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That's a very specific group to address. Who are these Americans protesting to "free" Australia?
by lancebeet 5y ago
That's a very specific group to address. Who are these Americans protesting to "free" Australia?
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- AussieWog93 5y agoAustralia is currently being portrayed in the right-wing US media as being a police state due to the lockdown laws. Most of the complaints are tone-deaf and completely ignorant of the actual situation on the ground, which has rustled a few of our jimmies. Still, I don't see the relevance of that comment here. This article is about black kids getting thrown in juvie when it causes nothing but harm to both them and the community; a problem that exists here too (mainly in the NT).
- makomk 5y agoWhat everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Australia are definitely no better.) There was even a high-profile case in the UK where a police officer used the restrictions as pretext to kidnap, rape and murder a random woman who'd done nothing wrong and none of our the folks who'd been loudly campaigning to abolish the police questioned giving them those powers. Instead the press attacked our justice secretary for not criminalizing "misogyny"...
- pasabagi 5y agoDo you think if he hadn't had those restrictions available he wouldn't have kidnapped Sarah Everard? Surely he'd have just used something else?
- chris_wot 5y agoTry: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/anti-vaccine-protesters-in-new-york-chant-save-australia/e18417df-a29f-4a4b-a60d-c8a10f31bc38 https://www.sbs.com.au/news/anti-vaccine-protesters-in-new-y...