New South Wales sends in the Army

The Ostrich Head

In Australia’s relentless march towards a totalitarian state, the New South Wales government decided to send in the army to help police Sydney.

NSW is the second state after Victoria to us the Army to police civilians after Victoria asked for the Army’s help to police checkpoints.

Ostensibly, this is to help an over stretched police force. But is it really? The police spent the weekend sitting on their hands and earning a bunch of overtime. This looks a bit more like mismanagement. If a private company used it workforce this way it would be out of business in weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRWA1rfcqCo

How are 300 soldiers going to help anyway? The NSW police force numbered 17,348 as of June last year, most of whom are in Sydney. This is about a 3% augmentation.

That’s totally unnecessary. The NSW government has thousands of employees administering services and schools that are closed. It wouldn’t be very difficult to find a few volunteers out of these thousands who would be happy to help with the track and trace work which these soldiers are ostensibly being seconded for.

Given that it’s totally unnecessary to have soldiers in uniform policing the streets in tandem with police, is there another reason for sending in the army?

File photo from Deutche Welle (yes, the overseas news is better and less censored than local content)

Are they here to help the police or to help train the population to take orders from soldiers?

Even more Orwellian is having police helicopters circling overhead telling Sydney residents to return to their homes.

The NSW government also just announced that EVERYONE has to check in with the government whenever they leave their home and whenever they enter a building.

Where is it all going?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPjtw1vIGrg

Ok, so you probably wont’ be shot by a military helicopter for breaching the Public health Orders. However, you could get six months in prison and an $11,000 fine.

Penalties for breaching the Public Health Orders

It is an offence to not comply with a public health order and the following penalties can apply:
a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 6 months and/or a penalty of up to $11,000

NSW Public Health Orders

Crikey.

P.