Ministry of Truth

[darren_stranger]

Via greylock:

http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=transcript&dte=2005-06-22&headlineid=981

The government officials responsible claimed they were from the Attorney-General's Department, and spent a day trawling through her computers, looking for sensitive information. When they found any, they smashed the hard drives with a hammer to make sure it was really erased. They referred to the process as 'cleansing'.
This is what the Government officials claimed they were looking for. Carmel had been emailed a draft version of Andrew Wilkie's book 'Axis of Deceit', for research on a documentary.

Whoa.  So, not only can the government suppress and destroy copies of a book exposing its lies to the Australian people on the grounds that it contains sensitive information, but because it supposedly compromises national security, we can't even know what that information was.  How very convenient.

Sometimes i think this must all be the script for some dystopian police state movie, not really happening. 

Comments

[andispandex.livejournal.com]

Oh fully-and now howard has been handed control of the senate too!
AGGGGGHHHHHH!
Orwell that ends well? *L*

bastards!

[i-beloved.livejournal.com]

A documentary I taped last week was about some of the above and showed the broken up pieces of Carmel's computer. She did produce said documentary, though, and this is enough to embarrass the government in the eyes of people with a soul. You can watch if you like, I still have it :) and you can sit there and round off expletives with me if you like. They interview Andrew Wilkie in it, too. His book would be an interesting read.. *ponders*.

Every time I see that little piece of offal (J.Ho) I just want to reach into the tv screen and arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Doesn't matter what is done though, the lemmings of this country will continue to jump off the cliff.

[velvetclaw.livejournal.com]

Not what you are talking about .... but have you actually ever seen a HD destroyed with a hammer?
I have (defence work.).

It is really rather cool. Especially since this was 12 or more years ago, when HDDs were rather more expensive. I remember being aghast.

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