Photo from last August: Australian troops accompany police patrols in the streets of Melbourne, Australia
Mayank Aggarwal – The Independent July 30, 2021
Authorities in Sydney, which is witnessing its highest number of Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began last year, will deploy troops to enforce the lockdown.
New South Wales (NSW) police commissioner Mick Fuller said that from Monday some 300 Australian army personnel will begin unarmed patrols to ensure people who have tested positive for the virus are isolating.
“The sheer volume of increase over the last week (means) the level of compliance (enforcement) has gone from hundreds into thousands,” he said.
The move means that the military and police presence would cover the breadth of Australia’s largest city, but will be concentrated on eight local government districts in the city’s west – home to two million people – where most new cases have been reported.
The surge in cases, driven by the Delta variant, has resulted in the city of five million people being ordered to stay home. The authorities want tighter restrictions for the worst-affected suburbs, including mandatory testing and mask-wearing outdoors.
Last weekend there were demonstrations against lockdowns in several Australian cities, including Sydney, where protests turned violent, and there were more than 50 arrests.
Mehreen Faruqi, Greens senator for NSW, denounced the decision to deploy troops, claiming it had “stirred up all my terrifying memories of growing up mostly under a militarised political regime in Pakistan”.
“There were check points, armed soldiers on the roads, neighbourhood patrols and people under house arrest. Anyone could be stopped at any time, targeted and imprisoned. People were surveilled and nationalism entrenched. This was scary, scary stuff and I’ve never been able to fully shake the fear it fomented of the army and police,” she said.
Creating fear and threatening people when they are already vulnerable is cruel and has nothing to do with public health. What people need is support and reassurance, not fear and surveillance.
— Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) July 30, 2021
The senator added that the “militarisation of public health in Australia, in communities that are already going through these difficult lockdowns and the anxiety and stress of Covid-19 is just plain b******ry”.
“Creating fear and threatening people when they are already vulnerable is cruel and has nothing to do with public health. What people need is support and reassurance, not fear and surveillance,” she exclaimed.
However, Mr Fuller said the military officers won’t be armed and will be under police command. “They will also aim to work with community leaders on enforcement strategies,” he said.
Since the pandemic began last year, Australia has been one of the countries that had appeared to manage it well, but it is now witnessing a surge in cases. It has recorded about 2,500 cases in less than three weeks.
The tighter restrictions to control the spread of the virus, however, has resulted in resistance from many people.
Since the pandemic began, Australia has recorded, 33,473 cases of Covid-19, including 921 deaths. But Australia’s vaccination programme has been sluggish, with only 11.4 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines being administered, and a mere 16 per cent of the population fully vaccinated, leading to criticism of prime minister Scott Morrison and his government.
The key word here is ‘enforcement’.
The mask of reasonableness is coming off to reveal the true tyranny beneath.
Let’s hope the Aussies are equal to it.
I think they just might be.
Johnson has already had troops on British streets, although in this case it was ‘merely’ to ‘help distribute stuff’. He will be watching the Australian experiment very carefully.
Johnson does however have a problem that the Australians don’t have. If troops were to go into majority black and Islamic areas of UK cities and start throwing their weight around, the whole place would go up in flames.
It’s ironic, but millions of non-white immigrants are actually holding back the agenda in Britain.
I saw a vid of this guy, Mick Fuller, the NSW police commissioner,
yesterday and immediately it was extremely noticeable his robotic, automon manner, blank, zero emotion, icy-cold soulless eyes. I read a bit about this Freemason slave and found this: “Fuller was neighbour to Scott Morrison while he [Morrison] was Treasurer, and would collect his garbage bin for him.” (Wikipedia entry in him, under the “Personal Life” section.) Good training for Fullershit! Learning how to take care of Scotty’s garbage! Now, doesn’t that tell it all!
White people have never had a government, only the Jews have their governments.
A commenter on another site said when Aussie soldiers showed up on the streets (I think in Melbourne) he said the police showed animosity towards the military. Let’s hope so. Neither are on the side of the people, so if division can be sown between state enforcers that can serve the people and eventually backfire on the elite – because we can’t know for sure yet if these forces are there primarily to enforce diktat, or if they’re really a praetorian guard to protect the elite who may be getting scared by all the pushback.
I thought millions of white Aussie Christian cretins helped obliterate Nazi Germany so they could remain ‘free’? Whose living in a police state now?
those motherf…s will not be able to control the
outbacks. OUTBACKERS HIDE +SHOOT
WHEN THE Y COME FOR YOU !
How do those cops and “soldiers” in Australia look at themselves in the mirror without feeling abject shame and disgust? How do they possibly sleep soundly at night unless they’re psychopaths? What law enforcement and military personnel in Australia have been doing is utterly repugnant to the rights of man and an egregious affront to the citizenry. To enforce the grossly illegal and immoral dictates of a maniacal ruling class, to actively participate in a crime against humanity, are illegal and highly immoral acts in and of themselves. The Australians should give the the police and soldiers one, and only one, chance to straighten up and do the right thing. If they choose to still be goons of the forces of darkness and totalitarianism, then they should be declared as enemies of the people and then treated as such.
Australian citizens should be taking note of where the enforcers of evil live, then act accordingly. Don’t try to meet them in the streets when they are on-duty and grouped. Instead, give them a greeting they won’t forget in a much more personal setting when and if that day comes.
Adolf hitler removed these people who are plaguing us now.
“Community Leaders”? Is that what they are calling the local Commissars these days?
Come on folks – how much more “in your face” does this have to get?
@antiseptic: Nice idea – but the reality is that a fuel/air bomb can literally suck the lungs out of everyone within a football pitch area, so the Outback is not the best place to be. As the Iraqis found out in the Gulf Wars, the desert is totally indefensible.
A fair bit of BULLSHIT in this article, posted by MSM.
Remember, the tests are fraudulent and dangerous.
Therefor Covid19 is CRAP.
OK. they claim 921 ‘Ocky-Coky’ deaths in nigh on 18 months.
so 1 year, 600-ish. Yes. (or less than 2 per day as an average)
I’ve had a look, approx 22,500 smoking deaths per Year nation wide in OZ
lets say 24mill pop. = ‘about’ 61 DEATHS PER DAY !
year on year.
I assume tobacco products are sold quite openly each & everyday ONGOING.
with neither a cough or a huff thought about or mentioned by smokers & non-smokers alike,
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Ocky-Coky & you require an experimental jab. (that also kills)
Cigs, puff away, no enforced medical procedures needed whatsoever.
Thoughts.
The same ‘stats’ will be applicable in every nation.
All over a non existent disease…. Laughing my ass off. Those tough Aussies shivering in fear,,, not of the fake disease but of their sons, daughters and husbands running around like the SS and Gestapo.
Any relative of mine participating in such a disgusting event would never set foot on my property again.
@ ROBERT NEWTON
one can hide under scrubs + learn from
the aboriginals how to survive but they
probably live in camps from wellfare .