Yes, It Really is as You’ve Been Informed about How Bad It Now is in Australia.

Gris Ask Guys ^ | 10/8/2021 | Rachelspiks

[simpson96]

This is for all of you who have recently been wondering, “What the hell is going on down there?”, in the nation within the map above. The rumours you may have heard, along with many news reports, have recently portrayed the situation here as being dire and dark, without hope, describing a nation goose-stepping into totalitarianism. Those rumours, those reports, are basically correct.(snip)

I will attempt to give a rather brief summary in point form of the situation as it currently is within this ‘MyTake’, because to do otherwise, to attempt to go into detail, would entail writing a book.

1. Freedom of speech is dead. It’s gone, it simply doesn’t exist anymore. For evidence of this fact, I present the following true story -

The link is to a video that is owned by ABC News, a source that is a state-run (yes, you saw that correctly – state run) channel that is so left-wing that it makes others like the BBC, CNN, and MSNBC seem as though they’re run by reasonable, conservative libertarians. If you’re the type of person who values truth and honesty, and you don’t accept the official narrative about the virus and openly say so on social media, you can expect “visitors” to your house who will place nice, shiny jewellery on your wrists.

2. An endless sequence of ‘lockdowns’, one after another, that serve no discernable purpose.(snip)

3. A state government in Victoria that is authoritarian, irresponsible, incompetent and arrogant beyond belief.(snip)

4. ‘Freedom Day’.(snip)

5. Pepper spray, batons and rubber bullets.(snip)

6. A mainstream media that is positively Goebbelesque in its presentation of the news. Peaceful demonstrators are openly demonised, and referred to as being “right-wing anti-vaxxers”, even though there is precisely zero evidence for either charge.

[Oatka]

OK, you have a different opinion - and - I understand how things get overblown, usually by the Media, but this was an Aussie citizen confirming other such reports.

What would her agenda be, as compared to the government? Is anything reported untrue? I’ll go with hers as I recognize the same things, in a nascent stage, going on here in the States.

[Aussiebabe]

Yes, I already posted that the first point in not true. ABC is not a state-run operation. It is like PBS and NPR...did Trump's government run those operations? ABC is a horrible media operation and shouldn't be partially funded by government funds. Currently it is run by the Greens Party, only about 10% of Australia's population. There were other points that were incorrect, but it appears useless to explain these to some on FR that have their minds made up.

[Aussiebabe]

You still do not understand that the almost all of the indentured servants were convicted criminals from Britain.

[TTFX]

There is no important difference between government run and government funded.

[Aussiebabe]

There is a big difference. State-run is what happens in Communist countries such as the old Soviet Union and today's Red China and evern Russia today. The Chinese media is all state-funded and state-run.

[DJ MacWoW]

You still do not understand that the almost all of the indentured servants were convicted criminals from Britain.

The underlined isn't factual as they have no solid numbers to back up your claim. I've been doing genealogy since 1980 and people sold themselves as indentured servants for passage to the new world. Yes, convicts were sent here but they have no accurate count. YOU posted that too.

Have a lovely day.

[Aussiebabe]

I didn't post the number, it was a quote from Ancestry.com in the USA. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/the-untold-lives-of-british-convicts-sold-to-america/#:~:text=Between%2050%2C000%20and%20120%2C000%20British,referred%20to%20as%20%E2%80%9Cservants.%E2%80%9D
“Australians and Americans More Alike Than They Think
Between 50,000 and 120,000 British convicts were transported to America, a fact that makes many Americans “incredulous,” says Railton. This is often because convicts were politely referred to as “servants.” “ Also I posted from Gizmodo:
https://gizmodo.com/britain-sent-thousands-of-its-convicts-to-america-not-1707458418 “The joke about Australia is that it was founded by a bunch of criminals. And from 1788 until 1868, Britain did send roughly 164,000 convicts to the land down under. America's dirty little secret? The same exact thing was happening here. In fact, experts estimate that over 52,000 British prisoners were shipped off to colonial America.” I can find a dozens of other references with the same rough numbers, but I guess you are the “expert” and must defer to you.

[Aussiebabe]

For any others following this thread, from the New World Encyclopedia a discussion on the Penal Colonies in America and Australia: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Penal_colony

[Covenantor]

Recently. I heard that Australia was built by transported convicts but it should also remembered they were accompanied by their jailers. One coin two sides....