It’s ironic that Australia, founded as a penal colony way off the beaten Western track, is now building what some are calling a “COVID concentration camp” off the beaten track in Australia.
Not a surprising development given what I related yesterday about “Soviet Australia,” the camp is technically called a “dedicated regional quarantine facility.” Townhall’s Matt Vespa reports on the story:
Well, this is what happens when you don’t have a Second Amendment. This is what happens when you don’t have a bill of rights [sic]. The hysterics over COVID here are unbearable. It’s hyperbole on steroids. Anthony Fauci and his clown troop have peddled science fiction for months. While there’s debate over ending forever wars, the lab coats want a forever pandemic. In Australia, that latter nightmare is already alive and well. You’ve seen the reports of teenagers and old people being tasered and pepper-sprayed for not abiding by the nation’s COVID protocols. We’re tasering you for your health. We’re pepper-spraying you … for your health. It’s part of Australia’s COVID zero policy which ensured a forever pandemic, a never-ending lockdown. And now, we have COVID concentration camps coming. It’s come full circle.
Vespa then presents two outrageous tweets trumpeting the endeavor from Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk (below).
Palaszczuk is obviously a scientific obscurantist; she’s wearing in her Twitter photo a mask that has been shown to offer little protection against coronavirus, for one thing. She’s also labeling Delta as “dangerous” despite a U.K. report finding that it “is likely 20 times less deadly than the alpha [original] strain” and the fact that the virus is now claiming relatively few lives. This is irrational.
What’s happening is tyrannical, too. “Australia has already turned its military against its own citizens to hunt down protestors, and even a man who is COVID positive and left his home,” notes American Thinker editor in chief Thomas Lifson. “The loss of basic freedoms is being protested, but not by overwhelming numbers sufficient to dissuade the power-hungry politicians. The public, in fact, is being told by media to be grateful when a few liberties are conditionally restored” — as evidenced by the following tweet (also courtesy of Vespa).
“Given new freedoms”… How magnanimous. Ever feel as if you’re supposed to be a child and the government is a sadistic, derelict parent with multiple personality disorders?
Unfortunately, reading the comments under Palaszczuk’s tweets reveals much support for Australian COVID craziness. In fact, the “land we Americans associate with Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin turns out to be a land populated by evil nannies and frightened children,” laments commentator Andrea Widburg. Yet some Australians are nonetheless pushing back — in an interesting way. Consider the following, from a British publication called The Daily Expose (courtesy of Widburg):
Video messages from Australian truck drivers have surfaced in some of the alternative social media sites in recent days stating that they are going to take their country back, by going on strike and creating a blockade that will choke the supply chain.
They are warning Australians to prepare, and stock up on food and basic necessities while they do this. They claim to have widespread support among “truckies” and also among military veterans.
They recently had a “snap” protest in Sydney where dozens of trucks spanning miles lined up blowing their horns in a sign of solidarity against tyranny.
Below is a video of some truckers outlining their plan and requesting citizen support (warning: strong language).
Widburg correctly states that we can’t know if this will work. After all, the Australian government tyrants have enlisted the military to enforce their lockdowns as they attempt to keep the Land Down Under under their jackboot.
Widburg does, however, draw an interesting historical parallel. “I remember how Lech Wałęsa and his fellow Gdańsk shipyard workers, in 1980, created the Solidarity movement that was the first major political movement to stand against the Soviet Union. (Poland, after all, was just a satellite of the Soviet Union.),” she reminds us. “There was a straight line between the shipyard workers’ strike and the fall of the Berlin Wall nine years later and the Soviet Union’s final demise in 1991.”
Also coming to mind, though, is a famous quotation from legendary British prime minister Winston Churchill. “If you will not fight for right when … your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival,” he warned. “There may be even a worse fate: You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Right now, this “fight” involves only civil disobedience, but the odds are already against liberty-loving and sanity-acknowledging Australians. But remember that their fight is our fight because, with today’s “small world,” what happens in Australia doesn’t stay in Australia. Fauci and fellow travelers are watching, and what transpires Down Under will absolutely influence what boot they next decide to stamp down on our collective masked face.
