The au puppet satellite state is bringing in legislation to allow unnamed secret police (against law to reveal their ID) to kidnap and keep people 48 hous.Presumably they may then be rekidnapped.My response at melb indymedia. 48 hours in a windowless box,under full time,lights on surveillance with a toothache? been there,done that. With creeping secrecy y'all wont have to worry your pretty little heads at all.A drumhead secret military court can disappear independent journalists without a trace. "The govt.doesn't protect me from the terrorists,the govt.is the terrorist" AND What scares the state? by proffr 5:58pm Thu Nov 29 '01 The state fear 'assasination politics' I hope they are correct to do so. Lawyers and journalists should be stocking up on crypto right now and no one should do business with a lawyer or journalist without crypto,preferably in a confessional box. Before 1975, most of us would not have been able to imagine public-key encryption.Encryption can pose potentially insurmountable challenges to law enforcement and should when law enforcement becomes kidnapping. The governmental powers that be can't do much about drug-dealing or terrorism--if only because they themselves are the chief drug dealers and the chief terrorists.Fuck this government. We are the government and we say what happens and doesn't happen in this country.