Author: Kev

I note, neither The SMH or The Age can bring themselves to use the word ‘Muslim’ when talking about the riots in Paris. The Australian manages to touch on the subject though.

Crackdowns on Muslim associations in the suburbs, rising unemployment, inequality of access to the top French schools and universities, and the housing crisis that keeps many poor workers in high-rise council estates on the periphery of Paris were all blamed for the rioting.

Maybe lack of education is more to blame for inequality of access to French education and for rising unemployment but that’s not going to be acceptable to the local Clerics. Keep ’em ignorant. Force 12th century ethics, morals and knowledge down their throats. Maintain the rage and envy….hate us for our success based on superior education and separation of powers and the subsequent comforts all this brings. Maintain your disadvantaged status or join the 21st century.

Under the leader Guess who can’t keep a secret? PM in hot water SMH journo’s Marian Wilkinson and Tom Allard attack the PM based on anonymous statements.

The Prime Minister, John Howard, has been accused of jeopardising a year-long operation by state and federal police targeting terrorist suspects in Sydney and Melbourne.

Name them! Until you do the article has the same credibility as every other anonymous criticism. Nil. There exists a balance between keeping the people informed and denying terrorists intelligence but one thing is clear and that is, Howard must tell us if a new threat exists. If he doesn’t and someone dies the public will be rightly angry. If certain people are a threat and ASIO et al have been watching them then they only have to maintain vigilance or aprehend them. They can do that now. As I understand it the exercise in changing the act to to the more general an act allows federal agents to apprehend potential terrorists before they actually select the target. This is not a case of debating the new anti-terror laws, it is simply attacking Howard and it won’t wash with the public. Howard isn’t in hot water, The Fairfax stable is and I don’t wonder why. Sacking editorial staff to better reflect it’s ever decreasing circulation is only the start. They need to get some serious hacks that might better reflect the opinion and concerns of the reading public.

Channel Ten tried to get him to spill confidentiality again but he didn’t bite.

“I’d very much like to like to but … I can’t do that without risking some sort of legal response from the Commonwealth,” he told the Ten Network.

Now the Federal and State governments can get on with the job of getting these laws in place without Left wing antics confusing the issue. Meanwhile Beasley is attacked for trying to toughen the laws. Yep you guessed it, by the Left who want the laws to comply with some overseas human rights mob. Maybe they would have a case if they could guarantee that the overseas human rights body had the safety of Australian citizens as their first priority but I seriously doubt that is the case.

Labor’s left faction has accused Mr Beazley of being too soft and toeing the government line on terrorism measures while ignoring the party’s obligation to comply with a key international covenant on human rights. A senior Labor insider said it was time for Mr Beazley to “pull his finger out” as the faction passed a resolution reconfirming the ALP’s commitment to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Stuff the ICCPR. Australia’s elected representatives run this country, not them.