Australia Goes Full Commie

[Weatherman2020]

Police will have access to all of your accounts and will arrest you for anything they don’t like.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Police will have access to all of your accounts and will arrest you for anything they don’t like.

As republicans created, passed and signed into law, the un"patriot act?
NOW, they whine?

 

[Weatherman2020]

As republicans created, passed and signed into law, the un"patriot act?
NOW, they whine?

Oh, so you hate Democrats for passing it and now abusing it.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

Commie no, police state yes.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Commie no, police state yes.

They really don't know, or recognize, the difference~

 

[Smokin' OP]

Oh, so you hate Democrats for passing it and now abusing it.

If democrats actually did pass it, yep.
Like I stated.

• expanded abilities of law enforcement to surveil, including by tapping domestic and international phones;
• eased interagency communication to allow federal agencies to more effectively use all available resources in counterterrorism efforts; and
• increased penalties for terrorism crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify someone to be charged with terrorism.

The Patriot Act was enacted in direct response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, as well as the 2001 anthrax attacks, with the stated goal of dramatically strengthening national security. On October 23, 2001, U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) introduced House bill H.R. 3162, which incorporated provisions from a previously-sponsored House bill, and a Senate bill introduced earlier in the month.
The next day, October 24, the Act passed the House by a vote of 357–66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming majority of "no"-votes. The three Republicans voting "no" were Robert Ney of Ohio, Butch Otter of Idaho, and Ron Paul of Texas. On October 25.

 

[Colin norris]

Police will have access to all of your accounts and will arrest you for anything they don’t like.

You're being a bit dramatic. That information is available to to the police here via cell phone data.
The government there is a liberal government, which is the equivalent of Republican here and they have not done one single thing towards make it a commu ist country. That's an ignorant lie.

 

[KokomoJojo]

instead of dropping the firewalls that prevent people from finding out and suing their oppressors guv does best what guv does best, jump in the middle and create a prison planet.

 

[bambu.]

Police will have access to all of your accounts and will arrest you for anything they don’t like.

And then you get a trial...and the state/federal cops have to produce credible and actual evidence to prove you are a terrorist, organised crime figure, drug dealer, drug smuggler etc.
In most cases they don't have to look very far to find evidence.
If you're only talking on the phone to Aunt Jenny about cake recipes, and how her leg is feeling after recent surgery...and not to bin Laden associates about their next attack on the West...my guess is the cops won't be knocking on your door.

 

[Weatherman2020]

And then you get a trial...and the state/federal cops have to produce credible and actual evidence to prove you are a terrorist, organised crime figure, drug dealer, drug smuggler etc.
In most cases they don't have to look very far to find evidence.
If you're only talking on the phone to Aunt Jenny about cake recipes, and how her leg is feeling after recent surgery...and not to bin Laden associates about their next attack on the West...my guess is the cops won't be knocking on your door.

Just like 1939 NAZI Germany.

 

[Weatherman2020]

You're being a bit dramatic. That information is available to to the police here via cell phone data.
The government there is a liberal government, which is the equivalent of Republican here and they have not done one single thing towards make it a commu ist country. That's an ignorant lie.

Tapping phones and phone records without a Warrant.
How NAZI of you.

 

[skye]

Just like 1939 NAZI Germany.

Exactly right!

Under these COVID tyrants in Australia, history is repeating itself.

 

[Smokin' OP]

Tapping phones and phone records without a Warrant.
How NAZI of you.

Tapping phones and phone records without a Warrant.
How NAZI of you.

Right out of the GQP playbook.

What if it emerged that the President of the United States was flagrantly violating the Constitution and a law passed by the Congress to protect Americans against abuses by a super-secret spy agency?
What if, instead of apologizing, he said, in essence, "I have the power to do that, because I say I can." That frightening scenario is exactly what we are now witnessing in the case of the warrantless NSA spying ordered by President Bush that was reported December 16, 2005 by the New York Times.

According to the Times, Bush signed a presidential order in 2002 allowing the National Security Agency to monitor without a warrant the international (and sometimes domestic) telephone calls and e-mail messages of hundreds or thousands of citizens and legal residents inside the United States.
The program eventually came to include some purely internal controls - but no requirement that warrants be obtained from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and the foreign intelligence surveillance laws require.

Air Force General Michael Hayden headed the NSA when it implemented President Bush’s executive order in 2002. In January 2006, he met with the press to explain the need for the NSA warrantless wiretap program.

General Hayden told reporters that the NSA intercepts phone calls and e-mails "for only one purpose—to protect the lives, the liberties and the well-being of the citizens of the United States from those who would do us harm." He argued that the NSA program enabled it to track Al Qaeda activity "more comprehensively and more efficiently" than was possible under FISA court procedures.

Hayden went on to assure Americans that lawyers from the NSA and Justice Department regularly review and audit the program. It is not a "drift net" over Americans, he said, and therefore, "it is not domestic spying." He called the program successful, "a steady producer."

In January 2006, the Justice Department published legal arguments, supporting President Bush’s authorization for the NSA to use warrantless wiretaps.

The Justice Department argued that the AUMF implied the power of the president to conduct electronic surveillance in ways he judged necessary to defend the nation.

In addition, Justice Department lawyers claimed that the AUMF by Congress and the president’s powers as commander-in-chief in Article II of the Constitution, in effect, overrode the 1978 FISA law. Thus, President Bush broke no law, they said.

Now, the GQP calls their own directive 'commie'?
I agree.

 

[Colin norris]

Exactly right!

Under these COVID tyrants in Australia, history is repeating itself.

You know nothing about what's happening in Australia.
Again, the government there is the equivalent not the republicans .

For Christ sake stop confusing it with democrats here. Do some research.