Anti-lockdown protests across the world seem to be occurring both more regularly and on larger scales. Most recently, thousands have marched in major Australian cities, including Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, against restrictive measures, with more than half of Australians currently under lockdown.
After the protests had ended, the New South Wales Police Minister, David Elliott, issued a stern warning to all who marched – not just the few who turned violent. He announced the formation of “Strike Force Seasoned, which will see 22 detectives work from now until whenever it concludes identifying as many people as possible who attended today’s incident and have them charged”. He went on:
I’m hoping that we issue 3,500 infringement notices, I’m hoping that we have people before the court, and I really hope that we can get some charges and convictions out of today’s work by the New South Wales Police. It’s essential for people to get the message. And to those that are calling for it to occur again next week, look out because these 400 officers will turn to 4,000 if needs be.
The Guardian has more.
Thousands of angry, unmasked people marched through the Sydney central business district on Saturday afternoon demanding an end to the city’s lockdown, which is entering its fifth week.
[David] Elliott said 57 people were arrested and several police officers had been assaulted.“If we don’t see a [Covid] spike in the areas these protesters came from in the next week I’ll be very, very surprised,” Elliott said.
“It was just a whole lot of halfwits.”
Demonstrators broke through barriers in the Sydney CBD and threw plastic bottles at police.
Similar scenes unfolded in Melbourne and Adelaide, which are both in lockdown, and Brisbane, which is not.
As demonstrators were gathering in Sydney, the New South Wales Health Minister, Brad Hazzard, revealed a record number of new coronavirus cases had been detected – 163 in the previous 24 hours – and pleaded with people to stay at home. …
Hazzard condemned the planned protests as “really silly” on Saturday morning.
“We live in a democracy and normally I am certainly one who supports people’s rights to protest… but at the present time we’ve got cases going through the roof and we have people thinking that’s OK to get out there and possibly be close to each other at a demonstration.” …
In Melbourne, thousands of protesters turned out in the central business district chanting “freedom”. …
Protesters held banners, including one that read: “This is not about a virus it’s about total Government control of the people.”
The protest was brought to a violent end by police. An AAP photographer wearing visible press accreditation was pepper sprayed as police cleared the rally, as were other photographers.
The Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, had labelled the idea of protesting against the lockdown as “ridiculous”.
“Protest against this virus by staying at home, following the rules and getting out of lockdown,” he said. …
A car rally is also planned for locked-down Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia, with police warning they will make arrests over unlawful activity.
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I wonder if the international MSM will be covering these demonstrations or not? I think not so they didn’t take place.
MSM is covering this one, but only focusing on the few protesters who can be used as “crazy” examples. When the truth is too larger to be suppres entirely they hide it under spin and by being (im)morally judgemental.
I suppose it’s not evidence that lockdowns damage people’s mental health?
It is evident….. this bloke Elliot has gone fucking mad
It’s what dictators do. The Johnsin regime is becoming fascist and for once that word can be used with its true meaning. Reiner Fuelmich spoke to London yesterday and the deaths occurring across the world through this injection is terrifying. UK alone have phenomenal permanent side effects. As he said, in usual clinical trials just one death or one side effect would cause the trial to stop.
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NSW Police to create its own Gestapo unit – wake up australia!
Every word of the garbage coming from these people could just as easily emerge from the mouths of Herren Goebbels, Himmler and the rest of that crew, or Stalin, Beria and that side of the totalitarian police state coin.
The sheep will not believe what is happening to them. If their history had been taught in schools rather than marxist propaganda, they would understand. But they are taught that big government making ALL the decisions is the only way they will survive. Straight out of the playbook of all political dictatorships
Show them what you have Australia ,the rest of the world associate your country with freedom and now …….
Well done Australia — I have been heartbroken to hear what has been happening there — The UK government have been awful too but not quite as bad —- MSM are complicit with these crimes that are being committed against humanity — Again Well Done
To my knowledge the UK’s crooks have, as yet, only had one incident of hunting a protester down post-protest, that was their attack on Kate Shemirami afetr her speech at an August 2020 London rally. Australias plans to hunt down every attendee are the work of genocidal regimes, get the protesters as individuals when they are not standing together for mutual defence. Australian protesters may be wise to form a permament protest occupation somewhere so it will be harder for gestapo thugs to pick them off one-by-one.
It’s the same old idiotic use of language: “Protest against the virus by staying at home, following the rules and getting out of lockdown” says Dan Andrews, as if Covid-19 is a personal entity entirely responsible for all the draconian regulations of the past 18 months. Similarly the news headlines across the mainstream media speak of Covid causing the closure of businesses and Covid preventing kids from attending school. Why should Government take responsibility for their own policy and be held accountable by the electorate when they can just blame the virus?
I’m surprised Andrews is still drawing breath although hopefully not for much longer!
“We are all alone in this together.”
Adapted to this particular piece of doublethink: Only lockdown is the way out of lockdown.
This is also very popular with members of the same faction in the UK.
Yes. Lockdown to avoid lockdown. Very twisted thinking!
I thought that they’d cracked that one with the ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown in Wales last Autumn, job done, so then they scrapped all restrictions as they’d cured it. Have I missed anything?
Yes the Barry Island variant 2 cases 1 asymptomatic and 4 false positives
It’s usually slighty more complicated: “We must have a short lockdown now to avoid a long lockdown in future!”
But why would there necessarily be a lockdown in future?
Answer: Because if the people who want a lockdown now don’t get it, they will keep demanding it until it is either introduced or … they die of old age, presumably. Hence, for as long as their threats are being ignored, they’ll remain toothless.
Useful counter-stragegy: What the same people do when someone threatens to lift a lockdown or any other restriction: Insist that you absolutely support this in principle but that NOW is just not the right time for it.
i hope its the “die of old age ” option but quite soon Their lives are clearly empty of any reason or purpose so its just spite on their part surely? and of course we are all going to die at some point.In ther meantime we still have spending power and a choice on where to spend the cash and we still have a vote so we are holding some of the cards dont forget that
Very stupid but whats more stupid is a stupid population thinking it makes sense and telling kids off for not wearing a mask in the park (this happened) A large percentage of people will be sad to see the end of lockdown as we know it .This country has produced a weak,bitter ,negative,bigoted and barely literate population who already think that life is as good as it get because they have a hot tub in their back garden and theri mortgage paymenst end in four years time .Fuck the rest jack i hear them say especially those nasty kids with their tattoos and night clubs and futures and stuff . Lockdowners die if your going to or fuck the fuck off as someone oce said
“In it together” says the politician “I’m causing the crisis, you’re suffering from it”
“In it together” says the mainstream media to the coronanists “we’re producing the shit, you’re swallowing it”
The point was supposed to be that people who are alone are not together. Someone really seems to use 1984 as instruction manual here (Freedom is slavery etc), at least in Australia.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Viruses are slippery little buggers that will weasel their way through any protection we use to shield the population from them. NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, a virus will cause just as many cases, deaths and hospitalizations as it was always going to, because whenever you remove restrictions, the virus plays catch-up, naturally, as we’ve seen through the data.
So I say to Kim-Jong-Dan that leaving vaccines aside, there isn’t really much point in even trying to control a virus, let alone PROTESTING against one! It’s like trying to persuade a fly to kindly stop irritating you and leave the house. But he’s a complete raving fruitcake, so perhaps such logic is lost on this man.
Death to Andrews.
I’m at home.I hereby protest against measles, mumps, rubella, splattergroit, dragon pox and ingrowing toenails.
That’s done, then.
because the virus is done ,it cant be governed only laws are formed by governments not airborne particle driven diseases and i ise the term disease very loosely i still prefer bug .
They should look at the history of ‘State vs People’ conflict. Doesn’t often end well for the State.
During these challenging times it’s grossly inappropriate for a senior official to discuss barbeque recipes.
‘Seasoned’ implies that they’re older police. Perhaps they’re having to bring back retired cops.
Interesting suggestions. Many French police were reported a few years back as going sick or even committing suicide because they were so stressed and conflicted about having to put down their own people.
Last week the police put down their shields and marched with them in France
That was uplifting footage. Similar stuff has happened in Burma recently too, nothing to do with the coronacough their, but cops were ordered to attack civilians protesting against government genocide and many defected to the civilian side. They took their equipment, buildings and organisational structure with them, they became a “private” army for the citizens against the state.
i love France
There in lies the essence of freedom.Opression needs a tool and its not guaranteed it will be readily available
Very risky. The older Police may have been properly educated and capable of spotting who the real villains are.
jesus he fucking loves it doesnt he .
They can’t accept their citizens who live in a democracy, exercising their democratic right to protest!
No, and it’s very manipulative – the apparent “state of emergency” (which doesn’t really exist) means that no protests are allowed, and any protesters are condemned as super-spreaders. The question is: when are you allowed to exercise your democratic right to protest?
When? At all times, and you have to be prapared to defend it too.
I would have though once you have put on a mask and used some hand sanitiser .Thats how ive read the rules
…”we live in a democracy”
and the right to protest is a key part of living in a democracy……….except in Australia.
Quite strange how they hate the Chinese authorities and criticise them for restraining their citizens but then adopt Chinese tactics
I’m not sure that do they do hate them, deep down (under). After all, the Australians and New Zealanders have been as busy and assiduous as we in the UK, selling ourselves to the Chinese and encouraging them by, for example,letting them infiltrate and influence higher education establishments; just one place among many.
Like the fallacious “wealth trickle down” theory, Western “democracies” delude themselves that somehow democratic mores will rub off on the benighted Chinese and others. Not so, and the Chinese must be gleeful that the reverse is true, and we are adopting the behaviours and standards of the CCP.
Did anyone catch that speech from the Chinese president recently suggesting that anyone who challenges the might and power of China will have their heads smashed against a wall of steel.I think he was called Fu Manchu or something
What’s fallacious about wealth trickle down? People take risks and start businesses, then employ people. How else is wealth generated? Please don’t tell me it’s something to do with government mandates…
I haven’t seen western governments proeprly criticising the Chinese Commie party’s human rights abuses lately, they “condemn” it but they never do anything meaningful, like make use of one of thsoe expensive predator drones, funded by taxpayers, to carry out some work over the Beijing.
The Chinese government’s moral standing is no better than that of the taliban, why is it not the done thing to give some hellfire to dictators after so much practice doing it to terrorist training camps (and half the time local afghan schools).
Australia isn’t alone in redefining the word “democracy”, in New Zealand they’ve said democracy depends on citizens truting only their government’s words to be gospel truth, in Germany they’ve said that lockdown sceptics (“lateral thinkers” is the movement’s name over there) threaten “the unthinking obedience on which democracy depends”, in the UK we are constantly demonised as anti-democratic…
Democracy depends on freedom .If ayone doesnt know this then they really dont deserve it.
My god lightning bolt moment ive ben saying this all along .wasnt the Lockdown a Chinese ides ,The same Chinese that the West have villified and mistrusted for the last 100 years until now .Yes that lockdown from those realy dodgy Chinese people who threaten weaker nations seems like a really good idea Mmmmm error of judgement somewhere id say
This could get quite fun
That signage “We are your employers – we are not your slaves” should be shown everywhere!
You’ve got to ask just who are the ‘half wits’ and its not the protesters!
At last the Aussies are awakening and no police strike force will be able to find enough prison spaces to contain them all.
Well for starters there wont be enough policmen or soldiers or security officers because they can not defend issiues that also effect the bodies charged with implementing these meaures Lost cause from the start .This great reset is only a go-er when the people say not when two dozen politicians decide its going to happen .Communism would never end they said but it did when the people decided they had enough
Here we go…………………………………..
Gamma variant could have ‘high attack rate even in fully vaccinated people’ – new study (msn.com)
Onto ‘G’ already, time flies
We’ve had lambda already. They can’t even get the alphabet right.
It flies backwards :-). As far as I remember, the Greek alphabet goes alpha, beta, gamma, delta, meaning, this is the Brazilian variant of old (or the South-African one, whichever was first).
Excellent, and with a ‘HIGH ATTACKKKKKK RATE” too – perfect timing for the start of the ”booster jab for the stupid” season
Why is this reported as new study when it’s just a repetition of the same “There’s something we don’t know and this could be dangerous!” nonsense which is been lingering in the headlines ever since Chris Whitty invented the Kent-variant in order to convince Boris Dontchacallmebrightpal to prohibit family Christmas celebrations?
‘look out because these 400 officers will turn to 4,000 if needs be.’
And look out, the numbers of protesters will increase, too. People like this need to be put back in their box.
I do so hope he lives to regret calling the protesters “halfwits”. I’m sure they won’t forget. Maybe he won’t be quite so brash when the real criminals of this shitshow are held to account.
Absolute disgrace that ‘they’ decide what freedoms we’ll now have and then prosecute when ‘we’ don’t agree. Hope they dont run for the hills and escape when the time comes for the backlash
Chaos descends on Sydney CBD as police clash with lockdown protestors – YouTube
French protests kicking off around 2pm CET, 3 locations in Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Toulouse etc.
It looks like the Senate is today knocking back some of the terms of the extension of the health pass and threatening to derail the process unless the government agrees. In particular linking the health pass to the decaration of the ste of emergency which they want to end on 31 October. Macron wanted it expending to 31 December.
Good to see the Australian police getting a kicking. They are as bad as ours, if not worse. The public needs to vent its fury on the politicians and scientists who are ordering lockdowns worldwide. String them up.
Q Is it true that Fauci’s wife is NIH chief of bioethics and Human Subjects Research. The one who rubber stamps exceptions to normal drug and vaccine testing? : A Dr Christine Grady is Dr Anthony Fauci’s wife. You can check out her profile at https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/meet-our-doctors/cgrady.html
Can’t help but think that the Australian government is panicking – they basically bet on a vaccine appearing which provided full sterilising immunity. That hasn’t happened and there’s no indication that it ever will, but they have gone way too far to be able to back down – they basically have no viable plan to get out of this continual cycle of on/off lockdowns, but if they let them continue it’ll lead to either econiomic collapse or serious social unrest, whichever comes first.
Steralising Immunity is probably a quite accurate description, considerimg what has been said about the dangers to the overaries of women of child bearing age, not to mention sperm counts in men.
Pray tell us, what happens to sperm counts in men?
As he said in NSW “the new world order is here, so get used to it”. They are in the process of destroying the old order.
The old order is fighting back.
Aussie demos reported in DM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9820691/Australian-anti-lockdown-protestors-clash-police-amid-new-restrictions-just-176-new-cases.html
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‘Worldwide freedom events today, stand up to this tyranny!’
Evidently we are not alone!
I don’t know why Australia’s politicians continue with this wasteful ‘middleman’ act. They might as well call in the Red China’s People’s Armed Police and be done with it.
Arsey pap for short? Like it
Western officials that fancy themselves as strongmen are doing a stellar job of subverting western democracy.
Phrases like “400 will become 4000 if necessary” or “if nightclubs don’t follow the guidance we will have to make it mandatory” are the language of authoritarian thugs.
What is intriguing to me is whether they are so stupid they don’t realise they are subverting freedom and democracy, whether they don’t care or whether it is actually their intent?
‘What is intriguing to me is whether they are so stupid they don’t realise they are subverting freedom and democracy, whether they don’t care or whether it is actually their intent?’
They are banking on digital passports,, so they’ll be able to control all our movement.
People should ditch their smartphones – that will put a mighty spanner in the works.
Do they really subvert it? Or just expose its properties?
Lockdowns et al became a tool of choice for ‘democratic’ politicians because of propaganda campaigns convincing them that they’d be popular with (mostly older and more numerous) voters.
In my experience it’s mostly younger people complying and demanding more rules to keep them safe. I despair when I see teenagers in masks and I feel like asking them what they’re afraid of.
They are all under one central command: the WEF, World Bank, Gates, Sorros, Vatican, Rockerfellers.
I sincerely hope all who attended this protest and may have been caught on statsi-cameras are getting ready to defend their homes when Kim Jong Dan’s gestapo come for them. Nobody needs to protest against the virus, it is thankfully mild for most people, it is the restrictions (ineffective and actively damaging) which need protesting against, they are the thing doing the harm. If protesters are to be hunted down and rounded up for peaceful activity then it only serves to encourage them towards less peaceful action.
There will have to be massive uprisings to get out of this.
Clearly, the Victoria Premier doesn’t understand, they are not protesting against a virus, they are protesting against HIM. Maybe he should go home, lock his doors and shut himself away, because if the police actvas they are threatening, the protesters will be coming for him.
Frankly, if I were the Aussie politicians, I would be shitting my pants right now. Because sooner or later some more enthusiastic protester will take it out on them personally.
And they will be even morally justified in that vigilantism. Preaching effectiveness of vaccines to vaccine imbeciles (those who don’t want to take them, just in case it’s misunderstood by our friends here), and quite another to be permanently taking away people’s freedoms, introducing useless “green passes”, following hopeless isolation policies and what not. These are indeed two very distinct issues, grossly conflated by the dumber of the politicians out there.
Politicians like to conflate anti-vaxxers with lockdown sceptics and anti-passporters, lets them write us all off as a “bunch of crazies”.
Yes, vaccines require science to discover and applied science to manufacture, unlike lockdown, which is communist.
Not a chance. Australia is more authoritarian than the UK and most citizens are meekly compliant. The country was founded by jailers and the culture has persisted.
That’s the impression I got when I visited family there. I was really surprised as that’s not the impression we’re given, but they tend to believe everything they’re told. In Queensland they have posters demonising anyone who does 1KPH over the ridiculous speed limits and they all drive up and down the motorway for hundreds of miles at 100KPH, bumper to bumper, like sheep, no understanding of braking distances seems to be required. There was an election while I was there and they are legally required to vote and when I questioned this, (hardly democratic I pointed out- you should have the right not to vote if you don’t agree with any of the options), it was as if I’d suggested kidnapping children. It is their duty to vote- simple as that, like talking to speak your weight machines and their first reaction to things they didn’t like was often ‘it should be banned’. So much for the argument that you have to vote to uphold democracy…
And in the UL too
Katie Hopkins joins thousands in Trafalgar Square for ‘Freedom Rally’
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Or in other words, Australia prepares for war on its citizens. And I’ll say this too. If anyone in Australia has taken encouragement from any comments on this forum over the months, we can be very, very proud. Absolutely despicable what’s being done to people there (and not least women and children).
There were rallies and marches all over the world. Lindon, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol in UK had their numbers turning out too. Paris and 199 other towns in France had thousands turning out. Not an iota of reporting in UK. No wonder the new alternative media is becoming so successful and the mainstream is losing its voice.
It’s so interesting how these Australian protests are viewed by the authorities now. Any attempt to reclaim a life normal life is seen automatically as deviant despite the ability of all to see that deaths from this virus are absolutely tiny in Australia. Every Australian must see that there is no way out of the current situation if their current leaders are in charge. Seems that some are protesting the only way they know how – by leaving their Australian prison. I wonder for how much longer they’ll be able to do that?
I don’t understand why the authorities in Australia, and here, seem to think that lockdowns do any good. All they are doing in Australia is delaying the end of the problem. Here we are seeing clearly that the surges of the virus, and their following retreats, are nothing to do with any government measures. Cases are now falling rapidly at the very time we were told they would be rising out of control.
Another triumph for Zero Covid – the Covid blueshirts (and a hostile media) going ape against peaceful protesters exercising their democratic rights to assembly. Two weeks ago, the federal and all state governments agreed to a four-phase plan for exit from the lockdown cycle. Phase One is the lockdown status quo but with lockdown to be used as ‘last resort’. That didn’t last long, with New South Wales, Victoria and my state of South Australia pulling the hard lockdown lever at the first sign of a rogue ‘case’ evading the Contact Tracing bloodhounds. What chance Phase Four (no lockdowns and focusing on the metrics of serious health outcomes not phantom ‘cases’)?
I never thought I would be envious of you lot in the UK but it looks like even Boris’ Britain, now free from lockdowns and from the uniformed goons, is more open, and human, than us.
The awful details of Australia’s Zero Covid policy pickle are here (if you want t see the sort of thing you’ve just escaped): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2021/07/when-policy-is-impaled-on-a-covid-spike/
Phil
South Australia
Hey Phil – I got out five years ago and most of my friends and some of my stuff is still over there – I spoke to a friend there yesterday – actually worried about people topping themselves – the state and fed govts there disgust me as much as here but the twist is Australia pop much smaller and supposedly more ‘controllable’. So you guys are going to feel repression so much more. Here a massive population means you can go under radar more. My heart goes out to you and I only hope a tipping point comes here re: damage being done via vaccines (ie worse for people in every way), and govts lose face, faith and power. Rise up but stay sane – best to you
First they came for the lockdown skeptics, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a lockdown skeptic
Then they came for the anti mask wearers, and I did not speak out—
Because I wore my mask.
Then they came for those who had not had their jabs, and I did not speak out—
Because I had my jabs
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Think carefully all you journalists, politicians and “scientists” !
We are heading for worldwide Dictatorships. It was telling in the UK that protests such as BLM the Police stood by and watched as things were smashed up, statues pulled down, windows broken. Contrast that with lockdown protests: in almost all cases the Police waded in and beat people up. In one case which was filmed the people were standing chatting, some dancing and playing music. There had been no violence at all from the million or so attendees. The Police ranked up outside the park and marched in batons raised. They were driven back and sent in a more military style squad. This is now accepted as normal. We are heading for a Polcie state and a Communist dictatorship to match our Communist PM.
Well done to all these Australian Freedom Warriors.
Australians being pushed towards civil war, if Muppet political leaders keep talking “tough”.
I can believe this guy Elliot is calling the protesters “halfwits” .The very king of halfwits not recognising any of his own faults at all .This epitomises the whole lockdown problem with educated peple acting like idiots and the masses having to come up with the common sense .Unbeliavable .Has anybody seen that film Idiocracy ??
Well done to all those brave antipodean souls but what about the rallies around the UK? I seem to remember attending one in Trafalgar Square yesterday but no report here.
Australia clearly is no longer a democracy if people are being charged for just attending a demonstration. Attending a demonstration is a basic right in any democracy.
They have 163 detected infections by a test that is not accurate, they are not cases unless those infected have symptoms that need medical attention. They need to protect the vulnerable and let the rest get on with their lives.