Posted on 09/13/2021 8:46:43 AM PDT by Nextrush
Us = Dems in this context.
They are totally drunk with power. The IRA knew how to deal with these tyrants.
Now-a-days, anyone can drop a drone on these corrupt politicians heads. Is that what it will take?
Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty. How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country?
the atlantic ^ | 9/1/2021 | Conor Friedersdorf
Posted on 9/2/2021, 6:41:59 PM by bitt
In a bid to keep the coronavirus out of the country, Australia’s federal and state governments imposed draconian restrictions on its citizens. Prime Minister Scott Morrison knows that the burden is too heavy. “This is not a sustainable way to live in this country,” he recently declared. One prominent civil libertarian summed up the rules by lamenting, “We’ve never seen anything like this in our lifetimes.”
Up to now one of Earth’s freest societies, Australia has become a hermit continent. How long can a country maintain emergency restrictions on its citizens’ lives while still calling itself a liberal democracy?
Australia has been testing the limits.
Before 2020, the idea of Australia all but forbidding its citizens from leaving the country, a restriction associated with Communist regimes, was unthinkable. Today, it is a widely accepted policy. “Australia’s borders are currently closed and international travel from Australia remains strictly controlled to help prevent the spread of COVID-19,” a government website declares. “International travel from Australia is only available if you are exempt or you have been granted an individual exemption.”
The rule is enforced despite assurances on another government website, dedicated to setting forth Australia’s human-rights-treaty obligations, that the freedom to leave a country “cannot be made dependent on establishing a purpose or reason for leaving.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-australia-still-liberal-democracy/619940/
9/2/2021, 6:41:59 PM · by bitt · 16 replies
the atlantic ^ | 9/1/2021 | Conor Friedersdor
“We need to be... more scary to the public... If you don’t get vaccinated, you know you’re going to die.”
Wow. Freakin’ wow.
IT has to be doubly difficult for Australians forced to obey every command and every wet dream issued byt this Armenian tyrant.
Sounds like an article to make Prime Minister Scott Morrison look good. “He realizes his mistake” sort of comes out of this.
Morrison and his friends like media moguls Rupert Murdoch and others need to know this shameful situation is on their “watch”.
They did it, allowed it to happen and participated in the media propaganda to promote it and sustain it in Australia.
Maybe they should start wearing yellow Stars of David.
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