If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear - Part 3
Earlier this month there was an intriguing article in the Sydney Morning Herald — intriguing mainly because of its lack of detail. Today we find out a little more about it…
In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice Michael Adams said one ASIO officer had committed “the crime of false imprisonment and kidnap at common law'’.
He also referred to the unjustified and unlawful interference with Mr ul-Haque’s personal liberty and the unlawful trespass of officers at his family home.
Both this and the recent Haneef case highlight the disturbing fact that neither the AFP, ASIO, The DPP nor The Government (yes I’m looking at you Kevin Andrews) can be trusted to apply their new, unprecedented powers to spy on and detain us in a restrained and ethical manner. They simply cannot be trusted with the new powers, this should now be an obvious fact. (Those of us who can remember the 60’s and 70’s probably already knew that ’cause they couldn’t be trusted then either.)
Update:
Justice Adams said the ASIO agents had only a search warrant and had no power to detain him. He described the interviews and the actions of the ASIO agents as reminiscent of Kafka.
Outrageous!
