What’s that thing on your nose, weez?

Don’t you remember Bill Leak’s ‘National Brown Nose Day?‘ That was my brown nose… 😀

Bah, didn’t we learn that the ‘patriot’ act was a complete sham to force people into modern slavery and a new age dictatorship? Obviously not, so we had to go and implement our own version didn’t we?

It is such a shame to see Australia being ruled by a fear campaign and people having this attitude of “if you have nothing to hide, then why are you worried” that is such a faceless argument. Might as well install security cameras in our houses then? I mean if we have nothing to hide then what’s the problem with someone monitoring us 24hrs a day then being able to barge into our house, put us in jail for 2 weeks and not even tell us why! Democracy wins.

At least I have never believed in the practicality of democracy, people laugh in the face of socialism and communism and their impracticality while they don’t realize how impractical democracy really is. Look at the American democratic system. It is a joke.

Didn’t you know that Philip Ruddock’s got “Parkinson’s disease”?????

wossat, Ray? An uncontrollable urge to be interviewed on UK TV? 😀

Apollyon, don’t forget the tracking devices, and the prohibition against telling people what’s happened to you.

This isn’t about protecting national security, it’s about protecting the status quo.

Flash, this one deserves some postage stamps.

Kerry Nettle is making noise about this. She deserves backup. Letters of concern should go straight to HoWARd.

I hope Parkin elects to fight this. His political concerns just got a lot bigger than Halliburton and quite accidentally create a major domestic issue for some Australians.

The arrest sets a precedent and sends a clear message: “Don’t get involved in politics in Australia if you’re not a citizen.”

Permanent residents of Australia beware- with the arrest of Parkin, the Australian government has demonstrated that it will crush your dissent with your deportation. Even being a citizen isn’t any guarantee that this fucking gestapo mob at DIMIA won’t deport you.

Funnily enough, I have to echo a recent Aus govt TV ad campaign: “There’s never been a better time to become an Australian citizen.”

There’s never been a better time to become a New Zealand citizen.

How the hell can a pacifist be a security threat?

Larry, when the F.A.G. tells us, we’ll all know.

The real reason is that Ruddock doesn’t know why they are keeping this lad locked up … they will have to ask him nicely.