So, a 23-year-old Melbourne man is arrested in a police raid, charged with four counts of ‘collecting of making documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts’, and the nation’s Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, feels compelled to call a press conference and breathlessly claim that “police have uncovered people with serious intent to cause harm” and “identified people who have got material and are or were preparing to use that material in some way for a violent terrorist act”.
No trial, no conviction, just guilty Yer Honour & Off With His Head!
Meanwhile, the same Attorney-General, her government and the government organisation allegedly responsible for stamping out serious corporate crime, ASIC, all have nothing to say about one of apparently the biggest corporate crimes in Australian history, an alleged cover-up surrounding the Reserve Bank banknote bribery scandal. In that case, it’s just business as usual.
Is it any wonder Australians have lost faith in our political leaders?
– John Richardson, CLA member, Wallagoot NSW