The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Izzie has snatched some tasty morsels from the uber-delightful Abolition of Liberty Bill in its original incarnation.

So let's see how easy it is to go straight to jail without passing GO and certainly not collecting our minimum monthly wage of 200 silver sickles.

In this section: (page 75)
13 seditious intention means an intention to effect any of the
14 following purposes:
15 (a) to bring the Sovereign into hatred or contempt;
16 (b) to urge disaffection against the following:
17 (i) the Constitution;
18 (ii) the Government of the Commonwealth;
19 (iii) either House of the Parliament;
20 (c) to urge another person to attempt, otherwise than by lawful
21 means, to procure a change to any matter established by law
22 in the Commonwealth;
23 (d) to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different
24 groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good
25 government of the Commonwealth.

So saying nasty things about the Rat gets this serpent in the slammer. Not too difficult at all now is it? Oh and 'lawful means' - if this bill serves as a sample of the sorts of laws we can expect - will be like the good old DDR where everything is Verboten even when it is officially allowed. So 23d and co can certainly be used to outlaw strikes as uppity workers are one thing guaranteed to upset the order and good government of the Big Commonwealth King of Rats. But let's not get bogged down in nitty gritty insignificant details. Time to move on.


Page 78
(7) A person commits an offence if:
4 (a) the person urges another person to engage in conduct; and
5 (b) the first-mentioned person intends the conduct to assist, by
6 any means whatever, an organisation or country; and
7 (c)

the organisation or country is:
8 (i) at war with the Commonwealth, whether or not the
9 existence of a state of war has been declared; and
10 (ii) specified by Proclamation made for the purpose of
11 paragraph 80.1(1)(e) to be an enemy at war with the
12 Commonwealth.
13 Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.

Oh. And here we have the Hicks Fix. The nearest thing we can get to The Sybil Trelawney School of Law where nothing has to be in writing. The poor suckers are supposed to guess - who the big bad enemies are because telling the common mob would be waaay too easy. Tea leaves anyone? Well. They haven't quite come out and said it but we all know that the Commonwealth King of Rats is most certainly at war with the unions and one mischevious minister Jon Stanhope. Izzie associates with one and admires the other. So will that get us 14 years. We are sure that Rats have no time for the wishy washy soft on terrorism option of concurrent sentencing.



Control orders
The obligations, prohibitions and restrictions that the Court may impose on the person by the control order are the following:
(a) a prohibition or restriction on the person being at specified 1 areas or places;
2 (b) a prohibition or restriction on the person leaving Australia;
3 (c) a requirement that the person remain at specified premises
4 between specified times each day, or on specified days;
5 (d) a requirement that the person wear a tracking device;
6 (e) a prohibition or restriction on the person communicating or
7 associating with specified individuals;
8 (f) a prohibition or restriction on the person accessing or using
9 specified forms of telecommunication or other technology
10 (including the Internet);
11 (g) a prohibition or restriction on the person possessing or using
12 specified articles or substances;
13 (h) a prohibition or restriction on the person carrying out
14 specified activities (including in respect of his or her work or
15 occupation);
16 (i) a requirement that the person report to specified persons at
17 specified times and places;
18 (j) a requirement that the person allow himself or herself to be
19 photographed;
20 (k) a requirement that the person allow his or her fingerprints to
21 be taken;
22 (l) if the person consents—a requirement that the person
23 participate in specified counselling or education
.24 (4) Subsection 102.8(4) applies to paragraph(3)(e) and the person’s
25 communication or association in the same way as that subsection
26 applies to section102.8 and a person’s association.

What! No internet porn! Oh and counselling and re-education - under the tutelage of dearest Dolores no doubt. Izzie can already see the quill of Doom as she squiggles "I must not tell lies"

Oh - and this delightful little snippet is especially for members of the Rodent's Inquisitorial Squad and assorted spooks. Oh and note - this is not arrest we are talking here but 'preventative detention' because the spooks were too incompetent to actually find any real incriminating evidence that would stand up before a REAL court.

(page 38/41)
@105.23 Use of force(1) An AFP member must not, in the course of taking a person into 19 custody or detaining a person under a preventative detention order,
20 use more force, or subject the person to greater indignity, than is
21 necessary and reasonable:
22 (a) to take the person into custody; or
23 (b) to prevent the escape of the person after being taken into
24 custody.
25 (2) An AFP member must not, in the course of taking a person into
26 custody or detaining a person under a preventative detention order:
27 (a) do anything that is likely to cause the death of, or grievous
28 bodily harm to, the person unless the AFP member believes
29 on reasonable grounds that doing that thing is necessary to
30 protect life or to prevent serious injury to another person
31 (including the AFP member); or
32 (b) if the person is attempting to escape being taken into custody
33 by fleeing—do such a thing unless:
34 (i) the AFP member believes on reasonable grounds that
35 doing that thing is necessary to protect life or to prevent
36 serious injury to another person (including the AFP
1 member); and
2 (ii) the person has, if practicable, been called on to
3 surrender and the AFP member believes on reasonable
4 grounds that the person cannot be apprehended in any
5 other manner.
6 (3) Subsection(2) does not limit subsection(1)

So poor Izzie tries to slink off into the darkness and gets shot in the fangs because the poor spook was convinced that her hiss was highly venomous. Most reasonable indeed we thinks. Yesss. *Looks up 'reasonable' in the Little Howard Dictionary*

Oh and in the unlikely event of Izzie escaping with no scales unharmed and then surreptitiously slinking into Cyberia (from where she has been banned of course) and informing her Ozzie associates of her awful fate, well then they too become nasty sneaky seditious criminals too. Evil beasties.
And if we don't escape but smuggle out owlseses to our friendseses, that too puts them in a bit of a pickle if they squeal. If you see something, say nothing.

105.38 Disclosure offences Page 53-54 (p49 of original)
18 (1) A person (the offender) commits an offence if:
19 (a) a person being detained under a preventative detention order
20 (the detainee) contacts the offender under section @105.34;
21 and
22 (b) the offender discloses to another person:
23 (i) the fact that a preventative detention order has been
24 made in relation to the detainee; or
25 (ii) the fact that the detainee is being detained under the
26 order; or
27 (iii) any information that the detainee gives the offender in
28 the course of the contact; and
29 (c) the disclosure occurs while the order is in force in relation to
30 the detainee; and
31 (d) the disclosure is not made for the purposes of:
32 (i) proceedings in a federal court for a remedy relating to
33 the preventative detention order or the treatment of the
34 person in connection with the order; or
35(ii) a complaint to the Commonwealth Ombudsman under
1 the under the Complaints (Australian Federal Police)
2 Act 1981 in relation to the preventative detention order
3 or the treatment of the person in connection with the
4 order.
5 Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
6 (2) A person (the offender) commits an offence if:
7 (a) a person being detained under a preventative detention order
8 (the detainee) has contact with the offender under section
9 @105.36; and
10 (b) the offender discloses to another person:
11 (i) the fact that a preventative detention order has been
12 made in relation to the detainee; or
13 (ii) the fact that the detainee is being detained under the
14 order; or
15 (iii) any information that the detainee gives the offender in
16 the course of the contact; and
17 (c) the disclosure occurs while the order is in force in relation to
18 the detainee; and
19 (d) the disclosure is not made for the purposes of a complaint to
20 the Commonwealth Ombudsman under the under the
21 Complaints (Australian Federal Police) Act 1981 in relation
22 to the preventative detention order or the treatment of the
23 person in connection with the order.
24 Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.


25 (3) To avoid doubt, a person does not contravene subsection(2)
26 merely by letting another person contacted know that the detainee
27 is safe but is not able to be contacted for the time being.

Oh how touching and sweet. Such concern for serpent safety. Izzie is truly moved to tears.

A most wicked hissy fit

How's this for sedition?

October 24, 2005


The latest legislative threat to our freedoms is worthy of contempt, writes Chas Savage.

Edmund Burke, who declared the tyranny of bad laws, was a deep political thinker and a ferocious polemicist. In 1777, he wrote to the Sheriffs of Bristol that the true danger to freedom was when liberty was nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

We should wish that 1777 is now, and that Burke was writing to our prime minister. Perhaps then John Howard would be less reckless in his pursuit of additional security powers and more concerned about the damage his legislation will do to important traditions of free association, opinion and debate.

I declare, therefore, that I write the following with open, seditious intention.

The Federal Government proposes to amend the Crimes Act 1914 so as to be able to jail any body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, which by its constitution or propaganda or otherwise, advocates or encourages the doing of any act having or purporting to have as an object the carrying out of a seditious intention.


Seditious intention means an intention to bring the sovereign into hatred or contempt; or to urge disaffection against the constitution; the government of the Commonwealth; either house of the Parliament; to urge another person to attempt, otherwise than by lawful means, to procure a change to any matter established by law in the Commonwealth; and to promote feelings of ill-will or hostility between different groups so as to threaten the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth.

Just so it is clear, I urge all Australians to hold the sovereign and her heirs and successors with hatred and contempt. Lecherous, callow, adulterous; inbreed, exclusive and foreign; they remind us that, by them, we are made no democratic people. Because they are appointed by bloodline, and because talent, accomplishment and merit enter not into the question of their position and the prominence accorded to them, they exist as proof that government can be degraded by the powerful in service of their own interests. As such, they deserve our democratic hatred and contempt.

I openly urge disaffection with the constitution. Concerned with matters of commerce, and gerrymandered to protect states instead of individuals, the Australian constitution serves a reduced purpose poorly. Under this constitution a High Court can rule that a man, charged with and guilty of no crime, can be locked up indefinitely. Under this constitution, rights are left to the mercy of predators such as Howard and expedient windbags like Beazley. The Australian constitution enables the government to spend without constraint to serve its own political interest. As such, it deserves the disaffection of decent, democratic people.

I openly urge disaffection with the Government of the Commonwealth. Its leaders behave with the morality of the gangster. They are shameless in their pursuit of their own self-interest and in the efforts they make to maintain their control on power. They plunder the public purse to benefit their own careers and to maintain their own grip on power. They reward incompetence and cruelty; they themselves behave incompetently and cruelly.

Moreover, they work not to strengthen democratic practice but to strangle it. The good health of a democracy depends on the engagement of informed citizens. In turn, a citizenry is made informed by public debate, between parties of opposing views. John Stuart Mill, who once was precious to the Liberal Party, made it clear that diversity of opinion was not an evil, but a good. This gang, however, chooses to debate laws bearing on matters of our freedom behind closed doors, and then ambush a compliant parliament.

I openly urge disaffection with both houses of the Parliament. They have become an imperial court, tending to their own affairs before and above all else. Indifferent to matters of good policy, they are focused on the gaining and distribution of positions of power. Houses of Parliament? - our democratic houses are now foul, muddy and stinking - no better than sties. Our Parliament also deserves the disaffection of decent, democratic people.

I have read the proposed anti-terrorist bill and see that reference is made to sayings and acts done in good faith. I make as clear as possible, in terms as unambiguous as possible, that in urging disaffection - and hatred and contempt - I am motivated by no sense of good faith whatsoever.

Instead, I am prompted by a sense of malice and ill-will and seek to create a maximum level of public discontent, disorder and disturbance.

Because I do not want to see liberty nibbled at, I urge an association of Australian men and women to act mightily, with seditious intention, against the sovereign and against the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Chas Savage is a Canberra writer and outlaw.

Couldn't have said it better ourselves. Yessssss. Must be off. Feeling a bit peckish. Anyone know where we can find some tasty juicy ratty morselses?

Pssssssssssssst. Like to buy some Telstra shares? Very cheap. Special rates for mates.

After a most magical day, the Iz slinks into yet another nasty netcafe - this one with the very strange and most welcome quirk that some of the computers don't dump you into the black hole of oblivion when your time is up. Most peculiar indeed. So maybe the Iz will get lucky and get 90 minutes while paying for only 60.

So what's new in Izzieland? A gorgeous sunny day. Perfect for tiptoeing through the tulips. Or so the Izzie hoped. Silly Buggers have adverts in the paper just about every day and anouncing that there are courtesy buses going to and from a particular train station. But of course - it would have been too easy and simple to mention the times that these buses run in the advertisements. So the Iz arrives there around 12.30 and looks around in vain for signs of a pick up point or information of any sort. Zilch. After pottering off to the loo and back and wandering around the train station - finally finds an itsy bitsy picture of tulips announcing that the courtesy busses run Mondays to Fridays only going to Araluen at 10 and 11 am and returning at 1 and 2pm. Waste of time that was. It certainly ain't walking distance so we did what we should have done in the first place and got the train back to Cottesloe Station to visit the Capuccino strip on Napoleon Street followed by the absolutely gorgeous civic centre and sunset on the beach.

But nothing lost. Can try again next Thursday if the sun is shining and at least this time will know when the stupid tulip buses leave and return. Such a pity that no longer being a student means that we pay more than twice as much for an all day bus/train ticket and cannot buy one before 9am.

So, we spend a good two hours sunning ourselves sitting outside on the Napoleon St coffee strip and catching up on all the gossip. Oh and there was lots of it too. The one time contender who ran agains the Lying Rodent in last October's federal election has published his not so secret diary and is spilling more than beans. Nice nice man indeed. Lots of folks did not vote for Labour because they thought he was a flaky fruitcake and turns out they were most right indeed. Mr Latham is most entertaining and has a way with words - Izzie's favorite being the conga line of suck holes. But he has proved beyond all possible doubt that he is a low life guttersnipe with no class at all and while he is not as cunning as Izzie's favorite shit house rat - he does share one characteristic of never accepting responsibility for anything . The Prime Mendacious is a cunning little sneak but at least would have the class to never ever spread nasty paranoid stories about other members of his party. Or at least not to do it in such a way as to be directly attributable to him.
The guy had to give up his leadership position due to his own stupidity but spends his time blaming everyone and anyone for his demise and of course is totally blameless. It's kind of like reading bedtime stories by Paris Hilton.
Oh Iz so so loved the latest cartoon which shows him reading a story to his kids at bedtime "And they all lived unhappily ever after"

And then there was the delicious story on the radio about a certain very dangerous American subversive by the name of Scott Parkin who terrorizes and traumatizes innocent civilians by dressing up in a pig suit and calling himself Hallibacon or even worse a Cash Cow and allowing himself to be milked by one Dick Cheney. The mind boggles at such perversions. So disgustingly corrupt was this creature that he had to be deported from Australia and gets the privilege of paying for not just his detention but 3 air fares back to the States - his and that of two minders - probably from the SAS

Yesss. It's the ancient trick - be alert and very alarmed. Scare the citizens shitless and they'll accept any old crock of shit that you throw at them. Even in dullest Dursleyville there are posters everywhere on the buses and trains telling us "If you see something, say something" along with those ubiquitous "Be alert but not alarmed - dob in a deviant today" national security hotline adverts.

Like that resume that we keep saving for an rainy day, it just may be time for the Iz to dust off that application form and bite her lips while forking out a most precious 150 silver sickles for an emerald green passport. Even the state governments are jumping on this terrorism bandwagon and the police are granting themselves search and detain warrants that would be worthy of the 1930's. Izzie wonders how long it will be before we have ourselves a fire in the Reichst...oops Parliament House.
Oh and today on Australia Talks Back - the topic of the day was Stress in the Workplace. But that's a whole bunch of posts worth. Izzie is off to the union tomorrow with her photocopies of that infamous FLAME memo and the next roster. Izzie copped four night shifts with no consultation whatsoever as well as a 7-4pm shift on Friday 7 October. Most peeved indeed as we have had Thursdays and Fridays off for the last ten years and the Penguin knows that Izzie is not available that day - not to mention being rostered on to do night shift on a Friday where we accepted an invitation to a 50th birthday party about four weeks ago.
But another house elf - she is a single mother with a 13 year old daughter and the filthy scum have dumped her with SEVEN night shifts because she is a doormat and puts up with all sorts of shit because she is too scared to stand her ground. And they know she has a daughter but do you think they care? Whatever it takes to fill the roster and bugger the consequences.

The clock is ticking by ever so slowly. Soon we shall see. Soon we shall know. Three more years of lies, grovelling and vindictive pettiness. Lies we will get in any case. The question is only the quantity and the quality.

Izzie may soon have to consider dusting off that ickle green passport. Or rather renewing it since it expired back in 1999. This place cannot yet be compared to Nazi Germany. Things are nowhere near that bad yet. But the ways and means of power are eternal. If the only thing standing between yourself and absolute power is the rule of law then the rule of law must be perverted. There are always hordes of willing Wormtails out there ready to do the bidding of their master.
Izzie was going to say "If the 'green card' is good enough for Ken Bigley, then it's good enough for the Izzie" But it seems that he might now have been murdered after all and these killers were just playing a particularly cruel game. It is hard to know what is worse - to have no hope like the families of the American hostages who were killed or to have false hopes - continually raised and dashed again. How anyone can endure such a thing is beyond the Izzie's ability to even imagine.

But while the likes of Ken Bigley may have had to pay with his life for the indirect consequences of Tony Blair's actions in Iraq, and Mr Blair is fighting for his political life over the whole invasion business, and even King George is beginning to feel the heat, over here our prime mendacious declares that we have moved on (while continually indulging in 'glory' by association with soldiers who fought in wars before he was even born)and that he has nothing to apologize for. He made the right decision based on information available at the time. Never mind that alternative sources who questioned such information at the time were given the silent treatment, ignored, pilloried and subjected to all sorts of questions concerning their sanity and national allegience.

He is not above seeing which way the wind blows. Stealing policies from politicians who may have been narrowminded and petty but at least had guts and integrity and then getting his minders to do the dirty work and destroy them.
He is even above the ancient law of the sea. National Sovereignty (ie his chances of re-election) is considered a higher principle than the noble and ancient tradition of rescuing passengers on ships in distress. The refugees on the Tampa that did not end up in concentration camps in this country ended up shipped off to Nauru where they remain to this day. The Rodent is glad to have got them out of his back yard. Out of sight is out of mind. The Nauru government is glad to be the recipient of ridiculous quantities of cash as a bribe to keep these people.
And then there is his unending compassion. A refugee residing in Australia was told that his temporary residency permit would be revoked if he left the country. That is the usual and expected rule. But the man needed to go to Indonesia to attend the funeral of his three children who drowned in mysterious circumstances while enroute to Australia on the ill fated boat known officially as SIEV X.
King Creon would have been proud of our little Johnny. A most worthy disciple indeed.
And now the audacious little bugger is phone spamming the long suffering population in one last desperate attempt to fuel his addiction to power.
Anyone who is that desperate to maintain power is by definition, unworthy to possess it.
And the greatest insult of all is that he thinks that no one even cares about any of these outrageous abuses as long as they have an extra 30 silver sickles in their pockets at the end of the day. He thinks that we are all as mean, petty and heartless as himself. And sadly, he may just be proven yet again to be right.

Another Creature Feature



Today - Izzie's favorite Lying Rodent



Since Izzie hasn't got time yet for a Rodent Rant - we'll just stick to piccies instead