{"id":183637,"date":"2015-06-22T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=159896"},"modified":"2015-09-20T04:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T04:50:27","slug":"tyrannical-mandate-ministerial-discretion-stripping-citizenship-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tyrannical-mandate-ministerial-discretion-stripping-citizenship-31\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tyrannical Mandate: Ministerial Discretion and Stripping Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why we have made this decision is because we have a very strong view: if you\u2019ve left this country to join a terrorist army in the Middle East, we don\u2019t want you.\u201d \u00a0These were Prime Minister Tony Abbott\u2019s words in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/subscribe\/news\/1\/index.html?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&amp;mode=premium&amp;dest=http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/in-depth\/terror\/tony-abbott-heads-off-citizenship-terror-law-dissent\/story-fnpdbcmu-1227404933385&amp;memtype=anonymous\">response<\/a> to the Cabinet dissent that has characterised the debate about stripping Australian citizenship from those believed (though not necessarily known) to be terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was always going to be riddled with problems. For one, it flies in the face of citizenship conventions internationally. \u00a0To strip citizenship is to eviscerate a legal being, casting the individual into judicial purgatory. \u00a0It assumes that an individual engaged in foreign pursuits \u2014 in this case, serving the next army that may be regarded as \u201cterrorist\u201d \u2014 will lose his or her Australian citizenship. \u00a0It says nothing about those serving in state-based armies that are acknowledged as either allies, or states who are bonded by that uncomfortable reality that they are fighting the same threat from different sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Flimsy, scatterbrained and dangerous, the proposed legislation also vests power in a minister to initiate the final, cancelling act. \u00a0In what has been the greatest of legal deceptions, those defending the supremacy of parliament in the English constitutional system have argued that such figures exercise Solomon\u2019s wisdom. \u00a0Someone like the current immigration minister Peter Dutton distinctly does not possess such qualities. \u00a0Few cabinet members do, and it would be unjust to expect them to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2015\/06\/the-tyrannical-mandate-ministerial-discretion-and-stripping-citizenship\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe reason why we have made this decision is because we have a very strong view: if you\u2019ve left this country to join a terrorist army in the Middle East, we don\u2019t want you.\u201d \u00a0These were Prime Minister Tony Abbott\u2019s words in response to the Cabinet dissent that has characterised the debate about stripping Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}