I hope Xsess doesn't support any of these. It would be worse than the Inquisitions. The lines become blurred between the enemy and the citizens. Eventually everyone becomes a suspect!
Also; well spotted. I paraphrased the above laws (many of which are currently in force in Australia anyways) from:
Order of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State
On the basis of
Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:
§ 1. Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [
habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Or in its original form:
Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat
Auf Grund des Artikels 48 Abs. 2 der Reichsverfassung wird zur Abwehr kommunistischer staatsgefährdender Gewaltakte folgendes verordnet
1. Die Artikel 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 und 153 der Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs werden bis auf weiteres außer Kraft gesetzt. Es sind daher Beschränkungen der persönlichen Freiheit, des Rechts der freien Meinungsäußerung, einschließlich der Pressefreiheit, des Vereins- und Versammlungsrechts, Eingriffe in das Brief-, Post-, Telegraphen- und Fernsprechgeheimnis, Anordnungen von Haussuchungen und von Beschlagnahmen sowie Beschränkungen des Eigentums auch außerhalb der sonst hierfür bestimmten gesetzlichen Grenzen zulässig.
Better known as the Reichstag Fire Decree. You will note that many of the laws (if not all of them) are currently in force in Australia as we speak (replace 'Communist' with Terrorist' and you get the picture). That little bit of legislation was the first step in establishing totalitarian power by the National Socialists. It was followed by the Enabling act (centralizing legislative and executive power in the Nazis), but such legislation isn't really necessary in Australia seeing as the Executive are (for all intents and purposes) already the same people as the Legislature (and are also guaranteed to have a legislative majority in the lower house ensuring the passing of legislation barring the Senate - and thus virtual monopoly on both the Executive and Legislative branches - by virtue of the Westminster system anyway).
Luckily the Commonwealths Constitution protects the Senate, which (in my view) is about the only thing stopping a total control of the Legislative and Executive branch by the governing party. If it were different, you could bet your bottom dollar Pyne and his lackeys would have looked at disbanding or finding a way around the Senate as well. I'm sure they would love to circumvent the Senate if given the chance. Then nothing (barring the Judiciary... that the sitting PM appoints) could stop them.
That said, they're already circumventing the Judiciary as well, by removing judicial scrutiny from as much as the Constitution allows (privative clauses prohibiting judicial review, legislatively shielding the Minister from having to provide natural justice and procedural fairness, placing decision making in the hands of he Executive, setting up special 'administrative review tribunals' run by the Executive to 'speed up the process', ignoring the Rule of Law etc).
They then create an environment of fear in the voters, cloak a lot of their actions under the veil of secrecy (on the grounds of National Security of course) cut the opposition out of talks (like they did with the stripping of citizens of citizenship) and then go about demonizing and undermining them as 'unpatriotic terror supporters' who 'roll out the red carpet to terrorists', devise (and repeat at least six times per minute in any interview) simplistic jingoistic mantras of 'Death cult' and 'Whose side are you on' and 'Stop the boats' in a propaganda campaign that even Goebbels himself would be proud of.
Now if only they could get rid of that pesky ABC that stands in the way of the official State propaganda machine 'News Corp'. Cutting 500 million from it's budget, labeling them 'terrorist sympathizers' and 'working against national security' (while standing in front of flags) wasn't enough - It might even be time to appoint someone to ensure 'appropriate content' (read - ensuring the parroting of the 'stop the boats' and 'death cult' mantras) after the recent 'review' is completed.
Next thing you know, we'll have our personal information being monitored at all times by a secret police force, our movements and communications being tracked at all times, what we can access on the internet censored, the executive with the power to convict people on suspicion alone, revoke citizenship and arguably eject people from the country without resorting to the judiciary, the ability to detain people without charge indefinitely, concentration style camps in place holding ethnic minorities... oh wait; we have all this in place
already.
The worst thing is, people are swallowing it up without blinking. Sad days indeed.