We Don't Have To Be Sheep

I don't normally share videos 20 minutes long. I was encouraged to watch this video and I'm glad I did. https:// youtu.be/ 2u52csnDQJQ

The video motivated me to write this on my phone hours after some minor spinal surgery.

By now many of us have seen the outrageous footage of the pregnant Zoe Lee (Buhler) being arrested and handcuffed, in her PJ's, while police ransack her home and seize ALL electronic devices regardless of who owned them.

The heavy-handed manner with which the police acted, for the crime of posting an invite to attend a demonstration against the Victorian lock-down measures is breathtaking.

Ballarat, where the protest was going to be staged, is only in stage 3 lock-down measures, so if people chose to take their exercise in the manner promoted by Zoe, including socially distancing and wearing masks, it would not be illegal.

The police and the premier have startlingly doubled down on their actions. It's tellingly that the matter won't be considered in court until January. You'd think if they wanted to send a message to the public, it would be a matter of public interest to have the earliest possible hearing.

They won't let that happen because the case should be thrown out. It will likely be de-listed before the trial date. But even if it did get to trial, and technically Zoe is in breach of the Police State laws, she would get nothing more than a spent conviction. And there would be plenty of criticism of the police actions during the trial.

Even if the police thought Zoe was committing a heinous crime, their first action should have been to get the FB post taken down. They could have done that with a phone call and charged her by summons.

Four officers showing up at her home, the arrest and handcuffs, the time in lock-up, seizing the phones, tablets and computers of her husband, children and herself........ .that was just an act of bastardry.

The Premier and all the politicians who voted for the state of emergency, and the senior police who chose to respond in a diametrically opposite manner to the way they handle Black Lives Matter, all stand condemned for their actions.

Gideon Rozner from the IPA has talked about the political motivations of the Premier and his Police in this video. He also spent just under half this video discussing the economic impact of the lockdowns with Sophie Elsworth, personal finance writer with the Herald Sun. She discusses the personal devastation to businesses and families.

Neither agree with the polls which show resounding support for the lockdown. They aren't seeing it. Neither am I.

Both agree the sad lesson to take away from the handling of this pandemic is, 'never start a small business'. You can be too easily crushed by bureaucrats receiving secure incomes while destroying the economy and people's lives.

'Never start a small business' - That's music to the ears of a Marxist who prefer big businesses more easily controlled by government and open to the inevitable cronyism which comes with Marxist states. How else do the leaders of Russia and China, long time public servants, become billionaires, among the richest in the world?

We need more Australians, and particularly more Victorians, to be concerned with the totalitarian creep happening before our eyes, we don't have to be sheep.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 05, 2020 03:09 PM (RjlmW)

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