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The Misuse of Anti-Terror Legislation to Silence Nonviolent Anti-War Dissent- Scott Parkin & ASIO international |
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 Tuesday June 17, 2008 19:34 by SP
 A 15 minute video on the detention and deportation of Scott Parkin by the Australian Security Intelligence Oraganisation. In 2004 Scott Parkin a nonviolent anti-war activist organiser from Texas was detained in Australia as a possible national security threat and deported. Video contains interviews with Scott and Australian activists. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-80007334526766...hl=en |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2ASIO and harrasment of Catholic Worker activists in Australia
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74114
Not forgetting the human rights abuses our government and media overlook amongst our "coalition of the willing" allies, who have all jumped on internal dissidents with gleeful abandon since joining the Iraq or Afghanistan invasions. The latest victim is Bulent Ersoy, a popular Turkish singer, charged with "dissent" for describing Turkey's Kurdish pogrom as wasteful of human life. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7460649.stm