Frightening stuff – wonder how easily one could be implicated in something like this? Ask David Gundy.

By the way, speaking of disappearances, where’d the pot article go?

All posts present and accounted for, Flash.

Could you be looking at an individual post instead of the entire front page of mgk? When you’re commenting, you only see the post you’re commenting upon.

You think that is frightening, then consider this:

The level of computerization in Australia far exceeds anything Orwell could have dreamed up, and the ability to link data between the various gov departments is by far better than most countries in the world (USA included).

Most Australians are unaware of this and with the slow but persistent erosion in civil liberties (under various guises such as security) you all will wake up in your own version of 1984.

The USA with the Patriot ACT at least has a “Bill of Rights” where Australia does not.

Dave

The “Bill of Rights”
A.G. Gonzales refered same as Quaint! or was it Cute? It was one. The other was “The Geneva Convention”

Rights are only as strong as those defending them.

The whole thing Freaks me out and makes me mad.

The Defense Dept in the U.S. is now creating a database of High School students. For recruiters. Info includes. Grades, Race, Family income, attendance, and more…
Predatory…..

A bill of rights is definitely something Australians need, particularly in light of the new powers that ASIO now have.

The war on a noun continues.

All posts present and accounted for, Flash.

Okay, these are the ones I see at http://www.machinegunkeyboard.com/ :

* ASIO raids: Who cares, they’re only after the towelheads
* Americans in Australia: Get Over Your Cheap Selves
* Kay Danes sets up Corby website
* What’s going on with the Corby websites?
* Stop the LIES about people with disabilities
* No More Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy
* From Morse to mgk
* Welcome to mgk

This is the same as what’s appearing in your ‘Recent Posts’ column.

Colour me stumped, I can’t figure it out. I’ve tried it on two different computers, same result.

Flash, you’re right- the post “Dope Smokers Link UN To Terrorism” is not appearing in the ‘recent posts’ listing.

However, the post itself does appear when you load http://machinegunkeyboard.com/ – scroll down, you’ll see it.

To remedy the problem, I opened the post for editing and saved it again. Now it appears in the ‘recent posts’ list.

Weird.

Thanks for the heads up 🙂

-weez

“A bill of rights is definitely something Australians need, particularly in light of the new powers that ASIO now have.“:

Australia needs both a Bill of Rights and the repeal of the ASIO Act (which would contravene any decent BoR in any case). And when I say that the ASIO Act needs to be repealed I mean the Act as implemented in 1976 – not just the recent amendments.

I would like to have more faith in the ‘I’ part of ASIO. MGK wasn’t in this country when they kicked down the wrong door of the Sheraton Hotel in Melbourne and completely traumatised people who had NO IDEA why they were being attacked.