Posted on 09/02/2021 6:41:59 PM PDT 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Edited People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. They will be texted at random times and have 15 minutes to respond with a picture of their face at the location where they are supposed to be. If they fail to respond the police will be sent to follow up in person.
Australia has gone full Orwellian."
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Slavery is back!
ACLU explained today how slavery is freedom.
15 days to flatten the curve.
Anything beyond that is Tyranny.
What if they are taking a nap?
15 minutes to respond? What if you were taking a nap? The police would come to your house and arrest you?
They should have had a revolution by now.
“They should have had a revolution by now.”
They’ve got no guns...but they’ve still got the Boomerang!
I would throw the phone away.
Phone? What phone?
Well, that’s why you don’t give up your guns.
They lost their freedom when they surrendered their guns. The tyrants have just been carefully slow to rub it in.
I should be chatting with my friend live from Australia to morrow...I will pass on his opinion to you...sad state of affairs down under for sure.
The Ausies are going to regret giving up their guns.
No second amendment- no limit on government overreach
I turn in my smart phone for a late 90s flip phone without a camera or gps....
How is “The Atlantic” publishing an anti-COVID lockdown stance?
Something is not right.
Ping.
They need a modern day Ned Kelly.
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