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The Covid dictators are still on the path of total control, punishing those in public service who exercised their right to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine.

Our Orwellian overlords have done extremely well in keeping the masses under their jackboots by hyping up fear, panic and paranoia over a virus. Two years of lockdown hell — especially here in Melbourne — have taken their toll. Many broken lives, and many lost lives — due to suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, business collapse, and so on — have been the ugly result.

I never want to go through all that again, as would be the case with all freedom-loving citizens who have had a gutful of the Big State doing its best to emulate Big Brother. Thankfully it is more or less over — or so it seems. But just as a rapacious carnivore wants ever more, after having gotten a taste for blood, so too our statists have loved the power and control they were so easily able to get over the past few years.

They do NOT want to give it up. Indeed, they want MORE. A whole new era has been ushered in, and it is not just most politicians who love it so. Folks like Gates and Fauci and Schwab and Soros, to name but a few, have been rubbing their hands with glee as they see their new world order so nicely coming about. It has been a dream run.

Here Down Under, our power-hungry premiers are still intoxicated by their newfound powers. They not only want to stay in complete control over the masses, but they want to punish any and all recalcitrants who have dared to not bow down and worship them and their draconian edicts.

Teachers Punished

Consider two recent examples of this. This is what the tyrants in Queensland are now up to:

Queensland’s Education Department is docking the pay of 900 school staff who did not get the COVID vaccine, saying that ignoring the mandate put others at risk. Staff members including teachers, teacher aides, administration staff, cleaners and school officers will have a “small-scale temporary reduction of one increment of pay” for 18 weeks, the department said.

“Approximately $25-$90 per week gross, proportionate to the normal pay that a staff member receives,” a spokesperson from the department said. “The disciplinary penalty imposed on staff are individualised to each person’s circumstances.” The staff received a letter this week informing them about the decision, however a 20-week period had been flagged with them.

The letter stated the action was “appropriate” for the severity of the matter and hoped staff would follow future directions. A direction from the state’s Chief Health Officer required school staff to be vaccinated against COVID from November last year, but the decision was revoked in June and staff have since returned to the workplace.

Talk about dictatorship in action: ‘You WILL be punished for refusing our orders. You WILL be made an example of. You WILL suffer for this.’ As if they have not suffered already. Thankfully there has been a little bit of pushback to this. The article also says this:

Teachers Professional Association of Queensland secretary Tracy Tully said impacted teachers had been informed earlier this year they would face disciplinary action for not complying. “Whilst they were on suspended leave without pay, they received a letter saying that they are advising that there would be some disciplinary action, but they weren’t sure what it would be,” she said.

“By doing that, it actually puts people into a high state of alert and fear.” Ms Tully said the teachers had already been penalised financially. “The teachers have already been disciplined by being stood down without pay,” she said. Ms Tully said some teachers would appeal the decision with the Industrial Relations Commission.

University of Sydney social scientist specialising in vaccines Professor Julie Leask said the reduced pay policy was from a time when high vaccination coverage was crucial to reduce transmission but was now “outdated”. “It is unlikely to achieve what these policies should be trying to achieve, which is either to encourage vaccination or to ensure that others are protected from transmission,” she said. Professor Leak said these policies only “alienate and drive mistrust.” “This policy appears to be more of an anger-based policy than an evidence-based,” she said.

Police Disciplined

Another state is also getting in on the persecution, making life even more difficult for all those rebellious lepers there. As one news item reports:

WA Police say more than 50 officers are facing disciplinary action over their refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19 — as a legal challenge against the state’s vaccine mandates by one of their own was comprehensively rejected by a WA Supreme Court judge. Ben Falconer has spent almost nine months fighting against the mandates issued by WA Police to all its workers late last year — a battle that took so long that the mandates were lifted in the meantime.

That battle was lost on three fronts on Tuesday, when Justice Jeremy Allanson methodically picked apart arguments around irrationality, proportionality and bodily integrity. “It was not, in the words of counsel for the applicant, a maelstrom in a petri dish. The measures that were taken are undoubtedly extraordinary, but that does not establish that they lacked rationality so as, for that reason, to be beyond power,” Justice Allanson said.

More statist thuggery in action. As one social media mate of mine said:

Now that Ben Falconer lost his case, they want to punish everyone who didn’t agree to be force vaccinated. Disgraceful to ever mandate a vaccine, let alone a total blunder that doesn’t even prevent transmission, let alone everything we’ve learned since even then, but to go after them at this stage is just shameful. Let’s just keep making the wound bigger even after the threat has passed, and make sure our law enforcement officers know that their value is 0. Total shambles.

Quite right. All dictators thrive on fear, intimidation and bullying. These Labor premiers — and others like them — have become experts in this. It is hoped that ordinary citizens will let them know how they feel about all this — certainly at the ballot box come the next election.

In the meantime, why am I reminded of the words of one prescient writer, George Orwell:

“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”

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Originally published at CultureWatch.