^ Mind the screams. "Dan Andrews, that's on your fuckin' hand, you dog."
This was inevitable.
When tyranny and oppression becomes so unbearably stifling to a population (and protest, speech, and government choice are no longer an option) they will begin to lash out.
This is one of the many ways they may chose to do that, regardless of legal implications.
The Australian government has made it repeatedly clear that the lives of less than fully vaccinated people who have failed to properly register are enemies of the state and it's glorious revolution. They are to be savagely punished until they comply or die. This person, unsurprisingly, chose death. This includes the Internment Camps that I have heard idiot Australians attempting to defend. This includes significant amounts of police violence and harassment. This includes personal violence and harassment. This includes the removal of all available economic activity.
This man, correctly, understood that the law serves no purpose in Australia. The state has made a friend-enemy distinction between it's loyalists and dissenters. As Cicero notes, the law falls silent in times of war. As Clausewitz notes, this is because the law does not apply to your enemy, because the law is a moral force, and they are outside of your moral framework. This is why the statement: "They want you broke, they want you homeless, they want your wife dead, your children raped, and they think it's funny." rings so true. That is how you treat a sworn enemy who is outside your moral framework. The Australian state is at war with it's people, and that is why the law fell silent, and that is why this man chose death.
He will not be the last.
To the slaves and the villeins of petty tyrants: this is your fault. In fact, this is what you wanted. You may celebrate his death at your earliest convenience, you may even write a song about it and post it to TikTok. But please spare the rest of us your lecture about how good of a person you are. You are abominable creatures who have chosen, at every opportunity, an illusion of safety for the real sacrifice of Liberty. You did this under the guise of safety, but your only true reason was the opportunity to exert power over others. Unfortunately for you, this will continue to get worse: that is also your fault.
Yes, you are the baddies.
If you haven't figured that out from the smell of burning flesh yet, then I don't know what else to tell you.
Ok, so something important happened, when I clicked on a link someone posted here about that damn “Black skyscraper” in NYC…
Down the bottom of the linked page, I got a banner ad, from the Australian government. What it said was along these lines: “Make sure your trip overseas is for the right reasons. “Penalty $450,000”
Naturally, I was mortified, and I clicked it. It appears to be a page created in the wake of the Djokovic scandal, telling people that if they come to Australia “unvaccinated”, they will be caught, fined and then deported…
My phone crashed immediately afterwards, and apparently I also lost the screenshot, but I swear on all that is holy that just happened… 😑
If it happens again, I’ll post the proof.
Genuinely unsettling…
My country is fast becoming a terror state. 😣
HMM 🤔
I could set my VPN to Australia for a sec and try it.
Give it a shot (yes, yes, poor choice of words, I know)...
It only came up for me on that site, presumably because it is an American site, and bizarrely, whatever software is running the ads thought I was an American looking to enter Australia..?
But give it a try, yeah. See if it does it for you...
I tried searching (Google, admittedly), word for word, what the banner ad said, to see if I could source it that way, but couldn't find the exact site... Which is interesting. Definitely spooky. But yeah, it was... The most intimidating thing I have seen put out by "my" government in a while, I'll say that much...
They do this occasionally. Be it refugees, or hospitals being "overwhelmed", or "get your vaccination now", or, and you'll like this one, Imp, "Violence against women, Australia says NO"/the more recent "Silence is violence" campaign. It's usually just in newspapers, and on the TV + radio, however...
But it is a worry that I'm used to being regularly threatened by the government in this way, and being told "Obey our arbitrary rules or you WILL be caught."
It shouldn't be like this. Not in a "liberal democracy". But in Aus and NZ, now, unfortunately that is "the norm"... :-/
What's the "black skyscraper?"
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/140w2P0nNI/the-1663-feet-tall-affirmation-t/c/
Doubt.