[wordup] Australia Needs Your Help

[Adam Shand]

Not that this is a particular surprise, Australia's been generally
setting the tone for it's "new world order" for quite a few years.  Of
course not to be outdone England (and now the USA) are eagerly following
in the Aussie's footsteps.

Two thumbs down for everyone involved.

Adam.

Via: Brent Rieck <bsr at spek.org>

From: Niels Provos <provos at citi.umich.edu>
Subject: GeeK: [lacc] Australian government wants access to your SMS and email
Date: 10 May 2002 13:52:25 -0400

Wow.  The world is amazing.  You thought that civil liberties are in
a bad state here.  Go look at Australia.

To: lacc at suburbia.com.au
From: proff at iq.org (Julian Assange)
Subject: [lacc] Australian government wants access to your SMS and email
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 03:44:27 +1000 (EST)

Australia needs your help!

The Howard government is using the `war on terrorism' as justification
to introduce so called `Asian Values' (a euphonism used by Mahathir to
explain his governments removal of rights from the Malaysian people)
into Australia.

The government is at this very moment attempting to pass legislation to
reclassify SMS and emails as "non-communication" so that it doesn't need
a warrant to read them, legislation to strip search and hold children as
young as 10 in custody indefinitely without the right to speak to their
parents or a lawyer, legislation to ban any political party or union the
say of single minister and legislation to removes the right to silence.
There need not be any terrorism or suspected terrorism involved.

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.

Australians do not need these kind of `Asian Values'.

"Bloody government! But how can I help?"

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
then what you intend on doing 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.

--
 Julian Assange        |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
                       |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and
 proff at iq.org          |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
 proff at gnu.ai.mit.edu  |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery