http://valuesaustralia.com/blog/?p=256 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://valuesaustralia.com/blog/?p=256&cpage=1#comment-7451 Club Troppo » Missing Link - Saturday 28 July 2007 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 05:47:59 +0000 http://valuesaustralia.com/blog/?p=256#comment-7451 [...] First, Dr Haneef.  Colin Campbell categorises the whole affair as a “a disaster from start to finish” and wonders how the Australian Tourism Commercial, “Where the Bloody Hell Are You?” will go down in India right now.  “Roger Migently” can’t decide whether he’s more unimpressed with the efforts of the Howard government, DPP Damian Bugg or Kevin Rudd over the Haneef affair, having earlier succinctly summarised the apparently intended effect of the anti-terrorist legislation under which Haneef was charged: [T]he terrorist legislation implicitly requires you to satisfy yourself that anyone to whom you provide a service, item or product of any kind which might conceivably be deemed at some future time as a “resource” which might conceivably be used in a terrorist act by a terrorist or a terrorist organisation, or what might conceivably be deemed a terrorist organisation, at some indeterminate time in the future - you are required, as we say, to satisfy yourself that the person or organisation to whom you provide such a “resource” is not, or may not in the future be, a terrorist or terrorist organisation. [...] [...] First, Dr Haneef.  Colin Campbell categorises the whole affair as a “a disaster from start to finish” and wonders how the Australian Tourism Commercial, “Where the Bloody Hell Are You?” will go down in India right now.  “Roger Migently” can’t decide whether he’s more unimpressed with the efforts of the Howard government, DPP Damian Bugg or Kevin Rudd over the Haneef affair, having earlier succinctly summarised the apparently intended effect of the anti-terrorist legislation under which Haneef was charged: [T]he terrorist legislation implicitly requires you to satisfy yourself that anyone to whom you provide a service, item or product of any kind which might conceivably be deemed at some future time as a “resource” which might conceivably be used in a terrorist act by a terrorist or a terrorist organisation, or what might conceivably be deemed a terrorist organisation, at some indeterminate time in the future – you are required, as we say, to satisfy yourself that the person or organisation to whom you provide such a “resource” is not, or may not in the future be, a terrorist or terrorist organisation. [...]

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