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2020-09-11 Down Under

The Victorian government has effectively become an elected dictatorship.

"The Victorian government has effectively become an elected dictatorship. The Victorian government is currently sending the police into family homes to arrest anyone posting Facebook messages encouraging others to protest against lockdowns."https://t.co/obhefBZJw4
— Caldron Pool (@CaldronPool) September 10, 2020

Zimmermann: It's Time to Resist the Tyranny of the Ruling Classes

Enacted by the Western Australian Parliament, the Iron Ore Processing Agreement Amendment Act provides the State Premier and his Attorney General exemption from the criminal law and civil liabilities. The Act bans any matter being taken to court so that, in theory, it would ban even actions in the Australian High Court. It explicitly terminates legal proceedings in relation to coronavirus measures which were currently underway in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Court of Australia.

In addition, the WA Act prohibits freedom of information by preventing citizens from obtaining the proper information about what the State Government is doing to hold it accountable. Finally, the Act gives the Premier the arbitrary power to impose legislation without reference to Parliament. In essence, this an unconstitutional exercise of power that completely violates the most basic elements of the rule of law and democratic government, including separation of powers, natural justice and due process of law.

Perhaps even more disturbing is the Prime Minister's refusal to criticise the arbitrary behaviour of these Premiers, in keeping with his strong belief in "national leadership unity". ’Daniel Andrews has my full support ... I will give him every support he needs, Scott Morrison said. Offering support to the oppressive measures of the Victorian government is, according to him, ’the only thing that matters to the federal government.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-09-11 00:34|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

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Police state or state of the police? One makes the other possible.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-09-11 07:35|| 2020-09-11 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The word originated as the title of a magistrate in the Roman Republic appointed by the Senate to rule the republic in times of emergency (see Roman dictator and justitium)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-11 08:52|| 2020-09-11 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 And if your modern incarnations of the ancient Roman dictators had worked 10% as hard to push vitamin D and HCQ as they did opposing the HCQ and pushing masks (of which there are no supporting studies of the type they demand for HCQ) this bug would be a non-factor by now.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 13:26|| 2020-09-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#4 But Mandarins are gonna Mandarin.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 13:26|| 2020-09-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 If HCQ is so great, how do you explain Brazil?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-09-11 14:01|| 2020-09-11 14:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Brazil has no worries. They are going to employ the new Russian vaccine.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-11 14:33|| 2020-09-11 14:33|| Front Page Top

#7 I would guess they're not using it prophylactically enough. That study that came out of Brazil where they were waiting until late in the disease and then they'd give patients a fatal dose is bad enough.

They Chinese may be using their bureaucracy against them the same way they're using our bureaucracy against us because of Trump.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-11 15:00|| 2020-09-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

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