Comment on Government rushes to patch up laws for stripping terrorists of citizenship
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Don’t worry guys, these laws are only for terrorists. You know, like the secret courts are for trying terrorists.
They’ve been used for many dangerous terrorists like checks notes … whistleblowers speaking out against government corruption. Wait that doesn’t seem right. Hold on there must be something here frantically flips through notes aha! Lawyers of whistleblowers…ah fuck.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t understand why terrorists even need to be trialled in secret - what’s the government’s stated excuse? That we decided its just not worth properly funding our legal system to ensue a prompt trial and protect the rule of law?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Going off memory so someone please correct me but I think it was introduced by Howard and the excuse was national security, naturally. More specifically to keep secret any sensitive evidence that could compromise national security. I guess there is just no other solution to that other than to throw rule of law in the bin 🤷
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it’s something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.