I hope I'm not the only one who finds the arrest and continuing detention without charge of Gold Coast doctor Mohammed Haneef disturbing. The life and career of Dr Asif Ali have already been irreparably disrupted, and the raiding of homes around Australia of several muslim doctors with ties to Britain just smacks of massive overreaction.
The story of why Dr Haneef had booked a one-way ticket to India, and his so-called 'connection' with the Keystone Cop wannabe terrorists sounds perfectly plausible. It's hard to believe, after almost a week under arrest without charges laid, that Australian or British police are going to find anything on Haneef or any of the other doctors whose lives they seem determined to ruin. Taking due care and questioning the guy is fair enough, but they can't just hold onto him forever in the hope that evidence will materialise.
The media aren't helping matters by sensationalising what is so far a non-issue, and as for the human scum that are using the story as an excuse to abuse non-white doctors in Queensland hospitals... words, for once, fail me. I bet those low-lifes are among the people who voted for Howard in the 2001 election.
The same Howard whose bootlicking attitude to Bush Administration foreign policy has made Australia more of a terrorist target than it ever would otherwise have been, has been using the attempted terrorist attacks in the UK, and their tenuous 'Australian connection' to trump up his case for pouring yet more money into our
John Howard warned yesterday that Australians would have to get used to spending more on defence, faced with unconventional security threats led by Islamist terrorism.
The Prime Minister said the British "doctors' plot" and its global connections stretching to Australia, starkly demonstrated the borderless world of Islamist terror.
"They blow themselves up in the process of trying to blow us up," Mr Howard said.
"It's a new and different enemy and you need new and different methods."
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At least the media were able to report his detention. If the cops had wanted they could have had it secret.
Of course it's not in the govt interest for it to be secret...
Of course not, it's terror porn. Good for the polls.
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