By Kurt Nimmo

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has introduced legislation that would keep prisoners convicted of terrorism offenses locked up indefinitely.

The Washington Post reports:

The change will upend a centuries-old legal principle that prisoners are automatically released when their sentences end. Even the United States, which has kept suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without trial for over a decade, doesn’t allow prisoners on U.S. soil to be held after their sentences end. Last year the government of New South Wales trained police to shoot and kill suspected terrorists instead of negotiating with them.

Following a hostage situation at Lindt Café in Sydney the Herald Sun reported:

If we have learned anything from the Lindt Café siege, it’s that terrorists cannot be treated like other criminals. They cannot be placated, reasoned with, or exhausted into submission. Law enforcement authorities around the world have long recognised that those waging jihad are a different breed, requiring different strategies.

It should be noted the man responsible for the hostage crisis, Man Haron Monis, was not a political terrorist. He was schizophrenic and described himself as an Iranian intelligence official, a political activist, a spiritual healer and expert in black magic, an outlaw biker, and a Muslim cleric.

The police killed Monis and two hostages during the siege.

Kurt Nimmo is the editor of Another Day in the Empire, where this article first appeared. He is the former lead editor and writer of Infowars.com.