Life in a Police State By Paul Walker (Melbourne Covid Inmate)
There are strong allegations of state censorship, such as banning media coverage of the Melbourne protests, through to mobile phone outages. Naturally enough I did not find coverage of this at any mainstream sites, but it was extensively discussed at Tottnews.com. I thus cannot guarantee at this point that the story is fully correct, but in the present war zone, we take with a bag of salt what information we have. There are reports (and photos posted on social media) of a guy being shot in the head by the police using a rubber bullet, who allegedly died, but no mainstream coverage of this, so who knows anymore? From lockdown, in my own personal prison, I certainly don’t.
“Late yesterday afternoon, Victoria Police banned media organisations from taking aerial footage of protests against vaccination passport mandates, in a major blow to the freedom of the press.
News organisations would have to apply to the police force to be permitted to fly their helicopters inside 250km, and a blanket ban was originally placed on live broadcasts.
Police claimed protesters were using the live aerial footage to learn the location of officers.
A number of news personalities expressed concerns, including Nine’s national director of news and current affairs, who appeared on 3AW to comment:
“We’re not a police state, it’s very unprecedented, and it’s very uncomfortable the decision that’s been made. We need to cover [protests]. We live in an open, free society, we’re a democracy. We allow these basic freedoms to disappear now, what comes next?”
The restriction was altered after the media raised concerns of overreach.”
See, the police are loving and caring after all. A police state would just be like having teddy bears rock you to sleep every night after tucking you in. With tear gas.
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