AUSTRALIA will soon single out people from 10 countries with the introduction of stringent new visa checks in a push to prevent terrorists getting through the security net. Visa applicants from countries identified as high-risk will soon have to SUBMIT to fingerprinting and facial imaging, known as biometric checking.
This new tactic on the phony ‘war on terror’ will be announced by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd when he releases the government’s white paper on counter-terrorism. The paper warns that since 2004 there has been an increase in the threat from home-grown terrorists – people born or raised in Australia who have been influenced by violent jihadist messages from overseas.
The government will also spend $69 million over four years to bring in biometric checks for visa applications from high-risk countries. The program is being undertaken in collaboration with Britain, which already has an extensive screening system. The 10 locations have been selected but will not be immediately disclosed, to try to stop people slipping through the net before the system is in place. The nations will be announced over the next year.
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The profiling of countries risks upsetting some by singling them out while leaving out borderline cases. The government says the new system will make it easier for immigration authorities to detect people trying to hide their identity, and will lessen the danger of terrorists entering Australia undetected. Biometric data on visa applicants will be matched against data about terrorists, criminals and other ”people of concern” held by Australia and its foreign partners.
The biometric checks come after the government recently announced $200 million to strengthen aviation security, and amid heightened terrorism concerns in Western countries following the attempt by a Nigerian man with explosive powder in his underwear to bring down a commercial flight in the US on Christmas Day.
Intel has emerged since the supposed Christmas Day attack on a plane bound to Detroit which suggests that the CIA assisted the alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab onto the plane at worst or were well aware of his plans at best. This is the latest in a series of false flag staged events designed to justify the war on terrorism and to submit to further tyranny in the form of dehumanizing body scans.
