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Sleeping Tight at Night under the Gelignite (The Australian Terrorism Kit)

By now, every Australian should have received the taxpayer funded mail out of the Federal Government's Terrorism Kit. Not long ago a copy was delivered to a mysteriously flowering bush outside the Head Office of The Wax. Unsure about why it would be laying on the ground I ventured over a suburb away and grabbed a copy from somebody's mailbox. With all the time that has passed, if they wanted to keep theirs they would have taken them in.

Reviewed 20 February 2003 under Papercuts on the Mind's Tongue: Books

Fear and the Joys of Flying

In what seems to be an excessively heightened security effort, a plane was emptied of its passengers and re-screened them for signs of terrorism after a metal box cutter was found in a seat pocket. In an effort to pad out the story, the article on News.com.au twice mentions that the plane was delayed for 90 minutes, "We need more story" is what an editor would probably have said about it.

Published 25 June 2003 in Paranoid Times

Please form an orderly line, the bodybags are plentiful today

In the current climate—25°C, cloudy and with possible light showers—the need to reason a terrorism attack is of a bygone era. But there does still exist a hurdle for the potential of terrorist attacks. Namely the question of who to attack, when to attack and how to collect the compensatory hush money.

Published 25 February 2003 in Paranoid Times

Terror on the rails

With TERRORISM being the buzzword of the decade it would seem that the factional few who are out there to recruit new members are finding it harder than first thought.

Published 31 October 2002 in Paranoid Times