We're all guilty of this one!

It is a scary day when you can be charged with "recklessy" lending a sim card to an acquaintance.

Wise words from Andrew Bartlett in today's Crikey:

"For years, basic legal protections built up over centuries have been eroded by federal governments seeking to grab greater power. As with any authoritarian government, this has been justified through a climate of fear where almost any injustice is meant to be tolerated to 'protect' us. Hysteria has triumphed over reason.

As magistrate Payne said in making her bail decision, no decision has zero risk -- the question is what level of risk is acceptable. We are putting the very freedoms which provide the foundation of our democracy at very great risk in the futile aim of putting ourselves at zero risk from terrorists. Our Australian values -- the very ones we are insisting new migrants learn and adopt before they can become 'real' Australians -- have never been so under threat as they are today."