Re: [-empyre-] Re: empyre Digest, Vol 15, Issue 2

[Deborah Kelly <dkellysocialchange@yahoo.com>]

--- severn@acay.com.au wrote:

> <Hi blakkbyrd,
> 
> <I am responsible for putting together the list of
> guest this month and
> understand where you are coming from.
> 
> I dont think you do. I think it is extremely
> insulting to the members of
> this discussion list that you can bring in two
> foreigners as "authorities"
> on Australian legal issues.  How patronising can you
> get?
> 
> 
> 
> >A number of people from the organisations you
> mentioned were invited to be
> guests but did not commit to the discussion.
> 
> Why not? Are they concerned about making public
> statements regarding the
> new legislation?
> 
> 
> >Initially, I was wanting a
> discussion that had an Asia Pacific focus - seeing
> that I am the
> moderator from
> this region. Sedition was a topic that I thought was
> a hot issue, and that we
> could start from the new Anti-Terrorist laws and
> then push out to look
> at other
> relevant international cases.
> 
> Before the list can address the international
> situation, a thorough
> overview of the Australian law is required.
> 
> 
> 
> Even though our guests are not predominately
> Australian, they are well
> equipped
> to discuss the topic of sedition. It is my hope that
> the guests this month
> can
> engage interested people from Australia to
> participate and the discussion can
> develop from there....
> 
> I cant see it, sorry?  Neither of the americans have
> any background in
> Australian law and I am completely disinterested in
> anything they have to
> say about american sedition when there is so much to
> discuss about
> Australia.
> 
> 
> blakkbyrd
> 
> Tracey Benson
> 
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