Sydney men placed under tougher control orders after (anti-terror) raids

The Australian ^ | 20th December 2014

[naturalman1975]

TWO Sydney men have been placed under powerful new anti-terrorism “control orders” following a series of raids across the city this week that were launched amid fears of an imminent attack.

The decision to invoke the control orders, granted by a federal court at the request of the Australian Federal Police, is the first time they are known to have been used since legislation expanding their scope was passed last month. The orders were imposed after a wave of counter-terror raids conducted by state and federal police on five properties across north and western Sydney on Thursday — and days after the fatal Martin Place siege.

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“A person can be subject to a control order if it substantially helps prevent a terrorist attack” or the person has trained or fought with a terrorist group, or been convicted of a terrorist offence, according to the Attorney-General’s Department.

The only people previously subject to control orders were former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks and Jack Thomas, whose 2006 conviction for receiving funds from al-Qa’ida was overturned on ­appeal. Control orders can place a range of restrictions on a ­person’s activities, including preventing them from leaving Australia, visiting specified places or associating with certain people, the department said. The orders can also force people to remain at home for up to 12 hours a day, wear a tracking device or be photographed and fingerprinted.

[Veto!]

Ummm…do we have any laws that would allow us to do that? Would anyone DARE to implement them? Because there are a lot of terror suspects lurking in our woodwork. Leaving some of them out there as “bait” is understandable, but only up to a point.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sounds good but labor intensive.

[9thLife]

This seems like the sort of typically Orwellian initiative that you would expect from a government that won’t let its people defend themselves with firearms.

[Lady Heron]

Ummm…do we have any laws that would allow us to do that? Would anyone DARE to implement them? Because there are a lot of terror suspects lurking in our woodwork. Leaving some of them out there as “bait” is understandable, but only up to a point.

Can't imagine what could go wrong with those laws since democrat controlled agencies have labeled conservatives, gun advocates, Christians, Tea Party and ex-military(I am sure I missed a few) all on terror watch under this administration.