Posted on 08/07/2021 10:40:30 AM PDT by John Semmens
Australia has decided to lockdown the inhabitants of Sydney to try to protect them from the delta variant of COVID. The lockdown rules include a mask mandate, even for outdoor places. Only one person per household is permitted to leave their home per day to get groceries or medicine. People are allowed to go to school or work only if they cannot work and study from home. People may go outdoors to exercise but are not allowed to travel more than six miles.
Enforcing the lockdown is proving stressful. Too many people object that the 24-hour surveillance, threats, and harassment by police and troops "violates our rights as a free people." Some of the troops and police are also "uncomfortable serving as a Gestapo against our own people."
In a bid to ease some of the recent tensions between their two countries, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping has offered assistance. "We understand the difficulty of keeping order in a country where the people are quick to assert presumed individual rights," Xi observed. "Even the police and troops are infected with a similar delusion. This impedes their ability to enforce the restrictions the government has determined are necessary. There is also the continuing expense of mounting an effective repression of those who disobey. We are ready to help."
Xi offered "a force of 300,000 troops and equipment. This will provide 1,000 times more protection than the mere 300 troops Australia is currently deploying in this crucial effort. Further, we will do this free-of-charge." Xi predicted that "our troops are well-trained and experienced in compelling obedience. They will not be moved by complaints that individual rights are being trampled. English-speaking troublemakers won't find any sympathy from them. Order and compliance are guaranteed."
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison is said to be taking Xi's offer under consideration, saying that "at the very least an arrangement like Xi has proposed should greatly reduce the chance of China going to war with us."
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From where they are, can the Australians see overcrowded China just salivating over all that sparsely inhabited Australian territory? And just down the way a piece!
Satire? I don’t know. If I lived in Australia, I might just welcome being liberated by the CCP.
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