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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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.
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.
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.
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 ??
Australians being pushed towards civil war, if Muppet political leaders keep talking “tough”.
Well done to all these Australian Freedom Warriors.
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.
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” !
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
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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
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.
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?
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.
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).
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Sorry, meant UK!
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…
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.
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.
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 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.
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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!
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
Chaos descends on Sydney CBD as police clash with lockdown protestors – YouTube
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
‘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.
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?