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Australia deploys helicopters, hundreds of troops to keep people at home in strict new lockdowns in Sydney
American Military News ^ | 8/2/2021

Posted on 08/06/2021 11:38:16 AM PDT by EBH

Around 300 Australian Defence Force (ADF) soldiers were deployed alongside police over the weekend in New South Wales to help police enforce strict new coronavirus lockdowns. Police helicopters have also been seen in the area, ordering residents to comply with lockdown restrictions.

Australian broadcaster ABC reported the soldiers arrived in the city of Sydney over the weekend and underwent training and would begin going door to door in Sydney by Monday to check that residents are complying with the lockdown orders.

The Daily Mail reported in Sydney’s western suburbs residents saw police helicopters hovering overhead while sounding sirens and broadcasting the message, “This is public health order —do not break rules —you will be found and fines issued.”

One video reposted by Australian journalist Avi Yemini shows a man exclaiming “what the f–k” before showing helicopters flying overhead and sounding warning messages to the public. The video was originally posted by TikTok user bankstown2200 over the weekend.

The arrival of ADF troops and other enforcement measures comes more than a month after the New South Wales (NSW) government ordered new coronavirus restrictions on June 23. On July 14, the NSW government extended the lockdown orders through July 30. The lockdowns in Sydney have again been extended until at least Aug. 28.

The lockdown rules include a mask mandate, evenfor some outdoor places. People may leave their homes to get groceries and medicine or to go to hospitals. Only one person per household is permitted to leave their home per day to get groceries. 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 10k from their homes (about 6 miles).

People outside of greater Sydney also cannot enter

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: australia; covid19; lockdown; moreoldnews; policestate; troops; tyranny
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The world has gone stark raving mad!
1 posted on 08/06/2021 11:38:16 AM PDT by EBH
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Mad Max!


2 posted on 08/06/2021 11:39:23 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: EBH

This will not end well.....................


3 posted on 08/06/2021 11:39:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: EBH

The downtrodden are going to welcome the Red Chinese invasion.


4 posted on 08/06/2021 11:40:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: EBH

Hi.

I hope this report isn’t true.

Remember, Australia was the Queen’s penal colony.

Should be interesting.

5.56mm


5 posted on 08/06/2021 11:42:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: EBH

china invades australia, begins taking over east and west coastal swaths

australian forces unable to respond, too busy keeping people in their homes


6 posted on 08/06/2021 11:42:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EBH

The killing fields come soon after this stage of the Maoist takeover.


7 posted on 08/06/2021 11:44:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: EBH

So wrong


8 posted on 08/06/2021 11:44:39 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Secret Agent Man

“china invades australia”

And the people hardly notice a difference.


9 posted on 08/06/2021 11:44:44 AM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: EBH

I bet the Aussies are sorry they so willingly gave up their guns.


10 posted on 08/06/2021 11:45:41 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: EBH

I’m amazed (and terrified) at how easy it is for a nation to go insane.

Prayers for the Australian people.


11 posted on 08/06/2021 11:46:11 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Completely Orwellian. This is what happens when a nation allows their government to disarm them.


12 posted on 08/06/2021 11:46:37 AM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: Cboldt

13 posted on 08/06/2021 11:47:33 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: ScottfromNJ

no they will notice

people will be a lot shorter and all look essentially the same


14 posted on 08/06/2021 11:47:41 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EBH

Australia deploys helicopters, hundreds of troops to keep people at home in strict new lockdowns in Sydney

I look at this headline and think of how it would apply to 1939 if only Nazis had helicopters.

GERMANY deploys helicopters, hundreds of troops to keep people at home in strict new lockdowns in KRAKOW


15 posted on 08/06/2021 11:48:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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See!! Gun Control Works


16 posted on 08/06/2021 11:49:37 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Qui is

Hitlerian. I look at this headline and think of the similarities to Nazis locking down Krakow.


17 posted on 08/06/2021 11:49:49 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: M Kehoe

Heard from a source on the ground in Australia (who is under it)...he summed it up as “it’s true, but pretty mild as ‘lockdowns’ go, and if you go thirty kilometers out of town NOTHING is locked down”.


18 posted on 08/06/2021 11:51:46 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: EBH

Biden and Fauci must be salivating upon reading this.


19 posted on 08/06/2021 11:52:48 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everytime I think USA gov worst someone comes along and shows I am wrong


20 posted on 08/06/2021 11:56:53 AM PDT by genghis
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