Yobbo this is for you:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
Benjamin Franklin

"FUCK YEAH?" Yobbo you would never go back to sheep.

Tony Abbott admits errors, but insists that more surveillance of Australian citizens is necessary, despite proof to the contrary.
Abbott says that "the system let us down" and that

"We don’t believe that at any particular decision-making point, grievous errors were made, but the totality of decision-making let this monster loose in our community.”

He said that Australia would have to reconsider where the line between individual freedoms and the safety of the community would have to be “redrawn”.

“Plainly, this monster should not have been in our community. He shouldn’t have been allowed in the country. He shouldn’t have been out on bail. He shouldn’t have been with a gun. And he shouldn’t have become radicalised.”

Good old Tony. It's always someone else's fault and despite all the warning signals, no preventative action was taken. At the very least, the guy was out on bail for conspiring to murder while posting menaces of violence on internet.In the meantime let's just spy on more people.
Incompetence rules.

Apparently everything was openly on FB, a fact that concerned citizens reported it to the police - so the problem was not with obtaining information on this guy - the problem is that the information available was not used correctly.

[quote]A national security hotline received 18 calls about “self-styled” cleric Man Haron Monis just days before he took 18 people hostage at a café in Sydney, a report into the siege has revealed.

The calls between 9 and 12 December last year all concerned material on his Facebook page.

Just three days later he was shot dead by police after a 17-hour siege which left two hostages dead along with Monis himself.

It was later revealed that the Iranian-born attacker, who had long been known to security services, was out on bail at the time of the attack.

He had been charged with conspiring to murder his ex-wife along with dozens of sexual assaults. In 2012, he was convicted of sending hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

The report said all 18 calls were investigated by intelligence and police authorities, but none indicated a specific intention to carry out an attack, meaning that the risk assessment for Monis was not changed.[/quote]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 65300.html