The Aussie populace is asking for police on their street and not in police cars, yet the federal police appear to have enormous funds and personel; to checkout somebody who does not even live here now!

On Youtube you can still see episodes of the Keystone Cops!

Mr Right. to vote you have to be an Australian citizen, I being an "ethnic"" originated from the UK in 1956, is that acceptable to you, or should I go back to Stepney London E1?

boaz, a word of advice: if you actually include some facts or evidence or argument, you're paranoid rants won't come across as 100% loony. with work, you should be able to get it down to 80% or so.

It's a real shame some of the one-eyed supporters cannot see past party politics and look at the real issue - abuse of process.

Reducing the issue to a simplistic left v right debate is silly.

For the record, I am not a lawyer. My contributions to public debate are at my own cost. The facts on which I rely in my contribution above are on the public record. They were also widely reported in newpapers and the electronic media.

I know a number of civil libertarians. Most of them are traditional conservatives or moderate liberals--no members of the Left amongst those.

Boaz David: your initials are BD, but you seem to know very little about Christian theology.

Hi Ozbib.... err "you know very little about Christian theology" ?

hmmm how so old son?

Please be more specific.

cheers