Please have a look at and send on the article linked to below on an issue that could affect us all catastrophically. The article supplies a really good argument against what the government is mooting. By the way, as an editor, I would welcome articles about how the hardware in ipods etc is becoming more and more dependent on proprietary software and that this will also undermine internet expression as the proprietary soft and hardware shapes internet use and content. Comments welcome. Sheila N All Australians to be treated as terrorist suspects? http://candobetter.net/node/3023 Posted August 20th, 2012 by admin http://candobetter.net/user/1 This article contains James Sinnamon's submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representat... (PJCIS) which wants to pass new laws to make all your emails and other internet transactions up to two years back accessible to the Australian Government. *"If Australian governments were serious about protecting Australians from terrorism, they would not have given transnational corporations with interests in every kind of industry including military total access to information about resources and infrastructure relating to location and operation of power, water supply and telecommunications, land-use planning, national statistics, scientific research institutions and banks. What is left, I ask, for terrorists?" (James Sinnamon)* Also published http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=32416 on /Global Research/.