Australia's tough new anti-terror laws

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Originally Posted by XD-Machine

probably not only taking advantage of the situation but what if.......they created the situation!!!! What i mean by that is the goverment makes this "terrorism" thing up to create panic so they can start marshial law.

WARNING, RANT AHEAD!

Agreed. Panic is good... perhaps then we can start being treated by Adolf part 2. Nobody can say this can't happen again - it happens as I type to people we don't hear about. The "news" deems it unnewsworthy or unimportant.

Conspiracy theories abound in Australia. Our rights are being eroded every day and soon enough, we'll be left with nothing.

I understand that we don't want to have terrorists blow us up. Funnily enough, I don't want that either.

BUT do these laws guarantee that they're going to stop it? For example, the gun controversy. After Port Arthur guns were basically made illegal except for a few (which are used in restricted ways). What alot of the Average Joes don't understand is that the guns he used were ILLEGAL anyway, so whether these laws were in place before he rampaged or not he WOULD HAVE HAD ACCESS TO THE GUNS ANYWAY.

Yet Aussies swallowed it, hook, line and sinker. Yet people are still being shot and killed?!

So following that knee-jerk reaction and example of laws made that don't work, tell me EXACTLY how these laws are going to work?
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Sorry for sounding a bit out there or a bit grumpy, it just bugs me. I'll shut up now :P