Ex-US military official spears 'soft tyranny' planted by Australia's political leaders who exploited the COVID era for their own gain
Over the course of the last day, I have had seven people send me the same post from Substack.
That post titled: 'Australia Has Been Lost.'
All seven individuals are not only former high level U.S. government officials, but highly successful in the corporate world.
Men and women who truly believe – as the piece suggests – 'That a soft tyranny has grown in Australia.'
Except… not one of them believes it is 'soft.'
All believe it is pervasive and purposefully unwinding the freedoms of the Australia people.
Hence, why they are forwarding the Substack piece to me and others on the right who have media or information platforms.
Naturally, a direct connection between loss of liberty and the draconian edicts enacted by wannabe dictators on the left who sought to exploit the COVID panic they invented, planted, and spread to not only grow their powerbase, but shutdown the voice of the people, was made in the Substack piece written by retired US colonel John Mills that is now circulating in conservative circles over in America:
'Those evil days of 2020 started with the mass psychosis of the Wuhan Lab 'Leak.' The harsh responses to questioning the source of the virus, the reason for the lockdowns, and the vaccine mandates have been conveniently forgotten… In America, we were able to overcome the narrative... Australia has not…You're not allowed to say certain things…You can't talk about... the pervasive influence of the Chinese Communist Party, or the destruction of individual rights and economic opportunities…'
It is no exaggeration to say that countless conservatives, Republicans, and everyday Americans were shocked to witness how fast Australia became 'Ground Zero' for such totalitarian freedom robbing dictates.
As one former Australia official told me at the time: 'It was deeply disturbing to see how fast the 'inner-Gestapo' appeared in some of our police and leaders.'
To that point and to this very day, I am haunted by a video from September of 2021 from Melbourne's Flinders Street Station where a Melbourne police officer wraps his arms around the arms of a of a young man protesting the COVID restrictions and throws him to the tiled floor where his unprotected head seemingly makes violent contact with the tiles.
Tragically, four years after that shocking incident, the young man died. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
The reality is that police officers, for the most part, do come from the working-class.
And yet – counterintuitively to me and others I speak with - it was certain police officers – be they in Australia, the United Kingdom, or Canada – who seemingly at the height of the purposefully generated COVID panic, stood against fellow working-class citizens simply worried about keeping their jobs, providing for their families, and protecting their freedoms.
Why?
'Just following orders' does not cut it.
Of course, coming up on five years after the purposefully enacted draconian dictates from power-hungry bureaucrats and 'leaders' on the left seeking to silence the will of the people, we have more and more irrefutable evidence which has come out debunking much of that forced hysteria.
Irrefutable evidence which much of the far-left media in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and elsewhere is still trying to censor.
Here in the United States, it was recently reported that from this point on, 'Healthy Americans under 65 who want an annual COVID vaccine will be out of luck under a new Food and Drug Administration policy.'
As the report states "While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will still allow such shots for seniors and other 'high-risk' populations, they will now hold off on approving them for anyone else."
Why?
Because they rightfully believe they need more robust testing to demonstrate the benefits to low risk groups before being injected into human beings.
Something which logic and common sense screams out should have been done in the first place.
But here we are.
Potentially millions of people around the world unnecessarily suffered a range of adverse effects from the continually pushed, hundreds of billions in profit-making COVID jabs.
Included in those millions being three people from my greater family who were rushed into emergency rooms minutes after getting the shot.
At the very height of that forced and manipulated panic, hundreds of thousands in Australia did take to the streets to protest against the lockdowns, the loss of freedoms, the masking of children, and the forced jabs.
It was police officers who stood in their way.
Police officers who did come from their working-class communities.
So…is it true?
Is it now a foregone conclusion that 'Australia Has Been Lost?'
Well, one of the major 'canary in the coal mine' litmus tests being if working-class police officers enthusiastically decide to side with the power-hungry, freedom-robbing entrenched-elites over working class Australians desperate for liberty, then all indeed, may be lost .
Has Australia been lost?
Not yet, but a growing number do see it teetering on the edge.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: 'The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence'.
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