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scrolling through the #JournalismIsNotACrime hashtag is an antidote to the bleak years of fighting the major parties as they built a surveillance state shrouded in the deadening language of 'national security,' and being outnumbered every single time...
is it too much to hope that this bucket of freezing water thrown at the press will cause some reflection on how this blind lockstep threatens not just media, but everyone?
that overwhelming police power has been turned against Aboriginal mob, justice and enviro campaigners, union organisers and many others, for decades?
and that an australian publisher is in belmarsh prison hospital, having had his life ruined and a decade taken off him for publishing *exactly* the kind of material that has brought the AFP into Ultimo
probably not. next week we'll be forced into some bullshit faux-culture war about religious freedom to change the subject won't we.
that came out maybe bleaker than intended. this might actually be some kinda teachable moment that shifts the ground.
