It’s been over two years since waves of ever tightening restrictions, including wholesale house arrests, began to be placed on healthy citizens who had committed no crime. One by one, the world’s democracies buckled to the herd panic about the Covid pandemic sweeping the world and their governments increasingly took on hues of totalitarian regimes in telling people when, where, how far, how long and with whom and how many they could go out or even sleep with; what businesses could operate and under what conditions; what medications doctors could and could not prescribe irrespective of their own professional judgement and knowledge of their patients; and mandatory mask and vaccine requirements for an array of social and professional interactions.
Many directives lacked scientific basis and some were downright wacky – there really is no better word for it. The apotheosis of executive overreach came in Canada with the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and in the Australian state of Victoria. In both, MPs betrayed the people, the country and the constitution by putting their own careers first, the party second and the country last. The unchecked growth of the administrative state and centralisation of authority, power and decision-making in prime ministers’ and premiers’ offices fused seamlessly into the rise of the biofascist state. Complicity by the media in propagating fear porn, social media censorship of alternative voices and threats of disciplinary proceedings including dismissal and deregistration by professional governing bodies ensured there’s been a stifling conformism.
The biggest surprise for me was the ease with which freeborn citizens fell into unquestioning compliance. Human rights commissions went MIA just when most needed. The ACT (Canberra: my jurisdiction until this year) Human Rights Commission, for example, resorted to vague generalities: “Restrictions on rights should only stay in place for as long as they are necessary, and they should not limit rights more severely than they need to.” It promised it was “monitoring the restrictions”. This was in December.
The biggest disappointment was the speed with which institutional bulwarks against executive tyranny – parliament, media, human rights commissions and lobby groups – buckled in the biggest onslaught on freedoms and liberties in history. The most profoundly disappointing was the abdication of the courts to keep a check on the descent into de facto if temporary tyranny, notwithstanding constitutional safeguards like the Charter of Rights in Canada. Courts mostly deferred to the executive.
Thus several legal challenges to the growing array of U.K. restrictions in the name of public health simply fizzled out. In a series of decisions in 2020-21, Australian courts upheld the validity of COVID-19 restrictions, including Palmer v Western Australia (2021), Loielo v Giles (2020), Gerner v State of Victoria (2020) and Cotterill v Romanes (2021). Victoria’s Supreme Court dismissed challenges to public health orders because the test of proportionality had to be applied to the package of measures taken as a whole, which had helped to mitigate the pandemic risk. On vaccine mandates, on November 3rd a federal judge ruled that Victoria could fire nurses who refused Covid vaccines. On December 8th, the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled against a crowd-funded legal challenge to vaccine mandates for teachers, health and age care workers and some construction workers that was first rejected in a court in October and then appealed. Most consequentially of all, in February 2021 the High Court, Australia’s top court, upheld Western Australia’s border closure. Law professor James Allan has argued that had PM Scott Morrison not chickened out of supporting mining magnate Clive Palmer’s challenge, he would likely have won.
Maybe, just maybe, the courts are starting to bestir themselves to restore balance and normality. Last October, an Ontario labour arbitrator ruled employees cannot be disciplined or terminated for refusing vaccination. In March, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled that a mother doesn’t have to vaccinate her children just because this is encouraged by the Government. In January, South Africa’s employment tribunal held an employee’s dismissal for refusing vaccination was unfair. On February 25th, the New Zealand High Court upheld a challenge to vaccination mandates for police and defence personnel. In February, Austria’s powerful 14-member Constitutional Court sought detailed data from the health ministry on hospitalisations, masks and vaccines to justify strict COVID-19 measures. The compulsory vaccination law was passed in January and took effect in February, making Austria the first EU country to go down that route, with fines of up to €3,600 for dissenters from mid-March. Just a month later, however, the Government abandoned the effort because the “encroachment of fundamental rights” could no longer be justified as the Omicron variant was less severe than earlier variants. The court’s questions likely nudged the Government into pulling back. Last month, Sicily’s Court of Administrative Justice held vaccine mandates to be unconstitutional because mRNA vaccines had been shown to cause “serious or fatal side effects”. Even if fatalities are rare, even a single death was enough to invalidate the mandate. The case will now proceed to Italy’s Constitutional Court.
Because of the compliance pull that the U.S. Supreme Court exercises globally, its decision on January 13th to vacate the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, with limited mandate for healthcare workers in facilities receiving federal money, was momentous. The ruling by Florida’s federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle on April 18th, struck down mask mandates in public transport. Hers was a legal decision, not a political or scientific one: the CDC had exceeded its lawful authority. The ruling was met with spontaneous cheers and celebrations from crew and passengers alike after mid-flight announcements. The tone-deaf administration decided to appeal and the ever-reliable Anthony Fauci questioned the authority of courts to overrule health bureaucrats. Having earlier dismissed any criticism directed at him as attacking science itself, he now wants to place the CDC and National Institute of Health above the rule of law.
The decision from the Supreme Court of India on May 2nd is especially noteworthy. Firstly, because it’s the top court in the land, covering the entire country in its writ and including educational institutions and private organisations. Second, it affects 1.3 billion people. And third, because of its longevity, stature and robust independence that has often crossed into outright judicial activism, its opinions are influential in shaping discussions in other countries’ legal proceedings. The Court held that the central Government has the right to put restrictions on people’s rights as a public health safety measure. However, owing to “bodily integrity and personal autonomy”, under Article 21 of the Constitution no individual can be forced to get vaccinated. Most importantly, the Court based its decision on “emerging scientific opinion [that] appears to indicate that the risk of transmission of the virus from unvaccinated individuals is almost on par with that from vaccinated persons”. Therefore, vaccine mandates are not “proportionate”. In a further twist that will bring joy to Covid vaccine sceptics everywhere, the Court directed the Government to facilitate the reporting of suspected adverse effects on a publicly accessible platform.
If no other institution or forum will rigorously scrutinise the science and data behind public health orders that affect entire populations, then the courts are our last remaining hope in which to test the substance of the health advice and government decisions. That is the key significance of the Indian Supreme Court’s decision.
Ramesh Thakur is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy and a former UN Assistant Secretary-General.
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Politicians are ****s. Who knew
I meant WHO knew
Who knew that we KNEW?
It’s a shame the WHO jumped over “nu” as well as “xi”, because “nu” means “naked” in French.
And ‘nuxi’ is probably something unspeakable in Swahili.
It looks like Matt Hancock has voted you down.
‘Kharntes’ needs more asterisks than that.
“It’s a BIG club and you ain’t in it…they don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests…”
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1521205869253468160?s=20&t=m-5PUZI_0AwIVZghwJB5Ug
If she was going with a blood red dress with names on she has a Body Count a mile long she could get them from.
Wouldn’t you just love to punch the smug bitch in the face?
I admire Killary’s consistency. She looks bloody awful whatever she wears.
“Many directives lacked scientific basis and some were downright wacky”
I would say that all the directives fell into the defined categories of non scientific and downright wacky.
Or to put it another way, outright lies.
This site would not exist, and we would not be talking about such things if they had just been truthful from the outset.
The biggest surprise for me was the ease with which freeborn citizens fell into unquestioning compliance.
Me too – in fact over these last two years I have reluctantly come to accept just how easily we as a country that was once a lantern for standing up to tyranny overseas could ourselves slip easily into a form of oppressive dictatorship – the persecution of the maskless, the targeting of the unvaccinated, forcing people into wearing a mask and strong-arm tactics designed to coerce people to take up the vaccine offer or be outcast and suffer restrictions in their daily lives saw a supposedly ‘free country’ sink into some kind of dystopian tyranny – we used to boast in this country that a Nazi regime under Hitler or the Soviet communists under Stalin could never rise to power as they had done in Germany and Russia … now I’m not so sure.
I am sure. 100% sure. The people in the UK, as will the people in any other country, happily support tyranny, discrimination and promote hatred if it is peer-approved. It becomes peer-approved simply by enough people saying the same thing many times. The worst imaginable atrocities are committed by the weak and the easily led – that, as it turns out, is the vast majority of people everywhere. Social media has exaggerated the need for the weak and the easily led to seek peer approval, expanding the number of people who are capable of the most heinous acts. All a government has to do is plant the seeds, the people are idiotic enough to provide the water and let the seed grow.
“Social media has exaggerated the need for the weak and the easily led to seek peer approval”
Indeed.
I’d go so far as to say that that was all social media was ever about and intended form – a kind of behavioural conditional model, in the guise of letting people share pics of their lunch etc and deeply shallow and superficial to boot.
A kind of all over dumbing down strategy and hasn’t it worked a treat?
Got to say, when (if) people hundreds of years from now look back – they’ll realise that t’interweb was the worst invention ever.
And yet, here we are…..
Hmm – good point! I wasn’t thinking of this as “social media” (like Facebook), but of course it is.
Perhaps this is a self-selected site for the socially stroppy?
AE?
Who you calling stroppy?
Don’t agree. Without ol’ triple-W, we’d have to rely on governments and MSM for information.
Think there are good bit (here obvs) and bad bits
I agree completely.
I know there are people who resist and try to conduct serious conversations about serious matters – but look what happens to them!
I used to say “I don’t do social media”, because I didn’t – at all.
And yet here I am. But this is a war and these are exceptional circumstances.
Thanks to social media “peer approval” is achieved in the blink of an eye
If you look at the legislation which has been passed this year already and what is in the pipeline there isn’t any question about it.
State government overreach, uncorrected by the courts who instead deferred to the executive, as the author of the article rightly points out, has sunk us into a “kind of dystopian tyranny”.
We are already in it – just the bulk of the population don’t know that yet.
‘… just the bulk of the population don’t know that yet.’
Ir just doesn’t care?
Too busy cheering on ‘plucky’ Ukraine.
After getting second wind from clapping the NHS while it TikTok-ed and sent old folk back to carehomes to die and infect others.
Just like ‘Brave Little Belgium’ in 1914…the road to the Somme, Gallipoli and Passchendaele
A damned fine piece of work and much appreciated.
I wonder if our Judicial classes can now assist and find some cojones?
Thank you.
If you assume the population, and by extension, the press, the legal profession, the medical profession, your family and the guys down the pub are rational actors, imbued with a sense of morality, and well informed across the board on matters of science, politics and ethics, then these results will come as quite a surprise to you. If on the other hand, you consider humanity to be made up for the most part of clueless automatons, blindly following the herd, with no sense of up or down let alone right or wrong, then things are turning out pretty much as expected.
Two issues:
1.
Not very encouraging. Which rights? Under what conditions? Isn’t anything a public health safety measure?
2.
The problem is that legal appeals of this sort are very slow and by the time they come out, enormous damage has been made. Unless politicians and officials face consequences from their actions in line with the severity of their actions after a ruling of this kind – as would anyone else under normal circumstances who was found to have acted unlawfully – then we are not safe from governments and their bureaucracies continuing to run roughshod over us.
And a third issue, the case rested on “under Article 21 of the Constitution no individual can be forced to get vaccinated” which we don’t have in the UK (I’m not up in Indian Constiutional law so could stand to be corrected on that).
So, for that reason I am not 100% convinced that this offers those in the UK who wish to protect their bodily integrity and personal autonomy much of a precedent which can be successfully employed. Opposition lawyers could easily distinguish this case if someone sought to rely on it.
However, for the 1.3 billion people of the world who live in India this is excellent news. And I suppose it could therefore be argued that if 1.3 billion people are entitled by virtue of the decision to be free, then it makes it that much harder for the globalists to argue that the remaining, what, 5.7 billion people must be enslaved.
Well done India. I might think about relocating there -who knew eh?
Under UK Law subjecting an individual to a medical intervention without their informed consent, or by force or coercion is assault. It also contravenes International Conventions of which UK is a signatory.
Additionally, it is medical malpractice, as is using a laboratory test as a diagnostic test for which it is not suitable.
I don’t know why we don’t have more law suits. Where are all the ambulance-chaser solicitor companies and civil rights gobshites? Where were the Unions?
I contacted a lawyer to ask for help when I was threatened with the sack for not succumbing to coercion and having the jab.
The response was : I am unable to help I have differing views.
There have been cases going on but they have not been getting much publicity as you might expect.
The Together Campaign, Workers for England Union, PHA Law and Anna de Buisseret were a huge source of support to many when all others turned away.
Your first 2 paras are completely correct. But no court in the UK has had the integrity, principle, or guts over the course of the last 2 years to enforce any of it.
Aren’t Johnson/Raab “taking care of all that”?
And here is law in Australia’s western third: the vast state of Western Australia.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 – SECT 157157 . Serious public health incident powers (1) An authorised officer may do all or any of these —
(a) close any premises, or direct any person to close any premises;
(b) direct any person to enter, not to enter, or to leave any premises;
(c) direct any person to remain at any premises for any period specified by the officer;
(d) enter any premises and search for and seize anything for the purpose of investigating, preventing, controlling or abating the serious public health risk;
(e) require a person to provide information or answer questions for the purpose of investigating, preventing, controlling or abating the serious public health risk;
(f) enter and inspect any premises for the purpose of preventing, controlling or abating the serious public health risk;
(g) require any premises to be cleaned or disinfected for the purpose of preventing, controlling or abating the serious public health risk;
(h) require the destruction or disposal of anything for the purpose of preventing, controlling or abating the serious public health risk;
(i) direct any person to remain quarantined from other persons for any period, and in any reasonable manner, specified by the officer;
(j) direct any person to undergo medical observation, medical examination or medical treatment or to be vaccinated, as specified by the officer;
(k) take, or direct another person to take, any action that the authorised officer considers is reasonably necessary to prevent, control or abate the serious public health risk.
(2) A power under subsection (1) to enter any premises may be exercised without a warrant or the consent of the occupier of the premises or, in the case of a vehicle, the owner of the vehicle.
(3) The period specified under subsection (1)(c) or (i) must not be more than 24 hours unless the Chief Health Officer has authorised a longer period to be specified in relation to the person.
(4) A direction under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (i), (j) or (k) may be given to a class of person or in respect of a class of premises.
(5) A direction under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c), (i) or (k) that is given to a class of person or in respect of a class of premises —
(a) need not be given directly to the persons to whom it applies; and
(b) despite the Interpretation Act 1984 section 41 (to the extent to which it applies), need not be published in the Gazette ; and
(c) must be published in the manner that the Minister considers suitable in the circumstances of the serious public health incident.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 – SECT 158158 . Enforcement of requirement to undergo medical observation, medical examination (1) If an authorised officer gives a direction to a person under section 157(1)(j) to undergo medical observation, medical examination or medical treatment or to be vaccinated, an authorised officer or police officer may use reasonable force to ensure that the direction is complied with, including, if necessary —
(a) to apprehend and detain the person to whom the direction applies (the relevant person ) and take the relevant person to a place where the person is required to undergo medical observation, medical examination or medical treatment or to be vaccinated in accordance with the direction; and
(b) to detain the relevant person at the place where he or she is required to undergo medical observation, medical examination or medical treatment or to be vaccinated in accordance with the direction; and
(c) to restrain the relevant person —
(i) to enable a medical observation, medical examination or medical treatment to be carried out; or
(ii) to enable the relevant person to be vaccinated;
and
(d) to remove anything (including underwear) that the relevant person is wearing, if —
(i) the removal of the thing is reasonably necessary to enable a medical examination or medical treatment to be carried out or, as the case requires, to enable the person to be vaccinated; and
(ii) the relevant person is given a reasonable opportunity to remove the thing himself or herself, and refuses or fails to do so.
If anyone who can bear more, or is a connoisseur of weasel words, there’s this from Victoria:
Explainer: Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and your rights (humanrights.vic.gov.au)
Digressing a bit. Apologies.
I went to vote this morning in our elections. Was advised before hand that mask wearing would be encouraged and electoral officers would do everything to ensure people’s safety while they were voting. Safety? voting?
The electoral officials were seated behind huge perspex screens which prevented them establishing my identity – comparing me to my ID photo. So they had to separate the screens, in which case what were they for?. Voters were allowed to bring their own pens or pencils to mark their ballot [normally not allowed]
I walked out past a line of socially distanced people waiting in the open air to be admitted to the polling station. (SD – clear it is obvs never going to go away now, too engrained in people’s minds)
I have no idea how I managed to keep a straight face the whole way through the proceedings because in my head I was LMAO.
Tyranny at its worst or is more coming?
Good Lord AE, it does go on and on and on doesn’t it? Talk about leaving no stone unturned!
I think two distinct propositions got mixed up.
The first is contraints on an individual’s Rights for public health reasons, such as quarantining in a medical facility someone with a dangerous infectious disease, and their known contacts.
The second is removal of the principle of the Rights of a society for any reason. But this was done, rather than individual restrictions where warranted.
It is unlikely anyone with a dangerous disease, or a contact would resist medical care including quarantine, so force would not be necessary.
You only need force with healthy people.
Well, at least we’ve discovered that breaking the law and misleading the House aren’t sacking offences if you’re a porky, bumbling PM.
Especially if you are really a devious and ruthless narcissist, Globalist, faking being a cuddly, ‘porky , bumbling PM’?
Sooner or later some ‘anti-vaxxer’ will have the ‘Nelson Mandela’ ‘Rivonia Trial’ proceedings.
‘With respect, I ask your Honour to recuse yourself from this case. I challenge the right of this court to try me.
This court represents a State which has abandoned the principles of legal due process, scientific integrity and the inalienable rights of human beings worldwide and seeks to curtail my liberties for no better reason that I refuse to submit to edicts based on shoddy unscientific assertions, media prostitution and governmental corruption.
I have had no right to judge officials based on their performance during the Covid19 crisis and, had I had that right, I would have been coruscating in my condemnation of their incompetence, their ignorance, their shameless betrayal of the citizens who elected them; and their courting of corrupt overseas oligarchs possessing neither health expertise nor a belief in the inalienable rights of humankind.
I freely admit that I have refused to participate in any Covid19 vaccination protocols, either for myself or for my children and it is a matter of principled pride that I say that. As a human being, irrespective of skin colour, racial grouping, sexual preferences, religious affiliations and dietary convictions, not to mention irrespective of what my views might be about political parties, ‘climate change’ and the prostitution of the media, I have an absolute right to take decisions I believe to be correct, even if every single member of the Government claims otherwise.
I freely admit that I have opposed the economic armageddon imposed on the people of this country by economically illiterate health officials; unprincipled and self-serving civil servants; and trumped up johnny-cum-lately political stunt-folk. I have done so because the evidence of health benefits accruing from such economic armageddon have been scandalously- and glaringly absent.
I freely admit that I hold both William Gates III and Anthony Fauci in absolute contempt. I do not recognise the authority of Gates to impose health dogma upon the whole world, since I had zero say in whether his financial investment in the WHO was in keeping with the original aims of an organisation that is now fatally flawed in its medical integrity. I, like the US population, have zero say in whether Fauci should be fired for gross professional misconduct, not to mention wilful premeditated murder of African- and Indian citizens in their home countries.
I contend that Boris Johnson, Matthew Hancock, Sajid Javid, Keir Starmer, Mark Sedwill have zero ability to interrogate the ministrations of Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance and I I challenge any assertions that the Regius Professor of Medicine, a Canadian citizen, puts the health of the UK populace before the preservation- and growth of his not inconsiderable wealth.
I stand before you prepared to challenge every single action of the UK Government, its advisors and the media prostitutes it bought through a billion pounds of bungs during lockdown, replacing all the lost commercial advertising revenues.
I have zero interest in maintaining any facade of dignity for all those whose actions I intend to excoriate. Their behaviour the past two years makes any possibility of compromise impossible.
This court proceeding is going to be a trial of government actions and accountabilities, in as much as my own actions derive directly and ineluctably from those shamefully shameless actions which have blighted the honest- and decent part of this country’s prospects for the remainder of the 21st century.
I confidently expect you to deny me a trial by jury and I confidently expect you to sell your conscience to whatever level of bid the Government has offered you to ensure a speedy and unconstitutional conviction.
An absolutely integral part of my strategy is ensuring that those who agree with my position will spread the message loud and clear, across as wide a part of the world’s population as is conceivably possible.
This is not you as a judge vs me as a defendant.
It is the unprincipled, corrupt Establishment against the honest and decent people of the world.
Let battle commence and let the world decide whether UK court rooms still have any capability to dispense true justice, not justice bought by the most powerful and corrupt influences in the USA; the billionaire class of the UK and Europe; and any others whose self-serving interests align with the repression of the honest- and decent peoples of the world.’
Respect.
Great post (goes off to look up the word coruscating
)
“coruscating” – ripped him a new one.
I’d be amazed if Gates has enough money to provide the security he will need when sufficient folk cotton on to his plans to kill them.
I doubt anyone could put it better, thank you!
On your side all the way
I think Michael Senger summed up the response of the courts pretty well:
“Perhaps these judges believed that investigating lockdowns from a forensic perspective was someone else’s job—either scientists or intelligence agencies, who were largely distracted by the Wuhan lab. Or perhaps lockdowns were such a shameless inversion of enlightenment principles that judges were cowed, thinking that they had to be missing something. Whatever the reason, western governments provied unprepared to cope with or even comprehend wide-scale scientific fraud. The judges deferred to the politicians.The politicians deferred to the health officials. The health officials deferred to the WHO. The WHO deferrd to China. And China deferred to Xi.” (Snake Oil:How Xi Jimping Shut Down the World, Michael P Senger, P 132).
I was really expecting that a court somewhere would actually look at the data about mortality, the lack of effectiveness of lockdowns, the lack of effectiveness of facemasks or the lack of effectiveness and secondary effects of vaccines, but they never did. This is a shameful episode in our legal history which Senger explains well, I think.
Indeed Dogman… and here’s cuddly healthcare expert and friendly nerd philanthropist Bill stating that folk state strange things about him like he’s making money from vaccines…?
https://twitter.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1521694286429003776?s=20&t=i46q6z9tQCB2s2AZWvgfew
And yet when in Davos Gates bragged about how vaccines had delivered an over a 20 to 1 return…the best investment ever?
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1520191130201059328?s=20&t=CtNSqiNId0K7–bWBiC63A
Its always been a montage of lies
A Twitter of Lies
I’m sick of seeing or hearing this disingenuous excuse afforded to those who pushed this.
There was no panic. So little in fact that big pharma “advisers” told politicians to spend eye-watering amounts of tax payer money on scaring the wits out of the public.
And there was NO pandemic. People have been made to fear renamed common cold and flu. As long as so-called sceptic websites like this participate in the fraud, the criminals will get away with it.
Absolutely Bang on the Money.
The herd panic came after Governments launched all-out psychological warfare to make the herd panic. So-called ‘democracies’ didn’t make it out of the starting gate.
Cue “expert” in psyops …Susan Michie!
Gig of a lifetime!
And I can guarantee that neither Danfuhrer nor Masky Mark will get a question about this tomorrow.
I’ve posted sections 157 and 158 of the 2016 WA Act, G6. How many people have any idea?
Not many, Alt. And we can’t even drop this at Masky’s feet: the state Liberals were still in government in 2016.
But according to this page at WA Health:
Local governments will enforce the Public Health Act 2016.
Authorised officers (previously known as environmental health officers) are responsible for investigating any public health matter within their local government boundaries.
I can’t recall any such work done by local governments in the last two years. It’s all been from state government level.
Safe to say that a few pamphlets have been distributed and maybe a few statements were made, but local councils have been out of the picture for the most part.
The decisions that say the impositions can’t continue because omicron is not as severe are worrying given that the original was not very dangerous.
It was not “panic”, nor the result of a failure to follow real “science” and “data”.
@Ramesh, emeritus professor, specialist in “political science” and (I think) international relations, come the next lockdown that goes at least as far as those of 2020 and 2021 and probably much further, will you update your opinion?
The rulers’ approach was successful. It just seems their aim may have been completely different from what you think it was.
PS Surely with nuclear non-proliferation as one of your topics of interest, you are aware that there are facts concerning biological warfare that don’t get discussed “in front of the children”?
It was the planned creation of ‘panic ‘ Globally as a means to impose Lockdowns and Mass “Vaccination”.
Calls to bring in road pricing in UK to cut down car use (msn.com)
I know it’s not related to the above article but can I please ask everyone to boycott Stagecoach in light of their above attack on our freedom to own and use private cars. Ironically, reducing the use of Stagecoach’s filthy diesel buses which belch out particulates and diesel fumes will probably be better for the environment than their cynical attempts to reduce the use of relatively clean modern petrol, diesel ad electric cars.
Brian Souter the co-founder of Stagecoach is a total turd. When passengers who had paid him to convey them by train complained about the cr*ppy service they got, he sneered that anyone who complained should watch out because he’d tell their employers about what a nuisance they were being.
Needless to say, he’s as nouveau as f***.
No wonder he wants to stop motorists using their cars. Why would anyone with the freedom to drive use such an appalling company.
Hes a Scottisch Natzi Pratt, witha side interest in supporting the education of children in LGBTQ woke.
True colours will come out
France: no road fund licence, but an amount incorporated in the price of motor fuel, plus many autoroutes are privately operated and maintained toll roads.
It works well and is fair as people pay for road use according to how much they use them, and nobody can evade paying.
Why are people in the UK resistant to this system? A large slice of the road fund licence goes to fund Govt extravagance and is not spent on the roads.
I don’t know. I’m not resistant to such a system in principle. What I am resistant to is a private company such as Stagecoach lobbying the government to find ways of making it harder for motorists to use private cars such as increased charges, workplace parking levies and “other forms of parking controls”, as if parking is not hard enough already! They are also advocating the use of electronic tracking devices in all vehicles which must be resisted for obvious reasons.
Calls to bring in road pricing in UK to cut down car use (msn.com)
‘Maybe, just maybe, the courts are starting to bestir themselves to restore balance and normality.’
Good News – but it raises the question… why now? Has there been a disturbance in the Force?
Bravo to the Indian legal system in istinguishing itself and setting a fine precedent in upholding the sacrosanct principle of an independent judiciary to counter constant legislative (governmental) over-reach with its powerful innate inclination to authoritarianism.
Astounding that there have not been class legal actions based on the rights mentioned in the article and such as enshrined in international treaties like the Nuremburg Code and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU as regards the Right to the Integrity of the Person.
Amazing too that in the UK, with its long democratic heritage, that this could happen without any judicial check or balance, and where a public petition to, at least, attempt to prompt a parliamentary debate for an enquiry on vaccine safety is struggling to reach the required 100,000 signatures thus sending a sad message of apathy and indifference. Or is it acceptance by the public? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/602171
Just one Judge left standing – Jonathan Sumption.
Blair did a great ‘groundwork’ job!
What is possibly the world’s most important court has outlawed forced jabs. And the BBC does not give this a mention on its India news page. Perhaps not surprising but still outrageous.
Thank you Prof. Thakur for a neat short article.
BBC = Fake News Champion!
Doesn’t Fauci’s contention that his outfit outranks the justice system constitute contempt of court?
I’d love to see the tiny toad get done for that.
I think it would be more aptly be described as “unconstitutional” (as opposed to contempt of court) and so I hope that there are people in the US who are defenders of their constitution who will try to present it being usurped the way that he wants to happen.
Corporate hubris meets reality buffer.
Long overdue.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Ben Franlin
Feeble natives like the Brits need to be guided by superior cultures, like the Indians’.
Our Cabinet is, at most, 55% British.
How many non-Swedes are in the Swedish equivalent?
Yes, most of the Cabinet seem to be working for outside Agencies – principally the WEF the EU and Nato!
I suppose this explains the reluctance to tackle second jobs.
And will the courts speak up in timely manner for the next piece of the control matrix?
Not a chance.
And then you have my free salt water cure, which, if broadcast as well as mRNA vaccines have been, would have meant, in my opinion, that nobody needed to die or be vaccine injured – or be patented to the vaccine maker of choice – body and soul: Hydrogel patent US8415325B2 is listed in the Moderna patent, here. Hydrogels are also mentioned in a second Moderna patent, here. Hydrogel is listed in the Johnson & Johnson patent, here. Hydrogels are made from Graphene Oxide. Nobody can deny the evidence that Graphene Oxide is in the shots.
GMO HUMANS
All the Covid-19 “vaccine” patents mention gene deletion. All the patents except one, mention “complimentary DNA” (cDNA). cDNA is a chimeric mRNA cocktail that’s being coded into Human cells using artificial genetic sequences in cross-species genomics.
According to the US Supreme Court ruling in 2013, altering Humans with cDNA makes them patent eligible. The court documents show that cDNA is made using modified bacterium and Supreme Court judges ruled it patent eligible. This means that a plant, animal or Human, could be patented and owned if first genetically modified with cDNA.
Mark Steele summarized it perfectly by stating:
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that vaccinated people worldwide are products, patented goods, according to US law, no longer human. Through a modified DNA or RNA vaccination, the mRNA vaccination, the person ceases to be human and becomes the OWNER of the holder of the modified GEN vaccination patent, because they have their own genome and are no longer “human” (without natural people), but “trans-human”, so a category that does not exist in Human Rights. The quality of a natural person and all related rights are lost. This applies worldwide and patents are subject to US law.
Since 2013, all people vaccinated with GM-modified mRNAs are legally trans-human and legally identified as trans-human and do not enjoy any human or other rights of a state, and this applies worldwide, because GEN-POINT technology patents are under US jurisdiction and law, where they were registered.”
See link here: https://ambassadorlove.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/covid-19-patent-horrors/
My free salt water cure: 3 minutes from preparation to job done!!
Everything else you have read, or heard, is totally irrelevant – how simple is that?
Covid Crusher: Mix one heaped teaspoon of Iodine table salt in a mug of warm clean water, cup a hand and sniff or snort the entire mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore, then you have a virus, so continue morning noon and night, or more often if you want, until the soreness goes away (2-3 minutes) then blow out your nose and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, until when you do my simple cure, you don’t have any soreness at all, when you flush – job done. Also swallow a couple of mouthfuls of salt water and if you have burning in your lungs, salt killing virus and pneumonia, there too.
My simple salt water cure, kills all Coronaviruses and viruses, as soon as you think you have an infection, or while self isolating, before the viruses mutate into the disease in your head and body, for which there is no cure – that is, after you have been out shopping, or mixing with people with potentially, Omicron or Delta viruses, or any other virus.
It washes behind the eyes, the brain bulb, brain stem (Long Covid), The Escutcheon Tubes to the inner ears and the top of the throat which is at a point roughly level with half way up your ears and not where your mouth is and down the back of your throat, when sore.
I have been doing this simple cure for over 28.5 years and I am and others, never sick from viruses and there is no reason why any of you should be either – when your only alternative are those vaccines!!
I do my simple preparation, after I have been out and about, or come into contact with people who have been vaccinated – it has kept me safe – and I hope it keeps me safe for the foreseeable future as Graphene Oxide is in the very air we breathe, outside, as well, but now from the vaccinated!!
Simply put, if the inside of your nose is dry and crusty, you are OK, if your nose is runny, you really need to do a salt water sniffle as quickly as possible and monitor the results, to see if further salt water sniffles are necessary, but later on in that evening – so far – I remain immune from potential Covid infections, doing just this.
No vaccines for me – ever.
Good news but we still need more of it. Let us all not forget that we need to oppose the green nonsense too, scientifically unproven at best, which has a far greater potential to destroy life as we know it. The war goes on.
About time too
Fauci should be in prison now for his contribution to and support of the Chinese and USA labs that developed Covid. Why are Americans allowing him to remain in position and listening to anything he says. America should have a no holds barred proper investigation into his actions and involvement in everything that led to Covid and the effect on Americas economy for that and the unnececessary restrictions he proposed.
That will not happen until democrats are out
“The biggest surprise for me was the ease with which freeborn citizens fell into unquestioning compliance.”
I have a lot of siblings with their respective partners who are all, without exception, highly educated, highly intelligent, highly intellectual people who incredibly never stopped once to question what was going on, not once did they question why they felt the need to be jabbed then jabbed again, then again.. They even tried to persuade me to offer up my arm and were “beyond shocked” when I refused to ‘be responsible and save the NHS should I need to be hospitalised, and not be selfish by passing the virus on to others’.
To this day I am dismayed at their level of compliance and sheer sheep-like behaviour. In their high-flying jobs they must have needed to analyse data and make judgements based on that data and must have required that the data be robust and impartial, and yet, because the governments (UK and US as some live in the US) ‘told them’ then no iota of doubt was forthcoming. I can’t believe that my amazing, accomplished, admiral family members have let the rest of us down so monumentally. Very depressing, and of course I’m just the silly, selfish young sister/sister-in-law who is a rebel and a dangerous conspiracy theorist antivaxxer..
A good article that puts into stark reality the tyranny that spread so quickly around the world, and how difficult it is to stop that juggernaut once it starts. As it says here ‘The biggest surprise for me was the ease with which freeborn citizens fell into unquestioning compliance.’, which made it so easy for them. But things are finally changing, rays of hope here that bodily autonomy is finally being reinstated in many countries.
Excellent that somebody in Australia is at last backing the view that the whole covid debacle has been entirely unnecessary.
More power to your arm. Hope you don’t get summarily fired for this.