Australia has never had anything similar to the bill of rights, though it has been brought up by the elected rulers at times. Many of the states have their own lite versions. Which means the government can run roughshod over the citizens and do pretty much whatever it likes (photo from AP article)
Hundreds arrested, fined during Australia lockdown protests
More than 250 people who were protesting coronavirus lockdowns in Australia were arrested Saturday and many faced fines for defying health orders, authorities said.
At least seven police officers were treated for injuries after skirmishes broke out at some of the protests, which took place in multiple cities nationwide. The largest and most violent protest was in Melbourne. Many were organized by people in encrypted online chat groups.
Sydney has been in lockdown for two months, while Melbourne and the capital, Canberra, went into lockdown earlier this month. Under the rules of the lockdown, people are mostly confined to their homes and have limits placed on their social interactions.
Despite those measures, Sydney’s New South Wales state reported a record 825 new daily community infections on Saturday. Several cities are battling outbreaks of the highly contagious delta variant.
Protestors say the lockdowns should end, but authorities say they are necessary to suppress the spread of the virus and save lives.
In Melbourne, a crowd of about 4,000 mostly unmasked protesters let off flares, yelled and blasted music in the central city. Victoria state police arrested 218 people and issued more than 200 fines, each for more than 5,400 Australian dollars ($3,850).
Despite lockdown, there were 825 Chinese flu infections. Out of a population of 8.2 million. That’s what the government is locking people down over. Is it any wonder people are protesting for freedom?
Let’s be clear: some deserve to be arrested for getting violent. Most of the rest were simply protesting. The basic state of government is tyranny. Control. Look at Germany a few weeks ago
COVID: Berlin court bans anti-lockdown protests
Berlin authorities have banned more than tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters demonstrating this weekend.
Judges at the German capital’s administrative court refused to authorize 13 demonstrations, some of which had been organized by the Querdenker (Lateral thinker) anti-lockdown movement.
The ban was upheld by the Berlin-Brandeburg upper administrative court.
Organizers said 22,500 people had registered to take part in one of the rallies.
Court officials said the protests were banned amid fears of a rise in coronavirus infections sparked by the delta variant.
A separate march planned for Sunday has also been forbidden.
If you give a little freedom up to government, they will take lots and lots more. Meanwhile
(NY Post) The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to grant full approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, according to a report on Friday.
The New York Times reported that the approval had originally been targeted for Labor Day, but was expedited due the recent surge of the more infectious Delta variant of the virus.
Hopefully that means that more will voluntarily get the vaccine. It also means there will be a lot more mandates coming.
