Search Warrants Act 1985 (NSW)

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I tell ya, if Australia accellerates down the US path of insanity I will seriously consider moving to another country.

 

Me too, if I ever get my way.

 

You know there's another silly discrepancy with this law. How in the world are Australian police worthy judges on what is 'reasonable suspicion' of a terrorist act? It's not like we're bombarded with terrorism seemingly every month of the year, unlike some countries... maybe they have a terrorist spotting handbook? "Terrorist catching tactic #1. Spot the ethnic"

 

Normally I couldn't care less about politics, but this is going too far.

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g'day nF0; yes the cops do have a terrorist handbook....i got 1 too, J Howard sent me a copy, comes with a fridge magnet too ::

 

 

 

i saved my copy, maybe a collectors item some day

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It looks like a copy of Bush's "Nazi Act"

 

that Howard dude is pissin' on the Australian people, like dumbya is pissin' on his. They sound like a great team, a bit like Hitler and Moussolini where.

 

TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER

The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty

 

A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also

Known as Patriot Act II

By Alex Jones  http://www.infowars.com , February 10, 2003

 

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member

of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed

by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally

decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across

the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York

Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that

President Bush was "seizing dictatorial control. On February 7, 2003

the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest

think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security

Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to

them by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document

consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying

87-page bill.

 

The bill itself is stamped "Confidential - Not for Distribution." Upon

reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically

crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The Justice Department

Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly

transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis

Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick

Cheney as well as the executive heads of federal law enforcement

agencies.  It is important to note that no member of Congress was

allowed to see the first Patriot Act before its passage, and that no

debate was tolerate by the House and Senate leadership. The intentions

of the White House and Speaker Hastert concerning Patriot Act II appear

to be a carbon copy replay of the events that led to the unprecedented

passage of the first Patriot Act.

 

There are two glaring areas that need to be looked at concerning this

new legislation:

 

1. The secretive tactics being used by the White House and Speaker

Hastert to keep even the existence of this legislation secret would be

more at home in Communist China than in the United States. The fact

that Dick Cheney publicly managed the steamroller passage of the first

Patriot Act, insuring that no one was allowed to read it and publicly

threatening member on Congress that if they didn't vote in favor of it

that they would be blamed for the next terrorist attack, is by the

White House's own definition terrorism. The move to clandestinely craft

and then bully passage of any legislation by the Executive Branch is

clearly an impeachable offence.

 

2. The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius

Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act

only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and

seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act

reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of

state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice

Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM

military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also

known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition

of dictatorship.I challenge all Americans to study the new Patriot Act

and to compare it to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration

of Independence. Ninety percent of the act has nothing to do with

terrorism and is instead a giant Federal power-grab with tentacles

reaching into every facet of our society. It strips American citizens

of all of their rights and grants the government and its private agents

total immunity.

 

Here is a quick thumbnail sketch of just some of the draconian measures

encapsulated within this tyrannical legislation: SECTION 501

(Expatriation of Terrorists) expands the Bush administration's "enemy

combatant" definition to all American citizens who "may" have violated

any provision of Section 802 of the first Patriot Act. (Section 802 is

the new definition of domestic terrorism, and the definition is "any

action that endangers human life that is a violation of any Federal or

State law.") Section 501 of the second Patriot Act directly connects to

Section 125 of the same act. The Justice Department boldly claims that

the incredibly broad Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act isn't

broad enough and that a new, unlimited definition of terrorism is

needed.  Under Section 501 a US citizen engaging in lawful activities

can be grabbed off the street and thrown into a van never to be seen

again.

 

The Justice Department states that they can do this because the person

"had inferred from conduct" that they were not a US citizen.  Remember

Section 802 of the First USA Patriot Act states that any violation of

Federal or State law can result in the "enemy combatant" terrorist

designation.

 

SECTION 201 of the second Patriot Act makes it a criminal act for any

member of the government or any citizen to release any information

concerning the incarceration or whereabouts of detainees. It also

states that law enforcement does not even have to tell the press who

they have arrested and they never have to release the names.

 

SECTION 301 and 306 (Terrorist Identification Database) set up a

national database of "suspected terrorists" and radically expand the

database to include anyone associated with suspected terrorist groups

and anyone involved in crimes or having supported any group designated

as "terrorist." These sections also set up a national DNA database for

anyone on probation or who has been on probation for any crime, and

orders State governments to collect the DNA for the Federal government.

 

SECTION 312 gives immunity to law enforcement engaging in spying

operations against the American people and would place substantial

restrictions on court injunctions against Federal violations of civil

rights across the board.

 

SECTION 101 will designate individual terrorists as foreign powers and

again strip them of all rights under the "enemy combatant" designation.

 

SECTION 102 states clearly that any information gathering, regardless

of whether or not those activities are illegal, can be considered to be

clandestine intelligence activities for a foreign power. This makes

news gathering illegal.

 

SECTION 103 allows the Federal government to use wartime martial law

powers domestically and internationally without Congress declaring that

a state of war exists.

 

SECTION 106 is bone-chilling in its straightforwardness. It states that

broad general warrants by the secret FSIA court (a panel of secret

judges set up in a star chamber system that convenes in an undisclosed

location) granted under the first Patriot Act are not good enough. It

states that government agents must be given immunity for carrying out

searches with no prior court approval. This section throws out the

entire Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.

 

SECTION 109 allows secret star chamber courts to issue contemp charges

against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate

themselves or others. This sections annihilate the last vestiges of the

Fifth Amendment.

 

SECTION 110 restates that key police state clauses in the first Patriot

Act were not sunsetted and removes the five year sunset clause from

other subsections of the first Patriot Act. After all, the media has

told us: "this is the New America. Get used to it. This is forever."

 

SECTION 111 expands the definition of the "enemy combatant"

designation.

 

SECTION 122 restates the government's newly announced power of

"surveillance without a court order."

 

SECTION 123 restates that the government no longer needs warrants and

that the investigations can be a giant dragnet-style sweep described in

press reports about the Total Information Awareness Network. One

passage reads, "thus the focus of domestic surveillance may be less

precise than that directed against more conventional types of crime."

 

*Note: Over and over again, in subsection after subsection, the second

Patriot Act states that its new Soviet-type powers will be used to

fight international terrorism, domestic terrorism and other types of

crimes. Of course the government has already announced in

 

Section 802 of the first USA Patriot act that any crime is considered

domestic terrorism.

 

SECTION 126 grants the government the right to mine the entire spectrum

of public and private sector information from bank records to

educational and medical records. This is the enacting law to allow

ECHELON and the Total Information Awareness Network to take break down

any and all walls of privacy. The government states that they must look

at everything to "determine" if individuals or groups might have a

connection to terrorist groups. As you can now see, you are guilty

until proven innocent.

 

SECTION 127 allows the government to takeover coroners' and medical

examiners' operations whenever they see fit. See how this is like Bill

Clinton's special medical examiner he had in Arkansas that ruled that

people had committed suicide when their arms and legs had been cut off.

 

SECTION 128 allows the Federal government to place gag orders on

Federal and State Grand Juries and to take over the proceedings. It

also disallows individuals or organizations to even try to quash a

Federal subpoena. So now defending yourself will be a terrorist action.

 

SECTION 129 destroys any remaining whistleblower protection for Federal

agents.

 

SECTION 202 allows corporations to keep secret their activities with

toxic biological, chemical or radiological materials.

 

SECTION 205 allows top Federal officials to keep all their financial

dealings secret, and anyone investigating them can be considered a

terrorist. This should be very useful for Dick Cheney to stop anyone

investigating Haliburton.

 

SECTION 303 sets up national DNA database of suspected terrorists. The

database will also be used to "stop other unlawful activities." It will

share the information with state, local and foreign agencies for the

same purposes.

 

SECTION 311 federalizes your local police department in the area of

information sharing.

 

SECTION 313 provides liability protection for businesses, especially

big businesses that spy on their customers for Homeland Security,

violating their privacy agreements. It goes on to say that these are

all preventative measures - has anyone seen Minority Report? This is

the access hub for the Total Information Awareness Network.

 

SECTION 321 authorizes foreign governments to spy on the American

people and to share information with foreign governments.

 

SECTION 322 removes Congress from the extradition process and allows

officers of the Homeland Security complex to extradite American

citizens anywhere they wish. It also allows Homeland Security to

secretly take individuals out of foreign countries.

 

SECTION 402 is titled "Providing Material Support to Terrorism." The

section reads that there is no requirement to show that the individual

even had the intent to aid terrorists.

 

SECTION 403 expands the definition of weapons of mass destruction to

include any activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce.

 

SECTION 404 makes it a crime for a terrorist or "other criminals" to

use encryption in the commission of a crime.

 

SECTION 408 creates "lifetime parole" (basically, slavery) for a whole

host of crimes. SECTION 410 creates no statute of limitations for

anyone that engages in terrorist actions or supports terrorists.

Remember: any crime is now considered terrorism under the first Patriot

Act.

 

SECTION 411 expands crimes that are punishable by death. Again, they

point to Section 802 of the first Patriot Act and state that any

terrorist act or support of terrorist act can result in the death

penalty.

 

SECTION 421 increases penalties for terrorist financing. This section

states that any type of financial activity connected to terrorism will

result to time in prison and $10-50,000 fines per violation.

 

SECTIONS 427 sets up asset forfeiture provisions for anyone engaging in

terrorist activities. There are many other sections that I did not

cover in the interest of time. The American people were shocked by the

despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs

all police state legislation in modern world history. Usually, corrupt

governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper,

while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch

and grab operations to warantless searches, Patriot Act II is an Adolf

Hitler wish list. You can understand why President Bush, Dick Cheney

and Dennis Hastert want to keep this legislation secret not just from

Congress, but the American people as well.

 

Bill Allison, Managing Editor of the Center for Public Integrity, the

group that broke this story, stated on my radio show that it was

obvious that they were just waiting for another terrorist attack to

opportunistically get this new bill through. He then shocked me with an

insightful comment about how the Federal government was crafting this

so that they could go after the American people in general. He also

agreed that the FBI has been quietly demonizing patriots and Christians

and "those who carry around pocket Constitutions."  I have produced two

documentary films and written a book about what really happened on

September 11th. The bottom line is this: the military-industrial

complex carried the attacks out as a pretext for control. Anyone who

doubts this just hasn't looked at the mountains of hard evidence.

 

Of course, the current group of white collar criminals in the White

House might not care that we're finding out the details of their next

phase. Because, after all, when smallpox gets released, or more

buildings start blowing up, the President can stand up there at his

lectern suppressing a smirk, squeeze out a tear or two, and tell us

that "See I was right. I had to take away your rights to keep you safe.

And now it's your fault that all of these children are dead." From that

point on, anyone who criticizes tyranny will be shouted down by the

paid talking head government mouthpieces in the mainstream media. You

have to admit, it's a beautiful script. Unfortunately, it's being

played out in the real world. If we don't get the word out that

government is using terror to control our lives while doing nothing to

stop the terrorists, we will deserve what we get - tyranny. But our

children won't deserve it.

http://www.infowars.com/print_patriotact2_analysis.htm

 

(the last time I tryed the links didn't work anymore!? )

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g'day; you know the answer to all that of course......"if you got nothing to hide you got nothing to fear"......if only that were true.