Dreams of Detention
NOVANEWS
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Global Research
Detention comes in various forms, and all have a basic premise: the removal of liberty of the subject, the presence of permanent control and surveillance, the utter reduction of rights to life to obligations to the state.
The suggestion of internment of terror suspects by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hints at a historical awareness of one thing: that rounding up citizens and keeping them under lock and key, assisted by firearms, is one way of dealing with a threat. That such an idea is dangerously flawed is not something that enters the One Nation party room.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (Source: ABC News via Spook Magazine)
On the Sunrise program, Hanson insisted that Yacqub Khayre’s attack in Brighton had been motiva...