Surprisingly the MSM is picking up on this, to do with the spectacular biggest terrorist raids ever in Australia, splashed all over the news for days. Suddenly in the space of about a week we apparently went from lovely Spring weather and chirping birds, to being in dire threat of a beheading at any moment!
It was all just a bit overdone I think. The public's not buying it. That's always been a big problem with Abbott; he exaggerates to the point of complete absurdity (carbon tax wiping towns off the face of the earth!). This time it doesn't look any different. FFS the PM up there claiming we're in danger of being beheaded..... you couldn't make it up.
So the Justice Minister Micheal Keenan, goes on the telly last night to defend the gov's position. It didn't go too well for him:
The Justice Minister and his Opposition counterpart have dismissed suggestions last week's terrorism raids were some sort of political theatre.There's also this video embedded in the article. If you want to know what distrust looks like, look into the face of the audience members. They know they're being feed crap:
Michael Keenan faced claims on the ABC's Q&A program last night that the raids were part of a political spectacle designed to win support for Australia's actions in Iraq and the proposed national security laws.
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said the fact the media were invited along to the raids and were provided footage "to me ... feels like an element of theatre".
It was a view echoed by lawyer and author Randa Abdel-Fattah, who said the spectacle of the raids "reinforced this wider narrative as Muslims as criminals, as Muslims as the antagonists of the Australian values". more
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