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"Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear," goes the tautological reasoning of the paranoia merchants calling for harsher, ever more draconian "security" measures - as we saw throughout the 42-days debate.
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It's consistent with a longer term effort – which the Australian government is hardly alone in making – where a sense of insecurity is promoted, so that the government can offer to assuage it with ever more draconian policing, immigration controls, and national security measures.
What would Apple want to read and hear more, that it's an evil company with draconian security measures, or that its iPhone is failing left and right because of a popular app and there's nothing it can do about it?
There would be calls for draconian security measures, racial profiling, surveillance, and more.
It emerged that ministers are advocating a more draconian approach in the case of those arrested under terrorism legislation or national security provisions; their DNA profiles will in future be kept indefinitely.
Hence, they will call for even more draconian measures toward immigrants and refugees and continue to link them to issues of security and terrorism.
Reform of the security services has been indefinitely postponed and the energy of Ministers dissipated on ever more draconian and irrelevant laws.
The security services and the police have made no secret that they are lobbying to keep some of the more draconian measures, including 28 days pre-charge detention and control orders, as "necessary evils".
Now we have even more draconian legislation in the pipeline.
Nevertheless, there were widespread calls for much more draconian measures.
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