[LINK] Attorney General redefine's reality

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:35 +1000 14/8/13, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>Mark Dreyfus is now maintaining that Snowden and Manning aren't 
>whistleblowers. See: 
>http://www.zdnet.com/au/snowden-manning-not-whistleblowers-australian-attorney-general-7000019310/?s_cid=e551&ttag=e551
>
>One wonders what universe our politicians live in ...

The one 'plea in mitigation' that Dreyfus can reasonably make is 
that, when he accepted the promotion to AG, he came under the direct 
control of the national security extremists who run the Department, 
fronted by Geoff Macdonald:
http://www.ag.gov.au/About/Documents/Attorney-Generals%20Department%20Organisational%20Chart.PDF

The worms who prepare the spin for Ministers to sprout (sorry about 
the mixed metaphors) are highly skilled at leveraging off miniature 
factoids.

In this case, they can create a chimera of justification for the 
statement that they're not whistleblowers on the basis that 
intelligence information is exempt from Australia's excuse for a 
whisteblower law ...

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>  ... , and who they actually represent, if they countenance 
>intrusion into our private lives on the scale of little numbers like 
>PRISM. One wonders if they do a cost benefit analysis of anything 
>related to security. One wonders if they have considered who 
>actually won the 'War on Terror', if intrusions on the private 
>sphere like PRISM are now de riguer, and those who expose them are 
>enemies of the state (Snowden). One wonders if exposing hypocrisy 
>and lies in government and diplomacy (rather than secrets that could 
>get people killed) and embarrassing two faced lying politicians and 
>diplomats is a crime that should be punished by multiple life 
>sentences (Manning).
>
>One wonders if Dreyfus ever read little numbers like '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.
>
>PolitiSpeak is Oz is alive and well ... and how anyone can vote for 
>any of the turkeys in Labor, the LNP and indeed any of the parties 
>in Australia is a constant amazement to me.
>
>Just my 2 cents worth ...
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