• creeping fascism update

  Happy news from NSW, where the police are now going to have the power to secretly search homes and computers continuously for up to three years before any notification is given to the subject of the searches.  This…

  Posted: March 6th, 2009 ˑ  2 Comments
  Filled under: 1984, australia, politics, society

• privatising the justice system

  An example of why prisons (and police, and prosecutors) are best kept in public hands: making findings of guilt and consequential imprisonment profitable creates an incentive to put people in prison who don’t deserve to be there, which leads to…

  Posted: February 13th, 2009 ˑ  4 Comments
  Filled under: law, society