Around 100 assembled in Melbourne and less in Sydney. Not big numbers but what they lacked in people power they more than made up for in lip-quivering paranoia.
It was proof that our crackpots are just as deluded, just as bonce-scratchingly demented, just as howl at the moon crazy as you’ll find anywhere in the world.
And what’s more, save the military hardware, our local fruitcakes have shown they can give the Americans a run for the money.
The local boys’ and girls’ work did not go unnoticed around the globe.
Never Trump Republican, David Frum, the man who coined the Bushian phrase, ‘the axis of evil’, watched our boys and girls gather and trash-tweeted, “Shouldn’t Australian “anti-globalists” invent their own domestic lunatic theories, rather than importing cheap foreign-made lunatic theories from the United States?”
Shouldn’t Australian “anti-globalists” invent their own domestic lunatic theories, rather than importing cheap foreign-made lunatic theories from the United States?
As if the Americans have a monopoly on crazy. Frum, the self-appointed leader of the terminally Trump deranged is not even American. He’s a Canadian. From Canadia.
We probably won’t have the Olympics this year and in times of pandemic our only source of national pride may well be a contest between our idiots and idiots elsewhere. On paper, I think we’re a seriously good silver medal chance and if we can get to the final, well, you never know.
On Saturday, protesters in Raleigh, North Carolina gathered collectively toting the sort of arsenal that might have brought about a different outcome to the Civil War.
Even crazed militia men need snacks and so a number of them were photographed carrying .50 calibre machine guns, bazookas and various light automatic side-arms while ordering meatball foot longs at the downtown Subway.
A group of about 11 mostly-armed demonstrators protesting the stay at home order marched around downtown Raleigh and ordered sandwiches at a Subway.
As far as we can tell they didn’t move on to JC Penney to purchase something nice for their moms on Mother’s Day. Perhaps that was intentional. I mean, what better way to say “I love you, Mom” than presenting her with an AGM-114 shoulder-fired anti-tank missile launcher with long-wave infrared seeker and a lovely pink bow wrapped around it?
Not to be outdone, our local lunatics proudly stepped up on Sunday for a shot at the prize in the fervent belief that a bit of inconvenience is a crippling blow to their hard-won freedoms that they’ve devoted their lives to not fighting for.
Were they protesting 5G, a radio frequency that they believe is nothing more than an exercise in thought control? Was it a shout out from the anti-vaxxer movement?
The answer in short is a little from Column A, a little from Column B and a lot from Column D. D for deranged.
In Melbourne, the high point of the afternoon was the sonorous chant of “Arrest Bill Gates” who wasn’t in Melbourne at the time.
Look, if Bill Gates is to be incarcerated it should be for Windows 8. I still remember having to load 21 disks to upgrade to Windows 95. That took several hours. Lock him up. Lock him up.
But no, it was not about that.
Our local nutters believe Gates who via his philanthropic organisation, the Gates Foundation promotes the use of vaccination to prevent kiddies dying of preventable diseases like polio and measles, is actually injecting them and then us with nano chips that will control us all into … buying MS Word or something.
The theory goes that a vaccine for the virus SARS-CoV-2 will be developed and injected into the world’s population.
You see, the pandemic is a myth, a lie and all those dead people have not died of acute viral pneumonia or heart failure but have been sent off for some frontier justice because they knew too much. It’s just a vehicle for injecting us with nano chips and Bill Gates is the grinning face of evil thought control.
But for me the great moment came when one of the protesters, a woman somewhere in her middle ages, held aloft a poster she had obviously made at home and which contained a comprehensive list of kooky conspiracy theories that are all profoundly whacko with the exception of the Lucifer Telescope which is eating our brains while we sleep. Wake up, sheeple!
The poster was an entry point so that the rest of us could have a better understanding of what it is she and her comrades are babbling crazily about.
I have descended into the darkest corners of the Zuckerberg Empire to find out so you don’t have to, and have probably been put on an AFP watch list for my trouble.
A quick look at the poster tells us that the proud owner who went to a lot of trouble and made some mistakes only to have run out of blue stencils, is a little confused about how hashtags work. You can’t ink them on to a sheet of cardboard and expect something will happen. In a way it has been effective because we’re publishing the photograph of the poster, so it is getting larger coverage than it would otherwise. But as a rule, writing down a hashtag on a piece of paper is a dismal tool in mass communication.
The conspiracy theories are heavy on pedophilia (Fiona Barnett) and one world government (QAnon). The CIA does a roaring trade in child trafficking. Former Nazis, most of whom would be a bit doddery by now, have formed a group known as the Ninth Circle Satanic Child Sacrifice Cult with the impressively evil acronym of NCSCSC and shop children around at the highest levels of government in Australia (Vral Society).
Adrenochrome, a powerful narcotic first mentioned in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, is now a plaything of the Hollywood elite who grind up murdered children into a fine powder and snort them up their left nostrils.
There are a couple of oldies but goodies on the list, including Mk-Ultra where the CIA fed people LSD and made them do terrible things including assassinations and torture. But hey, free acid, right? And Operation PaperClip where German nuclear scientists were allocated between the first and second worlds thus ensuring superpower conflict was limited by the principle of mutually assured destruction which is bad for some reason.
And just because you should know, the Lucifer Telescope is a Vatican inspired one world government surrender to our alien overlords from beyond the moon, some of whom walk among us as lizards.
HM Elizabeth II, lizard. The Rothschilds, lizards. The Pope? You’d better believe he’s a giant lizard. According to the protesters, the rich and powerful are almost all lizards and those who aren’t lizards are in the thrall of the lizards but aren’t letting on about the lizards.
Why can’t we see the giant lizards or at least notice their long tails? We can put that down to impressive costuming and make up, apparently.
Two weeks back, in another seamy nook of the Zuckerberg website, another local protest group took to filming themselves smashing their tellies because we evil folk at the MSM had been lying to them again.
Twenty years ago, when you hit a cathode ray tube television with a sledgehammer, it was a deeply satisfying experience. The whole thing imploded. There was a lot of noise, some pretty colours and a gratifying spray of debris. Wind up and smash a plasma or LED screen TV now and there is a disappointing amount of damage. The screen cracks. A bit. There is no explosion.
Our local protesters seemed unaware of this before commencing their call to arms. This only seemed to enrage them further and afterwards they were filmed dragging their cracked television screens around by tow rope to the backs of their cars or fired at the cracked screens with shotguns which presumably they have licences to own although probably not to discharge in public otherwise the lizards would be all over them.
I have to say the TVs looked a bit old, to be honest, and the good Samsungs are probably still sitting in the living room.
Other than an exercise in wanton self-destruction it provided further proof that pound for pound Australia’s loons are among the looniest in the world.
So, what is to be done? Let’s cheer them on. Also, I think they need to be injected with nano tracking devices so we can keep an eye on them.
Over to you, Bill.
This column was first published in The Australian on 13 May, 2020.
Alright, I know there was a lot wrong with with the former Soviet Union and still is with China. But when I look at these loonies I can’t help but think that the good old USSR and China just may be on to something with re-education camps.
And some folks wonder why other folks are in the streets:
Lindsey Graham, a salon owner in Salem, Oregon, detailed how state authorities dispatched child protective services (CPS) to her home as part of their response to her ongoing business operations in defiance of Gov. Kate Brown’s (D-OR) statewide “stay-at-home” order.
More here: https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2020/05/15/salem-salon-owner-who-defied-stay-home-orders-hit-with-14000-fine/
Graham runs a salon which employs or contracts 23 hairdressers. She lives in a county where COVID infections are rising not declining.
Witch Salem is that?
I reckon it needs a broom put through it Triv 🤣
Lizards? I think the loonies have been watching the Men in Black franchise on a loop.
Hey loonies – Michael Jackson, Oprah and Elvis were not really from outer space. The jury is still out on Marilyn Manson though, protest about him.
Well, I guess some Japanese labelled beer made under licence in China will not be using Australian barley.
The first shot has been fired – goodness knows where it will end up.
Xi has agreed to an independent investigation and thrown some money at it. That is a win for Australia.
The Chinese Ambassador is not happy
“Beijing’s top diplomat in Canberra has issued a statement saying the inquiry being considered by the WHA is “totally different” to the one Australia proposed and to claim vindication “is nothing but a joke” ”
They must have watered it down 🙂
Seriously though, any company that has 30% of its sales to one entity is asking for trouble.
China, under Xi, is currently showing its real intentions.
It is going to be messy.
Haven driven the barley farmers into ground they’ll be looking to purchase the farms. As they have done with the dairy industry and baby formula producers, Bellamy.
I avoid anything sourced from China or owned by Chinese companies in the supermarket where I can. Problem lies with the processed in Australia from imported ingredients, don’t always know where they come from.
Really dislike the “don’t upset them” attitude that comes from those that should know better, we have been too dependent on China and now is as good a time as any to look to other Asian countries to market Australian produce
Agree Tracy. I think this pandemic should serve as a huge wake-up call to this planet. If it doesn’t, then we are on the road to the extinction of the human race – no question. And the planet will shake itself off and carry on blissfully without the scourge of humans.
We need to wean off China – but I don’t know how one achieves that – given that just about everything on the planet is ”Made in China” these days.
In short, I guess that means we have to simplify our lives. As my daughter said the other day -” I would rather have one $10 T-shirt than 5x $2 T-shirts made in China. After all, I don’t need 5 T-shirts”. She’s right.
I was under the impression that, under the constitution, States could close their borders under exceptional conditions.
“where it is necessary to protect the people of a state from the risk of injury from inbound goods, animals, and people.”
One wonders the legality of QLD closing its borders until September should there be no flare ups of the virus in other states.
If there are no new cases for several weeks, one could imagine a High Court challenge to the decision.
States closed borders during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1919. It probably kept infections down in Tasmania for example but epidemiologists claim that border closures provided little or no benefit on the mainland. I suspect the states are playing this game because their track and trace programs might be made more difficult were state borders to open. It would be sensible if they were honest about this rather than speciously citing expert advice.
Somewhat off topic but I thought the biggest news last week was not directly COVID related – and in our MSM there was only a snippet in the Australian Business – and AFAIK not picked up elsewhere but Germany’s highest constitutional court is all set with a guillotine order to ban the Bundesbank participating in ECB bonds a s propping up other countries’ economies as unconstitutional unless evidence is presented within 3 months to the contrary…
Reaction from Luxembour and Brussels was ECJ can over rule etc….sheer arrogance of the bureaucrats that would seek to overrule a nation’s highest court on its own constitution ….
My mail from Germany is that this has really incensed the locals who are strongly (ignoring the positive effects for Germany of the Euro) pissed off at EU and saying Brexit got it right.
Take German support out of the ECB/euro and even an idiot could hardly fail to note that the emperor has no clothes….
Now that could be a game-changer and query the domino effect as people question the whole ponzi scheme of MMT: hold onto your seats it’s gonna be a rocky night (to misquote Bette Davis from All About Eve)
cheers
It WAS picked up more strongly by Bloomberg, even NYT, some of the UK papers….
I didn’t catch that, thanks.
And then there are people like Maurice Neuman and all those who agreed with him in the Oz today.
Dunno who is the most dangerous – the articulate ones or the inarticulate ones.
You mean you still bother to read Maurice Newman? I stopped years ago.
No
Just scanned it and read a few comments
More than enough.
Being a lazy bastard I reproduce here another post put up at The Oz in response to the Victorian government’s plan to ease restrictions:
“The completely arbitrary nature of the numbers exposes this as nothing more than a bare-faced exercise of police state powers. 20 people in a dining room will be safe from 01 June and 50 will be safe from 22 June? Maybe a 100 by mid-July? Just what in Holy Hell are these figures based upon? We are told they are based on the rates of testing, but before we even know what the test results are we can name specific numbers and specific days on which these numbers are acceptable?
This is a test run of the police state. This is governments seeing just how much they can get away with. And having gotten away with it once – to the rapturous applause of the gullible and the fearful – you can bet your house they’ll be doing it again at the earliest opportunity.”
Don’t imagine for a minute that everyone who has doubts about what has been going on is some sort of crazy fringe-dweller.
The problem is that crazy fringe dwellers, addled lunatics, QANON, 5G nutters etc are over represented in the protest groups. You should spend some time wondering why that is.
Fair enough, but there’s barely a protest in the last few decades that hasn’t been dominated by monomaniacal fruitcakes of one kind or another. At least these crazies are fired up about something worthwhile, even if their core motivating ideas are on the loopy side.
The FBI has declared QAnon a domestic terrorist group in the US. Here’s a piece, a long one that is worth reading. These people are like you and me but collectively they’re dangerous and we need to repudiate them. One in eight Australians think Bill Gates is involved in spreading COVID. One in ten think 5G is being used to spread COVID. They’ve started attacking transponders on towers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
Hi Jack, I looked at those weapons again, and the first and last aren’t real. The first is just an empty tube for a single-shot anti-tank missile–although he appears to have two long-barrel revolvers in shoulder holsters. And the last (the big black M2) is a wooden replica–I think his barrel is actually a broom handle. If you blow it up, you can see the woodgrain.
The guys with the fake guns have real issues–you’re not allowed to own what they pretended to carry–unless they’re non-working replicas. The tweet reminds me of the reporter in who thought ear plugs were rubber bullets. Wonder if he ever lived it down?
Look, I wouldn’t go to a demo armed, unless it was a gun rights demo, and I certainly wouldn’t carry a fake. But, they weren’t breaking any laws.
I didn’t say they were, mate. I didn’t say our local idiots were either. They are allowed to protest. Last time I looked I’m allowed to mock them too.
Not a problem Jack–but the journalist you linked to didn’t see it that way IMO. You’d not be surprised, but I’ve had more arguments about gun culture that pretty much anything else about America since moving here.
My first reaction was disbelief that those guys could simply stroll around armed to the teeth in public with no repercussions.
I wonder if the authorities knew they were replicas or have they become so blaze about gun ownership in the US that they’re used to seeing civilians carrying anti-tank missiles?
Yeah, The US is as normal as Dwight. Nothing to see here…
Picketers calling for the arrest of Bill Gates is a bit over the fence. They’re obviously unhinged.
Not saying I believe in the reasons behind the recent protests in Australia, but I do know they are not all ‘unhinged’ mate & it’s not illegal to protest. Yet. Like I was, you’d be shocked at just how full-on the Covid19/ New World Order/QAnon/5G theories have spread online.
Personally I think much of it stems from a place of distrust in this openly corrupt government & a very real fear of losing our freedoms.
As for Bill Gates, I’m aware he is a very wealthy philanthropist, which is a wonderful thing, so I can’t let myself imagine he has a very different agenda. Sadly, the thread of the story in it’s entirety can make pretty compelling reading though.
Regards, Bella
I think you missed something there Bella – didn’t see the fence for the pickets or summat.
Dear Bella, Bella, Bella …..,” pickets-gate-fence-hinge.” I was only trying to make a “funny”, but I’ve obviously missed the mark. Don’t you think we all need a bit of humour in this present God forsaken netherworld we have now had to negotiate? And its all down to an apparent “mishap” in a Chinese lab (intentionally or otherwise) that has inflicted incalculable misery upon millions throughout the world. And what do the “perps” think of Aussies? – nothing more than “gum stuck to China’s shoe”. That’s what we should all be “shocked” and outraged about. Who could give a rat’s about the online rantings of a bunch of dozy demonstrators who are obviously the same mob who have run out of superglue and are now off on another mindless frolic.
Regarding your reference to “corrupt government”, you didn’t make clear which government you had in mind. So, setting to one side the results of the latest Newspoll, I naturally assume you’re referring to that QLD outfit whose treasurer has recently resigned because of alleged and ostensible dodgy dealings. And whose leader has sent the joint stony-broke and is flirting with the idea of buying an airline.
As for Bill Gates, if your main concern is his views and suggested solutions re world population growth, perish the thought.
Anyhow, thanks for your comment and kind regards, as always.
Carl
There have been people in this country calling for anyone spotted on a beach to be rounded up by the army and put in a military prison without legal representation. I saw some comments about these protesters deserving a quick treatment with water cannons, rubber bullets and dogs. One entertaining fellow suggested that a member of the IPA be locked up incommunicado for the duration of the state of emergency for the heinous crime of questioning our various government responses.
Being unhinged is not a condition that favours one side of this debate or the other. There are plenty of nutters to go around.
Poor Bill – I’ve always regarded him as a really nice guy.
Can be. Ask Netscape and Apple though