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# The Blatant Double Standards of Lockdowns
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-blatant-double-standards-of-lockdowns/
- Published: 2020-06-10T02:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-09T10:19:02.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, COVID-19, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

They’re not even bothering to hide it any more. “Stay home, save lives” was a con. A power grab by grubby politicians and authoritarian bureaucrats. In case anyone was still gullible enough to doubt it, their blatant political cronyism has been laid bare.

> Victoria Police closed a popular Mornington Peninsula pier over concerns that locals and visitors were not “observing social-distancing requirements” just two days after thousands marched through the streets of Melbourne without penalty.  
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> People would be “moved on” if they visited Rye pier and more local attractions would be shut if social-distancing was not observed, the police later said.  
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> The apparent double standard in policing comes as health authorities consider lifting social-distancing restrictions more quickly and pressure mounts on states that let thousands of people march in Black Lives Matter protests on Saturday.

Barely a week before leftist rent-a-crowds jumped on an [irrelevant, imported American conspiracy](https://goodoil.news/the-conspiracy-theory-burning-america/), Victorian police were out in force to shut down anti-lockdown protesters. Mothers and Fathers were [dragged from their screaming children](https://youtu.be/80ieYpahC9I?ref=goodoil.news) by dozens of officers. Speakers were [charged by a wall of police](https://youtu.be/A7jVaibeM1k?ref=goodoil.news).

Before that, police spent the last two months driving their cars en masse through public parks, fining people for playing with their kids, going for a walk on the beach, and even washing their cars.

Contrast that with the indulgence shown to thousands of BLM protesters. No-one was arrested, let alone fined. Politicians joined in, blatantly ignoring the very restrictions they had imposed.

Yet, **still** the elite keep clinging to their little claw-holds of power.

> The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, which met on Monday to discuss the national cabinet’s three-stage COVID-19 road map, is now understood to be considering post-July scenarios for opening up contingent on no further virus outbreaks\[…\]  
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> **Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth** said the AHPPC was actively considering letting sports fans return to stadiums but maintained its position that mass gatherings or protests still remained a “substantial risk”.  
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> “We have to remember we don’t know what will happen as a result of these protests. The principle of mass gatherings being a risk is clear,” he said.

So why were they allowed to go ahead?

> **Victorian opposition police spokesman David Southwick** said Saturday’s BLM protest had been a “slap in the face” for people who had done the right thing during COVID-19 lockdown.

It’s beyond obvious now that this has never been about anything but power.

***Police state:* characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police.**

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They should have said they were protesting the abundance of fish. The BFD.

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