Guest Post by Simon Black
In the early summer of 1798, an Irish stone mason named Philip Cunningham reached his breaking point.
Cunningham was sick and tired of English rule in Ireland. And along with 50,000 of his fellow Irishmen, Cunningham picked up a weapon and started in uprising against Great Britain.
Their rebellion was a complete disaster; the rebels hoped that the British army was too weak to resist after their defeat in the American Revolution.
But within a few short months the British had regained tight control of Ireland.
Naturally their first order of business was to round up all the remaining rebels— and Cunningham was among them.
His punishment was being shipped off to a British penal colony in the south Pacific, in a place that was generally known at the time as “New Holland”.
Today we call it Australia.
Cunningham wasn’t one to accept his fate easily. Even while en route to Australia, he and other prisoners briefly managed to take over the ship… though British marines eventually regained control and gave Cunningham 100 lashes.
But Cunningham still wasn’t finished. A few years later in March of 1804, he led about 300 Australian prisoners in yet another rebellion against their British jailers.
That rebellion was so severe that the British governor was forced to declare martial law— the first, but certainly not the last time in Australia’s history this would happen.
It’s ironic that, each year, ‘Australia Day’ is celebrated on January 26, which commemorates the day that the British Navy first sailed into Sydney Cove, hoisted their flag, and declared the land their penal colony.
So Australia Day does not celebrate the birth of a nation so much as the ribbon-cutting of a giant prison.
Clearly in 2021, Australia has simply been returning to its roots as the world’s largest prison.
You know the story by now— “two weeks to control the spread” of COVID-19 became “indefinite dictatorship and total suspension of basic human rights.”
Over the course of the last 18 months, Australia’s state and federal governments have:
- Banned citizens from leaving the country without permission.
- Banned citizens from entering the country, with threat of five years in prison.
- Banned citizens and residents from crossing state borders.
- Banned citizens and residents from traveling further than 5k from home without permission.
Ironically, an Australian government website lays out citizens’ “right to freedom of movement” and says that this very basic human right “cannot be made dependent on establishing a purpose or reason for leaving.”
But Australia doesn’t have to follow its own rules, nor care about the human rights of all the little people, because it’s an emergency.
In the name of COVID Australian police and government officials have also:
- Tracked a large fast food order to a party to fine guests $26,000 for an unauthorized gathering.
- Deployed the military to enforce lockdowns. Deployed helicopters to threaten young healthy men playing soccer.
- Told people not to talk to their neighbors.
- Executed several dogs to prevent rescue workers from coming to the town.
- Arrested a pregnant mom in front of her kids for posting about an anti-lockdown rally on social media.
- Refused to grant a travel exception to a three year old boy visiting his grandparents separated from his parents for months, because of a surprise border closure.
- Caused a newborn infant to die because the mother was denied permission to travel across state borders for medical care.
It is also now illegal to plan, publicize, or participate in protests.
The right to peaceably assemble and hold public protests against unjust government actions is enshrined in the Western legal tradition. But for organizing protests against the Australian government’s tyranny, Anthony Khallouf has been sentenced to several months in prison.
His “crimes” include not complying with COVID decrees, and “encouraging the commission of crimes”— that is, sharing information about the time and location of protests.
He is a political prisoner, like many of his forebears.
But at least Philip Cunningham was imprisoned because he engaged in actual violence.
Khallouf, on the other hand, was found guilty of… illegally crossing Australian state borders.
That hasn’t stopped the protests however.
Thousands of Australian construction workers, for example, protested because they refuse to be coerced into vaccination against their will.
They actually were peaceful protestors. For real. They literally sang the national anthem.
Yet police pepper sprayed them and fired rubber bullets into the crowd of thousands (which included children).
Perhaps even more diabolical is that the government restricted the media from showing footage of the event as it was happening, and restricted airspace to prevent media helicopters from filming.
That didn’t stop people on the ground from recording it with their phones.
In one exchange, a protestor filmed a police officer agreeing, “I’m just as over this fucking [lockdown] as you are,” but, “we get paid to do this [fire on peaceful protestors] mate…”
I’m just doing my job. I’m just following orders.
Other police were caught on video going door-to-door to ask residents if they planned to attend, or knew of any planned protests.
They asked one homeowner if he is on any social media platforms, but declined to tell him why they targeted that particular address.
What’s really crazy is that this authoritarianism goes beyond COVID hysteria.
Australia’s parliament has passed a new bill eradicating Australians’ right to digital privacy.
It’s called “Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021.”
It gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) sweeping new powers to not just surveil Australian citizens online, but also take over and run their online accounts, lock the actual user out of the account, and add or delete data.
The police never have to notify a person that their account has been hacked by the government.
What they are calling “warrants” actually do not always require an actual court or judge to sign off.
An “emergency authorisation,” allows police to bypass the courts entirely. And why should anyone be concerned about that? It’s not like the Australian government has ever abused its emergency powers before…
The right to travel, the right to protest, the right to privacy, the right to due process, the right to leave your home and earn a living— these are basic human rights that are now gone in Australia.
It should be obvious by now to every citizen of any Western nation that never-ending “emergency powers” can easily snowball into a full-blown dictatorship.
There is no reason it couldn’t happen to other formerly free nations as well.
And that means, more than ever before, it’s time to think about a Plan B.
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Do they even try to justify it any more?
I dont care that the Gov’t is tyrannical. That’s like being mad at fire for being hot. What I’m pissed at is the 40% of people cheering it on, and the other 40% hiding under their beds. Leaves about 20% left. That enough to win back a country? Doubt it, but we will see
3 percent fought in the revolutionary war. 30 percent supported them, 30 percent supported the king and 30 percent were undecided. Remind me of who won?
Yes, it is enough. Stay strong and don’t give up. The tide will turn – and overwhelm these Nazis. And whatever you do, don’t take the jab.
I watched a Ted video of someone who had actually done research on every single overthrow of dictatorships and tyranny in human history. One of the results was that you need at least 3.5% of “sustained resistance”, those that will stand firm, fight or do whatever it takes. That’s all. You don’t need that many, not even close to 50%.
SL…there is a 3%’er bumper sticker. I see it a lot in my neck of the woods. But…it does make you a target, I suppose. Glad to be around those types.
The jab is the key, it’s going to overwhelmingly change the dynamics of the US’s political landscape in a few years. Let it do to the left what they want to do to us.
The color revolution is still only months old. They are at their strongest now. It will only get worse for them.
Stalin killed 5 times as many.
Mao killed 10 times as many.
Henceforth, please use ‘Commiefuks” instead of Nazi.
Thank you.
20% is more than enough to dominate the rest. If they act as one body, they could dominate the whole world.
The linchpin bedrock positions are don’t comply and don’t give up your arms.
Arms don’t do anything sitting in the closet. Having inferior arms and related equipment is not useful for emasculated men. Don’t comply? lmfao That’s like presenting yourself to get picked off on their schedule. #StillNotAhFuckIt
It is all but over. There is no resistance. Waiting for ‘them’ to arrive at your door isn’t resistance by any definition.
There’s a reason for this and it’s a tried and true method. As long as they don’t shoot, you won’t shoot. You see they know one thing for absolute certain: Gun owners are the most law abiding among us. Even if the law and courts are total bullshit, we abide by them. Whole countries can now invade other whole countries as long as the invaders don’t shoot. The new method is to make a few hard examples like they did with the Jan 6th protesters and you have to admit, it worked in spades. How do we know it worked? When there was another protest, there were more cops and media than protesters because the would be protesters stayed home. So yes, you’re correct. Arms in closets don’t do much good now, do they?
You don’t need fire arm, you don’t need knife. All weapons are useless in you hand without a will to kill.
You speak ’em funny. You no from here. Where you from, Paleface?
Free to do as you’re told to do, or not.
What you are witnessing in real time is the takeover and takedown of western civilizations. Australia is now a fully communist state, others not far behind. The problem is many, probably half of the populations in these countries are fully onboard with being mindless little serfs and will destroy anyone who gets in the way of the state. They wear their yokes with pride, they are ‘good’ little drones and government lapdogs and they need the state to be their parent.
The collapse is coming, but, like many dying behemoths, it takes time for them to hit the ground and much destruction and oppression still have to be wrought before the ground shakes. The Globalists have prepared the field well, they have been patient, they have indoctrinated and emasculated well and they’re almost, but not quite, done with their project. They will soon be victorious and anyone who naively thinks that things will return to ‘normal’ after this take over need their heads examined.
THIS is the new normal, we are living in it. We live in a police state where the ‘leaders’ call the shots, ignore any laws that get in the way of their agenda and do all that is in their power to destroy any vestiges of what was once America. There will be little enclaves of sanity but the majority of the country is in thrall to petty martinets and their Orcs all doing service to their banker overlords.
Brace yourself for an endless barrage of outrages as they destroy you and yours bit by bit and cut by cut.
But when the forest fire of this 4th turning has burnt itself out, the soil will be fertile for a new beginning. I do not think I will live long enough to witness it, and neither my children, possibly, because I think it will take over 100 years.
All that and not a word about women’s liberation.
The typical Aussie woman is a lot like the typical American woman, only more so.
So what you’re saying is that DryGirl…Certainly is Australian-America. Explains it.
If the system collapses the bankers will lose everything because they depend on the internet and the grid, their records and funds are all digits in some computer.
This collapse will be equivalent to that of Rome.
The bankers won’t be in charge, it will more likely some form of local prince or warlords.
Again look to the fall of Rome for the types of situations that will occur.
Modernity will quickly end.
The little enclaves you mentioned are the best options for survival. Some place that produces food and is difficult to get to.
We don’t have to fight a rebellion or a real insurrection because our foes are doing enough harm to themselves as it is as Tsun Tsu said,
When your enemies are making mistakes don’t interfere,
Zhou Bi Den is destroying the power of the U S military, this will destroy the dollar which will reduce the federal government to a shell as it won’t be able to borrow and spend to keep the levathian going. Welfare stops EBT stops the cities burn for real this time.
Martial law with the jabbed drag queen military won’t be an option, not for long.
The elites will be too busy trying to stay alive to be any bother. It will be like the end of WWI.
The end result of leadership that has sold it’s soul to the devil.
Their end game and Satan’s is Australia worldwide.
The removal of the true church and the restrainer will give them exactly what they desire for a season.
One can hope
A pick up snapped a utility pole in half across town and knocked out the power.
Got to do a pre winter test run.
Generator up and running. Space heater, too early for the coal stove, fridge and freezer on.
It’s a go.
We’ve got to pick up another oil lamp this week.
Yea brother…prep…prep…prep.
One is none…two, three, four etc. – depending…and your done.
I was again looking this week at coal; the stove and more importantly bulk delivery. It would have to be an OTR delivery (NC), probably 20 tons or so.
C’mon New World Order! I love it! It’s on the way to paradise! Jews said so!
Tikkun olam, baby.
Mankind repairs the world that God fucked up!
In transgressing the law of nature, the
offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common
equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men, for their mutual
security; and so he becomes dangerous to mankind, the tye, which is to secure them
from injury and violence, being slighted and broken by him. Which being a trespass
against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of
nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general,
may restrain, or where it is necessary, destroy things noxious to them, and so may
bring such evil on any one, who hath transgressed that law, as may make him repent
the doing of it, and thereby deter him, and by his example others, from doing the like
mischief. And in the case, and upon this ground, EVERY MAN HATH A RIGHT TO
PUNISH THE OFFENDER, AND BE EXECUTIONER OF THE LAW OF
NATURE.
It’s worse than you think.
I went to an Outback restaurant last week and when I told the waiter I didn’t have a mask, he kicked me in the fuck.
You must have ordered the Bloomin’ Funyuns. Australians hate that.
Next time, tell him that while holding a metal baseball bat, and motorcycle helmet.
The approach in Australia has become that the govt decrees something, and it is up to individuals to challenge whether it is constitutional or legal. The govt and police don’t behave in a manner consistent with actual laws, and that has repercussions.
It is interesting that the govt in NSW has substantially changing tack in the last couple of weeks. After huge numbers of construction workers protested in Melbourne NSW opened up construction (while Melbourne shut it down). They announced that the unvaxxed will have the same “freedoms” as the vaxxed from December 1, and in the meantime the won’t seek to “punish” businesses that serve the unvaxxed.
Whether they feel they have reached a goal, and can now relax until the next choke hold, or the protests had some effect, is unclear. But the approach has changed completely.
I have a (general outline for) Plan B. I also have a Plan C.
Plan B has two likely outcomes:
(i) Best-case-scenario: freedom, followed by suffering and death; and
(ii) Worst-Case-Scenario: prison, followed by suffering and death.
Plan C is much uglier.
The only real plan B involves leaving the planet
Well, mates.
Start following the oppressors home, strip them of their stormtrooper gear, break their ankles and move on to the next one. Pretty soon, the lockdown authorities presence will dwindle precipitously.
Solzhenitsyn tells why. I like to learn from history.
Always take the gear.
Get as much intel as possible.
Locations and amounts of ordnance in the local precinct, work schedules,etc.
In addition to the ankles, the knees and hands should be smashed with a 10 lb. double jack.
The man will never again chase anyone, nor hold a pistol, rifle, or truncheon.
He will be a cripple, alive, unable to serve as a martyr to his brethren or avenge his condition.
He will live the rest of his days with the memory of the last words you said before he passed out from the pain.
“I’m just doing my job.”
You forget to burning down the house, with those assholes in it.
Plan B, plan B. How about that Plan A that was championed by white men before Christianity? Dust that bitch off?
My plan B was to retire to Australia, Simon.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere, or maybe even a pony.
I hear that, my plan was to go to Canada sit on my front porch and watch the whole shebang unraveling from the coast of Newfoundland. But Castro’s bastard child is turning that place into a communist shithole.
Kill your enemies and get it over with.
Glory be to God!
The Austrailians willingly gave up their guns. Hard to have sympathy for them when their government acts as they were warned they would act when the guns were given up.
Let’s not make that same mistake here, hm?
A donkey in a lion skin still a donkey. Cowards with guns still cowards. If you truly want, a nail hammer is all you ever need.
Hitler would be proud of the Australian government!