Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance
Prime Minister Abbott needs to whip up hysteria and panic to try to distract people from his government's incredibly poor performance and disastrous budget.<p>A nice solid war along with deep fear mongering should regain control of the media message.<p>I simply don't believe we are under threat of attack from knife wielding beheading terrorists.<p>The poor kid who died the other day was probably just mentally ill but its to Abbott's great advantage to be able to point and say LOOK, BEHEADING TERRORISTS IN OUR SUBURBS COMING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, WE NEED TO RAPIDLY REMOVE YOUR LIBERTIES AND PRIVACY!<p>The first Iraq cured me of any belief in what governments ask citizens to believe.<p>I feel deep terror at what our government will do to us.<p>The good news for Australians is that Tony Abbott has decided that we are no longer getting a fibre to the home national broadband network because that was too expensive, HOWEVER thankfully we are getting 86 F-35 Joint Strike fighter aeroplanes. <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/tony-abbott-to-approve-australias-biggest-ever-military-purchase-of-stealth-fighter-jets/story-fncynjr2-1226851684344" rel="nofollow">http://www.news.com.au/national/tony-abbott-to-approve-austr...</a>