OK, first off: I am not a sports fan. This is a congenital condition, something I was born with. My passport says I'm British, and until very recently, that meant we were crap at sport--all sport. Although, having said that, we are probably the greatest threat to the Australian way of life.
This is all, by round-about method, leading to the Wot connection. A search for "terror" on today's SMH website has this little ditty regarding the up coming commonwealth games:
ASIO conducts terror checks for Games - Breaking News - Sport - Breaking News
Of particular interest to me, in the wider story of WoT is this quote:
"Those involved in the event will have their names checked against information held in the intelligence agency's terrorism databases, The Australian reports...
I have to ask -- If someone is desperate to pull off an act of terrorism, then surely they are not going to use their own identity? Of course, authorities have to give the perception they are in control, doing something to protect their publics. Some undesirables will be filtered out by this process:
"...ASIO said so far no-one checked had been rejected."
There's still time.
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