Posted on 08/17/2021 8:31:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While Americans continue to squabble over diminishing civil rights, our counterparts in Australia are cannon-balling right into the deep end of totalitarianism.
Americans typically think well of Australians. They’ve got a scrappy history, they’re irreverent and we love their actors. There’s a unique spirit that we seem to be drawn to, and we often mistake it for individualism.
It isn’t that at all. It’s humor and sauciness (things we love) but Australia is still a Commonwealth nation. They have very European sensibilities and despite the valiant efforts of Europe in WWII, Europeans have never extricated themselves from the lure of socialism.
In Australia, the seeming comfort of socialism has devolved into terrifying totalitariansim in the face of COVID. In a nation of over 25 million people, the government has declared that they will be satisfied with nothing else but zero COVID cases.
To quell the desire to socialize, the premier of the province of Victoria announced citizens will not be allowed to remove their masks in public even to drink a beverage.
NEW – Australia: No taking your mask off while drinking alcohol outdoors.pic.twitter.com/FxJuSKu7W1
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) August 16, 2021
After six cases were detected in Canberra, the Australian capital has also been put on an enforced lockdown until “there are no more COVID cases.”
The military has been activated to enforce the COVID restrictions, which should be an alarming thought for anyone living in the West.
Now, Australia’s Minister For Health has announced that 24,000 students will be herded into a stadium in Sydney to be vaccinated by the government by force. It should be noted that Australia has had strict vaccination laws since at least 2018. Parents can receive heavy fines and lose welfare benefits if they refuse to comply with the traditional vaccination schedule.
What sets this order apart is that Australian parents have been notified they will not be allowed to accompany their children into the stadium. In effect, children will be forcibly removed from the presence of their parents and injected by government agents.
The Health Minister “assured” parents their children would be fine.
I wanna stress to the mums and dads your children will be well looked after inside. When they arrive they’ll be literally ushered, we’ll have nurses, we’ll have some of the youth command, we’ll have some of the young police from within various operations, the police there…just to guide them through, as to where they go. They’ll be looked after every moment inside the stadium and they’ll be well cared for so mums and dads, feel secure. We’re going to have 24,000 students we’re going to have to get through next week.
AUSTRALIA- 24,000 children will be vaccinated in a stadium next week. No parents will be allowed access.
Er…#COVID19 #CovidVic #NoVaccinePassports pic.twitter.com/TMGUOB2xwz
— Elander’s Voice (@Elanders_Voice) August 16, 2021
The police? Somehow it doesn’t seem any more comforting that a law enforcement agent will be the one “escorting” your child to a forced medical procedure.
Imagine for one second the American military knocking on your door and escorting your children out to receive a treatment you may not feel confident about and they may not want at all.
It blows the mind that such a proud people like the Australians would so willingly submit to outright totalitarianism. To say it is disappointing is an understatement.
It makes one wonder if the current state of the American spirit is prepared to withstand any similar incursions from our own government.
Australia began as a penal colony
And ended as one— Liberty Lockdown w/ Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) August 17, 2021
They’d be DEAD if they tried that on my kids. All of em
Wow! How did Australia go full NAZI so fast? No 2nd?
RE: Wow! How did Australia go full NAZI so fast? No 2nd?
And the worrying this is their Prime Minister is supposed to be the conservative Scott Morrison of the LIBERAL PARTY ( which is the more “Republican-like” of the two parties ). The opposition LABOR party is decidedly LEFT-WING. I hate to see what would happen if LABOR takes over.
17 Aug: Daily Mail: AAP: ‘Naive’ man from one of Sydney’s worst Covid hotspots is JAILED for two months for taking train and bus to travel 800km to regional NSW
A man from Fairfield has been jailed for two months for breaching lockdown
He travelled 800km away to Armidale via Tenterfield using a train and bus
The man’s lawyer claimed his client was ‘naive’ and had no malicious intent
Trong Duc Nguyen, 31, was arrested at Armidale railway station on Sunday after getting off a bus from Tenterfield...
Magistrate Roger Prowse immediately sentenced the Sydney man to two months in prison.
‘He has been sentenced purely on breaching that public health act,’ NSW Police Acting Superintendent David Cooper said.
‘That, to me, indicates the level of seriousness of the matter.’...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9901221/Coronavirus-Australia-Sydney-man-Fairfield-Covid-hotspot-jailed-travelling-regional-NSW.html
18 Aug: Daily Mail: Furious soccer coach claims he was fined $500 for pulling his mask down for a few seconds at a post office to talk to the store worker
Sydneysider slammed city’s Covid rules after he was caught pulling down mask
TikTok personality posted furious video after he was fined $500 at post office
Claimed he pulled down mask for ‘two seconds’ to speak to post office staff
Said police told him they were ‘recording the whole time’ and then fined him
‘They fined me for sliding down my mask for two seconds - I’m livid,’ he said
By CHARLIE COË
‘I’ve taken down my mask for about two seconds to talk to the guy as he couldn’t hear me and then put I put it straight back on,’ he claimed...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9902879/Covid-19-Sydney-Furious-man-fined-500-NSW-Police-pulling-mask-post-office.html
Who is worse, the Taliban or the Australians?
check it out. it’s going viral online in Australia, but can’t confirm every detail:
17 Aug: XYZ.net.au: Video: Schoolboy collapses after taking COVID vax at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium
By David Hiscox
A shocking video has surfaced today of a Sydney schoolboy collapsing after being given the coronavirus vaccine at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium.
An Asian nurse tells the schoolboy filming the incident that he is not allowed to film the incident. Reports claim at least 3 kids collapsed and 2 are in a coma from the mass vaccination of students at Olympic Stadium.
Staggeringly, parents were not allowed to attend...
https://xyz.net.au/2021/08/video-schoolboy-collapses-after-taking-covid-vax-at-sydneys-olympic-stadium/
Ok this is the deal. Basically Australia and New Zealand will have to isolate themselves from the World forever if they wanted zero covid. Basically, they’ll be like the Native Americans before the Europeans arrived with Smallpox.
DeForrest Kelley on Australia: “She’s dead, Jim.”
(Certain parts of the USA sure to follow)
PING!
So, it’s official.
Both Australia and New Zealand have turned into asshole countries.
Is the ANZUS treaty still in force? If so, rip it up.
Back to being a penal colony.
A lot of this article (although not all of it) is simply untrue.
Why do Americans feel the need to lie about what is happening in another country?
Why do so many Americans simply believe the lies.
24,000 children are not being forcibly vaccinated. These are Year 12 students - final year of secondary school. Many of them are legally adults (over 18). And all have to consent to vaccination - they are not being forced, they cannot be forced. They are being provided the opportunity to get vaccinated if they choose to.
While it is true that Australia does link some welfare payments for parents to their children being vaccinated, the COVID vaccine is not one of those vaccines.
The Hitler Covid Youth?
Or the Red Guards?
Everyone who thought they’d bug out to OZ might need to change the destination.
Boy, I bet they miss their guns right about now.
Thanks for the correction.
As you can see the headline and the article refers to Year 12 students, specifically, as I've said - Wikipedia (imperfect as it is) is the easiest link I can give to show that Year 12 means about 17 or 18 in Australia - Year 12 - "Although there are slight variations between the states, most students in Year 12 are aged between 17 and 18."
By this time of year (the second half of our school year which runs with the calendar year), some Year 12 students might even be 19 without being unusual. At 18, they are legally adults.
This part of the article makes it clear that vaccination is not forced or compulsory - just encouraged - "Authorities encouraged all students to take up the vaccine offer." I think most kids will probably consent but they have every right not to. Even those who are still 17 can normally consent to medical treatments here - the law around that is complex and depends on doctors making judgements about maturity and seriousness of the treatment - but generally speaking 16 and 17 years olds are considered competent to consent to routine medical procedures (and in some cases, even younger) especially if their parents do not actively object.
Basically these older school kids are being taken somewhere they can easily get vaccinated if they choose to. They don't have to be vaccinated, but it's being made a lot easier for them to do so and it is being encouraged.
Interesting - the SBS link didn’t seem to work properly - try this one - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/thousands-of-students-to-get-pfizer-jab-as-year-12-vaccination-push-begins-in-sydney (you may have to copy and paste).
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