It takes a particularly mendacious person to continue to argue that terrorism should be dealt with as a law and order issue and subject to the same legal processes and rights as common criminals.

Well Razor, you can include former Attorney General Chris Ellison within your “mendacious” category. He put on the public record – at an IT conference in Sydney where he spoke on anti money laundering legislation – that “terrorism is in fact just criminal act”.

Which of course it is, unless you are just trying to play up the threat, polarise public opinion, scare people, justify lies like Kevin Andrew’s, and actions outside of the law such as falsely detainining people then vilifying them. A bit Orwellish eh?

What is amazing about Andrew’s is his claims at the time that he “couldn’t release the AFP information that he based his decision to cancel Haneef’s visa due to security concerns” at the time – and now he says he didn’t have information from the AFP. A blatant lie. He should be locked up for fraud and deception, and for being the boy who cried wolf.

“The new counter-terrorism laws – to be drafted in the first half of next year – will cover attacks that cause psychological as well as physical harm…”

Given the breathless rumour mongering and dire warnings from the pollies involved in the Haneef farce, I reckon they’d be in deep shit for spooking the sheep. These self-serving tools terrorised their fellow Australians with horror stories.

Ackerman, Henderson and Bolt provided the echo chamber.