Brave new world

“I think a lot of people would be really disturbed by what’s happening. People have this rose-coloured view of Australia as a democratic country. But we are seeing measures which have more in common with the Stasi or a police state. University is a time when people traditionally question things and open up and learn about the world. That spirit of inquiry is now under threat.”

These are the words of the President of Sydney University's Student Representive Council (SRC), Angus McFarland. His SRC fellow David Jones was approached by the police to spy on his socialist activists comrades.

There's quite some socialism activism in Melbourne as well, and many are annoyed hearing and reading about the socialist world revolution. However, a closer look unveils a very non-threatening crowd. It is hard to imagine that Sydney's socialists pose more of a threat than our own.

This raises some questions. Why does the government want to prevent activism? Who is the spy among the Melbourne socialists, or is there none? Is it illegal in this country to be against consumerism, conformism and neo-liberalism?

Who much freedom is left in a country that puts you in jail for dissent?

Never ending story

As long as there are civil rights to be taken away, the universal excuse 911 will be used. Like it happened in the last six years while about a million people were killed as retaliation in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A lot of people all over this planet doubt the official account of the day that changed the world. But as long as they are just someone, most people won't listen. The list of prominent people asking for a reinvestigation of 911 gets longer.

Rosie O'Donnell lost her chance to talk about the mysterious collapse of WTC7 on the show The View, she left the show in June. The left documentarist Michael Moore joined now the ranks of those thinking that 911 could have been an inside job.

Moore mentions explosions in the World Trade Center buildings, and wonders why we haven't seen any footage from the more than 100 video cameras capturing the Pentagon. Explosions were reported by several eye witnesses, yet the most confusing eyewitness account just broke.

Jason Bermat and Dylan Avery, the heads behind Loose Change, one of the most popular Google video since its existence, chased up somebody who has been in official mission in WTC7 just after the first plane crash into the north tower of the WTC.

Parts of the interview have been prereleased on Alex Jones Prison Planet, the interviewee will remain anonymous until the final release of Loose Change, which is due later this year.

Mr. X wanted to see Mr. Guiliani in the New York City Office of Emergency Management, which was located on a fortified floor with bombproof windows on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Just minutes after the first hit the emergency team has fled their control center in an apparent hurry.

The lifts were no longer operating, on the way down via a staircase he nearly fell into the gap ripped by an explosion. When he finally made his way into the lobby, "it looked like King Kong stepped through it and destroyed all".

Mr. X had been talking to the 911 commission, but his account was ignored in the report. Of course, you can imagine that this is nothing but a marketing scam for a long expected film. I'm quite curious which celebrity will come out of the closet after Michael Moore and this new evidence.

Citizen under siege

Ed and Elaine Brown from Plainfield, New Hampshire look just just like the nice, friendly, elderly couple that they are.

The Browns believe in the American constitution, and like many others they despise the 23rd December 1913, when President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, which handed the privilege to print money to a handful private banks.

As a consequence the government pays the Federal Reserve to print its money and interest for the connected loans. In the US, the income tax is used to pay for the cost arising for the circulation of money, and the IRS is the muscle used to get it.

The IRS claims that the congress had given them the power to collect income tax, but according to the constitution the congress has not the power to introduce such a tax. Aaron Russo, the maker of the documentary America: From freedom to fascism took his time to investigate to strange legal situation of the income tax.

The Browns refuse to pay take income tax, because they assume that the constitution has highest legal authority. But the IRS stroke back. Their home is besieged since last week with armored vehicles, drones spy out their properties, snipers creep around their house.

Just a coincidence might have saved their lives when a SWAT team was about to move in on thursday morning. Danny Riley, a friend of the Browns, discovered the teams while walking their dog.

Electricity to the house is disrupted, phonelines disconnected and mobile phones get jammed. Several independent reporters have interviewed the Browns, while the rest of media shows no interest at all. The armoured vehicles and SWAT teams still hang around.

This style of law enforcements reminds of overly violent Hollywood movies, but not of a free society. The free American society, however, has been abolished with the Military Commission Act of 2006. The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive finally grants the American President the right to introduce martial law when he like it.

Naomi Campbell joins those concerned about the slide towards fascism in the US. Her article inspired retired judge Peter Gebhard to reflect about the shutting down of democracy in Australia.

America is well prepared for a dictatorship, Halliburton received last year a $385 million contract to build detention centers in the US. And Australia builds its own Guantanamo-like facility far out on Christmas Island.

Your vote is a valuable thing. What you say often enough becomes true. And I hope the siege of Ed and Elaine Browns home will not to be next the Waco, but so far the publicity, especially by Alex Jones radio show, has prevented anything bad happening.