ASIO bloats. Rights shrink. Fightback sharpens

Vanguard April 2013 p. 6
Dennis M.

ASIO parades itself as our shield against terrorists. Yet ASIO is itself part of a terrorist network. It is one branch of the state terrorism run on behalf of global corporates.

That is nothing new. Forty years ago, Attorney-General Murphy visited ASIO’s Melbourne headquarters. He had ASIO in his portfolio but it was not under his control.

Murphy feared for the safety of the Yugoslav prime minister who was due to visit. ASIO had been shielding the Croatian terrorist organisation, the Utashi. These fascists also trained with the Australian Army. Utashi fighters infiltrated Yugoslavia to terrorise the population.

A second instance of ASIO terrorism was the Hilton bombing.

ASIO framed Tim Anderson but that ‘conviction’ fell apart.

Mossad agents

ASIO sub-contracts for global terrorist organisations. It is the regional partner for the CIA, MI6 and Mossad. Spy agencies help each other with official documents. In February 2010, Dubai police revealed that Mossad terrorists had used Australian passports in the murder of a Hamas leader. Mossad nobbled their agent Ben Zygier before he could go public.

Big Brothers

From 1996 to 2005 Dennis Richardson was Director-General of ASIO.  Then he went to Washington as Ambassador. He came back to head Foreign Affairs. Now he heads Defence. Richardson has not held four different jobs.  His career is merely a division of labour for a spook.

ASIO’s current head is David Irvine. He sounds like O’Brien from Nineteen Eighty Four. His every word comes across as a threat: ‘How dare you question our motives or actions.’ 

New ASIO Central Office

ASIO’s new HQ is being built in Canberra beside the Defence Department. The Defence offices encircle the US eagle on a 50m. high column. That totem pole exposes whose interests are being defended. Spy bases, the Marine base in Darwin, and drones out of Katherine enforce the rule of US monopoly capital. More than ever, the Defence Department is a sub-branch of the US war machine.

ASIO now has 1,800 agents. That is three times as many spooks as during the peak of the Cold War. They will operate around the clock.

In 2009, ASIO got total exemption from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.  There is one law for ASIO and another law for the rest of us.

To work on the site a navvy needs a security clearance. Those clearances are readily available to holders of 457 visas. Union officials are often denied entry.

Meanwhile, the lead contractor is a convicted criminal. In April last year, Lend Lease paid fines and restitution of $US54m. For ten years, it had engaged in what a US judge called ‘a systematic pattern of audacious fraud’.  Militant workers are barred. A criminal corporation is put in charge. Once again, there is one law for ASIO and another law for the rest of us.

The ASIO website encourages us to report threats to our security. ASIO is a clear and present danger. To whom can we report ASIO? The answer is to our fellow Australians.

 ASIO powers have ballooned. Independence fighters need a sharp policy.

Our demands remain those of the Committee for the Abolition of the Political Police.

 

Do away with ASIO! Destroy all security files!