{"id":27368,"date":"2020-09-04T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27368"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:51:11","slug":"australia-goes-full-bore-toward-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=27368","title":{"rendered":"Australia Goes Full Bore Toward a Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pregnant Australian Mother Arrested In Her Home Over Facebook Lockdown Protest Post<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>For those that have either mocked or merely ignored the idea that big government may be (is) using the pandemic as an &#8220;excuse&#8221; to exercise more control over every aspect of your life, we present:\u00a0<em>Exhibit A.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Zoe Buhler is a 28 year old pregnant mother who lives just outside of Melbourne, Australia. She was handcuffed in her own living room on Wednesday afternoon and charged with &#8220;incitement&#8221; after officers entered her private property (with a search warrant) and began reading Buhler her rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=mTe0G-vx\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=mTe0G-vx\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=Hyjr762K 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=Hyjr762K 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=Hyjr762K 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=Hyjr762K 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=Hyjr762K 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg?itok=mTe0G-vx 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/buh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c9988299-fff2-4449-a56f-3ff36eec5d41\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption>Buhler and her boyfriend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What could have prompted such a robust response from law enforcement? Buhler made a Facebook post that allegedly incited a &#8220;anti-lockdown protest&#8221; in Victoria. &#8220;Anyone from Ballarat please join us in our fight for freedom and human rights!&#8221; she wrote on the page.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows Buhler trying to be reasonable and plead with officers, informing them that she has an ultrasound &#8220;in an hour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1301278060675821571&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmarkets%2Fpregnant-australian-mother-arrested-her-home-over-facebook-lockdown-protest-post&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1301278060675821571\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She asks the officers, bewildered: &#8220;Excuse me, incitement for what, what on Earth? I&#8217;m in my pajamas, my two kids are here.\u00a0I have an ultrasound in an hour because I&#8217;m pregnant.&#8221; She insisted she hadn&#8217;t broken any law by putting up the post and offered one more than one occasion to simply take the post down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=5e6tJ1xW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=5e6tJ1xW\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=n0KNR8WZ 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=n0KNR8WZ 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=n0KNR8WZ 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=n0KNR8WZ 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=n0KNR8WZ 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/post.jpg?itok=5e6tJ1xW 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/post.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"547\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e8c8ca73-706f-4022-9b23-4ffd6b4ce03f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption>A look at the &#8220;offending&#8221; Facebook post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Actually you are, that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re arresting you in relation to incitement,&#8221; the officers told her.\u00a0<strong>Meanwhile, her boyfriend also tried to offer up some common sense, stating: &#8220;How about she just doesn&#8217;t do the event? It&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s done it, she made a post.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve already committed the offense,&#8221; police responded.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to arresting the pregnant mother over a Facebook post, police then informed her that they had a search warrant and that they needed to seize and confiscate all electronic devices in her home.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Buhler weighed in to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8688793\/Pregnant-mum-arrested-Facebook-post-inciting-coronavirus-protest.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>, stating: &#8220;This is absolutely disgusting!! Why don\u2019t they do their job and catch some real criminals. This fear mongering is ridiculous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Victoria police said that fines will be issued to anyone that considers attending the protest anyway: &#8220;We will have no\u00a0hesitation in issuing $1,652 fines to anyone who is breaching the restrictions on the day, or making arrests if necessary.&#8221;\u00a0The police contend that the protests &#8220;put lives at risk&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Jones of Sky News wrote on his Facebook page: &#8220;Thankfully I am not the only Australian who thinks this is appalling, disgusting and disgraceful.\u00a0<strong>The only person guilty of incitement is the Premier of Victoria.<\/strong>\u00a0His outlandish grab for power, his disdain of any accountability is forcing people to behaviour simply designed to take back their freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buhler was ultimately charged with incitement and released on bail. She is due in court January 25. The post has been taken down.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/pregnant-australian-mother-arrested-her-home-over-facebook-lockdown-protest-post\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/pregnant-australian-mother-arrested-her-home-over-facebook-lockdown-protest-post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant Australian Mother Arrested In Her Home Over Facebook Lockdown Protest Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}