There have been several explosions in Indonesia.
So far two explosions on Bali have been confirmed
. This is on the same day as Australian federal and state politicians have restricted civil liberties in a response to no terrorism having occurred in Australia. Terrorism remains a foreign policy issue for Australia, not a domestic issue.
I have harped on about this in the past
at k5
,
on SSR
, at
wsacaucus.org
and
even at online opinion
; terrorism is a foreign policy issue for Australia that will not be solved by invading nations at the US's behest, or the furphy of restricting civil liberties in Australia.
To fight terrorism, we must embrace the Indonesian approach to it, which has been through police work and taking bombers through the Indonesian court system and making them face justice. Our military and "national-security state" style of approach has failed. Iraq is a bees nest, and the national-security state is a naked grab for federal government power.
The current Liberal and Labor leaders remain clueless in our current environment, preferring the heavy handed statist approach; using the blunt instrument of the military to achieve civil objectives, creating new areas of shadow government outside of the public domain, and wilfully discriminating against individuals and minorities with nothing more than suspicion and supposition. A sure path to tyranny.
