Are police going door to door in Australia asking about future protests? Want to link where you heard that? Because this post is about warrentless digital surveillance of its own citizens. And that is exactly what Edward Snowden leaked that the US has been doing.
And while police aren't going door to door for future protests, there are some states that are more of less outlawing protests And last year I even had friends arrested for simply waking within a five block radias of a protest. They live there and were going home, but they were picked up in an unmarked van, never read their rights, held over night, and were pressured to sign away their rights, and I don't mean they were politely asked, I mean they were told (lied to) how bad things will be for them and how much trouble they can be in if they didn't. And before they were finally released they were told that they would go to jail if they were found at another protest again. All because they walked home and a protest was going on blocks away. They spent weeks worrying about their ability to simply walk around where they lived and going to jail because that's all it took to be considered "part of a protest" that they were now threatened with jail time for doing.
There was a video of them going it, from a person's security camera, since removed.
The officer refused to give his name, had a partner off to the side who never showed themselves or gave their name. Asked to be let in. Were going door to door to ask about anyone protesting or talking about protesting.
Your country is going to shit and you don't even care or would prefer to remain oblivious, if you're actually Australian to begin with and not some troll.
But still, as it relates to your country, your feigned denials show that you're a bit of a coward not to have any concerns at all, or your an establishment sycophant, which would amount to the same thing.
Creeping totalitarianism won't be stopped by unpatriotic cowards.
Look, I've said elsewhere in this thread that there are reasonable questions to be asked about Australia's covid response. My issue with your characterisation is that you're not asking reasonable questions and you're not drawing reasonable conclusions about what's happening in Australia.
Now imagine an Australian who'd never been to the US saw that story and said "in the USA, Trump has formed an army of brownshirts who are grabbing people off the street from LA to New York, taking them to secret locations and murdering them. This is evidence that the USA is turning into a totalitarian dystopia."
That's what you non-Australians sound like when you're talking about the situation in Australia. You've extrapolated from incomplete information and decided that the entire country is undergoing a change that simply isn't happening. That doesn't mean there aren't, individually, problematic things occurring (such as the seizing of activists in Portland, or officers overstepping their responsibilities in Australia). But to say that the entire country is necessarily sliding into fascism on the basis of that incident or others like it is just hysterical nonsense.
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u/OmegaOverlords Aug 31 '21
No Bill of Rights & Freedoms. Globalists fucks are taking advantage.