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But at least Philip Cunningham was imprisoned because he engaged in actual violence.<\/p>\n
Khallouf, on the other hand, was found guilty of\u2026 illegally crossing Australian state borders.<\/p>\n
That hasn\u2019t stopped the protests however.<\/p>\n
Thousands of Australian construction workers, for example, protested because they refuse to be coerced into vaccination against their will.<\/p>\n
They actually were peaceful protestors. For real. They literally sang the national anthem.<\/strong><\/p>\nYet police pepper sprayed them and fired rubber bullets into the crowd of thousands (which included children).<\/p>\n
Perhaps even more diabolical is that the government restricted the media from showing footage of the event as it was happening, and restricted airspace to prevent media helicopters from filming.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t stop people on the ground from recording it with their phones.<\/p>\n
In one exchange, a protestor filmed a police officer agreeing,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m just as over this fucking [lockdown] as you are,\u201d but, \u201cwe get paid to do this [fire on peaceful protestors] mate\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nI\u2019m just doing my job. I\u2019m just following orders.<\/em><\/p>\nOther police were caught on video going door-to-door to ask residents if they planned to attend, or knew of any planned protests.<\/p>\n
They asked one homeowner if he is on any social media platforms, but declined to tell him why they targeted that particular address.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s really crazy is that this authoritarianism goes beyond COVID hysteria.<\/strong><\/p>\nAustralia\u2019s parliament has passed a new bill eradicating Australians\u2019 right to digital privacy.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s called \u201cSurveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nIt gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) sweeping new powers to not just surveil Australian citizens online, but also take over and run their online accounts, lock the actual user out of the account, and add or delete data.<\/p>\n
The police never have to notify a person that their account has been hacked by the government.<\/p>\n
What they are calling \u201cwarrants\u201d actually do not always require an actual court or judge to sign off.<\/p>\n
An \u201cemergency authorisation,\u201d allows police to bypass the courts entirely. And why should anyone be concerned about that? It\u2019s not like the Australian government has ever abused its emergency powers before\u2026<\/p>\n
The right to travel, the right to protest, the right to privacy, the right to due process,\u00a0the right to leave your home and earn a living<\/strong>\u2014 these are basic human rights that are now gone in Australia.<\/p>\nIt should be obvious by now to every citizen of any Western nation that never-ending \u201cemergency powers\u201d can easily snowball into a full-blown dictatorship.<\/p>\n
There is no reason it couldn\u2019t happen to other formerly free nations as well.<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd that means, more than ever before, it\u2019s time to think about a Plan B.<\/p>\n
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