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By Andrew Boe, published 2/8/2007The details of the Haneef case, and the broader issues raised by this apparently flawed application of Australia's laws.
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To top it off our minister of the Crown for Immigration revokes a visa because legally there was no avenue to hold Dr Haneef! It couldn't have been done any better by a minister in the government of say Iran, or Libya, or Sudan.
For all you folks who think Dr Haneef got his wife to have a caeserian section so he could flee Australia and that he could hide his terrorist connection after 3 weeks of round the clock investigation by an army of highly capable Federal Police who are doing such a marvelous job in Melbourne would make him one excellent recruit for Al Qeada. What is he doing in Australia for Goodness sake? He deserves a better posting!
Sounds like a top 'sleeper' to me. Somehow I don't think Australia is that important in the global scheme of thing for such a high calibre terrorist.
Either you think a country like Australia has the most preferable style of government and legal system and her citizens should jealously guard this respect for justice and government and vigorously question whenever there seems to be overstepping of the mark, or you agree with the fundamentalists and think we are slack, decadent and weak and sorely need some God given laws with unelected imams implementing same.
We CANNOT afford to be frightened into such fear of Them, that we are willing to sacrifice any of our processes and principles of law that we believe make us a sophisticated democracy and liberal society. What is the point then of resisting terrorism? A few deaths? We kill thousands on the roads, we have plenty of suicides and enough murders of the 'ordinary' kind to keep us occupied.