Sunday 12 October 2014

Is ASIO incompetent? - terror raid debacle

The sword! The plot to behead!


Which turned out to be a cheap plastic religious decoration.

What's worse though is that the family who they got the sword from, were Shiite Muslims.  
Did ASIO, an organisation with an annual budget of nearly half a billion dollars, really think that Shiites would belong to an organisation dedicated to massacring Shiites? Or were they simply happy to let the Diranis be swept up in the hysteria that, predictably enough, resulted in extraordinary new powers for ASIO? 

It’s hard to know which option is more disturbing. more  

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