Standardising terrorism in the prison population? : Melbourne Indymedia

Look at this Federal Police Seminar! Attempts to standardise terrorism in your local prison population for ready-made scapegoats to be used as fodder in their war on terror.

It is an acceptance that prisons cause crime - recidivism rates are high because of no rehabilitation.

But no discussion with prisoners about why and what suggestions prisoners might offer. 40,000 prisoners a year get out after the experience.

They aren't looking for answers at all!

Try giving us hope, access to our communities, a sense of caring by the outside community. And letting us out to make restitution instead of building festering anger.

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Seminar to address radicalisation in prisons Monday, 24 July 2006
http://www.afp.gov.au/media_releases/national/2006 seminar_to_address_radica lisation_in_prisons

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) will today host a conference in Canberra which is the first step in a campaign to address the emerging issue of radicalisation in the Australian prison system.

The experiences of overseas law enforcement agencies have shown that the promotion of extremist views amongst prisoners has lead to a growth in terrorism beliefs with some people becoming involved in terrorist activity.

In a collaborative effort to fight the threat of terrorism at its source, the seminar will be attended by representatives from State and Territory Police Services and the Correctional Services Department, as well as a number of government agencies.

Keynote speakers from both the United States and the United Kingdom will share their experiences in dealing with prison radicalisation in their jurisdictions and discuss strategies which have been put in place to bring about early intervention.

The seminar will also examine strategies developed in other parts of the world to de-radicalise people serving prison sentences for terrorism offences.

In a bid to begin proactively examining the scope of the problem in Australia and to develop strategies to address any emerging issues, the seminar will aim to form a working group to be hosted by the AFP.

AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said today¹s seminar would facilitate the exchange of experiences and ideas relating to this issue which is vital to global counter terrorism efforts.

³Radicalisation in prisons is not yet a significant problem in Australia, but it is important to learn from the experiences of our overseas counterparts and proactively develop preventative methods to tackle this issue,² Commissioner Keelty said.

³If we are going to achieve long term results in combating terrorism, we must look to the source of radicalisation and work collaboratively to prevent people taking up the terrorist cause,² he said.

The seminar will be opened by Attorney General Philip Ruddock and include an address from the Deputy Director High Security Prisons, England and Wales, Peter Atherton.

Media enquiries:
AFP Media (Canberra): (02) 6275 7100

Brandies J of the Supreme Court of the United States,

Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the Governments purposes are beneficent.

People born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.

Report and voters slam industry policy
David Humphries July 25, 2006

THE public is overwhelmingly at odds with the Howard Government's manufacturing industry policy, polling shows.

Research says the policy will cost 200,000 jobs by 2020.

In 12 marginal federal Coalition seats, polling found two-thirds of voters believed the Government had not done enough, 84 per cent thought it could stop the movement of industries overseas, and only 12 per cent thought job losses a natural consequence of globalisation.

In a report for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research identified "a gloomy future for manufacturing" and for the country generally.

"Australia is in danger of having its manufacturing sector hollowed out," the institute reported. It predicts 200,000 job losses (100,000 have gone in the past 10 years) and the country facing a currency crisis in the next few years as the mining boom fades alongside slower world growth.

The report says Australia will be in a "very vulnerable position", with the economy unbalanced and debt-ridden. Government had come to disregard industry assistance as business welfare, but the Irish and Singaporean experiences demonstrated the falseness of the proposition that manufacturing drove little growth in small, advanced economies.

"These countries succeeded because they provided manufacturing with the assistance needed to innovate, export and expand," says the report, to be released today.

"The poor manufacturing export performance since 2000 can be directly attributed to the large reductions in manufacturing assistance made by the Coalition Government in 1997."

A thousand voters were polled in the union campaign to press for $1 billion in industry assistance. Nearly all agreed that manufacturing success was essential to economic independence, that it needed protection if necessary, and that it faced unfair competition from low-cost rivals overseas.

Two-thirds said they would prefer government investment in industry, manufacturing and infrastructure rather than personal tax cuts.

AUSTRALIA'S most profitable comedy duo, Paul Hogan and John Cornell, are suspected of funnelling millions of dollars of royalties from their Crocodile Dundee films into tax havens.

Hogan, Cornell and some family members are thought to have used credit or debit cards to draw down income in Australia from hidden tax haven trusts - without appropriate declarations on their Australian tax returns.

Hogan and Cornell, the star and producer of the Dundee phenomenon, have recently moved to sell substantial Byron Bay land holdings. Hogan is understood to have shifted his family to the United States.

The Tax Office has linked the pair's tax haven dealings with Philip Egglishaw, an adviser and principal of a Swiss firm of tax haven specialists, Strachans.

A representative for Hogan and Cornell has previously told the Herald that any failure to meet Australian tax obligations was the result of ignorance rather than dishonesty. If so, the pair are likely to be hit with substantial tax debts and penalties rather than criminal charges. The representative said the money was placed in offshore schemes on the advice of tax experts in Los Angeles and elsewhere - and largely when Australia's international tax laws were not as onerous as they are today.

Last week, three of Egglishaw's other Australian clients, Gold Coast businessmen Daniel Stoten, Adam Hargraves and Glenn Hargraves, appeared in court on the Gold Coast charged with conspiring to defraud the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth prosecutor, Simon Allen, told the court they were involved in "a very sophisticated tax fraud" and "there were very significant and large sums of money which were sent overseas and ultimately deposited into Swiss trust accounts operated by the defendants".

The court heard that money was then brought back into the country by using debit cards issued by a Swiss bank. Each of the three men faces a maximum of 10 years' jail.

A portion of Hogan and Cornell's film royalties is thought to have initially been sent to Chile and the Netherlands Antilles, in the Caribbean.

Twentieth Century Fox, which licensed rights to the Dundee films outside the US, and which is owned by News Corp, is thought to have facilitated similar arrangements with a number of its Hollywood stars. Hogan and Cornell's earnings were later shifted to trusts administered in other tax havens by Egglishaw, a chartered accountant from Jersey in the Channel Islands, now living in Geneva.

A lawyer who was acting for Hogan and Cornell, David Rydon, said yesterday he had not received instructions to respond to the Herald's inquiries and could not say where Hogan was. Both Cornell and Hogan are in the process of selling substantial real estate in and around Byron Bay.

In November, the pair sold 460 metres of beach frontage at Broken Head for $5 million. In May, Hogan sold a $1.95 million beach house, while Cedar Springs, the mansion at Possum Creek he has been trying to sell for some years, remains on the market for an estimated $10 million.

Hogan's real estate agent, Graham Dunn, said Hogan and his family were no longer living at Cedar Springs because they were "OS".

Cornell and his wife, Delvene Delaney, have recently entered negotiations to sell their Byron Bay Beach Hotel, but are anxious to avoid the impression of a fire sale. Cornell recently rejected a $65 million offer from the Hedley Group, a Queensland hotel and construction company, through Jones Lang LaSalle, according to a real estate agent involved in the negotiations.

The agent said Cornell had approached some potential buyers and been contacted by others. "The owners are considering their options," he said.

He called back later to say he had "very recently" received a fax from Cornell stating the property was not "formally" on the market.

Illegal and degrading wars and crimes against humanity!

Scapegoats accused 'exploited' by guberment prostitutor

The rest of the prisoners had to stay in jail in AA maximum security segregted with no contact with human people in a box within a box with no fresh air or sunlight with the worst of the worst offenders.

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/117553.php

Jury indicated it could not reach a verdict, but was ordered to push on?

These charges were that he collected maps of the Australian electricity supply system in preparation of a terrorist act (15 years), BUT WITH NO DETAILS ABOUT THE PREPARATION ACCEPT MATERIAL TO SUPPORT THOUGHT CRIME? that he sought information on chemical prices for the use of explosives for a terrorist act (life), BUT NO SOUND EVIDENCE ABOUT WHETHER THE CHEMICALS WERE GOING TO BE PURCHASED OR USED FOR THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES OR A TERRORIST ACT and that he possessed a document with information on the manufacture of poisons and bombs in preparation for a terrorist act (15 years). THAT HE LIKE MANY OTHERS MAY HAVE DOWNLOADED FROM THE INTERNET WHICH IS NOT ILLEGAL USUALLY?

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/115129.php

A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of “preparing terrorism”

Since 2001, the government has seized upon the “war” declared by US President George Bush for both domestic and international purposes. Under the guise of combating terrorism it has participated in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, diverted attention from mounting economic and social problems at home and legitimised previously unthinkable police state-style measures, including semi-secret trials, “preventative” detention and the ability to impose life sentences without any evidence of an actual terrorist act.

http://maritimes.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/12899.php

Secret evidence used in Australian “terrorist” trial

Lodhi was bundled into the court building in shackles, in full view of the media. The display was intended to convey the impression that he is a violent and highly dangerous individual. Like several other Muslim men charged with terrorist offences in Australia over the past year, Lodhi has been denied bail and held in virtual solitary confinement in a “super max” prison, cut off from family and friends. Under state and federal “counter-terrorism” laws, the traditional presumption in favour of bail has been scrapped. It will only be granted in “exceptional circumstances”. On receiving a confidential affidavit from the Commonwealth, Magistrate Michael Price imposed a number of secrecy orders despite vigorous objections by lawyers for Lodhi and by media organisations. The orders mean that the affidavit itself will remain suppressed, and the media is barred from disclosing even the general nature of the material relied upon in it.

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/866066.shtml

Merry Christmas Mr Kent and Mr Haddara

After and ASIO fishing expedition they were charged last month with knowingly belonging to a Melbourne-based terrorist group, that did not exist.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9799

ASIO raid family home

This is an assault on civil liberties, for all Australians - on the eve of Human Rights Day 2005 that marks the day in 1948, that the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Shame hoWARd shame on you!

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9706

Tight security impedes scapegoat case

Indymedia has learnt this includes a bank account his supporters say was set up to fund legal representation for Muslims facing any kind of legal action. The prosecution is understood to allege the money was intended for terrorist purposes.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9693

Some evidence is prejudicial to national insecurity

It has been previously reported that he is facing nine charges and is accused of planning a major terrorist attack on Sydney defence sites and the electricity grid using downloads off the internet and having 100 rolls of toilet paper to wipe his arse after low level bombs and farts. Shit!

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9682

Terrorism suspects' custody conditions 'inhumane'

"This treatment is very cruel and inhumane and what I've put forward to the Premier Morris Iemma to intervene and put an end to this scandal," he said.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9657

DPP should lose the plot!

Now why would the DPP do that? Based on some notion I suppose, that john hoWARd (the hangman) wants to use Thomas's butt again, to raise the fear stakes in the introduction of the new Anti-Liberty-Dissent Directives!

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9617

Things and places identified

He said Mulahalilovic worked as a handyman, lived with his wife, parents and brother and, with the help of family members, could provide around $1 million security to ensure his freedom until trial.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9423

Dangerous handyman terror threat?

But the only mother of SATAN here is John HoWARd and his new Ant-Terrorism Bill!

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9418

Terror suspects 'kept in dark'

"They're all kept in solitary confinement, they're kept in Guantanamo Bay style conditions and they're very oppressive," he said.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9413

What are the dangerous chemicals police found when they went fishing?

If police say they were making bombs when they were painting motor vehicles then the only terrorist act that wasn't prevented was when police went on a fishing expedition.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9395

Man shot by police in fishing raids

But there is no such thing as an independent investigation team in NSW because police investigate themselves and cannot be relied upon ever.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9392

ASIO fishing expedition makes arrests

Are you satisfied truthseeker? Well I'm not this is just another public relations exercise that no one can prove. But trust us we know best?

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9384

hoWARd, ruddock, ellison, keelty and news ltd plotted chaos

Now they go on in the article to describe themselves as intelligence officials? But I'm sorry to say that any group of people who ask another group of people to believe what they believe based on no evidence is amongst the most unintelligent and lost group of people the world has ever known.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8663

Houses raided over 'possible' political attack plans?

"Furthermore, nothing is reasonable about a raid on people's homes because for an alleged possibility. For those sorts of enquiries one should approach a 'soothsayer' and if you get the all clear only then should they approach people via the front door with the appropriate warrant to search one's home. A warrant based on concrete evidence that has been filtered by a juge or magistrate of the court to see whether the material is frivolous or vexatious."

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8659

If he'd been given his passport he'd be a free man

During his trial Mr Mallah's defence counsel said he was only trying to sustain the media spotlight when he sold details of his plans to an undercover officer posing as a journalist.

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/8192

Melbourne man charged over ASIO linksApparently this victim will appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court later today and hopefully he won't be sent to the nearest "AA" Super-max prison for "social isolation" just in case ASIO aren't telling us the truth!

http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display/7545/index.php

Australian prisoners' linked to Bin Laden: Ten News

Hatzistergos: "For example, because of a perceived risk that they may engage in, or incite other persons to engage in, terrorist activities."

Terrorist prisoners held in a "box within a box" with no "fresh air or sunlight" at Goulburn HRMU may incite alleged terrorists in Long Bay to blow up Long Bay Prison's Twin Towers?

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2004/11/300344.html