Hi everyone.
Please read this and think about taking some sort of action.
Thanks,
Sally
Australia needs your help!
The government is at this very moment attempting to pass anti-terrorism
legislation it says is aimed at reducing our risk of exposure to
terrorist acts.
The legislation if passed will:
Reclassify SMS and emails as "non-communication" so that no warrant
is required to read them,
Enable children as young as 10 to be strip searched and held in custody
indefinitely without the right to speak to their parents or a lawyer,
Enable any political party or union to be banned on the say of a single
minister, and
Remove the right to silence. If you are suspected of having any
knowledge of terrorist activity, you may face five years imprisonment
for
refusal to answer questions.
There need not be any terrorism or suspected terrorism involved.
According to Julian Burnside QC the Water-side Dispute would definately
be termed a 'Terrorist Act'.
The proposed legislation goes even further than Malaysia's notorious
Internal Security Act. Many of the democratic rights we have
cherished as Australians are in peril. Unless the Labor Party is
forced to join with the Greens and Democrats in blocking the proposed
terror laws in the Senate the Government will gain extreme powers
to crack down on everything from civil dissent to speaking the
wrong way to a bureaucrat. Not just this Government. All possible
future governments.
You may think, "Bloody government! But how can I help?" Here is how:
1) Forward this email to 10 friends/work associates.
2) Send this SMS to 10 of your friends:
"Urgent! Howard wants 2 spy on ALL sms msgs & email
See terrorlaws.iq.org. Pls fwd to 10 friends!"
3) If you're in Melbourne, come to the Rally at 1 PM,
Saturday May 11 2002 at the GPO cnr Bourke & Elizabeth sts.
Bring a friend!
4) See the Terror Laws campaign site http://terrorlaws.iq.org/
which has extensive background information, media reports
and interviews.
5) Subscribe to the campaign discussion list:
http://iq.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/terrorlaws
6) Talk about what's happening with your family and work
mates and tell them that you intend to do something about it
7) For more information call 03 9391 2244
Most importantly:
WRITE RING OR FAX :
SIMON CREAN, ALP
Tel: (02) 6277 4022
Fax: (02) 6277 8495
And say you and your family will NOT VOTE for the ALP if it doesn't
strongly oppose these undemocratic laws.
THIS WEEK is the most important week of the campaign. The ALP is
could go eitherway based on a single phone call. Make history.
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