Australia welcomes facism!

[topsidesoul]

We are currently being taken to the Hague after East Timor seems to be unhappy we move our boarders out for gas and oil exploration and our asylum boarders inwards.

With news that Australian spies had tapped the phones of the people we were nagotiating with over the land and sea (if you tapped your busniness competitors phones you would end up in jail) so we could do them over during negotiations.

So what does a free and democratic country do to whitsleblowers are suppose to be protected under law?

The LNP send Asio to raid the Canberra offices of East Timor's lawyer and his intended star witness - a former Australian spy who claims he bugged East Timor's Cabinet room to eavesdrop on the Timor Sea negotiations ..

This spy is due at the international law court to give evidence and we took his passport to stop him from not only giving evidence of the spying, but linking Alexander Downer and his new Employer Woodside Petrolium!

Yes, he helped Woodside steal the waters from another country and now has a job with them for his efforts.

That is after Alexander Downer agreed to an illegal war with Iraq in return for Free trade with the US....aka....war Profiteering!

Glad I did not vote for facists who would try and hide what they did from the Hague!

[just_me_karen]

It's disgraceful for our country to be involved in such low behaviours...and for our govt to protect the criminals who did it.

[acacia_pycnantha]

"At a preliminary meeting in The Hague two weeks ago, the Timorese revealed to the Australian delegation that they intended to call on the testimony of four whistleblowers to support their case.

East Timor says they told the Government of the whistleblowers as an act of good faith.

East Timor believes the disclosure may have prompted raids earlier this week that saw the detention of one whistleblower and the confiscation of key evidence.

The Timorese are now questioning whether or not Attorney-General George Brandis's account of the raids, in which he claimed ASIO approached him and said there was a potential risk to national security, can be supported."

. . . . The Timorese have also revealed that at a second preliminary hearing one week ago, the Australian Government agreed not to arrest the whistleblowers before the case was heard when they were abroad.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-06/an3a-east-timorese-stone-australian-embassy-in-spying-row/5139...

Our reputation for lies, deceit and general shonkiness in govt dealings with other countries is fast becoming the norm and not the exception, I fear.

Shame.

[***super_nova***]

Absolute disgrace.  Nothing to do with "national security", it was industrial espionage = criminal offence.  Preventing people from traveling to testify is only making things worse.  Anyway, wonder if TA heard of SKYPE?

[topsidesoul]

Turnbull is working on stopping Skype with his dud of an nbn plan.
Either way, we know who is in the pockets of at least 2 former governments.

[kennedia_nigricans]

When I saw that stuff in the news my first thought was "That is what you would expect to happen in China".

Now that it is in Den Hague the whole world will know and we can't sustain the crocodile dundee image anymore.

Disgraceful.