The Australian government is using a crisis to justify tyranny
D. Ray <d@ray>
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The Australian government, with the help of the corporate media, think tanks and lobby groups, is going to spend the next few months clamping down on its citizens. Seemingly overnight, multiple tragic stabbing events have reignited discussion about producing new legislation aimed at minimising what the law-abiding Australian public can view or post online, and strengthening existing laws. The same proposals also seek to violate free speech, remove religious freedoms, limit political expression and freedom of movement, and give additional powers to police and intelligence agencies to enable them to violate privacy and impede freedom of association. In short, we are dealing with an Orwellian scenario, where Big Brother seeks to punish you for thought crimes and remove your ability to have informed consent about almost anything. Perhaps this all seems like the type of thinking usually found in the murky depths of the internet, among those who spend way too much time looking into conspiracy theories. But all the information is in the public domain and available for anyone to see for themselves, and using the categories below I will explain how the government is using crisis and propaganda for political expediency. … … <https://www.noticer.news/the-australian-government-is-using-a-crisis-to-justify-tyranny/> <https://archive.ph/9yTLS>