{"id":212408,"date":"2020-08-23T08:31:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T08:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212408"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:21:48","slug":"australia-intensifies-covid-19-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212408","title":{"rendered":"Australia Intensifies Covid-19 Clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">No-nonsense cops make short work of moronic conspiracy theorist and &#8216;sovereign citizen&#8217; who refuses to wear a mask or show his ID at a 7-Eleven store in Melbourne<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A conspiracy theorist has been arrested after refusing to wear a mask in public<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Man filmed confrontation\u00a0with police at a Melbourne 7-Eleven store this week<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>But the officers arrested him within two minutes for refusing to give his ID<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The man&#8217;s Facebook promotes messages against 5G, masks and vaccination<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brittany Chain and Louise Ayling \u2013 Daily Mail, Australia Aug 6, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A rambling &#8216;sovereign citizen&#8217; has been taken down by no-nonsense cops for refusing to wear a face mask or provide his ID and slapped with a $1,652 fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rick Mejia, from\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/melbourne\/index.html\"><strong>Melbourne<\/strong><\/a>, filmed himself arguing with officers inside a 7-Eleven service station in Sunshine just before the 8pm curfew on Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After repeatedly ignoring orders and ranting about his rights, the video was abruptly cut short when a policeman grabbed his phone and placed him under arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Australian-police-hold-down-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-212411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Australian-police-hold-down-woman-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Australian-police-hold-down-woman-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Australian-police-hold-down-woman.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>The dramatic footage came after coronavirus conspiracy theorist Eve Black was dramatically arrested last Thursday while refusing to give police her details at a checkpoint &#8211; having a week earlier successfully gamed the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Vision has also showed a mother being pinned to the ground by three police officers for allegedly breaking COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Melbourne&#8217;s south-west on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mejia, who posts bizarre conspiracy theories online about 5G &#8216;genocide&#8217;, told the officers he was filming them &#8216;for evidence&#8217; when he walked into the store with his brother.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMnUMZYlqfY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8600561\/Melbourne-cops-make-short-work-conspiracy-theorist-refuses-wear-mask-ID.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia ramps up measures against those who breach Covid-19 containment orders, and note how the media derides those who question the clampdown  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212413,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212408\/revisions\/212413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}