For those who may not have heard, Australia has actually called out its military to enforce a stringent lockdown on its population over COVID. People are not happy and have taken to the streets to voice their displeasure. The result has been beatings from the police and military as well as the firing of rubber bullets into such crowds. This echoes the 1930’s Germany and proves that giving politicians too much power leads to the same result everywhere, totalitarianism.
One legislator, George Christensen, recently stood up against this tyranny in what is supposed to be a democratic country.
It is heartening to see that there is at least one politician in Australia who will stand up for the people. More Australians need to rise up and tell their government “Enough!” Fascism like this is not imposed on the population. There are too many people for that to happen. It happens if the people, through hyped up fear, acquiesce to fascism.
In the 30’s the Nazis made scapegoats of the Jews for all that was wrong in Germany. It is what the governments are trying to do now by scapegoating the unvaccinated as the causes of surges of COVID around the world that result in lockdowns and other totalitarian measures. This is utter nonsense that is being accepted by people who are afraid. That narrative is falling apart as Israel demonstrates. Allowing gradually increasing government overreach is the recipe for this to happen.
This is what the politicians are calling safe.
The old bromide seems appropriate here.
“All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to say nothing.”
Thank you, George, for standing up.
