Posted on 08/21/2021 10:07:47 AM PDT by lightman
More than 250 Australian residents were apprehended by police Saturday amid the country's anti-lockdown protests.
People across several Australian cities defied the coronavirus stay at home orders and were arrested following altercations with police officers. At least cops endured injuries from the protests and Melbourne saw the most violent demonstrations, according to the Associated Press.
More than 4,000 people protested the COVID measures in Melbourne while police released pepper spray into the crowds to stop demonstrators from crossing police lines. Police said in a statement that they had no choice but to unleash the pepper spray as altercations hospitalized six officers.
Police 218 people were arrested in Melbourne and 236 fines of $3,900 each were handed out for violating public health orders.
In New South Wales, police announced 47 arrests and more than 260 fines of up to $3,000. New South Wales Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said police will likely identify more people through CCTV and social media footage. Nearly 140 tickets were issued as well after around 38,000 cars attempted to drive into the city.
After a record number of COVID-19 cases in New South Wales earlier this month, the region was placed under an extended coronavirus lockdown.
Sydney has been locked down for nearly two months while Melbourne and Canberra issued their stay at home orders in early August. Residents of the cities are told to limit social interactions and remain in their homes.
The state of Victoria has banned residents from removing their masks to drink alcohol in outside settings amid the area's surge in coronavirus cases.
Australia reported nearly 900 new COVID cases on Saturday, with the majority coming from Sydney.
"We are in a very serious situation here in New South Wales," state Health Minister Brad Hazzard said, according to Reuters. "There is no time now to be selfish, it's time to think of the broader community and your families."
With so many arrests they’ll have to make enclosures of some sort.
They need to start taking bats to the pigs.
These sumbitches going to be sorry when like the real men they are, rise up with their guns and fight this tyranny......oh thats right. Gave them up. Enjoy slavery and extermination mates! You are the new shrimps on the governemnts barbie
New and improved Dog Lines coming to a town near you.
When you give up your guns, you are then subjects, no longer citizens.
At least cops endured injuries from the protests and Melbourne saw the most violent demonstrations, according to the Associated Press.
Police 218 people were arrested...
This kind of crap writing is what these guys get PAID to put up. Is there no such thing as an editor any more?
Here ya go:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3987242/posts
With quarantine continuing to be a critical part of the Australian response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Victorian and Australian Governments have committed to building a purpose-built quarantine accommodation hub outside Melbourne’s CBD, to combat and protect the community from the highly infectious COVID-19 virus.
Within the article, the secret why the Aussies are uprising and we in the US are not.
They are banned from taking their masks down to drink alcohol. I guess our government learned something from prohibition days.
What are they going to do? Chain them outside to trees, six foot apart?
Start “arresting” the government in their ivory towers and see how quickly it ends.
Australia has turned into a police state.
With so many arrests they’ll have to make enclosures of some sort.
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Exactly. Perhaps Australian officials can look back to 1939 in a city called Warsaw.
And if that doesn’t work there’s always the trains. And at the end of the train ride, there is a nice shower waiting for these individuals.
Well it started out as a place for convicts, so they are returning to their roots.
Australia is now in the phase of dystopian tyranny where politicians yell at citizens for watching the sunset!
https://media.notthebee.com/articles/a0747b81-30e6-49bd-88bf-cbb95b9bb139.jpg
Pepper Spraying Aussie children for being outside.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1428357726543831040
Just this week they’ve begun mass mandatory “vaccination” of children at a large sports arena. Parents are expected to deliver their kiddies to the arena at the appointed time but aren’t allowed inside. Most are complying (baa-a-a-a) but there are a few dissenters. One father insisted on accompanying his daughter inside (she may have been “special needs”) but was badly roughed up by police and prevented. You can hear the girl crying and screaming in the audio recording. This is getting pretty creepy . . .
This is why you never, ever surrender your weapons. Our government would roll all over us if we were unarmed. It’s also about time we start taking our country back. Amazed it’s not happening already.
See #8
When are we going to rise up like this?
And while we’re at it, maybe battle the anti-American traitors of BLM and Antifa burning and holding cities hostage?
The incidents in Melbourne today should remind us of January 6th.
I think provocateurs were present of course no FBI in Australia but their law enforcement lineup includes the Australian Federal Police.
Maybe some AFP undercover operatives or even ones from the Victoria Police whose 18,000 plus members police the entire state including Melbourne.
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