Yah, more politics. Look away if bored.

So, appar­ently being anti-Gov­ern­ment is now a threat to national secur­ity. Espe­cially if, Howard forbid, you are on your way to a gath­er­ing of act­iv­ists to give work­shops on oppos­ing cap­it­al­ism. I thought one of the bene­fits of a demo­cracy was sup­posed to be the free­dom to dissent? 

Scott Parkin, US-based peace act­iv­ist, was arres­ted on his way to give a work­shop on Hal­libur­ton and the prof­it­eer­ing of cor­por­a­tions involved with the Iraq inva­sion. He’s had his tour­ist visa can­celled and is now being held for deport­a­tion. [Indy­media report | The Age report]