Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
At the risk of disturbing a light-hearted review of Princess Bride quotes with actual serious politics, I assumed BB was referring to your statement in post #2 that Australia has "even been blacklisting its own citizens from getting passports despite no trial and conviction of the Australian citizens it blacklists for international travel purposes."
Care to elaborate?
Sure. Here is an example: US NSA tells some Australian government officials in Canberra to get on board to stop or slow down some Australian citizens who have some travel plans the US doesn't like and the Australian governments get in on revoking, denying or delaying passports to some such Australian citizens identified by the US.
The numbers are down substantially (not for the reason suggested in the article linked below), but this stuff is still going on:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nati...-1226557784762