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Citizenship and terrorism: the Abbott recipe : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 2/6/2015Canada has set a cracking pace with its measures revoking the citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism, treason or spying for foreign governments.
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You said yourself that you saw the same scene on TV that I did.
I would suggest that your best course of action in any dispute of any kind. would be to believe the evidence of your own eyes before you trust any other source.
Your "Downing Street memo" has no significance to me. The US wanted Hussein gone because he was an unacceptable threat to world peace, and he simply refused to abide by the peace conditions imposed upon him in 1990. Britain under a socialist Labor government agreed with the Americans.
Please get back on topic.
Once again, the world is coming down on the head of Tony Abbot for simply proposing a course of action in a cabinet meeting where various actions were being considered. His proposal to strip dual nationals of citizenship if caught fighting for terrorists is eminently sensible and only a problem because the Citizenship Act of 1947 stipulates that such action can be taken "automatically", only when a person is fighting for a "country" at war with Australia. It is a tiny distinction but one which a lawyer can drive a bus through.
Instead of reflexively complaining about it simply because this sensible proposal came from Tony Abbot. Why don't you protect yourself, and protect your own people, and stick it to the terrorists that people like yourself imported into Australia, by supporting Abbot's proposal? Help to mend the damage that you and your friends have inflicted on Australia through your support of multiculturalism.