Arresting Christians, fines, neighbors calling the police on church, all this stuff was happening in Canada & is happening also in Australia. This is what it means for public health to become the piety for the sake of which all freedom is suspended, & there’s no place quite like Australia if you want to see this spectacle. Watch this:
That seems to have been mostly about arresting black people. Here’s also the arresting of white people. If the previous clip might remind you of religious persecution, this one might remind you of manhunts, but there are further arrests of kids violating curfews &c.:
It’s impressive to see these puppets dressed in shiny clothes mock religion by comparing it with sports, as well as mocking freedom by their puns—this is the reality we do not wish to acknowledge for the most part. It’s always worth paying attention to who is humiliating whom in politics, because freedom depends on jealousy, on angry defense not only of ordinary life, but of the rights to live our lives, hence of the way elites speak publicly about us. But so much for speeches—now, for deeds: Lots of people protested in Sydney & Melbourne, in anger at new lockdowns being announced—such protests are not unheard of in Australia, but they’re pretty rare & haven’t led to much change so far. The police is proud of beating & arresting the miscreants!
The most colorful part of the event was this horserider—bareback, no less, talk about freedom...
If you want to hear how the media & politicians talk in Australia, listen to the clips below. This is really what life is like there, it’s not an aberration due to the epidemic or anything of the kind. Read Helen Dale on Australia’s political & legal peculiarities—the regime has never been different & people there might not want it to be different or might not believe it to be possible. I dunno what of this, if any, could come to America. But I can assure you that lots of journalists & public health officials talk at least as harshly, they just can’t get away with doing such things. Further, if the open despotism of Australia shocks you, think about the fact that today’s America would have shocked the America of two years back just as much. Whatever we thought we had of freedom turns out to have been apolitical; some of it is gone; it’s not obvious to me whether or not the events of the last year, the ideas & habits that have developed, will lead to further abandonment of politics & freedom. But if you share my worries about what you see around you, take the time to look & see what officials in a liberal democracy are doing with their authority—indeed, how they are bringing about a new authority.
If you have a further 11 minutes, this is the police:
On the basis of public support ranging from around 60-65% , it seems Australia's leadership class is risking everything, betting everything on this play. The rationale for the recent extreme measures as a temporary thing due to their laggard vax distribution is becoming more and more strained.
They don't see how vulnerable their society now is to fundamental chaos, where dissenters are boxed into a corner, media is corrupted, and Rumor will rule. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/freedom-truckers-plan-to-shut-down-australia/