Australia to remove citizenship for terrorist suspects?

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Australia to remove citizenship for terrorist suspects?

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Potentially hundreds of Australians could be stripped of their citizenship and then deported, without recourse to the courts as to the merits of their defence, once the Australian Parliament passes tough new counter-terrorism laws with the support of the opposition.

On the same day that the opposition confirmed it backed extending citizenship cancellation to terrorist fighters, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton revealed security agencies were combing through the case files of Australian dual citizens at home and abroad regarded as sympathetic to terrorist organisations, involved in fighting with them, recruiting for them, and/or financing such organisations and their activities.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/ ... hgyik.html

This law may sound almost reasonable, but is it ? Could it not be misused? How "sympathetic" is too sympathetic etc? Is a tree-hugger a terrorist ? What about the (innocent) family of the person who is stripped of citizenship; do they get kicked out too?
Don't let's forget that sometimes today's "terrorists" are tomorrow's "resistance" - it depends who is in power. France during WWII is an easy example - the Vichy govt stripped Charles de Gaulle of his French nationality, and the French resistants were labelled terrorists !

The Australian govt are once again playing the fear factor to pass autocratic laws, IMO this new law goes way too far and is possibly in breach of international conventions.
Treason is already a crime in Australia. There are already laws to deal with people who engage in hostile acts against Australia or the Commonwealth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#Australia
... (d) levies war, or does any act preparatory to levying war, against the Commonwealth; or
(e) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist, an enemy:

(i) at war with the Commonwealth, whether or not the existence of a state of war has been declared; and
(ii) specified by Proclamation made for the purpose of this paragraph to be an enemy at war with the Commonwealth; or
(f) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist:
(i) another country; or
(ii) an organisation;
that is engaged in armed hostilities against the Australian Defence Force; or
(g) instigates a person who is not an Australian citizen to make an armed invasion of the Commonwealth or a Territory of the Commonwealth; or
(h) forms an intention to do any act referred to in a preceding paragraph and manifests that intention by an overt act.
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That's a sounding like terrorism talk to me Moy!
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I think by now Tony Abbott is ahead of Bobby Mugabe in the 'hope he dies soon' section.
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