Posted on 07/31/2021 8:43:03 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown.
A Delta outbreak which began in June has produced nearly 3,000 infections and led to nine deaths.
Australian Defence Force soldiers will undergo training on the weekend before beginning unarmed patrols on Monday.
But many have questioned whether the military intervention is necessary, calling it heavy-handed.
The lockdown - in place until at least 28 August - bars people from leaving their home except for essential exercise, shopping, caregiving and other reasons.
Despite five weeks of lockdown, infections in the nation's largest city continue to spread. Officials recorded 170 new cases on Friday.
Soldiers will join police in virus hotspots to ensure people are following the rules, which include a 10km (6.2 miles) travel limit.
State Police Minister David Elliott said it would help because a small minority of Sydneysiders thought "the rules didn't apply to them".
Information provided by health officials indicates the virus is mainly spreading through permitted movement.
The Australian Lawyers Alliance, a civil rights group, called the deployment a "concerning use" of the army in a liberal democracy.
The outbreak has largely affected critical workers and large family groups in the city's poorer and ethnically diverse west and south-west suburbs. About two million people live there.
Critics say those areas have already faced "targeted" policing measures. They point out restrictions there are harsher than for the rest of Sydney.
"Our people are one of the poorest demographics, and as it is, they already feel picked on and marginalised," said Steve Christou, one local mayor.
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It will never end.
How does that work? With everyone unarmed there, rocks, bats, choke holds?
Seems like how the Mark of the Beast will be distributed.
Liberal Government Run Wild
Our military will be used for the same end. It will be part of the left’s effort to destroy the public respect for the only government institution still retaining a modicum of honesty. The cancer has already been started with CRT being forced onto our soldiers, sailors, and airmen.
Hopefully, the military - if it actually does honor its pledge to the constitution - will not turn their guns onto the population, but back at the talking Obamaholes that have dragged us this far down into third world land.
China said it would destroy Australia and it looks like they will walk in later
unfortunately this is all by the supposedly conservative side down there.
The piles of burning bodies in the street are quite horrific
Make no mistake, this is exactly what would be happening here in the USA if we had surrendered our firearms like the Aussies did.
Coming to an American city and state near you. /s
I used to have respect for the Australian government. Not any more. They and New Zealand are as kooky as they get these days.
Posse Comitatus will prevent this in our Country . /s
For now...
Think of how to boil a frog.
You know, the troops will never leave. This is their new Afghanistan.
Dictatorships achieved. It's never going away.
It’s called Martial Law.
If so, see what happens if we have a countrywide guerilla war, which the Federal Government would never win… too many mountains, forests, and swamps.
Pure evil.
This is what totalitarianism looks like, folks.
Australian Gestapo augmented by the Australian SS Waffen?
No. 1 rule of strategy in war: You don’t go into the enemy’s camp to start a fight.
Duh!
You start a hundred brushfires outside the enemy’s stronghold and make the enemy come to you by splitting their forces.
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