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That meme at the end summed up this atrocity perfectly. Well done Sir !

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This article should be taught in schools. The complete abuse of human social systems, the economic theft, the brutality was no mistake. In just the same way our nation has the largest natural gas port in the world and we pay nearly the highest price for our own gas. We are being extorted by global mafia.

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Powerful piece. You have a gift!

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Great article!

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Well written summary. But in my view Justice Robert Beech-Jones is a coward. You don't beat an increasingly autocratic system by pussy-footing around it in your speech and "try to do something from within", or did I miss something here as everyone else seems so enthusiastic.

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You're missing it x

The author is respectfully and elegantly torching him at the beginning: "If so, what was striking here was how Beech-Jones seemed strangely oblivious to the Australian experience."

Yes, imo Beech-Jones is a total coward.

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Ok thanks, English is my 3nd language :-)

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The difficulty we face in Australia is that what happened under Emergency powers was broadly legal, but there was no one credible in the judiciary who was willing to say 'this is enough now. Whatever it takes, we are going to end this, or at least destroy our careers and reputations trying to.'

Judges basically upheld the law at all costs, and that cost was years of legalised torture and mass murder.

There is also the issue that no one with, say Beech-Jones' skills is interested in tackling the root cause of the issue which is the laws themselves in the international-military context and for that reason I personally do not have a lot of sympathy for the judiciary.

If people like him really cared he would be doing a lot more rather than leaving us to snake oil salesmen self-styled 'legal experts.'

While politicians ultimately pass laws, judges are important, and Beech-Jones could tackle the killbox laws and be our hero, like the lawyers in his speech, but chooses not to be. I know for a fact someone like Katherine Watt would work with him.

Edit: in his speech he says: "This speech is not about lawyers who facilitate dictators. It also not about ultimately achieving justice or vindication. This is not a tale of the Nuremberg trials or the International Criminal Court. In fact, spoiler alert, for most of the lawyers that I mention from now on things do not end well. Instead, this is a speech about how some lawyers responded when they were confronted with the developments of the kind we see unfolding overseas."

Here he is talking about moral courage and he even cites the Nuremberg trials and again, just acts like these things are 'happening overseas.'

But people like Beech-Jones really don't care. They just want to hang up their wigs and go to the vineyard at the end of their careers. Their 'reputations' in their fancy associations are more important than justice. God will judge this sort of behaviour, of that I am sure.

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It is a very weird speech indeed. To me it feels like a deliberatly planted psy-op basically telling lawyers: Nothing to see in Australia, it is all overseas. Then the unexplained “It won't end well for them". I also ha e the sense he is somehow inciting the others to tbe dirty work for him to resist the system he is to scared to name? Very weird speech. How do others read this?

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Agree, excellent piece, but I absolutely condemn the judge for his decision

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My God.

It will be an honour to serve next to you at their trials.

ps - Substack is kicking me off your platform. I had to 'create a handle and login.' Then click a link in my email that 'expires in an hour.' They did the same thing to me with Igor Chudov's Substack.

Edit: and look at this from Ursula. It put another piece in the puzzle for me: https://informedheart.substack.com/p/lockstep-lawyers-for-the-phantom

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It's sobering reviewing the Godawfulness of it.

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Yes, I agree Petra. It made me feel a little sick. I had forgotten about some of the outrageous, immoral, unreasonable and outright demonic claims and oppression that happened Australia wide. It's left a lasting mistrust of government, the medical cartel and the education system, among others.

I still feel as though we are barreling down a highway to tyranny.

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"What's Wrong With The Greater Good" finishes "Now you know enough that when you hear them talking about mandating vaccines, you'll hear what they are REALLY saying: I'm a Fascist, and you're too stupid and ignorant to realise it".

Get clear about what makes a collectivist a collectivist, and what it signifies.

https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-the-greater-good-d98

Shorter version here.

https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/insights-from-those-who-do-remember

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And you do make much sense of it!

All that you describe is the proof that the new totalitarianism has well and truly arrived in Australia, as it has across the globe, and is strengthening its grip daily, even if figures like Beech-Jones are barely awake to it.

However, I strongly doubt that Australian hospitals were ever filled to overflowing BY either the vaccinated or unvaccinated or both, only WITH (like the 'covid' deaths themselves). And owing to cutbacks in the number of hospital beds so typical of all Western health-care systems, from which I'm sure Australia was not excepted, most hospital intensive care wards were and are near-full every winter FLU season.

This was a pandemic of PCR tests.

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I may be thick, or this article too subtle in taking the piss, but what I saw was Justice B-J failing at a critical juncture of the onslaught when he could have stopped so much that followed. He subsequently got a promotion, so clearly did what he needed to do 'to preserve liberal democracy'. AFAIK still no judicial ruling, or touted 'win', has overturned or even whittled away at the core loss of our assumed rights that happened under covid tyranny.

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