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ASIO: The Enemy Within by Michael Tubbs
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From the bits and pieces - particularly on the Petrov contrivance - I've read on-line, this looks terrific. Any one read the whole thing?

Quote:ASIO: The Enemy Within is a book that is long overdue. If you want to know what ASIO has been doing in and to our society, this is the book for you. Other books have been written about ASIO, but this book is unique in many ways. No one is better qualified to deal with Australia's premier domestic nosey parker than Michael Tubbs, one of the few barristers who took the fight up to ASIO by appearing for clients who had fallen foul of its powers. No punches are pulled as Tubbs tries to deliver the Knock-out blow to ASIO and put it out of business. If you want to know how ASIO's national network of political spies have surreptitiously and manipulatively affected Australia's free society and changed its political landscape, you need to read this book.

Product Details
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Boolarong Press; 1st edition (2009)
ISBN-10: 0980539900
ISBN-13: 978-0980539905
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches

http://www.amazon.com/ASIO-Enemy-Within-...0980539900

Review here:

http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...text=unity

And here:

Quote:Abolish the secret police

Saturday, March 28, 2009 - 11:00
By Dave Bell
ASIO: The Enemy Within

Written & published by Michael Tubbs, 2008

275 pages,$25

Available from the Search Foundation, lvl 3, suite 3B, 110 Kippax St, Surry Hills, NSW

Ph 9211 4164, fax 9211 1407

Faced with climate change and the crisis caused by finance capital, does our capitalist plutocracy have the means to deal with its detractors?

Mick Tubbs, would answer in his book ASIO: the Enemy Within in the affirmative, if our secret police agency continues to aggregate more and more powers and is allowed to exercise them without parliamentary supervision.

Born out of illegality, nurtured and empowered by reactionary politicians, contrary to constitutional fiat, ASIO is poised to destroy the last vestiges of civil rights we have all assumed we are entitled to enjoy. Tubbs's book forces us to the conclusion that the Socialist Alliance, and other left-progressive parties and community groups, must place the abolition of ASIO high on their list of priorities as a policy to be implemented by a future people's government.

Qualitatively ASIO is no different to the KGB, Stasi, Mossad, MI5, CIA, or other secret police agencies serving their ruling oligarchs. They are all too dangerous to the civil liberties of their respective citizenry to tolerate their very existence.

Former Labor prime minister Ben Chifley, in true ALP-compliant style, succumbed to US/British Cold War pressure in 1949 to establish ASIO illegally and against ALP policy. It was set up without parliamentary approval, using funds siphoned through the Bank of NSW with the connivance of the federal treasury.

The Australian constitution, as Tubbs points out, doesn't allow a prime minister such powers. Nevertheless, Rudd's great predecessor lumped us with this monstrosity.

It took another seven years to clothe ASIO, belatedly, with a fig leaf of legality when the ASIO Act (1956) was passed. From this political treachery, ASIO has, over the last 60 years, accumulated enormous powers and a vast quantity of files on millions of Australian citizens whose only "crime" was to exercise their civil rights to politically or industrially, challenge the ruling oligarchy and its political agents, the Liberal, National and Labor parties.

Tubbs is well placed to "nail" ASIO. He writes as a seasoned activist. As a former industrial officer of the Communist Party of Australia, union delegate and Sydney Domain spruiker for the CPA, he was targeted by ASIO. His ASIO file attests to this, even though disclosure heavily censored by thick black pen is limited by the 30-year rule.

After graduating in law, Tubbs practised for 20 years as a barrister. Among other briefs, he represented public servants before the ASIO Security Appeals Tribunal.

He has personal experience, insight and knowledge of ASIO's methods and standards of performance that give his book solid credibility.

Tubbs writes with commitment and passion about an organisation that is a blight on our society.

You wouldn't be surprised to learn that the political right do not attract the attention of ASIO. For example, fascist Croations were terrorising Australians with their bombing campaigns in our state capitals in opposition to Tito's Yugoslavia and its local supporters during the late '60s and early '70s.

In 1973, the responsible minister, attorney-general Lionel Murphy, raided ASIO when he lost confidence in its effectiveness in combating this terrorism (real, not contemplated).

Conservative Australian oligarchs were aghast at such ministerial assertiveness. With this one exception ASIO has treated attorney-generals, Liberal and Labor alike, as "mushrooms", except that ASIO these days doesn't even bother feeding them bullshit.

The director general of ASIO may choose to "feed" the "responsible" minister zilch "in the interests of national security". ASIO has become an autonomous government within a government with substantial independence from judicial supervision, contrary to the constitution.

Tubbs argues that 60 years of ASIO's supervision of recruitment into, and promotion, within the public service has given us a politically conservative civil service. In addition, ASIO's role in screening migration to this country has played a key role in limiting the entry into Australia of left-progressives.

More recently, ASIO displayed its arrogant abuse of power in the case of Scott Parkin. Green Left Weekly readers will remember Parkin, a US anti-Iraq war activist who was kidnapped by ASIO. This foreign visitor, holding a valid visa, was bundled into a car and whisked off to a secret location in broad daylight and held for days with no reasons given, and was finally deported.

The KGB of old would have been proud of their ASIO "cousin".

Parkin's treatment did not reflect a very democratic process. With the treatment handed out to Dr Mohammed Haneef and many others, this has become part of a familiar pattern of grotesque trashing of the rule of law.

ASIO is out of political or judicial control. Tubbs' excellent analysis explains how this has happened and forcefully demands that this anti-democratic monster be abolished, not "reformed".

As one of the many sources of personal ASIO files that Tubbs has had access to, I, like many others on the left, have always been a political subversive. Our judiciary has recognised this as legitimate. The High Court held, in the Communist Party Dissolution Act case in 1950, that our federal government cannot outlaw political views.

ASIO, supported by blinkered Labor/Liberal governments, has subverted this legal doctrine. The fight to re-establish our political rights must include getting rid of this reactionary organisation. Get a copy of ASIO: The Enemy Within. It's an essential resource for a campaign to rid our society of this dangerous supra-government agency.

From GLW issue 789
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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#2
I haven't actually read this one Paul but your money would be well spent in getting a copy. The Search Foundation is a what is left after the disbandment of one of the communist parties here and they had more than a few close and personal encounters with ASIO and friends going back since inception. It would be from a position of authority and experience this is written and researched.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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#3
The docu "I, Spry: Rise and Fall of a Master Spy" is worth a watch.
Martin Luther King - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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Michael Barwell Wrote:The docu "I, Spry: Rise and Fall of a Master Spy" is worth a watch.

[video=youtube_share;UkBRzJYQdag]http://youtu.be/UkBRzJYQdag[/video]

THE MAKING OF I, SPRY

Uploaded on Oct 31, 2010
Behind the scenes of the documentary I, SPRY - The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy.
Screening ABC1 9.25 Thursday 4 November 2010. The full 57 min documentary and one hour of extras will soon be available on DVD - order through ABC shops online:

[video=youtube_share;SW7i9FVdZ-k]http://youtu.be/SW7i9FVdZ-k[/video]
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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#5
I,Spry - first 15 min

[video=youtube_share;A8Hk-_rq6pQ]http://youtu.be/A8Hk-_rq6pQ[/video]
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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#6
CIA Active In Australia - Overthrow of Whitlam

Published on May 23, 2012

CIA overthrow of an Australian Prime Minister Golf Whitlam. The CIA is active in Australia and the yanks are showing a renewed interest in our resources. Short piece details the CIA overthrow of the Whitlam Government and depicts a culture of absolute capitulation our elected representatives exhibit to the USA out of fear. Australia step up, plan and devise, affirm yourself against these foreign tyrants. We are part of an active world that operates this way, take this very seriously wheather you can accept it so or otherwise, it is ultimately grave.

[video=youtube_share;kTfISvjC_i8]http://youtu.be/kTfISvjC_i8[/video]
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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#7
Four Corners: The Whitlam Dismissal Ten Years On (11/11/85)

Published on Sep 14, 2014

On the 10th anniversary of the Whitlam Dismissal, the ABC's Four Corners program broadcast this 92-minute special on the events of 1972-75. It features interviews with Whitlam and many others from that period. It is presented by Kerry O'Brien.

[video=youtube_share;g6GvwosoaWI]http://youtu.be/g6GvwosoaWI[/video]
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
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