Alex, as a Federal Member of Parliament in Australia, I can tell you that the situation in this country is frightening. Politicians have either ceded decision-making to unelected health bureaucrats or are displaying "hard man"-style leadership by being tough on the citizenry to "defeat" the virus. The police are being used against the citizenry like I've never seen before. The media is fanning the flames in all of this, turning Australian against Australian with scaremongering over the virus and promoting vaccine discrimination. COVID-19 might only have an IFR of 0.27% according to epidemiologist Dr John Ioannidis but it has claimed the life of one very big victim: my country. I almost cannot recognise it anymore.
Beautifully written George. I can confirm that you tell it exactly how it is. I'm in Melbourne. If it wasn't for such calm and rational debate on sites like this, I might consider putting myself on some kind of medication. It doesn't matter how bizarre the rules become, the highly educated scientists in my immediate family have a rational explanation for them. My daughter was followed by a police car when she went out for a run (I guess to make sure she was going at the pace required for no face mask) and the police staked out her friend's house ALL NIGHT, then stopped and questioned the boyfriend when he left in the morning.
I mentioned to my husband, who's a highly cited researcher, that I wouldn't have thought it would take the entire night to work out there wasn't an illegal party going on and he said that in a way it was reassuring that the police weren't able to know who was in the house. Seriously?? This is the guy who wears his face mask fully fitted when we're by ourselves on a freakin deserted beach! I can't believe what my daughters are coming out with, how they're OK with people losing their jobs for not getting a Covid injectable product. In less than a year the media has obliterated over twenty years of values I instilled. I don't know about the rest of Australia but this is horrendous.
This account is heartbreaking, especially as a parent. I'm thankful every day that our son didn't come home from college as a leftist - the experience actually moved him deeper into conservatism/libertarianism. I am glad you have this outlet to help with sanity. One of the reasons I subscribed (not just the free version) was because it was so refreshing to read intelligent, critical thinking people here. The most frustrating thing for me of the past 19 months has been being unable to break through the delusional psychosis of so many people. Hang in there, you are not alone!
Thank you for your kind words and support. It's good to know I'm not alone. George Christensen mentions the MSM and I view that as the main culprit. None of the bizarre rules could have been enforced if we weren't constantly bombarded with the message that it's for the greater good. If you speak against the covid vaccines in any way, even to be critical of a clinical trial, you're a killer. If you don't want to have a vaccine, you're also a killer. It's beyond any horror I could have ever imagined but my daughters have bought into that and are probably afraid we'll all die if we don't have one.
We have been lied to for 18 months by our media, social media censorship, government agencies and bureaucrats. But they have been lying for much longer than that. After the 2016 election here. The exposure of the level of corruption in our government has been jaw-dropping to me. I really believe 4 years of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) paved the way for the response to this plague released upon the world by the CCP. People have been beyond reason for a long time now. It's the acquiescence to tyranny that is so frightening. I don't know what paved the way for the same thing in Australia, so you'll have to enlighten me/us.
It is instructional to look at Derek Sivers "first follower" concept. To begin a movement, you need someone to be first but then you need a first follower. This tells everyone else that it is okay to join. The leader must embrace the followers as equals, leading by example. The movement must be public and easy to join. Do all that and you can start a movement. Once it starts, no government can stop it. Not even with all the guns. But finding those first courageous leaders and followers is not easy.
i can tell u from Melbourne, its easy to sit on the sidelines and say, why arent they protesting in the 10s of thousands, but right now, for the moment, the cops and dictators won - its not easy to think oh well, i might get beat the fk up and jailed, but i'll do it anyway .. i suspect after this week if we still have no light, people will go again ... if anyone has any idea how to fight strategically without guns, let us know, we are simply not that kind of people.. we've never had to be
Take all your money out of the bank. Stop working, or going to work. Tell everyone to do this. System grinds to a halt in a week. Without physical force or the threat of(guns) you can only engage in economic disobedience. This should actually have been your first option about a year ago. When the ivory tower can't get their amazon deliveries they'll listen.
All of these tactics only work if a majority of the population desires freedom. This is clearly not the case in Australia, and barely the case in America.
1) The only bloodless revolts are when the cops/military are on your side. As long as you are pushing hard against cops, they will react back and make your life harder. Call instead on their humanity and befriend any you run into in general life. A key in dealing with kidnappers and others using force is to get them to see you as human, not an object.
2) If there are any legal means to fight the tyrant, use them.
3) Learn about ways to communicate securely such as they do in Hong Kong. Get a VPN and join a free speech group such as GAB. GAB is based in the USA only and they will not honor governmental requests that involve violating free speech, they will only honor requests for real crimes.
4) Passive resistance: destroy a tyrant by following orders to the letter. This is in part how the Soviet Union collapsed: people only did exactly what they were asked and did not use their creativity, intellect, or energy to do a job well when the order would produce mediocre results. Refuse to give the tyrant success.
5) Try to find real humor and use it to laugh at the tyrants. Difficult yes, but humor takes away their seriousness and so some of their power.
You're at war with the State right now - or they're at war with you. It's either fight back or die, essentially. And the suicides have their weapons pointed the wrong ways. If a crowd of thousands - or even hundreds, rushes a police line, people may get severely injured or killed, but those police will go down underfoot, and their weapons can be taken from them and used against them. Cricket bats might help, think about what you can do to even up the odds. The other side of this aren't good people by any stretch of the imagination.
And there are people who never had to fight who became fierce warriors. My old landlady was in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and shot ten Germans at point blank range, after luring them into an alley for a "quickie". One .22 calibre bullet from a cheap pistol bought a Schmeisser machine pistol, lots of ammo, hand grenades, and other useful stuff. That .22 pistol and ten bullets may have cost her an ounce of gold, but she put it to good use - shooting up a bunch of Waffen SS troops who spent their last living moments wondering how a bunch of "subhumans" could defeat them so badly. In 1940, she was a housewife with kids at home. Her husband was killed in the Blitzkrieg, and her children starved to death or died of typhus... so she really had nothing to lose.
"if anyone has any idea how to fight strategically without guns"
Sabotage. Destroy their vehicles, their communications, disrupt them in any way possible. Obviously without endangering anyone's physical safety (not at that level yet, presumably). Obtain radio jammers from China or underground. Jam their signals.
Alternatively, accept that the world is moving toward a totalitarian Dark Age and try to re-frame your expectations about what a good life involves (e.g., when the State allows you an extra hour of exercise on certain weeks because your social credit score ticked upward, smile a bit inside).
The cops need to take a long hard look at their hearts. They have to ask themselves, "Why am I doing this?" They need to look inside themselves, one by one, they need a long hard look.
Sad fact is that there is an abundance of people in any society that will beat and kill their fellow citizens if ordered to do so. How do you think China, North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany (and on and on) were able to exist and function? Australia is no different. Nor is any country. It only takes 1% of the population to oppress 99% of the rest when 70% of are in favor of oppression, and there's no Second Amendment philosophy.
Yes, a government can't oppress without the cooperation of citizen Rats. The state just doesn't have the resources, even with the massive spy apparatus. Rats, need taken out with the garbage.
I think of this as the knife edge. People fall to one side or the other: some are natural snitches.
My graduate advisor graduated with his degree in physics at Leiden in 1942. I asked him what he did for the next 3 years. He said, "I spent those years saving my life. In good times you can afford to think people are neither all good nor all bad, just shades of gray. But when things get bad, people are either good or bad, and you have to be able to decide in each instant who you're dealing with, because your life will depend on it."
I know this, the cops that are doing this WANT to do this. If my spouse was a cop and I saw what they were doing I would leave. The money they are making is blood money pure and simple.
Take all money out of bank. Get the Truckers to unify and shut down the system completely. Get as much of the necessities as you can because when the Trucks stop moving, business as you know it comes to a screeching halt, that is the point. You have the power.
My theory is that many rich countries have created a strong Anti-American sentiment. It has been for years. They hate the American Army and the American policies. And recently those countries were laughing about Trump and his stand with Covid. So they were siding more with the elites of this World. Now it is too late my friend. I live in Texas an we are happy here. Some guys here like to wear mask and get vaccinated and we respect that. But we went back to normal a long time ago.
My heart really goes out to you guys. Nobody on earth should have to risk serious injury or incarceration just for exercising their right to peacefully assemble. I love your country. I despise your government.
Non-violent resistance worked for Gandhi because India was a distant colony whose value to Britain was already decreasing. After they left, he wasn't able to lead his people and was killed by Hindu nationalists less than a year later.
It simply isn't as effective against homegrown tyrants.
Good luck with that in 2021 onward. You do realize we are dealing with citizens that deny facts, right? I hope it doesn't get crazy, but I have strong doubts.
distract the police by whatever means necessary...infiltrate and find out where they live, set up random distractions. Get as many as you can to disobey. They can't arrest everybody. They have overstepped by a mile. You will have to respond in kind. The gloves must come off.
Civil disobedience on mass scale is the only solution. The good news is that it is possible at any time. There are endless ways to accomplish this. It doesn't have to involve getting beat up in the street. Planting your own food is a start. Find freedom in your own daily life. Then tell everyone what you are doing. This is how you start a movement. Lead by example. I can't tell you what this looks like because it could take a zillion different forms. But if you find freedom and share it with others and they also choose freedom for themselves then it will spread.
the problem with this is coordinating something is getting extremely hard in itself - anything that is open is infiltrated and stopped dead in its tracks by the blue - it has to be done in such a covert way that is frustratingly difficult
Do some study on what the revolutionaries did in America. They met in secret, used coded language to organize. I know it sounds insane. Remember the majority of people in the America’s before the revolution didn’t think they had a chance in hell of overcoming the RedCoats….but they did. The story of David and Goliath is in the Bible for a reason. All things are possible for those who believe them to be. But you must lean and trust in the Lord. You plus God is an automatic majority. Know this.
I get that, but the 20 are not going to a protest though. Use the protests as cover. To get at soft targets. This being a public forum. It's hard to say everything I want too.
Some of these cops must have kids and families. I am certainly not proposing you harm anybody but i'm saying make friends with their families and get on the inside. Minds can be educated; hearts can change
i can tell u, everybody is on edge, it feels like most people are about to blow if they haven't already .. the gov is suppressing the real number of suicides over the last 12 months for obvious reasons ... there is nothing to do, its hell
The reason places like Australia and Canada are collapsing into tyranny is simple: they have rejected God. Western Civilization was built on a Judeo-Christian foundation. The bien pensants (virtually none of whom has the intellectual depth required to account for their own epistemological axioms -- think New Yorker magazine) has scoffed at this for 200 years. Bovine atheism has spread among formerly god-fearing people's over the past 50 years. This will necessarily result in collapse into something akin to China, where the worth of an individual life is measured solely in the number and quality of political connections. If America has even the slightest chance at survival, it will come because enough Americans hold fast to the ancient union of God and Man.
I am not a religious man and I fully agree with you. The void that God has left in most people's souls has been filled by the state, and that is revealing the true nature of the importance of separating church and state.
That's no accident. No authoritarian regime of any stripe can tolerate ideological competition and an existence of an authority greater than itself. In order to establish hold, the totalitarian needs to remove God from society and replace Him with itself. The leftists have been destroying our religious foundation for nearly 100 years which is why it looks like they're winning right now. But I also think they vastly underestimated the level of push back they're about to receive.
Not aware of any atheist causes. A lot of tyrants are atheists because they want themselves to be the only focus for their victims. Guilt by association. Atheism is the lack of belief, which only a few people metastasize into a belief in nnonbelief. But they're definitely on the fringe.
Atheism means no rules except for raw power in the hands of those who can seize it, and anything goes. Stalin is a good example, and his destruction of the Russian Orthodox church, and substitution of his statist goons for the faithful patriarchs. At least the Muslims taught their kids to throw the communist propaganda handed out in society schools in the trash.
Stalin didn't seize power because of atheism, he did it because he could. His la k of religion was irrelevant. Islamists teach their kids to hate everyone who isn't Muslim. Their religion depends on religious goons to obtain power.
I don't know how you can claim belief in God is one of the biggest threats to freedom. Russia went into the gulag system under godless communism. China is godless. Iran has more freedom than either, in these times.
What I contemplate all the time is from the Mass: "by His death He hath destroyed death". Without that, people will never have the courage to stand up to the Captain Muncies of the world.
The source of many conflicts through the ages has not been God, but arguments about which God should dominate. Communist countries have lots of religious people, but the regimes deny religion since it undermines their control. Tyrants have used many excuses to oppress people, often holding their God up as justification to force others to convert. It's the act of forcing others to accept one God that has caused many to lose freedoms. Those who tolerate religious freedom tend also not to oppress others.
America's Frontline Doctors group put out this video on mass psychosis and how it used for totalitarian control. It's a perfect description of what is going with the Western democracies:
one of the reasons why many Australian living in NSW decided to give up freedom or agree with the gov with regards to lockdowns was $$$$$
in 2020 Employees and Employers both were given $$$ on a fortnightly basis around $1500
in some cases $3000/m was more than some ppl were getting under normal working hours
than again the system also failed some people as they missed out on payments etc or didnt get enough $$ to meet their normal expenses .
Also most businesses were able to survive the lockdown, as Gov was still giving assistance till Jan 2021 well after the lockdown had finished.
in 2021 during the 2nd major lockdown in NSW (sydney) and still going, similar payments are being given on weekly/fortnightly basis but slightly less compared to 2020 and a few more rules which means less people qualify for the payments.
Hence why you never saw Freedom protest in 2020 or earlier in 2021 in NSW.
vaccination started around March 2021, things started of Slow, our PM Scott Morrison saying it wasnt a Sprint but a Marathon ("no rush") to get the vaccination but after he visited G7 in June, things changed when he came back.
June 26 Sydney (NSW) went into lockdown and things have gone downhill every quick from there. It went from Marathon -> Sprint -> light speed, than we started to see health orders ... mandates, certain areas going under strict lockdowns etc.... though still today PM Scott Morrison says vaccination is not mandatory, yet in nearly every day to day activity you require vaccination to gain access, instead of Gov pushing vaccination, it was pushed on to Employers to force vaccination.
Main stream media is not reporting everything, its censored, Sky News that i watch mostly ... i could see the narrative change over night... i now have to watch FB, YouTube and twitter to get news from independent news sources. Hence came across Alex on twitter few weeks before he was suspended
I am not a anti vaxxer, have taken most vaccination all my life but everything about how things are being done in Australia doesnt seem right.
By Gods grace i havent taken the vaccination and pray stays that way.
The Western part of Sydney , i feel really sorry for, I cant believe that we have treated fellow Australians in the manner we have, and Western Sydney would be the place the protest would start from so the NSW Gov knew it was best to lock them down the hardest.
Victoria (Melbourne) is even worse than Sydney..:(
I see the "Spartacus document" has now made ZeroHedge in full. I read this a couple of days ago -- I think Robert Malone tweeted it out (funny, they haven't banned him yet, but they may be working on that):
Who is "Spartacus"? Well, he or they obviously know a damn bit about actual Covid-19 disease, and how basically, we're just killing people who get sick enough to go to the hospital. He/they also know a bit about the vaccines and treatments.
He/they also cannot speak under his/their real names.
"The lab-leak theory has been suppressed because pulling that thread leads one to inevitably conclude that there is enough circumstantial evidence to link Moderna, the NIH, the WIV, and both the vaccine and the virus’s creation together. In a sane country, this would have immediately led to the world’s biggest RICO and mass murder case. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli, and Stephane Bancel, and their accomplices, would have been indicted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Instead, billions of our tax dollars were awarded to the perpetrators."
"The establishment is cooperating with, and facilitating, the worst criminals in human history, and are actively suppressing non-vaccine treatments and therapies in order to compel us to inject these criminals’ products into our bodies. This is absolutely unacceptable."
"To those who are participating in this disgusting farce without any understanding of what they are doing, we have one word for you. Stop. You are causing irreparable harm to your country and to your fellow citizens.
To those who may be reading this warning and have full knowledge and understanding of what they are doing and how it will unjustly harm millions of innocent people, we have a few more words.
Damn you to hell. You will not destroy America and the Free World, and you will not have your New World Order. We will make certain of that."
Maybe but the author did start that section with somewhat of a disclaimer-
“This section deals with some more speculative aspects of the pandemic and the medical and scientific establishment’s reaction to it, as well as the disturbing links between scientists involved in vaccine research and scientists whose work involved merging nanotechnology with living cells.“
Yeah, they could have left that out. Some suggest that it is actually disinfo using the technique of mixing the truth with stuff to discredit it. I'm not sure if I believe this is is the case here, but some think that's what it is.
Based in Melbourne and looking to connect with anyone else in this city who thinks it's not OK to force an experimental treatment onto those who don't want it. People I've known for years and care about are saying things I never thought they'd say and, while I appreciate the seductive power of the MSM, I think it's time to make new friends for the sake of my own sanity. Would appreciate hearing from you.
As a Melbournian I feel I should have an interesting take, not sure if I do though.
In Australia the police work for the government, most people are wealthy enough to have a lot to lose and most people believe in big government.
A subtle psychological difference to Americans is that much more Australian migration was government sponsored, the government recruited and paid people to migrate. This may work itself out in the Australian attitude of government as a generous father figure.
The political situation is also perverse with a weak and foolish PM afraid to confront state leaders for fear of prioritising money over lives. State leaders, on the other hand, have been adept at selling the fear narrative and do not have to pay the bills as this is the Fed's job. State leaders are mostly Labor and seem to see an opportunity to white ant the Liberal Fed government.
I wonder if an election loss by the federal government may provide some relief if the states believe their political goals have been met.
For myself I suspect the control the states have on the narrative makes street protest counter-productive, I have switched off all media other than this Substack and try to live my life with as little reference to the government as possible.
"What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else?"
Nothing. The majority is content to live under authoritarian rule in exchange for perceived safety. The entire world will live under something very close the Chinese model by 2030. A tiny but unimaginably powerful global trillionaire class will live a parallel existence in unimaginable luxury.
This has been the state of the world since the dawn of civilization. The difference is that whereas a remote king had little day to day impact on the life of a peasant in 1230, advanced technology will permit the global elite to control every aspect of everyone's lives by 2030.
This is what the world's population wants. Don't imagine Americans are all that different than Australians. It will just take a bit longer.
Maybe I'm a pollyanna but I do believe Americans are different. We like guns and we like how our fifty states compete for us. Our greatest strength is the fact that the most successful among us are skeptical if too much government as they are typically only a generation or two out from escaping tyranny. (my husband, for instance, maternal grandmother was Czech) We have more choice in the US than any place on earth. If one state becomes like australia, we can vote with our feet. My family moved from Brooklyn to oklahoma city this past year. Life is incredibly normal here--even in the snobby neighborhoods next to the whole foods.
...and the people of the lower end of spectrum still idolize the trillionaire living in luxury, thinking it'll help them somehow. This is where we are. Pathetic.
yes... schools need to do more to educate kids that money above a certain amount does not buy happiness or even quality of life. There is definitive research that shows that once you can pay your mortgage on a primary home, pay your bills, put aside a little each month for retirement and go on vacation a couple times a year that's about as good as it gets, ie: the guy that makes $100k is just as successful (possibly more so) than the one who rakes in millions.
Does anyone remember how the Tiananmen Square protesters were quashed & all communication to rally the masses failed because of government control? Could not happen in Australia could it?
I am sorry to go off topic, but it appears that Biden met the Indian Prime Minister Modi last Friday, and THE SAME DAY, India stopped recommending Ivermectin as a therapeutic for its citizens. Do I have my facts right?
I've been watching India for a few months, seeing their cases plummet since May with a very low vax rate. 1.3 billion people. There has to be an explanation.
The march that went down Flinders Street and onto the Westgate Bridge last Tuesday I estimated was at least 20 000. Mostly, but not only, tradies in hi viz.
Being prepared to risk being pepper-sprayed, hit with rubber bullets, roughed up and arrested takes courage, but in the end I suspect that it tends to rally support behind the authorities. Individuals who are prepared to lose their often very secure and quite well-paid jobs rather than be jabbed are at least as courageous and probably give more people in the compliant majority pause for thought. This may be a situation in which Terence MacSwiney’s words will prove apt: ‘It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will prevail’.
What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else? Well, if 70% of the population agreed to this madness they are getting what they voted for. Now, as some have voiced, this is why, perhaps, the 2nd amendment was enshrined into the constitution though not much a AR-15 can do against a tank.
the difference in the usa, in my opinion anyway, is the guy driving the tank in all likelihood is on the side of the guy hes got it pointed at. I find it hard to believe that the majority of us soldiers would take up arms on its own citizens when the time came. Maybe i'm just naive, or willfully ignorant, but I truly believe this.
A bunch of guys in Afghanistan showed what determination can bring. I suspect the police and military in AU are upset with management as people take to the streets. OTOH, maybe they fear for their jobs, as well.
Alex, as a Federal Member of Parliament in Australia, I can tell you that the situation in this country is frightening. Politicians have either ceded decision-making to unelected health bureaucrats or are displaying "hard man"-style leadership by being tough on the citizenry to "defeat" the virus. The police are being used against the citizenry like I've never seen before. The media is fanning the flames in all of this, turning Australian against Australian with scaremongering over the virus and promoting vaccine discrimination. COVID-19 might only have an IFR of 0.27% according to epidemiologist Dr John Ioannidis but it has claimed the life of one very big victim: my country. I almost cannot recognise it anymore.
Beautifully written George. I can confirm that you tell it exactly how it is. I'm in Melbourne. If it wasn't for such calm and rational debate on sites like this, I might consider putting myself on some kind of medication. It doesn't matter how bizarre the rules become, the highly educated scientists in my immediate family have a rational explanation for them. My daughter was followed by a police car when she went out for a run (I guess to make sure she was going at the pace required for no face mask) and the police staked out her friend's house ALL NIGHT, then stopped and questioned the boyfriend when he left in the morning.
I mentioned to my husband, who's a highly cited researcher, that I wouldn't have thought it would take the entire night to work out there wasn't an illegal party going on and he said that in a way it was reassuring that the police weren't able to know who was in the house. Seriously?? This is the guy who wears his face mask fully fitted when we're by ourselves on a freakin deserted beach! I can't believe what my daughters are coming out with, how they're OK with people losing their jobs for not getting a Covid injectable product. In less than a year the media has obliterated over twenty years of values I instilled. I don't know about the rest of Australia but this is horrendous.
This account is heartbreaking, especially as a parent. I'm thankful every day that our son didn't come home from college as a leftist - the experience actually moved him deeper into conservatism/libertarianism. I am glad you have this outlet to help with sanity. One of the reasons I subscribed (not just the free version) was because it was so refreshing to read intelligent, critical thinking people here. The most frustrating thing for me of the past 19 months has been being unable to break through the delusional psychosis of so many people. Hang in there, you are not alone!
Thank you for your kind words and support. It's good to know I'm not alone. George Christensen mentions the MSM and I view that as the main culprit. None of the bizarre rules could have been enforced if we weren't constantly bombarded with the message that it's for the greater good. If you speak against the covid vaccines in any way, even to be critical of a clinical trial, you're a killer. If you don't want to have a vaccine, you're also a killer. It's beyond any horror I could have ever imagined but my daughters have bought into that and are probably afraid we'll all die if we don't have one.
We have been lied to for 18 months by our media, social media censorship, government agencies and bureaucrats. But they have been lying for much longer than that. After the 2016 election here. The exposure of the level of corruption in our government has been jaw-dropping to me. I really believe 4 years of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) paved the way for the response to this plague released upon the world by the CCP. People have been beyond reason for a long time now. It's the acquiescence to tyranny that is so frightening. I don't know what paved the way for the same thing in Australia, so you'll have to enlighten me/us.
I am so sorry for your beautiful country and its citizens. It is painful watching the video clips. Zero-Covid is a lie from the pit of hell.
Is there any chance for real resistance in Australia?
It is instructional to look at Derek Sivers "first follower" concept. To begin a movement, you need someone to be first but then you need a first follower. This tells everyone else that it is okay to join. The leader must embrace the followers as equals, leading by example. The movement must be public and easy to join. Do all that and you can start a movement. Once it starts, no government can stop it. Not even with all the guns. But finding those first courageous leaders and followers is not easy.
Well said George, I left in 79 for the US and I saw all this coming back then, So what is the solution in your mind?
i can tell u from Melbourne, its easy to sit on the sidelines and say, why arent they protesting in the 10s of thousands, but right now, for the moment, the cops and dictators won - its not easy to think oh well, i might get beat the fk up and jailed, but i'll do it anyway .. i suspect after this week if we still have no light, people will go again ... if anyone has any idea how to fight strategically without guns, let us know, we are simply not that kind of people.. we've never had to be
Take all your money out of the bank. Stop working, or going to work. Tell everyone to do this. System grinds to a halt in a week. Without physical force or the threat of(guns) you can only engage in economic disobedience. This should actually have been your first option about a year ago. When the ivory tower can't get their amazon deliveries they'll listen.
"Take all your money out of the bank."
All of these tactics only work if a majority of the population desires freedom. This is clearly not the case in Australia, and barely the case in America.
I don't think at this point it is the case in America either.
1) The only bloodless revolts are when the cops/military are on your side. As long as you are pushing hard against cops, they will react back and make your life harder. Call instead on their humanity and befriend any you run into in general life. A key in dealing with kidnappers and others using force is to get them to see you as human, not an object.
2) If there are any legal means to fight the tyrant, use them.
3) Learn about ways to communicate securely such as they do in Hong Kong. Get a VPN and join a free speech group such as GAB. GAB is based in the USA only and they will not honor governmental requests that involve violating free speech, they will only honor requests for real crimes.
4) Passive resistance: destroy a tyrant by following orders to the letter. This is in part how the Soviet Union collapsed: people only did exactly what they were asked and did not use their creativity, intellect, or energy to do a job well when the order would produce mediocre results. Refuse to give the tyrant success.
5) Try to find real humor and use it to laugh at the tyrants. Difficult yes, but humor takes away their seriousness and so some of their power.
The last thing is to never give up.
Check out thecampaign.substack.com. They're beginning to explore those questions.
Sweet. Am posting the link in social media. thanks
I just subscribed.
i love number four. without talent, and out-of-box thinkers giving their gifts for free the world might just stop
Very well said.
You're at war with the State right now - or they're at war with you. It's either fight back or die, essentially. And the suicides have their weapons pointed the wrong ways. If a crowd of thousands - or even hundreds, rushes a police line, people may get severely injured or killed, but those police will go down underfoot, and their weapons can be taken from them and used against them. Cricket bats might help, think about what you can do to even up the odds. The other side of this aren't good people by any stretch of the imagination.
And there are people who never had to fight who became fierce warriors. My old landlady was in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and shot ten Germans at point blank range, after luring them into an alley for a "quickie". One .22 calibre bullet from a cheap pistol bought a Schmeisser machine pistol, lots of ammo, hand grenades, and other useful stuff. That .22 pistol and ten bullets may have cost her an ounce of gold, but she put it to good use - shooting up a bunch of Waffen SS troops who spent their last living moments wondering how a bunch of "subhumans" could defeat them so badly. In 1940, she was a housewife with kids at home. Her husband was killed in the Blitzkrieg, and her children starved to death or died of typhus... so she really had nothing to lose.
"if anyone has any idea how to fight strategically without guns"
Sabotage. Destroy their vehicles, their communications, disrupt them in any way possible. Obviously without endangering anyone's physical safety (not at that level yet, presumably). Obtain radio jammers from China or underground. Jam their signals.
Alternatively, accept that the world is moving toward a totalitarian Dark Age and try to re-frame your expectations about what a good life involves (e.g., when the State allows you an extra hour of exercise on certain weeks because your social credit score ticked upward, smile a bit inside).
Look up "spark gap radio transmitter"... you can make one using an old-fashioned automotive ignition coil and some other very simple parts...
you need to get the cops to quit, i.e. get them worrying about other things.
The cops need to take a long hard look at their hearts. They have to ask themselves, "Why am I doing this?" They need to look inside themselves, one by one, they need a long hard look.
Sad fact is that there is an abundance of people in any society that will beat and kill their fellow citizens if ordered to do so. How do you think China, North Korea, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany (and on and on) were able to exist and function? Australia is no different. Nor is any country. It only takes 1% of the population to oppress 99% of the rest when 70% of are in favor of oppression, and there's no Second Amendment philosophy.
Yes, a government can't oppress without the cooperation of citizen Rats. The state just doesn't have the resources, even with the massive spy apparatus. Rats, need taken out with the garbage.
Exterminate the rats. 1 at a time, once a new fear is created the brainwashed may wake up.
I think of this as the knife edge. People fall to one side or the other: some are natural snitches.
My graduate advisor graduated with his degree in physics at Leiden in 1942. I asked him what he did for the next 3 years. He said, "I spent those years saving my life. In good times you can afford to think people are neither all good nor all bad, just shades of gray. But when things get bad, people are either good or bad, and you have to be able to decide in each instant who you're dealing with, because your life will depend on it."
I've never forgotten that.
I know this, the cops that are doing this WANT to do this. If my spouse was a cop and I saw what they were doing I would leave. The money they are making is blood money pure and simple.
Exactly. One at a time.
Take all money out of bank. Get the Truckers to unify and shut down the system completely. Get as much of the necessities as you can because when the Trucks stop moving, business as you know it comes to a screeching halt, that is the point. You have the power.
My theory is that many rich countries have created a strong Anti-American sentiment. It has been for years. They hate the American Army and the American policies. And recently those countries were laughing about Trump and his stand with Covid. So they were siding more with the elites of this World. Now it is too late my friend. I live in Texas an we are happy here. Some guys here like to wear mask and get vaccinated and we respect that. But we went back to normal a long time ago.
My heart really goes out to you guys. Nobody on earth should have to risk serious injury or incarceration just for exercising their right to peacefully assemble. I love your country. I despise your government.
What did Gandhi do? He fought without using violence very successfully.
Non-violent resistance worked for Gandhi because India was a distant colony whose value to Britain was already decreasing. After they left, he wasn't able to lead his people and was killed by Hindu nationalists less than a year later.
It simply isn't as effective against homegrown tyrants.
That's because Singh fought *with* violence...
Good luck with that in 2021 onward. You do realize we are dealing with citizens that deny facts, right? I hope it doesn't get crazy, but I have strong doubts.
He picked the right government at the right time. His tactics against the KGB wouldn't have worked for a New York minute.
distract the police by whatever means necessary...infiltrate and find out where they live, set up random distractions. Get as many as you can to disobey. They can't arrest everybody. They have overstepped by a mile. You will have to respond in kind. The gloves must come off.
Civil disobedience on mass scale is the only solution. The good news is that it is possible at any time. There are endless ways to accomplish this. It doesn't have to involve getting beat up in the street. Planting your own food is a start. Find freedom in your own daily life. Then tell everyone what you are doing. This is how you start a movement. Lead by example. I can't tell you what this looks like because it could take a zillion different forms. But if you find freedom and share it with others and they also choose freedom for themselves then it will spread.
I thought Crocodile Dundee was Aussie. Must have been from Hollywood.
the problem with this is coordinating something is getting extremely hard in itself - anything that is open is infiltrated and stopped dead in its tracks by the blue - it has to be done in such a covert way that is frustratingly difficult
Do some study on what the revolutionaries did in America. They met in secret, used coded language to organize. I know it sounds insane. Remember the majority of people in the America’s before the revolution didn’t think they had a chance in hell of overcoming the RedCoats….but they did. The story of David and Goliath is in the Bible for a reason. All things are possible for those who believe them to be. But you must lean and trust in the Lord. You plus God is an automatic majority. Know this.
There's no way you can get 20 guys on the same page without the use of electronic communications?
20? man, they are literally deploying thousands of cops when they get wind of protests at the moment
I get that, but the 20 are not going to a protest though. Use the protests as cover. To get at soft targets. This being a public forum. It's hard to say everything I want too.
Some of these cops must have kids and families. I am certainly not proposing you harm anybody but i'm saying make friends with their families and get on the inside. Minds can be educated; hearts can change
They cannot financially do this forever. Also police will get sick of applying force on regular people as crime by criminals will escalate.
i can tell u, everybody is on edge, it feels like most people are about to blow if they haven't already .. the gov is suppressing the real number of suicides over the last 12 months for obvious reasons ... there is nothing to do, its hell
Guns in Australia are a red herring.
The reason places like Australia and Canada are collapsing into tyranny is simple: they have rejected God. Western Civilization was built on a Judeo-Christian foundation. The bien pensants (virtually none of whom has the intellectual depth required to account for their own epistemological axioms -- think New Yorker magazine) has scoffed at this for 200 years. Bovine atheism has spread among formerly god-fearing people's over the past 50 years. This will necessarily result in collapse into something akin to China, where the worth of an individual life is measured solely in the number and quality of political connections. If America has even the slightest chance at survival, it will come because enough Americans hold fast to the ancient union of God and Man.
I am not a religious man and I fully agree with you. The void that God has left in most people's souls has been filled by the state, and that is revealing the true nature of the importance of separating church and state.
That's no accident. No authoritarian regime of any stripe can tolerate ideological competition and an existence of an authority greater than itself. In order to establish hold, the totalitarian needs to remove God from society and replace Him with itself. The leftists have been destroying our religious foundation for nearly 100 years which is why it looks like they're winning right now. But I also think they vastly underestimated the level of push back they're about to receive.
God has been used as justification for evil for centuries.
So has atheism.
Not aware of any atheist causes. A lot of tyrants are atheists because they want themselves to be the only focus for their victims. Guilt by association. Atheism is the lack of belief, which only a few people metastasize into a belief in nnonbelief. But they're definitely on the fringe.
Atheism means no rules except for raw power in the hands of those who can seize it, and anything goes. Stalin is a good example, and his destruction of the Russian Orthodox church, and substitution of his statist goons for the faithful patriarchs. At least the Muslims taught their kids to throw the communist propaganda handed out in society schools in the trash.
Stalin didn't seize power because of atheism, he did it because he could. His la k of religion was irrelevant. Islamists teach their kids to hate everyone who isn't Muslim. Their religion depends on religious goons to obtain power.
I don't know how you can claim belief in God is one of the biggest threats to freedom. Russia went into the gulag system under godless communism. China is godless. Iran has more freedom than either, in these times.
What I contemplate all the time is from the Mass: "by His death He hath destroyed death". Without that, people will never have the courage to stand up to the Captain Muncies of the world.
The source of many conflicts through the ages has not been God, but arguments about which God should dominate. Communist countries have lots of religious people, but the regimes deny religion since it undermines their control. Tyrants have used many excuses to oppress people, often holding their God up as justification to force others to convert. It's the act of forcing others to accept one God that has caused many to lose freedoms. Those who tolerate religious freedom tend also not to oppress others.
America's Frontline Doctors group put out this video on mass psychosis and how it used for totalitarian control. It's a perfect description of what is going with the Western democracies:
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/frontlinenews/mass-psychosis-how-an-entire-population-becomes-mentally-ill/
Mass "menticide", the killing of the mind. "Fear is the mind-killer" (from Dune, I think).
I've been screaming mass psychosis menticide for months only to fall on deaf ears. Well, here we are.
I call it group think. And human stupidity.
As an Australian....
one of the reasons why many Australian living in NSW decided to give up freedom or agree with the gov with regards to lockdowns was $$$$$
in 2020 Employees and Employers both were given $$$ on a fortnightly basis around $1500
in some cases $3000/m was more than some ppl were getting under normal working hours
than again the system also failed some people as they missed out on payments etc or didnt get enough $$ to meet their normal expenses .
Also most businesses were able to survive the lockdown, as Gov was still giving assistance till Jan 2021 well after the lockdown had finished.
in 2021 during the 2nd major lockdown in NSW (sydney) and still going, similar payments are being given on weekly/fortnightly basis but slightly less compared to 2020 and a few more rules which means less people qualify for the payments.
Hence why you never saw Freedom protest in 2020 or earlier in 2021 in NSW.
vaccination started around March 2021, things started of Slow, our PM Scott Morrison saying it wasnt a Sprint but a Marathon ("no rush") to get the vaccination but after he visited G7 in June, things changed when he came back.
June 26 Sydney (NSW) went into lockdown and things have gone downhill every quick from there. It went from Marathon -> Sprint -> light speed, than we started to see health orders ... mandates, certain areas going under strict lockdowns etc.... though still today PM Scott Morrison says vaccination is not mandatory, yet in nearly every day to day activity you require vaccination to gain access, instead of Gov pushing vaccination, it was pushed on to Employers to force vaccination.
Main stream media is not reporting everything, its censored, Sky News that i watch mostly ... i could see the narrative change over night... i now have to watch FB, YouTube and twitter to get news from independent news sources. Hence came across Alex on twitter few weeks before he was suspended
I am not a anti vaxxer, have taken most vaccination all my life but everything about how things are being done in Australia doesnt seem right.
By Gods grace i havent taken the vaccination and pray stays that way.
The Western part of Sydney , i feel really sorry for, I cant believe that we have treated fellow Australians in the manner we have, and Western Sydney would be the place the protest would start from so the NSW Gov knew it was best to lock them down the hardest.
Victoria (Melbourne) is even worse than Sydney..:(
I see the "Spartacus document" has now made ZeroHedge in full. I read this a couple of days ago -- I think Robert Malone tweeted it out (funny, they haven't banned him yet, but they may be working on that):
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/damn-you-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-here-spartacus-covid-letter-thats-gone-viral
Who is "Spartacus"? Well, he or they obviously know a damn bit about actual Covid-19 disease, and how basically, we're just killing people who get sick enough to go to the hospital. He/they also know a bit about the vaccines and treatments.
He/they also cannot speak under his/their real names.
A couple of quotes from Spartacus:
"The lab-leak theory has been suppressed because pulling that thread leads one to inevitably conclude that there is enough circumstantial evidence to link Moderna, the NIH, the WIV, and both the vaccine and the virus’s creation together. In a sane country, this would have immediately led to the world’s biggest RICO and mass murder case. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli, and Stephane Bancel, and their accomplices, would have been indicted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Instead, billions of our tax dollars were awarded to the perpetrators."
"The establishment is cooperating with, and facilitating, the worst criminals in human history, and are actively suppressing non-vaccine treatments and therapies in order to compel us to inject these criminals’ products into our bodies. This is absolutely unacceptable."
"To those who are participating in this disgusting farce without any understanding of what they are doing, we have one word for you. Stop. You are causing irreparable harm to your country and to your fellow citizens.
To those who may be reading this warning and have full knowledge and understanding of what they are doing and how it will unjustly harm millions of innocent people, we have a few more words.
Damn you to hell. You will not destroy America and the Free World, and you will not have your New World Order. We will make certain of that."
What an informative read! Thank you for the link.
I was believing all right up to the "brain control" thing. Really weakens the whole thesis.
Maybe but the author did start that section with somewhat of a disclaimer-
“This section deals with some more speculative aspects of the pandemic and the medical and scientific establishment’s reaction to it, as well as the disturbing links between scientists involved in vaccine research and scientists whose work involved merging nanotechnology with living cells.“
Yeah, they could have left that out. Some suggest that it is actually disinfo using the technique of mixing the truth with stuff to discredit it. I'm not sure if I believe this is is the case here, but some think that's what it is.
It is incomprehensible, but this seems like a science fiction movie where the compliant vaccinated are killing off the uncompliant unvaccinated.
I read that article by Spartacus and it's great. I've sent it to friends and family
Based in Melbourne and looking to connect with anyone else in this city who thinks it's not OK to force an experimental treatment onto those who don't want it. People I've known for years and care about are saying things I never thought they'd say and, while I appreciate the seductive power of the MSM, I think it's time to make new friends for the sake of my own sanity. Would appreciate hearing from you.
Goodonya J, it's very hard to stay on track in all this but surrounding yourself with fellow freedom lovers will help.
As a Melbournian I feel I should have an interesting take, not sure if I do though.
In Australia the police work for the government, most people are wealthy enough to have a lot to lose and most people believe in big government.
A subtle psychological difference to Americans is that much more Australian migration was government sponsored, the government recruited and paid people to migrate. This may work itself out in the Australian attitude of government as a generous father figure.
The political situation is also perverse with a weak and foolish PM afraid to confront state leaders for fear of prioritising money over lives. State leaders, on the other hand, have been adept at selling the fear narrative and do not have to pay the bills as this is the Fed's job. State leaders are mostly Labor and seem to see an opportunity to white ant the Liberal Fed government.
I wonder if an election loss by the federal government may provide some relief if the states believe their political goals have been met.
For myself I suspect the control the states have on the narrative makes street protest counter-productive, I have switched off all media other than this Substack and try to live my life with as little reference to the government as possible.
It seems Australian is the testing ground for a totalitarian police state, new world order
"What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else?"
Nothing. The majority is content to live under authoritarian rule in exchange for perceived safety. The entire world will live under something very close the Chinese model by 2030. A tiny but unimaginably powerful global trillionaire class will live a parallel existence in unimaginable luxury.
This has been the state of the world since the dawn of civilization. The difference is that whereas a remote king had little day to day impact on the life of a peasant in 1230, advanced technology will permit the global elite to control every aspect of everyone's lives by 2030.
This is what the world's population wants. Don't imagine Americans are all that different than Australians. It will just take a bit longer.
Steve - you were quoted by Alex for this post - you win the internet :-)
Maybe I'm a pollyanna but I do believe Americans are different. We like guns and we like how our fifty states compete for us. Our greatest strength is the fact that the most successful among us are skeptical if too much government as they are typically only a generation or two out from escaping tyranny. (my husband, for instance, maternal grandmother was Czech) We have more choice in the US than any place on earth. If one state becomes like australia, we can vote with our feet. My family moved from Brooklyn to oklahoma city this past year. Life is incredibly normal here--even in the snobby neighborhoods next to the whole foods.
...and the people of the lower end of spectrum still idolize the trillionaire living in luxury, thinking it'll help them somehow. This is where we are. Pathetic.
yes... schools need to do more to educate kids that money above a certain amount does not buy happiness or even quality of life. There is definitive research that shows that once you can pay your mortgage on a primary home, pay your bills, put aside a little each month for retirement and go on vacation a couple times a year that's about as good as it gets, ie: the guy that makes $100k is just as successful (possibly more so) than the one who rakes in millions.
Does anyone remember how the Tiananmen Square protesters were quashed & all communication to rally the masses failed because of government control? Could not happen in Australia could it?
I am sorry to go off topic, but it appears that Biden met the Indian Prime Minister Modi last Friday, and THE SAME DAY, India stopped recommending Ivermectin as a therapeutic for its citizens. Do I have my facts right?
What the heck is really going on?
Perhaps someone here can shed some light on this.
Why would Modi listen to an old duffer in Depends? Seriously.
I've been watching India for a few months, seeing their cases plummet since May with a very low vax rate. 1.3 billion people. There has to be an explanation.
The march that went down Flinders Street and onto the Westgate Bridge last Tuesday I estimated was at least 20 000. Mostly, but not only, tradies in hi viz.
"Doctators" - I'm gonna use that!
Being prepared to risk being pepper-sprayed, hit with rubber bullets, roughed up and arrested takes courage, but in the end I suspect that it tends to rally support behind the authorities. Individuals who are prepared to lose their often very secure and quite well-paid jobs rather than be jabbed are at least as courageous and probably give more people in the compliant majority pause for thought. This may be a situation in which Terence MacSwiney’s words will prove apt: ‘It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will prevail’.
What will change that passivity - in Australia and everywhere else? Well, if 70% of the population agreed to this madness they are getting what they voted for. Now, as some have voiced, this is why, perhaps, the 2nd amendment was enshrined into the constitution though not much a AR-15 can do against a tank.
the difference in the usa, in my opinion anyway, is the guy driving the tank in all likelihood is on the side of the guy hes got it pointed at. I find it hard to believe that the majority of us soldiers would take up arms on its own citizens when the time came. Maybe i'm just naive, or willfully ignorant, but I truly believe this.
A bunch of guys in Afghanistan showed what determination can bring. I suspect the police and military in AU are upset with management as people take to the streets. OTOH, maybe they fear for their jobs, as well.