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From: blakrose@watarts.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Wake up, you folks
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Date: Tue, 3-Jan-84 15:39:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  3 15:39:58 1984
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Seems while we all here in the colonies have been sleeping off
the effects of our holiday dinners, another colony
(Australia) has been enjoying a scandal in its intelligence
services.
For intelligence agents, these guys were really stupid. A bunch of them
went into the Melbourne Sheraton and started brandishing machine guns
at guests and staff. Well, it *was* all in the performance of duty,
as they were practicing their reactions to a hostage taking
incident. Wonder if the targets knew that...
Anyway, the Labour opposition is calling for the dismemberment
of the spy service, claiming it an infringement on the democratic
rights of a sovereign nation.
So, people...here it is 1984, and Big Brother *is* watching you --
if we let him get away with it.
Any comments?