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Waiting for Terror
Harold Hark
31 May 2002

The Howard Government's "Terror For Some of Us Bill" is sidelined until 17 June, when both houses resume sitting and the revamped legislation is brought forth. That leaves the "some of us" for whom the bill was designed scant time to get our papers in order and pack our bags in preparation of it's passing. Many of us will not make this deadline. Many of us will not choose to. The Gov is counting on this reticence in order to fill its concentration camps, soon to be emptied as the current inhabitants are paid a few Australian dollars to return to whence they came. Of course, within 24 hours of arrival their money (and perhaps their lives) will be promptly taken from them by bandits. Heil Ruddock has possibly never thought of this obvious outcome (and if he has, it doesn't matter to him), but then intelligence is not a requirement for Immigration Ministers under the Howard regime.

Even if, as the PPF has projected, nearly half of Australians go into hiding once the bill is passed, there will still be enough slow starters who find themselves tripped up at the turnstile to freedom by newly employed members of ASS (Australian Schutz Staffel), or Asiotics, as they commonly referred to. Thus, as the camps fill with acceptable white folk, the townspeople around Woomera, Port Hedland etc. will breathe a sigh of relief. As any Illiberal supporter knows, it's much better to have your house ransacked, your daughters raped, and yourselves murdered by a pack of desperate white people than all those hook nosed swarthies.

For background on recent events concerning the terror bill, see Margo Kingston: Never mind the wedge, feel the splinters

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