{"id":29627,"date":"2020-09-18T19:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29627"},"modified":"2020-09-18T19:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:32:52","slug":"pre-crime-victorian-government-pushes-for-powers-to-preemptively-arrest-anyone-even-if-they-havent-broken-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29627","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Crime: Victorian Government Pushes for Powers to Preemptively Arrest Anyone, Even If They Haven\u2019t Broken the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Imprisoned-1024x363.jpg\" alt=\"Imprisoned\" class=\"wp-image-29628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Imprisoned-1024x363.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Imprisoned-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Imprisoned-768x273.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Imprisoned.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainstream media are finally reporting on the Victorian government\u2019s new bill to hand authorities the power to arrest anyone, even if they have not committed an offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 News Melbourne reports: \u201c[The] new law would give police the power to preemptively detain anyone with COVID or their close contacts even if they haven\u2019t broken the law. All that\u2019s required is that the officer thinks they might breach restrictions in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report notes that the Health Department could also empower non-police, such as Public Safety Officers or Work Safe Inspectors, to preemptively detain citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new legislation places \u201cno limit on detention time, no legislative oversight and no clear avenue for appeal.\u201d Those detained could be placed in quarantine facilities to be monitored by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law could see the arrest, not only of anyone the state deems a \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d and therefore likely to neglect current restrictions, but also their family members and close contacts even if a crime has not been committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom: Someone should tell these would be tyrants that this contravenes the basic legal premises on which our society is founded &#8211; most notably Magna Carta and Habeus Corpus and the English Bill of Rights.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/pre-crime-victorian-government-pushes-for-powers-to-preemptively-arrest-anyone-even-if-they-havent-broken-the-law\/\">https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/pre-crime-victorian-government-pushes-for-powers-to-preemptively-arrest-anyone-even-if-they-havent-broken-the-law\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream media are finally reporting on the Victorian government\u2019s new bill to hand authorities the power to arrest anyone, even if they have not committed an offence. 10 News Melbourne reports: \u201c[The] new law would give police the power to preemptively detain anyone with COVID or their close contacts even if they haven\u2019t broken the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pre-Crime: Victorian Government Pushes for Powers to Preemptively Arrest Anyone, Even If They Haven\u2019t Broken the Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29629,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29627\/revisions\/29629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}