Yesterday the Victorian Andrews Labor Government unveiled a new Victoria Police unit, the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre which it claims is aimed at protecting Victorians from terrorism and lone actor attacks. It will be staffed by 13 specialist police officers and aims to process 300 people in its first year. It is based on similar centres that have opened up New South Wales, Queensland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
However a closer look at which types of people the centre aims to target reveals it has a disturbing political agenda. Assistant Police Commissioner Ross Guenther defined fixated persons as those who repeatedly write letters, email or call local councillors or politicians and those who display a fixation with an ideology or religion.
Police Minister Lisa Neville said the centre would look at ideologies on all sides, including far-right extremism which she claimed it would “help identify high-risk individuals and have the potential to stop violent incidents before they occur”. Fairfax Media in their report spoke of right-wing terrorists such as Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, and the killer of UK MP Jo Cox Thomas Mair as the type of person this centre was aimed at.
Of course everybody wants to explore ways to prevent terrorism, however we know from experience that the Andrews Government has a very broad definition of right wing extremist. It considers all patriot and nationalist activists in Victoria to be extremists, as demonstrated by putting on trial the Bendigo Three who were found guilty under the state’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act of offending Muslims for a mock beheading.
In the aftermath of the riot outside the Milo Yiannopoulos Melbourne event in December last year Victoria Police only charged members of right wing groups who were present, none of the left wing and African instigators of violence were reported to have been charged. Senior Victorian Government Ministers labelled the True Blue Crew’s crime crisis meeting to explore community based solutions to the African Youth Gang Crime Wave as a Nazi gathering.
This centre may give the Andrews Government in an election year when it is being ferociously criticized for its inaction on law and order the perfect excuse to take its critics off the streets labeling such people fixated persons. With such loose definitions such as believing in an ideology and writing a letter to a politician it would seem it would not take much for many politically active people to be deemed fixated persons.
None of us would be holding our breath that left wing groups such as Antifa would be targeted by such a centre under this state government. Most of the lone wolf attacks we have seen in Australia have either come from Islamic extremists or the genuinely mentally ill yet they were not mentioned in the opening of this centre yesterday. We should be very afraid of this centre and view it as a grave threat to free speech in Victoria.
Update on Appeal from Blair Cottrell and John Bolton.
The Unshackled
Published on Jun 5, 2019
The Unshackled interviewed Blair Cottrell and John Bolton following their recent County Court mention on Wednesday 5th June 2019 in the next stage against Cottrell’s appeal against his conviction for “intent to incite ridicule or contempt of Muslims”.
The Victorian State Government has now decided to become involved in the appeal to justify their legislative restrictions on free speech. The trial is set to begin on 12th August 2019 with 10 days set aside.
Complete waste of time and money unless they toughen up the laws regardless of what "side" the terrorists bat for. Why is this country so fucking stupid? Jeez.
The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипела́г ГУЛА́Г, Arkhipelág GULÁG) is a three-volume, non-fictional text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973, followed by an English translation the following year. It covers life in the gulag, the Communist Soviet forced labour camp system,
through a narrative constructed from various sources including reports, interviews, statements, diaries, legal documents, and Solzhenitsyn's own experience as a gulag prisoner.
Yesterday the Victorian Andrews Labor Government unveiled a new Victoria Police unit, the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre which it claims is aimed at protecting Victorians from terrorism and lone actor attacks. It will be staffed by 13 specialist police officers and aims to process 300 people in its first year. It is based on similar centres that have opened up New South Wales, Queensland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
However a closer look at which types of people the centre aims to target reveals it has a disturbing political agenda. Assistant Police Commissioner Ross Guenther defined fixated persons as those who repeatedly write letters, email or call local councillors or politicians and those who display a fixation with an ideology or religion.
Police Minister Lisa Neville said the centre would look at ideologies on all sides, including far-right extremism which she claimed it would “help identify high-risk individuals and have the potential to stop violent incidents before they occur”. Fairfax Media in their report spoke of right-wing terrorists such as Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, and the killer of UK MP Jo Cox Thomas Mair as the type of person this centre was aimed at.
Of course everybody wants to explore ways to prevent terrorism, however we know from experience that the Andrews Government has a very broad definition of right wing extremist. It considers all patriot and nationalist activists in Victoria to be extremists, as demonstrated by putting on trial the Bendigo Three who were found guilty under the state’s Racial and Religious Tolerance Act of offending Muslims for a mock beheading.
In the aftermath of the riot outside the Milo Yiannopoulos Melbourne event in December last year Victoria Police only charged members of right wing groups who were present, none of the left wing and African instigators of violence were reported to have been charged. Senior Victorian Government Ministers labelled the True Blue Crew’s crime crisis meeting to explore community based solutions to the African Youth Gang Crime Wave as a Nazi gathering.
This centre may give the Andrews Government in an election year when it is being ferociously criticized for its inaction on law and order the perfect excuse to take its critics off the streets labeling such people fixated persons. With such loose definitions such as believing in an ideology and writing a letter to a politician it would seem it would not take much for many politically active people to be deemed fixated persons.
None of us would be holding our breath that left wing groups such as Antifa would be targeted by such a centre under this state government. Most of the lone wolf attacks we have seen in Australia have either come from Islamic extremists or the genuinely mentally ill yet they were not mentioned in the opening of this centre yesterday. We should be very afraid of this centre and view it as a grave threat to free speech in Victoria.
Update on Appeal from Blair Cottrell and John Bolton.
The Unshackled
Published on Jun 5, 2019
The Unshackled interviewed Blair Cottrell and John Bolton following their recent County Court mention on Wednesday 5th June 2019 in the next stage against Cottrell’s appeal against his conviction for “intent to incite ridicule or contempt of Muslims”.
The Victorian State Government has now decided to become involved in the appeal to justify their legislative restrictions on free speech. The trial is set to begin on 12th August 2019 with 10 days set aside.
Blair Cottrell could be their first customer -
they'll change him.
He'll come out as a left wing progressive.
