https://www.rt.com/op-ed/534188-australia-covid-rights-demicratic/

One Flew Over the Kookaburra’s Nest: Down Under is now a mental ward
where the crazies are calling the shots over Covid

Robert Bridge

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'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political
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Reminiscent of Nurse Ratched in Ken Kesey’s classic 1962 novel,
Australian officials have completely lost the plot over the virus, as
they rob citizens of their basic democratic and human rights in the name
of protecting them.

Eight o’clock the walls whirr and hum into full swing. The speaker
in the ceiling says, ‘Medications,’ using the Big Nurse’s voice. – ‘One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

While George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984’ remains the go-to work of
literature for helping wrap one’s brain around these increasingly mental
times, Kesey’s masterpiece ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ has been
relegated to the back of society’s bookshelf. That’s unfortunate,
especially in the case of Australia, which appears to be hard at work
penning the sequel.

The role of ‘Big Nurse,’ Kesey’s tyrannical antagonist, who has an
arsenal of medication at her disposal, would go to Australian health
chief Dr. Kerry Chant. This medical authoritarian recently informed the
8.1 million locked-down subjects of New South Wales that Covid will be
with us “forever” and people will have to just “get used to” rolling up
their sleeves for endless booster shots.

Chant’s grim assessment of Australia’s future faced no challenges from
other professionals, which should come as no surprise, since the act of
expressing medical second opinions – a ‘luxury’ that doctors have
enjoyed since at least the Middle Ages – has been outlawed.

While few would find fault with Chant’s wry observation that “we want
diseases to be totally eliminated,” it is the total absence of
democratic procedure in this wild goose chase that is alarming. After
all, it was Dr. Chant who advised citizens in the heat of summer not to
“start up a conversation” with others in public spaces – a wonderful
excuse to keep the populace squirming under the heel of bureaucracy.

Also on rt.com Australia goes down under the boot as citizens in Sydney
are ordered to avoid casual conversation – even with a mask and vaccine

In the next chapter of this Keseyian tragedy, Australian leaders are
passionately signaling – virtuously, of course – that the only way to
escape from creeping medical apartheid is for everyone to submit to the
jab.

“There is going to be a vaccinated economy, and you get to participate
in that if you are vaccinated,” Victoria Premier Dan ‘Big Brother’
Andrews informed a roomful of puzzled and muzzled reporters. “We’re
going to move to a situation where, to protect the health system, we are
going to lock out people who are not vaccinated and can be.”

Aside from ‘ape-shit crazy,’ there is really only one way to interpret
that incredibly disturbing remark: either you agree to submit to a
vaccination, or the “vaccinated economy” will be closed to you. Now,
whether that lockout will only apply to the bread and circuses that make
up Victoria’s vibrant cultural scene – nightclubs, concerts and sporting
events, for example – or to the more indispensable venues, such as
grocery stores and medical clinics, the Dear Leader would not say.

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews: "We've got everybody lockeddown.
We're going to move to a situation where... we're going to LOCK OUT
people who are not vaccinated..." pic.twitter.com/TtNdA1nxwb
— Caldron Pool (@CaldronPool) September 6, 2021

Listening to Andrews’ ominous words, which come across as nothing short
of outright blackmail, brought to mind a passage in Kesey’s novel where
an orderly is trying to get one of the patients to take a bright red
pill against his will. When the man continues to refuse, Big Nurse
enters the scene to assert her authority over the situation.

“But the Big Nurse has come up quietly, locked her hand on his arm,
paralyzes him all the way to the shoulder.

“That’s alright, Miss Flynn,” she says. “If Mr. Taber chooses to act
like a child, he may have to be treated as such. We’ve tried to be kind
and considerate with him. Obviously, that’s not the answer. Hostility,
hostility, that’s all the thanks we get. You can go, Mr. Taber, if you
don’t wish to take your medication orally.”

Without giving away the plot, Mr. Taber eventually does get his
medication, totally against his will, and in the most invasive way
imaginable. And contrary to what Big Nurse had said, it was not the wary
patient who had demonstrated “hostility,” but rather the medical staff
themselves. It is interesting to note how a patient merely asking
questions with regard to his medical treatment is ridiculed as behaving
“like a child.”

It would be nice to end this piece with a Looney Tunes “That’s all
folks!” but the story gets darker. So dark, in fact, that it overshadows
some of the worst scenes in the entire oeuvre of dystopian literature.

In an apparent effort to prove that fact is far more sinister than
fiction, Australian lawmakers rushed through an Identify and Disrupt
Bill, which seems destined to curtail the already diluted rights of
Australians still further.

Also on rt.com Victoria premier extends statewide lockdown, again, as
Aussie police granted power to covertly HACK citizens’ phones & alter data

Not content with monitoring people’s online activity, the Australian
Federal Police have now been blessed with the power to – are you sitting
down? – access the personal online accounts of private citizens and
impersonate the targeted user, potentially sending out messages in their
name.

Although designed to go after ‘criminals’, the question comes down to
exactly who, these days, would be identified as such. It’s just a wild
hunch, but it seems like those tiresome individuals who protest against
lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mandatory mask-wearing, for example,
might have some reason for concern.

Also on rt.com Australia should be ashamed & appalled by this video of
police handcuffing a pregnant woman for posting an anti-lockdown message

As if that weren’t enough, Australia is busy as a beaver, building
‘quarantine camps’ across the country (here and here, for example). And,
like all of the above-mentioned measures being taken to ‘protect against
Covid,’ these facilities are being constructed without any semblance of
democratic procedure.

At Melbourne’s Centre for National Resilience, the unwieldy name for one
such camp, locals are upset that the state government gave them no prior
notice that the facility was being constructed smack-bang in their backyard.

When Premier Andrews was asked why the community had not been given an
opportunity to ask questions about the new facility, he responded in
true authoritarian style: “That’s the site that’s been chosen and
everyone, including locals, will be better off because of that.”

Historically, Australia was a penal colony before evolving, over time,
into the democratic state it has become today. However, given the spate
of draconian measures being forced on the people without debate or due
process, Down Under is increasingly returning to its roots. In fact, Ken
Kesey, were he still alive, would certainly be surprised to see a living
embodiment of his character ‘Big Nurse’ Ratched on duty in Australia
today, forcing her will on adults and children alike – despite his
prescient warning of impending institutional madness.

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