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Devo and The Monster | 28.09.2005 23:55 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Now whip it, into shape, shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead, try to detect it, it's not too late to whip it, whip it good!

it's not too late to whip it, whip it good!
it's not too late to whip it, whip it good!


Whip It!

Evans doubts reports
that 800 potential
terrorists are living
in Australia.

Whip it good! (Devo!)

AUSTRALIA: Head of the International Crisis Group and former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans says while the threat of a terror attack on Australian soil is real, it is a moderate one.

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He says he is sceptical about reports that suggest 800 potential terrorists are living in Australia and warned police to be careful in applying new Australian anti-terror laws.

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Mr Evans said he does not have a problem with police using racial profiling to help identify suspects, saying it is a reality of the current global climate.

"The extreme political correctness that has led some of the American law enforcement authorities to be sort of religiously strip-searching 90-year-old ladies because that's what they have to do to demonstrate that they haven't got any racial bias built into it, is palpably absurd," he said.

Now whip it, into shape, shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead, try to detect it, it's not too late to whip it, whip it good!

Mr Evans says if there are 800 potential terrorists in Australia, it may be the result of government security agencies broadening their definition of Islamic extremism.

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He says there is a big difference between Muslim activists and those with a violent political agenda.

"What I fear is that there's a bit of a disposition to run all those categories together, and say 'Anyone who's expressing distaste for the Government and doing so from a kind of religious perspective, is a potentially dangerous terrorist'."

I say whip it!

Whip it good!

Devo and the Monster!

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