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George Brandis takes a swipe at Peter Dutton and ‘right wing politics’ in farewell speech

Senator Brandis delivers his final speech to the Senate.

He observed “powerful elements of right-wing politics” had abandoned the liberal tradition in favour of “a belligerent, intolerant populism which shows no respect for either the rights of individual citizens or the traditional institutions which protect them”.

Senator Brandis did not name Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton in his speech, but delivered a pointed barb at Mr Dutton’s recent disparaging of “un-Australian” lawyers and “weak” judges.

 

“I have not disguised my concern at attacks upon the institutions of the law – the courts and those who practice in them,” he said. “To attack those institutions is to attack the rule of law itself.”

via George Brandis takes a swipe at Peter Dutton and ‘right wing politics’ in farewell speech

3,000 New Jobs Created: George Brandis’s Bookshelf To Be Dismantled And Rebuilt In London – The Shovel

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via 3,000 New Jobs Created: George Brandis’s Bookshelf To Be Dismantled And Rebuilt In London – The Shovel

George Brandis has made a hash of the royal commission into juvenile detention | Richard Ackland | Opinion | The Guardian

Did it really never dawn on Canberra’s brains trust that the royal commission should include an Aboriginal leader? George Brandis has been left looking foolish

Source: George Brandis has made a hash of the royal commission into juvenile detention | Richard Ackland | Opinion | The Guardian

Judging The Judges Is A Judgement Call!

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Judging The Judges Is A Judgement Call!

Ok, so we shouldn’t be critical of Dyson Heydon. He’s a judge…

Citizenship Caned: Experts Line Up To Give Tony Abbott’s Citizen Stripping Laws A Belting. Lawfare 101

Citizenship Caned: Experts Line Up To Give Tony Abbott’s Citizen Stripping Laws A Belting | newmatilda.com.

A chilling step closer to Australian secret police: Tell us that Abbot hasn’t taken us closer to East Germany. ASIO and the AFP can disappear citzens who if released can’t tell under threat of a 10 year sentance

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A chilling step closer to Australian secret police.

Killing the Messenger – Al Jazeera English George Brandis has made it a crime in Australia. Australia has the most concenterated ownership of media in the democratic world which ia threat to freedom

Journalism is the frontline

 

Killing the Messenger – Al Jazeera English.

The real stitch-up – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The real stitch-up – » The Australian Independent Media Network.

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Wilson already promised Gillian Triggs’ job. A Captain’s Call and bag full of promises but shush

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Wilson already promised Gillian Triggs’ job.

Brandis and Murdoch will do anything for Tony

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I do hope but doubt that ASIO focuses on Andrew Bolt for incitement of hatred

 

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Spy laws passed in Senate: ASIO given new powers

Australia has no specific laws that protect privacy, so innocent people who may be monitored have “very little by way of redress in legal terms”.

The Palmer United Party managed to attach an amendment that means anyone who publicly names an ASIO agent could be jailed for up to a decade, which is a 10-time increase in the existing maximum penalty.

“Everybody condemns what (terror group) ISIL is doing, it’s horrendous, it’s barbaric, but we do not want to see the fabric of our own society here in Australia torn apart.”

Australia is about to introduce new security laws and let the clowns out

Something about those Bolt readers they are everywhere

Very funny if it wasn’t serious this will be happening somewhere near or to you

 

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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.”americanfront1

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. They actually believe what they hear from Fox News pundits and Tea Party candidates. 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.

Editor’s Note: This article was reprinted from January 8th of this year because I am feeling too damn lazy to write today. Besides, I have to repair a leaky toilet before it falls into the crawlspace and releases hundreds of giant hostile scorpions from the depths. I have not bothered to check on the status of any of these morons, but knowing Florida they are probably still walking around free and are planning on hopping the next Greyhound to Murphy-if they can read, that is.