?

The arable area of Australia is roughly the size of Vietnam. That’s if we cut down every tree. This sliver of life is all that stands between us and shitdom, a la Easter Island on ice.

But frack it, right?

Somewhere, in a boardroom far, far away, a man with receding hair and a striped shirt asks two crucial questions:

What is this Artesian Basin? And is it money?

He is obliged to maximise returns to stakeholders — known in some circles as “sausageholders”. And the sausage is pointed directly at our heads. The trickle-down effect.

Worse, he has friends. Lots of them.

Somewhere, much closer to home, in a café on Martin Place, a moron made tragic fools of the cream of Australia’s intelligence services, not to mention the bunyips of Macquarie Street.

And didn’t our prime minister do well? Certainly well enough to enthuse the crowd at the recent World Cup opener against our former Gulf War allies, Kuwait.

Make no mistake, ASIO reports to Parliament. Or, in 2015, Peta Credlin, who for the time-being is the Australian lower house.

Accordingly, the men and women ASIO find themselves beholden to a bunch of Fruit Loops with a wildly erratic security/publicity agenda. Add to their complications the silent-movie AFP and kill-happy local police and you can start to have some sympathy for them.

There is another pressure, too — money. The guys in the striped shirts. The guys who are pointing their sausages at you. ASIO has a very ordinary track-record in resisting instructions to focus on commercial targets.

So, we find ourselves at the mercy of striped-shirts and an avariciously-instructed domestic security body.

If this goes on, environmental degradation and police state will follow as night does day. You might not notice the creep for 10-15 years or so, but you will.

As they say, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.

Read also ‘Down with the corporatists’ by managing editor David Donovan.

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$650 mill, Selling Coalition policy

Partisan Politics of the AFP. Surely it’s inappropriate

Police address the media over terror raids

The AFP’s worrying foray into politics

By Greg Barns

In the past week we have seen the top brass of the Australian Federal Police going in to bat for some of the most politically sensitive security policies being pursued by the Government. How appropriate it this? Greg Barns writes.

Last Friday morning Andrew Colvin, the Australian Federal Police Commissioner, fronted the ABC’s AM program. Colvin mounted a vigorous defence of the Abbott Government’s proposed legislation that allows the AFP and other security agencies to monitor the usage of the internet of every Australian and forces internet service providers to store data of customers for two years.

Fast forward to last Monday evening and in the audience of the ABC’s Q&A program was one of Colvin’s senior officers, Australian Federal Police manager of counter terrorism, Neil Gaughan. On the panel of that program was the Attorney-General George Brandis busily defending his Government’s troubling national security agenda.

Even the most benign reading of the transcripts of both programs shows that what we have is the top brass of the Australian Federal Police going in to bat for some of the most politically sensitive policies being pursued by the Abbott Government.

The issue that emerges from the appearances of Colvin and Gaughan is whether or not it is appropriate in a democratic society for police officers to be undertaking such a role?

That Colvin and Gaughan were in the position they were in is evident from these examples.

On AM Colvin was asked by presenter Chris Uhlmann about the laws that jail journalists for up to 10 years for revealing details of ASIO illegal activities. Colvin sounded like Senator Brandis or his media adviser when he replied:

I think Government’s been very clear about the special intelligence operation, that it’s not targeted at journalists. It’s not targeted at the media. And the Attorney-General was very clear yesterday in putting additional safeguards both for the offences that are being passed through the Parliament now or have been passed through, as well as the offences that relate to similar provisions in Australian Federal Police laws as well. So the Attorney’s put in place further provisions that safeguard journalists and should give some level of comfort to the public.

On Q&A Gaughan was called upon by Senator Brandis to bolster his rationale for new laws that will make it a criminal offence to go to an area designated by the Australian Government as a no go zone – again a highly controversial intrusion on freedom of movement. Gaughan outlined the circumstances in which someone might be charged with committing an offence under this law and sought to downplay its significance. He also took the opportunity to defend accusations that he and his and colleagues had taken a supposed weapon – a plastic sword in a recent anti-terror raid!

There is nothing new in police appearing alongside ministers; they do it regularly when it comes to issues such as road safety or domestic violence. But those are issues where there is little political controversy – most people accept the need for police and government led campaigns in those areas. But anti-terror laws that extend the reach of the state markedly, and erode fundamental liberties radically are inevitably controversial and police should be very wary of being seen to take sides with one political force over another.

The role of the police is to administer and enforce laws passed by the Parliament. It is not to advocate in the media for the passage of legislation and nor is it the role of police to appear on television with the Attorney-General in a way that makes it look as though the role of the police is to assist the A-G in dealing with political opponents.

The Australian Federal Police Act 1979 sets out the functions of the AFP in section 8. Those functions do not include advocacy but are directed at providing police services, to investigate offences and provide security and ceremonial functions when required.

In asserting that that senior police should not allow the perception to arise that they are being political one can contrast Colvin and Gaughan with Victoria’s Police Commissioner Ken Lay. On September 21 Lay told the media that he would not release quarterly crime statistics three days before Victoria’s November 29 election because to do so would embroil him and Victoria Police in politics.

It was a sensible decision by Lay given that in the 2010 Victorian election former police commissioner Simon Overland released crime statistics that were incomplete a month before the election and the Labor government used those statistics for political advantage.

The problem with the conduct of Colvin and Gaughan in advocating for Senator Brandis’s proposed laws and in appearing with him on a political talk program such as Q&A is that it undermines what is critical in any democratic society, and that is that the police not be seen to be backing government policy and in turn unconsciously or consciously putting pressure on other legislators to pass the government’s laws.

Police chiefs should steer away from political controversies no matter how dear to their hearts is the issue at hand. Unfortunately the AFP looks as though it is backing the Abbott Government in the area of anti-terrorism policy. The only role the AFP should play is to enforce whatever law the legislature passes.

Greg Barns is a barrister and a spokesman for the Australian Lawyers Alliance.

Anti-Islam, ASIO, Injustice, Islamophobia, Security

When government uses the words intelligence service you can rest assured tosteterone fueled buffoons rise to the surface

 

Would airport security stop the ex Archbishop of Sydney George Pell’s personal assistant   for two hours in an enclosed room and refuse to tell him what was happenning or that of the Anglican Archbishop? I don’t think so

The Australian National Imams Council expressed anger that one of its most senior members, an assistant to the Grand Mufti of Australia Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, was pulled up at Sydney airport on Thursday on the way to the Haj, a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

The Imam, who met Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Attorney-General George Brandis recently, was stopped at the boarding gate, stripped of his mobile phone and iPad and kept in a room for two hours without explanation, the general manager of ANIC Samir Bennegadi said.

Mr Bennegadi said the Imam was treated in an unprofessional manner and he wondered, if this could happen to one of the most senior Imams in Australia, what could happen to the rest of the Muslim population when, “especially during this time, the Haj, we have hundreds of people leaving Australia every day”.

Anti-Muslim sentiment has been felt around the country and people are reporting graffiti on mosques and attacks on homes. Threatening letters have been sent to businesses, bookshops and religious leaders with handwritten messages such as “we will fight you … terror for terror … blood for blood and … bomb for bomb”.

Cars, and houses have been vandalised  women threatened but true to form the man in the fruit salad uniform

NSW Police Superintendent Mark Walton said

officers would not “stand guard” outside mosques that received bomb threats, purportedly from the Australian Defence League.

He said that, other than the letter from the league, there were no credible threats to security being investigated during Operation Hammerhead, a NSW operation to increase police visibility that was launched after terrorism raids on Thursday.Despite a car damaged with offensive comments and women threatened to be set alight.

Passenger ejected from flight over notebook doodles

Oliver Buckworth's notes.

A Melbourne man was hauled off a Tiger Airways flight by federal police on Saturday after claims he was seen doodling and writing sentences in a notebook satirising the current terrorism threat.

“The irony is I was writing a sentence about the absurdity of the fearmongering when we live in such a happy country of ice-cream and beaches and fluffy things,” he said.

Other doodles include a sketch of a chandelier – Mr Buckworth is an interior designer – and the play on words: “Terrorismadeup.” In a cartoon of a child clutching his head, Mr Buckworth wrote in a thought bubble: “Tyrannosaurus Rex. Terodactyl. Tarantula. Terrorist.” The interior designer has now been blacklisted by the airways. Don’t fly Tiger!!!

 

 

 

 

Australian Shame, Islamophobia, Vilification

So the good ole boys are just joking are they? Mosques have been vandalised but we Rabbott Raid Muslim kids

 

 

No’ chatter’ when it comes to threatening Muslims,  vandalizing their property, abusing their presence on the street. Threatening to set a woman in hijab alight isn’t regarded as serious. The racist bogans are only up to mischief are they? Korans shredded, shock jocks vilifying a whole community. Andrew Bolt’s daily sling that’s just good old Aussie banter is it. But when Muslim kids open their mouths you jump on them with a totalitarian fist. How about some consistency in the application of your laws. How unbalanced is Team Australia?

Those Muslim kids you caught who you admit knew they were being watched may just have been pulling your agencies chain. If I was 19 and I  and my mates knew somebody was trying to eavesdrop we certainly would. Because our first reaction would be to give you the symbolic finger

 

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There is a terrorist group in this country that’s beyond suspicion

Explosives mistakenly left at Sydney Airport by federal police during sniffer dog training

Updated about an hour agoThu 11 Sep 2014, 8:06pm

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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been left red-faced after an explosive device used during sniffer dog training was left in a suitcase at Sydney Airport.

The AFP apologised after the suitcase, containing about 230 grams of plastic explosives, accidentally ended up in the hands of a female passenger on Tuesday afternoon.

The device, which was not live, was hidden inside the unclaimed suitcase during what the AFP said was a “routine canine exercise”.

The suitcase containing the explosive device was then mistakenly given to the woman whose luggage was damaged during her flight.

The woman only discovered the device once she was in Cessnock. She took it to the local police station, where officers evacuated their building as a safety precaution.

AFP Sydney Airport commander Wayne Buchhorn said the AFP was taking the error seriously.

“The canine instructor who inadvertently left this device behind has been identified and will be the subject of a formal Professional Standards Investigation,” he said.

AFP = Awfully F***ing Pathetic