[BITList] Fighting Islamic Terrorism

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Professor David Flint, AM, has made some specific suggestions (writing 
in the Spectator).
His suggested agenda seems to be better than that of our governments.
His suggestions:


*At War: 10 Point Plan Against Terrorism**
David Flint
Spectator Australia 3 June 2017*

**
Australia, along with all of the West, is at war. The enemy is Islamic 
terrorism. What should we be doing? Here are ten suggestions

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*First*, the politicians should no longer preside over immigration with 
the negligence and gross incompetence that they have so appallingly 
displayed in the past. This extends to the refugee intake, whatever the 
Bingley Award winning ASIO chief Duncan Lewis thinks. To come into our 
Commonwealth, they should positively demonstrate they will contribute 
and become loyal Australians, with the great gift of Australian 
citizenship no longer be distributed like confetti.


*Second*, we should stop jihadists fighters from ever returning return 
to Australia. Nor should we seek their extradition. Rather, we should, 
with our allies, ensure if not their destruction, their capture.


*Third*, we should encourage the Americans to take captured jihadists to 
Guantánamo Bay, a great achievement of the Bush presidency. This solved 
the problem President Clinton encountered when the FBI warned him it was 
pointless to arrest Osama bin Laden as any resulting prosecution in 
America would be doomed. This was because much of the strong 
intelligence evidence against him would have been technically 
inadmissible. Despite its great success, President Obama planned to 
close the centre. Unsuccessful in that, he released a number of 
detainees; a large number returned to terrorism.


*Fourth*, given the way the pendulum in the criminal justice system has 
moved excessively towards protecting the accused, we should ensure that 
strong intelligence evidence is admissiblein terrorist prosecutions. And 
on conviction, it is crucial that terrorists be kept in remote separate 
prisons so they cannot infect other prisoners.


*Fifth*, jihadists who are reasonably likely to be dual nationals should 
have their Australian citizenship revoked. There is the problem of those 
who are able to prove that they are definitely only Australian citizens 
and have managed to return. At the present time, the authorities can 
detain suspects for up to 14 days. During the Second World War, enemy 
aliens, as well as locals believed on good evidence to be engaging in 
treasonable practices, were subject to internment under the defence 
power in the constitution.


*Sixth*, there are today a number of persons at liberty but who are 
believed on strong intelligence evidence to be planning to engage in 
terrorist acts, as was the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi. Given 
that we are clearly at war, is it not time consider internment as a 
legitimate defence to protect the civil population? It must never be 
forgotten that the primary duty of government is to defend the borders, 
to maintain law and order and to protect the citizenry from hostilities 
and crime.


*Seventh*, calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty deserve to 
be considered seriously. The constitutional intention is that this be 
decided by each jurisdiction, state or federal. But in 2010, federal 
legislation, based of course on a UN treaty, tries to stop the states 
from re-introducing the penalty. What total abolitionists forget is that 
in wartime, we can hardly expect our soldiers to risk their lives for 
their country while traitors are protected at home. In wartime, 
countries normally visit such offences with the supreme penalty, 
execution. (Incidentally, that gentle soul Tori Johnson was not 
'executed' in the Lindt cafe siege. He was brutally murdered.)
There were however glaring exceptions to this normal behaviour of the 
authorities in the Second World War when, as Hal Colebatch has 
demonstrated, an extraordinary number of instances of treachery were 
committed by communists with complete impunity, especially on the 
waterfront. This can be best explained by the action of the Left in 
blocking the emergence of an all-party coalition as in the UK. A 
Curtin-Menzies government would have acted against the traitors who 
undermined the war effort and endangered the lives of our service men 
and women.


*Eighth*, we must eliminate any no-go areas where parts of Australia or 
indeed family units operate under sharia law in contradiction to the law 
of the land. Whether this be emerging mini-caliphates as in France, or 
in the toleration of welfare subsidised polygamy, child marriage, female 
genital mutilation, the wearing of the veil and segregated swimming 
pools, no deviation should be allowed.


*Ninth*, the subsidy of terrorism through foreign aid, welfare, grants 
or through the milking of school funds should end. Only schools 
committed to the Australian system and values should be subsidised or 
indeed permitted.


*Tenth*, what is effectively an halal tax should be declared illegal.

	



	


	

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