Australian Covid Quarantine Camps: Is THIS The Future??

have you heard about these camps in australia is it right is it wrong what's going on in australia and when do we start to examine the human rights angle here and consent of the governed hello there you four and a half million wonders from all across the world wherever you are whoever you are whatever you want whatever you believe in you are welcome here let's talk about news truthfully and honestly and openly recognizing we don't have all the answers but together we can discover at least some of the questions if you're in the uk between january and may come see me live there's a link in the description i'm at the hammersmith apollo in london early february 2022 come see me it'd be great you won't be going nowhere if you're in australia though you can't move a muscle let's have a look staff ruler pabst and max blumenthal in the gray zone right though statewide lockdowns have eased in australia the country is constructing internment camps for those who test positive for covid along with their coveted negative close contacts harley hodgson and australian held for 14 days in one such camp despite repeatedly testing negative for covid said of her experience you feel like you're in prison you feel like you've done something wrong it's inhumane what they're doing i suppose that the argument is that the coronavirus is so lethal so deadly any measures necessary in order to protect human life must be taken some people would contest that that brings to the forefront a lot of questions about liberty the standard of life potential hypocrisy in other areas are we always concerned about preserving and respecting human life and what about the qualitative component of life i don't know these are questions for all of us to consider in a free democracy particularly one in which i have no opinion as you know bridget delaney in the guardian writes with the pandemic more of us than ever felt the bridle of government around our throats we weren't allowed to leave the country or if we had left we weren't easily able to return and there were limits on gatherings and the ability to protest wherever you stand on the evidently and admittedly divisive issue of the pandemic and its accompanying regulations we must surely start to view this situation through the lens of human liberty freedom democracy and consensus or if we are going to put aside those ideas surely there should be some curtailment some statute of limitation on how long these regulations are going to last how far reaching they are how they're enacted can they be revoked who imposes them do the people that impose them obey them is the evidence sufficient to justify the efficacy of the methods these are all questions that i would like to see openly discussed in a democracy not because i have a particular opinion or a particular outcome in mind but because of my strong belief that true democracy can and must incorporate conversation and is utterly contingent on the consensus of the governed there were some limits on gatherings and the ability to protest that was another thing that causes concern isn't it if you can't protest against something what does that suggest for some this tight feeling occurred because of border closures for others hotel quarantines for people with young kids it might have been when playgrounds closed in melbourne while for others the discomfort came with increased policing large fines a curfew limits on freedom of movement or being stopped and questioned by police about where you lived and how long you'd been outside your house i mean just even as a list can you set aside any particular political allegiance or cultural ideology that you might feel personally aligned to and just think playgrounds closed increased policing large fines curfew limits on freedoms of movement being stopped and questioned by police like is there no situation where you would consider that problem people in non-white communities will be more familiar with this feeling of being over policed but for many in the suburbs the experience of being policed and fined without direction was novel and unwelcome it made them aware some for the first time of their civil liberties they asked are my liberties or rights being infringed by these emergency powers it certainly feels so and if it feels so what can i do and where and who do i appeal to again democracy suggests that the institutes in place that are funded by us which are voted for by us are beholden to us and will respond and engage in discourse with us not like is going on in my country you have people turn up on the news behind a podium in a mask behind a screen or whatever and so yeah you're gonna have these lock down regulations only to learn that they're not obeying them themselves then in america there's loads of examples of people in positions of power california governor having parties and we were wearing masks or whatever it just feels like really you are not subject to the conditions that you are willing to impose on others that for me is a very challenging and dangerous precedent during the pandemic civil liberties and human rights were invoked in such a wide range of situations for other countries with a more libertarian view of human rights australia's heavy use of emergency powers and large number of restrictions was noted with disapproval there were protests outside the australian consulate in new york and an article in the atlantic asked how long could a country maintain emergency restrictions on its citizens lives while still calling itself a liberal democracy australia has been testing the limits are you in australia is that how you feel are you an australian abroad unable to go back home do you love and care for people in australia i put myself in that category and have concerns on that basis are you concerned that this is some kind of globalist pilot scheme being checked out in australia a more manageable and geographically dislocated population so that it can later be enacted in other civilizations with the proven efficacy of the ability of the media to manage the situation and suppress protest whichever of those categories you fit into is certainly worth having a conversation about it australia's established human rights and civil liberties groups were busier than ever but also coming under fire for not doing enough in may 2021 the sydney morning herald ran an article headlined missing in action what happened to the civil liberties movement journalist osman farooqi who collected data during the pandemic on over policing said in the first 12 months of the pandemic there was so much anxiety and fear but the thing that surprised and disappointed me most was that there wasn't a greater pushback on the restrictions without clear health advice like the curfew civil rights groups should have been as vocal as possible but there was a deep deep reluctance to do that from the ngo sector and politicians as they didn't want to be unsupportive of the public health narrative as time has gone on those groups and politicians have found their voice again well that's something i think at the beginning of the pandemic all of us were frightened and concerned in a deeply personal and collective way for our more vulnerable relatives for ourselves who whatever category you fit into so little was known but it does seem to me that a conversation and policy and government are things that evolve and they evolve like human beings in response to their environment their conditions to knowledge and information that when regulations are set and inflexible that is a problem and only advantages one group the already empowered and those that operate above the limitations that they impose civil liberties groups said they have been very busy even if they were rarely successful in litter game for a rollback of extraordinary government powers it was shouting at a void says pauline wright president of the new south wales council for civil liberties more policing and more rules have meant that more people are queering their rights as huda kretzer exec director of the human rights law center says before this pandemic for many people living safe comfortable lives rights violations were things that happened to other people in other places the pandemic changed that people who never had to worry much about police were suddenly being stopped and fined for driving to an exercise location a pregnant woman was arrested and handcuffed in front of her family over a facebook post many people have had a taste of the kind of policing that aboriginal people and migrants have been experiencing for decades perhaps all of us live on a kind of scale of privilege certainly many people offer this argument i recognize as a person with access to financial means that if something happens to me first let me take a pretty ordinary example if i get a parking ticket it ain't the end of the world that's like at the ordinary level of the difference between not having money like when i was born and having money like i got now so i can see i remember when i was poor you best do what you're told i remember that feeling or you've got to stay well out of the way now something like the pandemic the reach is so severe so intrusive so dominant that we really have to start to query the impact of regulation on our lives because less and less of us are in a position to be able to bypass it financially that don't mean it weren't wrong when it was just poor people or people from groups that are historically persecuted were being persecuted already of course that's wrong of course it is but now what's being revealed is oh there's no limit to how far that can go they'll just continue to do that as long as it meets the demands that the interests of the powerful require the human rights law center is now running a campaign for a charter of rights in australia australia is the only western democracy without a national charter australia has an incomplete patchwork of laws that protect our rights how australian right okay we got here our cherished incomplete patchworker right what does it say there about looking people in their homes i know there's just a little bit of checkered stuff and paisley over that we hope that out of this pandemic there's far greater awareness of the need to fix this by having an australian charter of rights that puts values like equality freedom respect and dignity at the heart of government action says decresta well if you're going to have human rights if you're going to honor humanity if you're going to see us as somehow discreet from nature though i of course believe we're part of it but we obviously have separate requirements and civilizations and architecture and art and science and all these things then the reason is is because there are inherent or certainly essential human qualities and if those things exist if indeed we have souls even if you regard that from a materialist and secular perspective a kind of worth then we have to be treated a certain way and you can't just discard it when it's convenient surveys have shown a big uptick in support for an australian charter of rights over the pandemic this is likely coming from people who haven't had to worry about their rights before and who are suddenly asking how their rights are protected and realising the gaps that exist the pandemic has forced people to think about human rights part of a national charter would be the opportunity to articulate exactly what we mean by human rights a national bill of human rights is needed for a number of strong reasons but an initial one is to make any national conversation around rights coherent we need to work out what human rights look like before we fight for them while the pointy bit of this aspect of the pandemic might be over precedents have now been set in how much we will tolerate when it comes to government intervention a charter at least will help in defining some boundaries that's certainly what's required most of us have an intuitive sense of human rights personal freedom collective freedom right to worship right to do what we need to do without hurting other people all these kind of things seem to come quite innately or naturally to us even though of course there is some culturation and some inflection based on where you grew up where you're from what your way you're educated there's no denying that there would be no way of knowing that would there let's face it due to the phenomenon of subjectivity but one thing we all know is that we seem to have some sense of justice we seem to have some sense of what's right and what's wrong and it's difficult not to feel that sense stirred when you're watching what's happening in australia right now so those of you in australia australians everywhere around the world we love you we support you please let us know what we can do for you that's my perspective what's yours hit me up in the comments below give us a thumbs up give us a like pass this around share 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Length: 11min 43sec (703 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 11 2021