“Public opinion can never exist as a power in the state, unless there exist also persons who expose to hatred and contempt those ministers and those laws which they conceive to be detrimental to the interests of the community.” – ‘Yellow Dwarf, 1818.’ Not so easy in the Lucky Country at present is it? Everyone locked down debating the merits of fascism (or as the King prefers, demockracy), afraid to go out to see their friends, their cohorts. Your ABC…
Governments don’t give ultimatums to the people, its the other way around. “In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better that a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.” – Heinrich Heine. No matter how powerful a government believes itself to be, if we say we are a Democracy…
Well here we are. All the good souls, us beautiful people, awaking on another sunny day on the east coast of the land of Nod. The news today – so my wet dog says – is, Special powers. Ha! Special powers from whom? Where? We have a suspended parliament where do ‘special powers’ come from? Show us the docs, the minutes .. who ran this through who? Was there any dissent? By whom? Was it allowed? I don’t believe it…
All this lockdown rubbish is fine, I s’pose. Lets face it it’s all about common sense. The world’s had plagues and diseases before and this is nothing different. Nothing different. We die. So what? Ah yes, YOU don’t want to die … But, that’s tough shit, tough titties … even fascist god-bods die. Lockdown. What joy, what bliss this must engender within the King’s secret cabinets. A ‘virus’ – a gift from god – to accelerate the job of locking…