Australia's deportation of the unvaccinated tennis star Novak Djokovic creates serious dangers. Also: we produced shows this week on 1/6 and the new sedition charges.
I will tune in for sure. Australia is terrible. A lot of bad stuff going on these days, and I think a lot of people are eager to know how they can fight back. Subscribing to substacks like this is one way, but somehow we have to figure out other ways too. Authorities seem emboldened these days to trample on civil liberties. They need to be reminded that they cannot.
What is also emboldening governments everywhere is that there are anxiety-driven and meaning-searching segment of the population urging their government to greater heights of authoritarianism. It's dictatorship of the hypochondriacs and all varieties of Munchhousens.
Yes I think that's right. It's just unbelievable that they want all these restrictions when we now know that the vaccine doesn't prevent spread anyway. So getting or not getting the vaccine only has an impact on each individual, not others.
Most likely we were all "infected" before they even "discovered" the virus... Corona viruses have been endemic in humans for centuries. The PCR "test" invented by Drosten is WORTHLESS at the 40 to 45 cycles the FDA "recommended" it to be run at. 97% FALSE POSITIVES!
Virtually everything is a distraction from wealth inequality and very successful they are. Look over here, from womb to tomb, the bombardment of distraction is omnipresent. How else could the parasitic ruling classes keep the scams going.
Yeah and it's simular here in blue states at least. The people who are mask and vaccine mandate enthusiasts, I wonder if there's any public health restriction that they wouldn't go along with. And become an enforcer for.
"Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.”
I live in a red state and I'm surprised at the number of people I see still wearing masks. Since the announcement about Omicron spreading easily and quickly, there are even more people than usual with masks on in grocery and other stores.
I do too although in a big metro so blue area of red state. Definitely seeing more masks, including on people driving alone or walking outside by themselves.
Keep in mind, however, that in the middle of winter at least SOME people have a completely rational reason to mask and did before Bat Soup. In particular, my lungs are crap in the cold. I often end up hiding during a good chunk of flu season anyway, sometimes mask when I can't otherwise (N95 or better), and have been down for weeks at time with bronchitus when I screw up. (I learned Biblical Hebrew while bored out of my mind in one such bout of illness.) People with long-term medical conditions go through this +every+ year.
Being in my mid-50s, my grand-relatives lived through the first and second world wars and we talked probably more back in the day pre-cable TV; pre-internet; pre-smart phone than is now the case. I know history rhymes and doesn't repeat, but it sure is interesting watching how the rise of fascism today is similar to the rise of fascism 100 years ago.
Churchill was using a quote from George Santayana (slightly modified). Churchill may have saved England, but that doesn't make either Santayana's nor his words some kind of gospel. History does not repeat itself. There are just similarities. That was and remains my point.
I watch sports to get away from politics and the culture wars. Some cross-over is inevitable but the Djokovic situation seems gratuitous. From what I understand, the Australian govt was well aware Djokovic was unvaccinated when they granted him an exemption and a visa. Relying on that he makes the flight to Australia. Then a customs official pulls it after he lands and forces him to stay in a quarantine area for days (not implying this was a jail or even harsh conditions. But it did deprive him of his AO warmups and humiliated a cultural icon from a homeland that doesn’t have many). Then a judge, correctly in my view, overrules the arbitrary revocation and reinstates the visa. Then Hawke, who evidently could have intervened at any time, essentially overrules the court and revokes the visa again. That is appealed yet again, and Djokovic loses and is deported. He is now banned from entering Australia for three years. Obviously, if he had known all of this when granted his exemption, he would have never made the trip. I would be shocked if he ever set foot in Australia again even if given an exemption from the three year ban next year (why would he rely on that? Fly there again and have it overruled?).
If Australian wants to enforce its rules, then they should have never given him an exemption in the first place. The grandstanding by Hawke as well as the PM demonstrate how politicized this process was. They site historical info on Djokovic (eg, past statements on the vaccine) but that info was publicly known before he was granted an exemption and made the flight to Australia. This is a black mark on Australia, whose legal system appears almost comically stupid to me as long as I’m thousands of miles away and not subject to it. It’s a black mark on the ATP who was bizarrely silent while this played out. It’s a black mark on the ATP players, who aside from Nadal and a few others including the person GG interviewed have been silent. It’s a black mark on the AO, which struggled for years to be recognized as a “real” major (in the 70s and early 80s the major stars like Connors, Borg, McEnroe would routinely skip the AO). This tournament now is a major that lacks the #1 ranked player (and not due to injury). This is unprecedented in the last 3 decades. Whoever wins will unfortunately face a “yeah, but” every time their win comes up. There are no winners in this situation. All losers, including Djokovic who at 34 has a finite number of majors he can still compete for.
Government infects and destroys everything it touches. These governments don’t want you to be able to watch sports to get away from politics. They want you to never be able to get away from them and their pronouncements and policing. They are like menacing cult leaders who need to keep a relentless stream of threats and control over you so you never have the time to think let alone organize an escape
The seemingly unstoppable march toward worldwide fascism wins. That's the whole point of this ridiculous saga regarding how Australia is messing with Djokovic.
While every country has a right to impose wherever conditions it wants at its borders, the Novak saga is illuminating for two reasons.
First is that Novak was misled: he would have clearly never taken the flight if the authorities were clear about the conditions for entry. There was a goof up there which is NOT Novak’s fault.
Secondly, the rationale given that unvaccinated people pose a risk is unscientific
The term “Vaccine” used to be defined as some extraneous agent given to a person to cause immunity from a disease or pathogen.
Given that COVID “vaccines” weren’t fitting the original definition, the WHO/CDC changed the definition to any drug that induces an antibody response to a particular pathogen.
Ok then, let’s use the updated definition. Guess what ELSE induces an antibody response to COVID. COVID. Just like getting chicken pox induces antibodies against getting infected again, COVID does too. (Though it’s antibody response is not as permanent as say chicken pox).
So Novak has antibodies from having contracted COVID before, and thus a natural immunity which an increasing number of studies show to be superior to vaccine-induced immunity.
So even accepting the establishment rationale for vaccines - that people with antibodies have lower risk to themselves and others - those who have been infected with COVID should also be exempt.
But Vaccination is no longer based on science and reason. It’s become an Establishment Cult. This is how it must have been when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the official Religion. Get with the program or be excommunicated, ridiculed and worse.
Vaccination now is the mark of either the Believer (those who fervently believe that with every dose comes salvation no matter how discredited the results with the Pfizer CEO himself casually admitting 2 doses do little now and promising v1.1 in March for the Omicron variant*), or the Defeated (those beaten down to take it despite reservations). This then makes the Dissidents, the Blasphemers of the new Imperial Religion, the official Enemies to be persecuted and made examples of.
*see https://rumble.com/vsehus-pfizer-ceo-and-we-know-2-doses-of-the-vaccine-offers-limited-protection-if-.html for Pfizer CEO saying that “2 doses offer limited protection if any, and 3 doses with booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalizations and death and less protection against infection [ed: goalposts changed from when first announced] ….We are working on a new version..the 1.1…which will cover Onicron as well.”
Their rationale was not that unvaxed are health risks. Their rationale was unvaxed undermine their authority. Apparently aussies have become more timid and obedient than Mick Dundee portrayed. Maybe they'll recover. Probably not. They'll soon be just another Chinese colony.
Yes. Basically just like Religion was used a tool to control the masses - who were led to believe that without it their souls were damned - the same fearmongering has resulted in otherwise secular people to become entranced with The Vaccine as protective of their lives.
Thus those who go against the Religion are a threat. We have seen this in history before. And where this mentality has led.
Your coverage of these issues that are the most important issues confronting my family is why I've chosen to support you and a few select others even as my very livelihood is threatened daily by these mandates.
Sometimes I think I should just save my money and put it in the bank for the possible time they come to take my work as they keep threatening, but for now all I can think to do is support those of you at the forefront of this battle. You are not alone, we are with you Glen in your dedication to truth. We are on the street corner every two weeks in my town protesting these mandates and draconian overreach of the totalitarians. We have held our own rally at the local courthouse, we had our own float to support our movement in the local Christmas parade, and we are fighting for each other as a group by educating each other and supporting each other through this insanity.
I encourage others to do the same, this movement is growing and there are many in your own community that would like to band together, if only some of you would do it first.
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist..err, anti-vaxxer?" That the left have become Joe McCarthy on so many topics is just precious.
McCarthy was right -- communists were trying to bury us. Vax mandates are wrong --- modern commu is tactics. The mandates reflect a resurgence of the communism that McCarthy suppressed for a while. Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Djokovic is a bit of a tough case as he created a number of problems for himself before he got to Australia - had Covid but went out to various gatherings, etc and posted it on social media. It didn’t help his case.
Australia’s govt is taking a very tough stand and creating huge internal issues. The govt definitely saw any exception for Djokovic as a loss of face for them…and they flat out admitted as much..
That aspect - govts enforcing policies so they don’t lose face - is abject tyranny.
Govts are formed by consent of the governed. When govts see the people as a threat, big problems coming…
According to his claims, which the government doesn't contest, Djokovic went to only one event after he received his positive COVID test in December: a long-scheduled photo shoot with a French magazine. He said it was a mistake in judgment to do so. But note that the Australian government's position -- *after it granted him a legal visa to enter* -- was not that he poses a threat to the public health (after all, the COVID he just got in December obviously gives him immunity) but rather that his 2020 comments on vaccine skepticism makes him an "anti-vax icon" and therefore his presence there could excite anti-vax sentiment. It was based on his political opinions, and that's why Australian immigration activists and human rights activists -- hardly know for being right-wing -- are warning of how dangerous this precedent is:
It’s seems clear that the Aussie government booted Djokovic to maintain social order.
The trouble with Djokovic’s specific situation is it’s not “clean” - Djokovic looks like he was pushing the envelope. Reviewing the events, he admitted that he exercised bad judgment in some of the things he did. He admitted that his very important travel docs were inaccurate. He was supposed to quarantine before arrival and he hadn’t. See the entry for Jan. 12, 2022 from the AP.
“Djokovic’s most extensive public comments on the matter come via a post on social media that is put up by someone while he is practicing at the Australian Open’s main stadium. He says there was a mistake on his travel declaration for Australia, which failed to indicate he had been in multiple countries over the preceding two weeks. Djokovic blames his agent for checking the wrong box on the form, calling it “a human error and certainly not deliberate.” He also discusses what he says was his positive COVID-19 test in December and the L’Equipe interview.”
Djokovic can’t afford people who can get the paperwork right? Talk about mucking up an important situation…
Yes, I agree. There was no health threat. It’s a horrible, horrible precedent. Hitler and Stalin based what they did around the principle of maintaining “social order”. But with all the pure hell the Aussie govt has put it’s own people through vis-a-vis COIVD, it’s a small wonder why the Aussie govt felt they had to boot Djokovic to maintain “good order”.
(I’m not agreeing with the decision because it is my view that the Aussie govt is a bunch of COVID nazis and this just proves it.)
Following old behavior patterns does not count as pushing the envelope. Many of us disagree with the new normal.
Did he have symptoms while out and about with a positive covid test? Even that would have been okay a few years ago, when nobody thought twice about going out with a cold.
Governments are the ones pushing the envelope with all these new requirements. Djokovic is just being a stick in the mud.
Heime, your choice of words is unfortunate. If choosing to rationally and reasonably exercise one’s rights is cast as “problematic” (especially when he (1) did no harm, (2) came out of the experience with immunity to COVID, and (3) exposed the mendacity and feckless nature of the Aussie’s tyranny) WTF are you saying?
I love tennis and this is a real travesty. I’m totally guessing here, but it seems that Novak was working with Tennis Australia to hash things out ahead of his arrival and he may have thought that because he was “Novak” Defending Champ, he’d get walked right through but upon his arrival, the Aussie bureaucrats got their clutches into him.
At that point, it escalated into a “dick measuring” contest and he lost. I’d say all of Tennis lost and certainly Australia as viewed as a free and open society lost big time.
I have friends in Victoria and New South Wales and they say the place is under the hammer of total Covid tyrants pure and simple. Western Australia is fully open…. It’s nuts. There’s going to a be a revolt…
I will be tuning in for the show. Excellent read, as usual, Glenn; thank you. Question for you [and everyone else] - Considering Napoleon’s admonition not to interrupt one’s adversary when they are in the midst of making a mistake, how much of this sort of Authoritarian ditch thinking is necessary to validate the nature of this particular political beast? Not to make light of Djokovic’s troubles, but there is a gift for us all in the manner in which the handling of his case has demonstrated the priorities and rational of the current Australian goverment. They have effectively killed any claim to be acting in the public’s health and best interest, and are now on to demonstrating their willingness to disregard due process and law in favor of rigid ideological compliance. This needed to happen, but now what?
This is Dr Reiner Füllmich JD, cofounder of the German Corona Committee. He and his group have deposed over 200 of the Worlds top doctors and scientists in respiratory diseases, virology, immunology, pharmacology, and health sciences as well as banking, finance and other disciplines. He is a few weeks away from filing charges against Bill Gates, Fauci, Tedros, WHO, CDC, NIH and Pfizer and the rest for fraud, premeditated murder, and crimes against humanity! Here he discusses some of what his self funded 18 month investigation have uncovered!
When you say this attorney is a few weeks away from “filing charges” against that entire list of individuals, you lose credibility. He’s sought to file lawsuits. Not criminal charges. Thus far unsuccessfully.
I happen to think there have been nefarious intentions among some on that list. But making misleading assertions actually does more harm than help in getting to truth.
Using more propaganda to fight propaganda doesn’t justify using propaganda.
At a certain point rational people have to see that all of the terrible cultural, economic, health, and civil liberty outcomes from the entire two year Covid period - is intentional
What Glenn accurately points at as “dangerous” - is precisely the outcome governments were seeking. This isn’t a well intentioned set of policies that spun out of control and created unintended consequences. THIS IS AN EXPLICIT POLITICAL MOVEMENT. It’s working exactly as designed.
I just listened to 'Insurrectile Dysfunction' with Q Anthony and wanted to agree you (Glenn) that the media has been absolutely flooded with 'Woke Ideologies' in the past few years. My negative reaction to this trend started when Master Chefs were 'canceled' for cooking various ethnic foods. Mostly on garbage sites like Slate, Daily Beast etc. -Then I became so woke about my own hormone balances I would seek out marijuana strains that gave me the required amount of estrogen for man boobs and tried to work more pink into my outfits on construction sites. Still signalling to my Surveillance State overlords, I began integrating a higher ratio of multi-racial penis to vag in my pron to keep the NSA guessing whether I was a Domestic Violent Extremist or not. Thanks for the heads up!
Looking forward to the show. It is so difficult to make sense of Australia now. Over the last few years I was getting weary of Aussie friends telling me how blessed they were. 'The greatest country on Earth'. 'God's country'. But their silence now is almost overwhelming.
The Aussies reputation of being tough minded people is obviously very wrong. First they give up their guns, next they give up their freedom.
I will tune in for sure. Australia is terrible. A lot of bad stuff going on these days, and I think a lot of people are eager to know how they can fight back. Subscribing to substacks like this is one way, but somehow we have to figure out other ways too. Authorities seem emboldened these days to trample on civil liberties. They need to be reminded that they cannot.
What is also emboldening governments everywhere is that there are anxiety-driven and meaning-searching segment of the population urging their government to greater heights of authoritarianism. It's dictatorship of the hypochondriacs and all varieties of Munchhousens.
Yes I think that's right. It's just unbelievable that they want all these restrictions when we now know that the vaccine doesn't prevent spread anyway. So getting or not getting the vaccine only has an impact on each individual, not others.
Yep. No matter how many people you personally infect, everybody's going to be exposed sooner or later.
Most likely we were all "infected" before they even "discovered" the virus... Corona viruses have been endemic in humans for centuries. The PCR "test" invented by Drosten is WORTHLESS at the 40 to 45 cycles the FDA "recommended" it to be run at. 97% FALSE POSITIVES!
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Bingo!
I saw that, pretty crazy. And I think racism charges are meant to distract from Dem failures at making cities better for minorities.
Virtually everything is a distraction from wealth inequality and very successful they are. Look over here, from womb to tomb, the bombardment of distraction is omnipresent. How else could the parasitic ruling classes keep the scams going.
What surprises me is that the people of Australia comply, there is no pushback.
Yeah and it's simular here in blue states at least. The people who are mask and vaccine mandate enthusiasts, I wonder if there's any public health restriction that they wouldn't go along with. And become an enforcer for.
"Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine.”
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated
Ever since 2016 they've become increasingly radical, wanting crackdowns on their political opponents. These behaviors don't typically end well.
I live in a red state and I'm surprised at the number of people I see still wearing masks. Since the announcement about Omicron spreading easily and quickly, there are even more people than usual with masks on in grocery and other stores.
I just automatically assume they are Biden voters.
I do too although in a big metro so blue area of red state. Definitely seeing more masks, including on people driving alone or walking outside by themselves.
Keep in mind, however, that in the middle of winter at least SOME people have a completely rational reason to mask and did before Bat Soup. In particular, my lungs are crap in the cold. I often end up hiding during a good chunk of flu season anyway, sometimes mask when I can't otherwise (N95 or better), and have been down for weeks at time with bronchitus when I screw up. (I learned Biblical Hebrew while bored out of my mind in one such bout of illness.) People with long-term medical conditions go through this +every+ year.
I understand you have a good reason to wear a mask but the number of people I'm seeing wearing masks can not all be suffering from health issues.
Lots of people in this blue state seem to be ignoring the advice to switch from cloth to surgical masks. I think kids are leading the resistance!
Being in my mid-50s, my grand-relatives lived through the first and second world wars and we talked probably more back in the day pre-cable TV; pre-internet; pre-smart phone than is now the case. I know history rhymes and doesn't repeat, but it sure is interesting watching how the rise of fascism today is similar to the rise of fascism 100 years ago.
It's human nature. Threats are persistent, and memories are short.
Huh? "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Sir Winston Churchill.
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" Bismarck
"Never again! Unless we're going after THOSE people."
Churchill was using a quote from George Santayana (slightly modified). Churchill may have saved England, but that doesn't make either Santayana's nor his words some kind of gospel. History does not repeat itself. There are just similarities. That was and remains my point.
History repeats itself constantly. That as 𝒎𝒚 point.
Got it, and I still disagree (see my last comment).
FYI - neither/nor and either/or.
Oh, right. Thanks!
I watch sports to get away from politics and the culture wars. Some cross-over is inevitable but the Djokovic situation seems gratuitous. From what I understand, the Australian govt was well aware Djokovic was unvaccinated when they granted him an exemption and a visa. Relying on that he makes the flight to Australia. Then a customs official pulls it after he lands and forces him to stay in a quarantine area for days (not implying this was a jail or even harsh conditions. But it did deprive him of his AO warmups and humiliated a cultural icon from a homeland that doesn’t have many). Then a judge, correctly in my view, overrules the arbitrary revocation and reinstates the visa. Then Hawke, who evidently could have intervened at any time, essentially overrules the court and revokes the visa again. That is appealed yet again, and Djokovic loses and is deported. He is now banned from entering Australia for three years. Obviously, if he had known all of this when granted his exemption, he would have never made the trip. I would be shocked if he ever set foot in Australia again even if given an exemption from the three year ban next year (why would he rely on that? Fly there again and have it overruled?).
If Australian wants to enforce its rules, then they should have never given him an exemption in the first place. The grandstanding by Hawke as well as the PM demonstrate how politicized this process was. They site historical info on Djokovic (eg, past statements on the vaccine) but that info was publicly known before he was granted an exemption and made the flight to Australia. This is a black mark on Australia, whose legal system appears almost comically stupid to me as long as I’m thousands of miles away and not subject to it. It’s a black mark on the ATP who was bizarrely silent while this played out. It’s a black mark on the ATP players, who aside from Nadal and a few others including the person GG interviewed have been silent. It’s a black mark on the AO, which struggled for years to be recognized as a “real” major (in the 70s and early 80s the major stars like Connors, Borg, McEnroe would routinely skip the AO). This tournament now is a major that lacks the #1 ranked player (and not due to injury). This is unprecedented in the last 3 decades. Whoever wins will unfortunately face a “yeah, but” every time their win comes up. There are no winners in this situation. All losers, including Djokovic who at 34 has a finite number of majors he can still compete for.
Government infects and destroys everything it touches. These governments don’t want you to be able to watch sports to get away from politics. They want you to never be able to get away from them and their pronouncements and policing. They are like menacing cult leaders who need to keep a relentless stream of threats and control over you so you never have the time to think let alone organize an escape
The seemingly unstoppable march toward worldwide fascism wins. That's the whole point of this ridiculous saga regarding how Australia is messing with Djokovic.
Oh, Glenn. Thank you.
While every country has a right to impose wherever conditions it wants at its borders, the Novak saga is illuminating for two reasons.
First is that Novak was misled: he would have clearly never taken the flight if the authorities were clear about the conditions for entry. There was a goof up there which is NOT Novak’s fault.
Secondly, the rationale given that unvaccinated people pose a risk is unscientific
The term “Vaccine” used to be defined as some extraneous agent given to a person to cause immunity from a disease or pathogen.
Given that COVID “vaccines” weren’t fitting the original definition, the WHO/CDC changed the definition to any drug that induces an antibody response to a particular pathogen.
Ok then, let’s use the updated definition. Guess what ELSE induces an antibody response to COVID. COVID. Just like getting chicken pox induces antibodies against getting infected again, COVID does too. (Though it’s antibody response is not as permanent as say chicken pox).
So Novak has antibodies from having contracted COVID before, and thus a natural immunity which an increasing number of studies show to be superior to vaccine-induced immunity.
So even accepting the establishment rationale for vaccines - that people with antibodies have lower risk to themselves and others - those who have been infected with COVID should also be exempt.
But Vaccination is no longer based on science and reason. It’s become an Establishment Cult. This is how it must have been when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the official Religion. Get with the program or be excommunicated, ridiculed and worse.
Vaccination now is the mark of either the Believer (those who fervently believe that with every dose comes salvation no matter how discredited the results with the Pfizer CEO himself casually admitting 2 doses do little now and promising v1.1 in March for the Omicron variant*), or the Defeated (those beaten down to take it despite reservations). This then makes the Dissidents, the Blasphemers of the new Imperial Religion, the official Enemies to be persecuted and made examples of.
*see https://rumble.com/vsehus-pfizer-ceo-and-we-know-2-doses-of-the-vaccine-offers-limited-protection-if-.html for Pfizer CEO saying that “2 doses offer limited protection if any, and 3 doses with booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalizations and death and less protection against infection [ed: goalposts changed from when first announced] ….We are working on a new version..the 1.1…which will cover Onicron as well.”
Their rationale was not that unvaxed are health risks. Their rationale was unvaxed undermine their authority. Apparently aussies have become more timid and obedient than Mick Dundee portrayed. Maybe they'll recover. Probably not. They'll soon be just another Chinese colony.
Yes. Basically just like Religion was used a tool to control the masses - who were led to believe that without it their souls were damned - the same fearmongering has resulted in otherwise secular people to become entranced with The Vaccine as protective of their lives.
Thus those who go against the Religion are a threat. We have seen this in history before. And where this mentality has led.
Your namesake learned that the hard way. Human nature doesn't change much.
Your coverage of these issues that are the most important issues confronting my family is why I've chosen to support you and a few select others even as my very livelihood is threatened daily by these mandates.
Sometimes I think I should just save my money and put it in the bank for the possible time they come to take my work as they keep threatening, but for now all I can think to do is support those of you at the forefront of this battle. You are not alone, we are with you Glen in your dedication to truth. We are on the street corner every two weeks in my town protesting these mandates and draconian overreach of the totalitarians. We have held our own rally at the local courthouse, we had our own float to support our movement in the local Christmas parade, and we are fighting for each other as a group by educating each other and supporting each other through this insanity.
I encourage others to do the same, this movement is growing and there are many in your own community that would like to band together, if only some of you would do it first.
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist..err, anti-vaxxer?" That the left have become Joe McCarthy on so many topics is just precious.
McCarthy was right -- communists were trying to bury us. Vax mandates are wrong --- modern commu is tactics. The mandates reflect a resurgence of the communism that McCarthy suppressed for a while. Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Glenn,
Sorry I’ll miss the event….
Djokovic is a bit of a tough case as he created a number of problems for himself before he got to Australia - had Covid but went out to various gatherings, etc and posted it on social media. It didn’t help his case.
Australia’s govt is taking a very tough stand and creating huge internal issues. The govt definitely saw any exception for Djokovic as a loss of face for them…and they flat out admitted as much..
That aspect - govts enforcing policies so they don’t lose face - is abject tyranny.
Govts are formed by consent of the governed. When govts see the people as a threat, big problems coming…
According to his claims, which the government doesn't contest, Djokovic went to only one event after he received his positive COVID test in December: a long-scheduled photo shoot with a French magazine. He said it was a mistake in judgment to do so. But note that the Australian government's position -- *after it granted him a legal visa to enter* -- was not that he poses a threat to the public health (after all, the COVID he just got in December obviously gives him immunity) but rather that his 2020 comments on vaccine skepticism makes him an "anti-vax icon" and therefore his presence there could excite anti-vax sentiment. It was based on his political opinions, and that's why Australian immigration activists and human rights activists -- hardly know for being right-wing -- are warning of how dangerous this precedent is:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/dangerous-in-a-democracy-civil-rights-groups-alarm-at-government-s-djokovic-case-20220116-p59omd.html
I have no idea if these facts from AP are accurate…. I can only assume that they are.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-coronavirus-pandemic-novak-djokovic-sports-health-9c1348d53ab08cd0cf3b80f47fe40713
It’s seems clear that the Aussie government booted Djokovic to maintain social order.
The trouble with Djokovic’s specific situation is it’s not “clean” - Djokovic looks like he was pushing the envelope. Reviewing the events, he admitted that he exercised bad judgment in some of the things he did. He admitted that his very important travel docs were inaccurate. He was supposed to quarantine before arrival and he hadn’t. See the entry for Jan. 12, 2022 from the AP.
“Djokovic’s most extensive public comments on the matter come via a post on social media that is put up by someone while he is practicing at the Australian Open’s main stadium. He says there was a mistake on his travel declaration for Australia, which failed to indicate he had been in multiple countries over the preceding two weeks. Djokovic blames his agent for checking the wrong box on the form, calling it “a human error and certainly not deliberate.” He also discusses what he says was his positive COVID-19 test in December and the L’Equipe interview.”
Djokovic can’t afford people who can get the paperwork right? Talk about mucking up an important situation…
Yes, I agree. There was no health threat. It’s a horrible, horrible precedent. Hitler and Stalin based what they did around the principle of maintaining “social order”. But with all the pure hell the Aussie govt has put it’s own people through vis-a-vis COIVD, it’s a small wonder why the Aussie govt felt they had to boot Djokovic to maintain “good order”.
(I’m not agreeing with the decision because it is my view that the Aussie govt is a bunch of COVID nazis and this just proves it.)
Here is his affidavit
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/95050/Affidavit-of-Novak-Djokovic-sworn-on-10-January-2022.pdf
Novak was caught in a Catch-22…damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
Terrible thing for Australia….
This is all people will talk about…
Hope the Covid Nazis are happy…
Following old behavior patterns does not count as pushing the envelope. Many of us disagree with the new normal.
Did he have symptoms while out and about with a positive covid test? Even that would have been okay a few years ago, when nobody thought twice about going out with a cold.
Governments are the ones pushing the envelope with all these new requirements. Djokovic is just being a stick in the mud.
Yep, Djokovic gave the Aussie govt all the ammo it needed….they were looking for a way to keep him out.
Now that he’s booted and likely barred for 3 years, the Aussie govt Covid Nazis can say: “See! We mean it, Get back in line or you’re next”…
The definition of: social order. Mission accomplished….
P.S. and Rafa doesn’t sound too upset. He clearly wasn’t sticking up for Novak.
I'm not a tennis fan, but could see myself wearing a Djokovic shirt or hat when it's warmer.
I’m sure you won’t be alone.
It’s all very sad for the game of tennis. It casts a pall over the whole event…
Problems on ALL ideological sides:
Robert Malone goes full anti-science on Joe Rogan's podcast – Jan. 5, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjszVOfG_wo
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Aaaaannndd here we go again! This is what you get when you retire with zero post-retirement plans.
At least he has seen the inside of a lab. Have you?
Glenn...nice clearing.thanks
Heime, your choice of words is unfortunate. If choosing to rationally and reasonably exercise one’s rights is cast as “problematic” (especially when he (1) did no harm, (2) came out of the experience with immunity to COVID, and (3) exposed the mendacity and feckless nature of the Aussie’s tyranny) WTF are you saying?
Never did I agreed with the Australian govt’s position at all.
As I stated, govts worried more about losing face than good policy is abject tyranny…
Seems like we agree…
Hieme, please forgive my acid tongue reply. Thanks for your kind response to that. Keep fighting the good fight.
You too - All good
I love tennis and this is a real travesty. I’m totally guessing here, but it seems that Novak was working with Tennis Australia to hash things out ahead of his arrival and he may have thought that because he was “Novak” Defending Champ, he’d get walked right through but upon his arrival, the Aussie bureaucrats got their clutches into him.
At that point, it escalated into a “dick measuring” contest and he lost. I’d say all of Tennis lost and certainly Australia as viewed as a free and open society lost big time.
I have friends in Victoria and New South Wales and they say the place is under the hammer of total Covid tyrants pure and simple. Western Australia is fully open…. It’s nuts. There’s going to a be a revolt…
This House of Cards is coming Down..
I will be tuning in for the show. Excellent read, as usual, Glenn; thank you. Question for you [and everyone else] - Considering Napoleon’s admonition not to interrupt one’s adversary when they are in the midst of making a mistake, how much of this sort of Authoritarian ditch thinking is necessary to validate the nature of this particular political beast? Not to make light of Djokovic’s troubles, but there is a gift for us all in the manner in which the handling of his case has demonstrated the priorities and rational of the current Australian goverment. They have effectively killed any claim to be acting in the public’s health and best interest, and are now on to demonstrating their willingness to disregard due process and law in favor of rigid ideological compliance. This needed to happen, but now what?
Heart...good point and good question.
This is Dr Reiner Füllmich JD, cofounder of the German Corona Committee. He and his group have deposed over 200 of the Worlds top doctors and scientists in respiratory diseases, virology, immunology, pharmacology, and health sciences as well as banking, finance and other disciplines. He is a few weeks away from filing charges against Bill Gates, Fauci, Tedros, WHO, CDC, NIH and Pfizer and the rest for fraud, premeditated murder, and crimes against humanity! Here he discusses some of what his self funded 18 month investigation have uncovered!
https://odysee.com/@TimTruth:b/reiner-fuellmich-nuremberg-2:60
When you say this attorney is a few weeks away from “filing charges” against that entire list of individuals, you lose credibility. He’s sought to file lawsuits. Not criminal charges. Thus far unsuccessfully.
I happen to think there have been nefarious intentions among some on that list. But making misleading assertions actually does more harm than help in getting to truth.
Using more propaganda to fight propaganda doesn’t justify using propaganda.
I saw Füllmich say it himself. I dont just make things up and place them here or anywhere else..
Watch this:
https://www.brighteon.com/86f0fe43-ed90-4a7c-8198-ff3b7f948fc8
Give ...makes sense, thanks.
At a certain point rational people have to see that all of the terrible cultural, economic, health, and civil liberty outcomes from the entire two year Covid period - is intentional
What Glenn accurately points at as “dangerous” - is precisely the outcome governments were seeking. This isn’t a well intentioned set of policies that spun out of control and created unintended consequences. THIS IS AN EXPLICIT POLITICAL MOVEMENT. It’s working exactly as designed.
The problem is that evidently most of the population is anything but rational.
Evidently
Just another example that government ruins everything it touches.
These menacing sociopaths can’t let anything be.
Even when someone is doing something perfectly legal according to their own rules.
I just listened to 'Insurrectile Dysfunction' with Q Anthony and wanted to agree you (Glenn) that the media has been absolutely flooded with 'Woke Ideologies' in the past few years. My negative reaction to this trend started when Master Chefs were 'canceled' for cooking various ethnic foods. Mostly on garbage sites like Slate, Daily Beast etc. -Then I became so woke about my own hormone balances I would seek out marijuana strains that gave me the required amount of estrogen for man boobs and tried to work more pink into my outfits on construction sites. Still signalling to my Surveillance State overlords, I began integrating a higher ratio of multi-racial penis to vag in my pron to keep the NSA guessing whether I was a Domestic Violent Extremist or not. Thanks for the heads up!
Looking forward to the show. It is so difficult to make sense of Australia now. Over the last few years I was getting weary of Aussie friends telling me how blessed they were. 'The greatest country on Earth'. 'God's country'. But their silence now is almost overwhelming.