Guest Post by Simon Black
Ursula Bach was 18 years old… and six months pregnant… when she heard the news.
It was August 13, 1961. And East Germany’s government started building a wall to separate East Berlin from West.
Moreover, tens of thousands of East German troops had been deployed overnight to suppress protests and erect makeshift barricades to prevent people from leaving.
Ursula Bach had crossed the border back in May, rightaroundthe time that East Germany’s leader quipped, “Nobody has the intention of building a wall…”
And then it happened. Her world changed overnight.
Ursula’s fiance Fried (the father of their child) was still in East Berlin. And she knew that she would never see him again.
Their son Andreas was 28 years old before the wall came down; he grew up never knowing his father, even though Fried technically only lived a few blocks away. But he might as well have been on Mars.
There are countless other stories like this from the days of the Berlin Wall– families torn apart and separated for decades.
Obviously what’s happening today is nowhere near as heinous as the Berlin Wall. But it’s difficult to ignore the whispers of history.
Australia is a unique example, with some of the most severe Covid protocols on the planet.
The entire state of New South Wales (population: 7.4 million) was locked down a few weeks ago because 4 people died of Covid.
In the neighboring state of Victoria, Emperor Dan Andrews announced yet another lockdown on August 21. It was originally supposed to end on September 2, but the Emperor has predictably extended the lockdown for several more weeks.
Some Australians are starting to realize the truth– even when certain restrictions are eased, they’re never quite ‘out’ of lockdown; they’re merely ‘in between’ lockdowns.
The most notable example, however, may be the border between the states of Queensland and New South Wales.
The town of Coolangatta is on the Queensland side of the border, while the town of Tweed Heads is on the New South Wales side.
The two towns, along with other nearby suburbs, are essentially a continuous amalgamation of the Gold Coast metropolitan area. For years you could have driven from one town to the other, and technically crossed over the state border, without ever realizing it.
It’s like how Kansas City straddles both Kansas and Missouri; in fact parts of downtown Kansas City are in both states.
But then along came Australia’s Covid hysteria… and suddenly a border was erected.
Along Dixon Street (aka ‘the state line’) in Coolangatta, the government has erected a temporary ‘wall’.
It’s not exactly a Berlin Wall, with mine fields, reinforced concrete, and machine gun nests; actually the ‘Great Wall of Coolangatta’ (as it’s known) consists mostly of bright orange construction barriers.
But it’s a wall, nevertheless, designed to keep all of those filthy, diseased Australians from crossing the border. God forbid they’re able to walk over to Moxy’s Rooftop Bar on Dixon Street.
This past Sunday was Father’s Day in Australia. This would normally be a time when children take their dads out for brunch, and express their love and appreciation.
But just like Berlin in the 1960s, there are local families in Australia that are now separated by the Great Wall of Coolangatta.
Many Australians reached their breaking points on Sunday, defying lockdown orders so that they could meet with family members who lived across the state line.
They met at the Wall… fathers on one side, their children on the other.
Honestly it’s heartbreaking to see kids passing gifts across the wall to their dads and trying to steal a hug. Yet this is the depth to which Western civilization has declined in 2021.
Highlighting the decline was Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who broke quarantine in the capital city so that he could fly home to Sydney and see his own kids for Father’s Day.
Regular Australians weren’t allowed to do this.
But it’s all good, because the Prime Minister received special permission from federal health authorities. He’s an “essential worker”, so the rules don’t apply to him.
That’s another interesting historical parallel to East Germany, by the way. As regular people suffered, the party bosses and political elite enjoyed lavish lifestyles… because the rules never applied to them.
It’s important to note that Australia’s Covid statistics are similar to the rest of the world’s; mortality rates are much higher among people who are older or unhealthy.
In fact, today’s data from Australia’s Department of Health show that 91% of Covid deaths were over the age of 70.
And the Covid mortality rate for people under 50, i.e. those in their prime learning or working years, is just 0.04%. Specifically there have been 16 Covid deaths out of 47,897 confirmed cases among Australians under the age of 50.
Tens of millions of people have lost their freedom as a result of those 16 deaths.
By comparison, in the state of Victoria alone, there were over 700 suicides just last year, and nearly 900 in New South Wales.
As a final point, I’ll mention that Ursula Bach’s finace Fried had the opportunity to travel with her to West Berlin back in 1961. But he chose not to.
Fried was a staunch Communist. He believed the East German propaganda. He was a fanatic, and he chose to stay.
But like all Communist fanatics, Fried eventually realized that the totalitarian dream was really a nightmare. He had his awakening. Yet by then it was too late.
Similarly, there are people all over the world who are Covid fanatics. They believe in the totalitarian dream. They love lockdowns and mandates.
They say things like “Your liberty affects my health.” (Direct quote from US Senator Mitt Romney)
Eventually they too will come around. Eventually they’ll realize that things have gone way too far. Almost everyone will.
But just like Ursula Bach’s fiance, by then it will be too late… because once freedom is surrendered, it’s almost impossible to reclaim.
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Coolangatta may be on the opposite side of the world, but they are our neighbors. Australia and New Zealand being island nations are perfect for the NWO experiment. The subjects are just not going to walk out into the ocean. They lost their gun rights, they lost their freedom. Never ever give up your gun rights, screw all politicians, screw the medical establishment, and most important screw the United Nations and all their bureaucrats.🖕
Ouir,remember,you can get a pistol with a knife/you can get a rifle with a pistol/with a rifle you can win your freedom,to me at least author unknown.
I actually believe there are a lot more firearms than admitted in both countries,will say,be damned as to why they are not(as of yet) being put into use.
The establishment will push it as far as they are allowed, there is a straw out there ready to break the camels back.
More than 5 million registered firearms in Aus, and plenty unregistered.
When would you choose to use them? As soon as you shoot, your former life is over. The life you provided for your wife, children, others is over. If you shoot, and no one else does, you change nothing except your own destiny. It is the most difficult of decisions to be the first, which is one reason why tyranny can take hold in the first place.
It’s easily to look from the outside in and ask “why are they not being put to use?”, but perhaps consider how you would react in the situation. Just having guns doesn’t keep you safe; the US is creeping more totalitarian by the day. You had an election stolen, so why are they not being put to use?
Critical mass!
Yep. Funny how protests are banned, we are all restricted to a 3 mile distance from our homes and many of us are under curfew! We’ve been told that if we want to protest, do it online. Of course, such matters are censored, and if you happen to organise a real protest you are jailed. If you attend, you are at the minimum given a heavy fined, and possibly jailed.
A lot of effort is going into preventing that critical mass from appearing. Where it does appear, media blackouts and minimisation to ensure it always looks like a “tiny minority”.
Yes, it is undeclared martial law. We’re all ChiComs now.
Wait, wait, we’ve been Palestinians for the last twenty years.
Oy!
Oh, we’re going to find out here in the U.S.. And most of the critics of the Aussies will do nothing — for the very reasons you’ve outlined.
Good comment.
Once surrendered it can only be recalimed one way. Does the modern world have a stomach for it?
no
Hell no.
Was reading another blog regarding the fall of freedom in Australia and came across this:
That’s a post. Excellent.
Guy has a pretty damn good voice in covering Mercury.Yes,realize overdub ect. and some just straight Mercury singing,but still,not bad at all.
Its going to take a lot of blood to cleanse away this problem.
Here is the thing re Australian states. They are effectively individual nations, as opposed to states as the US knows states. The federal government controls fed taxes, the joint military, and international relations. Everything else is controlled by the states, including borders, health, education, laws, etc etc etc. They are far more powerful than US states.
It is all very surreal to me here in the middle of the nowhere, somewhere in the Ozarks.
I am betting you are rural enough (as we are) to avoid most of the nonsense.
On the other hand, we had dinner with our son last Wednesday and he had been sick after getting a booster shot (mandated by his work) and now Nick and I are sick. On the uptick (3rd day of injectable cow medicine… Ann Barnhardt has a nice dirty martini recipe.)
I would never have guessed it would have gone this far this fast.
The US Constitution and the concept of Federalism recognized that the sovereign states were not subservient to an all powerful central gov’t. The erosion of that social compact is why US states are barely more than administrative prefectures of the USG. Further, the US Constitution was also a check and balance on those sovereign states should they abuse those enumerated negative rights of government (Bill of Rights). Your Aussie states are doing nothing outside of what the central gov’t is channeling. Some are more tyrannical than others.
Our states are addicted to the fiat money handed out by corrupt beltway politicians. If a given state decided to reject all federal funding to throw off the DC yoke, would there still be any legal structures that would prevent regaining the sovereignty they originally had?
My understanding of the (deliberately confusing) post civil war amendments and other legislation, including the 1871 DC incorporation act, is that they worked to not only subvert states’ sovereignty but the sovereignty of individuals. It is a morass of legislation, combined with debt-bondange, that enslaves us.
Well postulated. The crux…
You don’t gain sovereignty with “legal structures”; and if you are going to TAKE your sovereignty, you’re not going to let “legal structures” stop you.
That said, no. There isn’t and never has been any “legal structure” to prevent a state from seceding. How could there be? A “legal structure” requires an accepted sovereign authority to enforce it. If a state were claiming its own sovereignty, it would be denying the existence of a superior authority. The question doesn’t make sense.
The southern states seceded. And if one or more states did it today, the National Central Government would have the same response it had in 1861.
To find out who’s sovereign, you fight a war. Or, as Mao would have it, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” This is what the rebellion/secession of the “united states of America” against the British crown was all about.
The US Constitution was the destruction of federalism. It was never meant to be anything else.
Except that the original intent of the convention was to revise and modify the Articles of Confederation.
The Founding Fathers didn’t abide by their own rules.
The Federalists never claimed a new and improved confederation did they? I suppose that the Anti-federalists were vindicated, but we have no way of knowing what would have happened absent the second constitution.