Posted on 01/12/2022 6:12:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Novak Djokovic could face up to a year in prison in a worst case scenario if he is found by Australian border forces to have provided false information on a travel declaration form he submitted as part of his entry to the country.
The Serbian admitted on Wednesday that he submitted inaccurate information on the form, which he says was filled in by his agent on his behalf before entering Australia.
Djokovic confirmed on the form that he had not travelled or would not travel in the 14 days prior to his flight to Australia on January 4. Social media posts have since emerged placing him in Belgrade on December 25 and then in southern Spain on December 31.
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They have completely lost the plot down there. A prison state once again!
Prison? Crikey, these FASCISTS are insane!
What a disgusting government. F it, and the culture it rode in on.
There are Australian elite/politicians not arrested and locked up. When do they get the same for breaking various rules and laws over Covid lockdowns, travel, etc?
Commie $h!thole. No right-thinking person should ever step foot in Australia again
Nothing a “couple” of bucks can’t fix.
Djokovic’s expulsion to undermine ‘integrity and reputation’ of Queen’s Commonwealth
Break laws, pay the price. Wish that would happen more in USA.
Which law?
Australia emerges as a shithole . . . again. Can we forget their fighting spirit of WW2? I’m thinking I can. No one left down there to defend. One can go to prison for interfering with a child’s sex change. Too much for me.
Lying on official forms to obtain visa.
How many people go to jail for that every year?
Although it carries the penalty, it is very unlikely that Australian bureaucrats will try to charge him on that basis.
Usually courts in Australia consider the proportionality of the alleged offense and the intent before they even consider jailing anyone and they are very lenient. This is just media blowing things out of proportion.
13 Jan: Spectator Australia: Welcome to Australia, mate! Jab or jail?
by RAMESH THAKUR
Novak Djokovic would not have had a problem entering Australia if he had just got jabbed, according to a senior sports journalist at The Australian (Murdoch) newspaper.
Well of course! Why didnât Novak think of that?...
Most of us have been coerced, and so Novak should be coerced too. Itâs (now) the Australian way.
And, of course, when everyone has been coerced, itâs much easier to imagine that no one has been coerced...
As for all the mumbo jumbo about âinformed consentâ â does Novak want to hit tennis balls or not? Informed consent is for medical ethicists and debt-ridden philosophy students.
Get the vaccine or spend the rest of your life under police guard in one of our refugee camps watching Nadal win the championship. Thereâs your choice. Oh, and welcome to Australia, mate!
No one was forcing the tennis world Number One to do anything against his will. If Novak didnât want to compete â well thatâs his choice. He could have stayed in Serbia and we could have staged a tennis tournament for all the best players in the world (except for the best player in the world), which would have made it a tournament for the best vaccinated players in the world.
The AVP (Association of Vaccinated Professionals) Grand (socially-distanced) Slam?...
Next year we could seed players according to their social credit score. If youâre a thrice-vaxxed, hybrid Prius driving LGBTQ ally, you could get a wildcard entry regardless of your tennis prowess.
The real issue is that weâve already got half a million cases of Covid thanks to fully vaccinated travellers who arrived here from overseas. And thatâs precisely why Novak should have been fully vaccinated when he arrived here from overseas.
Donât complain that the last paragraph makes no sense...
But hereâs the other point made by The Australianâs columnist: allowing an unvaccinated Novak to play at the Australian Open endangers lives. (Yes, he really said that.)...
I know what youâre thinking. Youâre thinking that the universally vaccinated BBL cricket teams are all having Covid outbreaks at the moment, and so the claim that an unvaccinated player represents a significant added risk is not really scientific at all.
And youâre probably thinking that this is especially the case with Novak, given that prior infection confers immunity at least as effective as vaccination, according to most research. Indeed, this is why some places overseas now recognise prior infection as equivalent to vaccination...
Whatever the legal issues of the Novak case, it should be obvious that this crisis has zero to do with a proportionate response to a genuine health risk. It is about political appearances and the promotion of compliance with rules for their own sake as a virtue of the highest order...
Oh, and one more thing. The Novak controversy has wasted valuable time that our political leaders could have otherwise used to focus on important things. If it wasnât for the distraction of an unvaccinated Novak arriving on our shores last week, our leaders could have used the past two years to fix the health system. You know it makes sense.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/01/welcome-to-australia-mate-jab-or-jail/
11 Jan: Rumble: 51m: Tennys Sandgren on His Refusal to Play in Australia, Vaccine Mandates and the Djokovic controversy
by Glenn Greenwald
The American tennis player Tennys Sandgren has earned much of his career success in Australia. But this year he chose to stay at home, in protest of its vaccine mandates. I spoke to him about why he made such a self-sacrificing decision in defense of this principle, the Novak Djokovic controversy, and vaccine mandates generally.
https://rumble.com/vseldr-interview-with-tennis-player-tennys-sandgren-on-vaccine-mandates-djokovics-.html
Good grief. Australia is turning into an utter embarrassment. Give it up.
Every one filling out false information on visa application deserves 5 years and $10,000 fine. Glad Australia takes all crime seriously. You are used to American justice system, where non-violent criminals rarely serve time behind bars.
Why - should people to lie their way into your country?
There is now evidence Djokovic lied on his entry form - he has actually admitted that one. And that he committed perjury during his court appearance.
On top of that, Spain seems to think he evaded their border policies, and Serbia seems to believe he broke their rules as well.
Personally, I’d like him to play but he is beginning to look like somebody who just thinks rules should never apply to him because he’s good at tennis.
This is bad PR for Australia. What is their point?
A prison sentence over something like this? Don’t you think that is overkill? Just deport him if this is such a big deal to the Australian government.
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