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By Amjid Muhammad, published 22/11/2005Amjid Muhammad asks whether Australia's terrorist suspects will get a fair trial.
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We now have a legal system that is in an utter mess, where even Australians are detained in concentration camp styled Commonwealth Detention Centres with a denial of access to a lawyer, and unconstitutionally/illegally deported.
I for one have no problem to have deported as quick and possible those who abuse or misuse the refugee system, but we must ensure that in the process we do not rob people of their rights.
Detaining and deporting Australians without DUE PROCESS OF LAW isn’t going to advance us a bit in our desire to protect ourselves, rather make it worse.
We no longer have the notion of INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY or the right of silence and indeed we now have that the ACCUSED IS guilty as charged UNLESS HE CAN PROVE TO BE INNOCENT.
Today, many may consider this acceptable because it suits them to get rid of those they feel have no right to be in Australia, but they ought to remember that once the undesirable are gone, the laws and the police state will remain. We then in turn might become undesirable to others, and we may just receiving the same treatment we accepted to be bestowed upon others.
I am sick and tired of this Muslim/Arab bashing because it clouds the real issues.
Previously it was the communist bashing and what happened to them? Then the Parliament was stopped in its draconic legislation, but now we find we lack the credibility in the Courts to do the same.
I have no problem with our police force to enforce the law, but I do have a problem where the “TERRORISM” ploy is used to rob every ordinary Australian bit by bit of their legal rights, that the police merely have to pretend some terrorist intelligence as a way to bash down once front door and bail up even small children with loaded guns.
What we have is a POLICE STATE.