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031501** Simon Cooper - Monoculture of Freedom

How is it that at a time when the war on terror, so we are told, is being fought to return our societies to a state of freedom we're under siege from the so called 'terrorists'? We're told these shadowy figures are intent on taking away from us the freedoms we now enjoy but they always seem to be one step ahead of our law enforcement agencies. "They must be found and eliminated" is the message our government tells us ad nauseam. Whether it's the threat of a few people in leaky boats off our Northern Coast line or chemical weapons, it matters little, we are told, if we are to fight the good fight of freedom, we must be on the lookout all the time. Surveillance is the name of the game and, inevitably, there will be some winners and some losers as 'mistakes' add up to lives lost and families shattered. But what are the freedoms we are fighting to preserve? Where will they be if we cede more of our basic human rights to governments to arrest, detain and charge without the presence of lawyers and outside the jurisdiction of the courts? What does it mean for us to defend freedom, in the wake of 9-11?

Dr Simon Cooper is a lecturer in Communications Studies at Monash University and is the editor of Arena Journal, one of Australia's leading critical journals. He spoke at the Ninde Dana Quaranook centre in Morwell in October 2003.

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