Philip Ruddock has overseen the arrest of an American peace activist, revoked his visitor's visa and is threatening to deport him for being a threat to national security. What the threat may be is any totalitarian watcher's guess.

Teacher Scott Parkin's crime is that of waging a campaign against the American Vice President's carpetbagger operations in Iraq, namely Halliburton, being one of millions against the Iraq war, and not keeping his mouth shut in Australia.

This is the first direct example of our new police state