XPost: talk.politics.misc, aus.politics, alt.politics   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: d@ray   
      
   The Australian government, with the help of the corporate media, think   
   tanks and lobby groups, is going to spend the next few months clamping down   
   on its citizens.   
      
   Seemingly overnight, multiple tragic stabbing events have reignited   
   discussion about producing new legislation aimed at minimising what the   
   law-abiding Australian public can view or post online, and strengthening   
   existing laws.   
      
   The same proposals also seek to violate free speech, remove religious   
   freedoms, limit political expression and freedom of movement, and give   
   additional powers to police and intelligence agencies to enable them to   
   violate privacy and impede freedom of association.   
      
   In short, we are dealing with an Orwellian scenario, where Big Brother   
   seeks to punish you for thought crimes and remove your ability to have   
   informed consent about almost anything.   
      
   Perhaps this all seems like the type of thinking usually found in the murky   
   depths of the internet, among those who spend way too much time looking   
   into conspiracy theories.   
      
   But all the information is in the public domain and available for anyone to   
   see for themselves, and using the categories below I will explain how the   
   government is using crisis and propaganda for political expediency.   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)