HOLDING THE FORT: Melbourne’s First ‘Freedom Day Protest’ Saturday the 5th of September.
PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published September 9, 2020
A day we shall not forgive, and shall never forget.
Despite the sunshine of early spring, Melbourne has grown ever dimmer. We are all gripped in the wintery fist of fascism. Many are pushing desperately against the fingers to be free; others, the Leftist-Lotus-Eaters*, remain overjoyed to be curled within, and safely carried in the hand.
There is not much rejoicing for Victorians, we are no longer so young, and we are not so free.
Intoxicated by ill-begotten power, a bespectacled-parody-of-a-man, seemingly carved from a potato and full of malice, has accrued supreme power, and now wields it with cruel abandon. He rules with “iron-ears,” swollen and fortified against criticism, and utterly incapable of listening. Opportunistic, and with pathological guile, he exploited a once plausible viral threat to hypnotically slither and successfully coil around the neck of Victoria. There he remains, fiendishly adjusting his ropey-coils, chafing with scales and constricting with serpentine delight. We are hung as he lifts us from our pandemic woes — only to keep us suspended, and dangling. He is an unlikely tyrant, a well-spoken brutish-bureaucrat, but his blood is as undeniably cold as all those who have historically sought to suffocate the human spirit. Dan Andrews, reptile: utterly repugnant to empathic humans.
Determined at all costs to maintain his full-spectrum-dominance of the Victorian citizenry, Andrews has commanded his Assistant Police Commissioner, Luke Cornelius, another bespectacled-oaf, seemingly formed by two boiled potatoes squished artlessly together — to quash all rebellious sentiment and potential resistance. The forces at Cornelius’ disposal, once unleashed, gnashed with the gusto of East German Stasi hounds, sniffing for pre-crime, and infamously handcuffing and kidnapping a young pregnant woman in front of her children to showcase their ruthlessness. The Leftist-Lotus-Eaters delighted in the justice served, viewing the actions of such henchmen as ‘praiseworthy,’ as the pregnant girl broke the law — ‘white privilege’ was finally getting its comeuppance! If it were a non-binary person of colour, the police should be defunded; headquarters incinerated; but white against white is a noble fight!
Ultimately, the outspoken rebels and their silly troubles must be silenced. Freedom is not for all — it is for those at the top to decide how much, and for whom. Parallels to the crawling text of the Star Wars saga are evident, and the essential conflict, the friction of opposing polarities colliding: Good versus Evil — is both archetypal and Biblical; a veritable age-old spiritual battle that has always defined the Human Condition. In the beginning there was a serpent.
A ‘Freedom March’ would not be tolerated. The Regime was anticipating ‘a Tin Foil Hat Brigade’ of ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ and ‘Covidiots.’ Ironically, such labels and titles truly describe those still supporting the Tyrant — perfectly representing the “Pandemic Narrative” he has threaded into their frontal lobe, pulling the stitches together to create one benumbed-dumb complicit mass. Those that once swore an oath to serve the people, and to maintain justice, our police, would now perform the injustice of intimidating and brutalising fellow Victorians. This is the ‘New Normal,’ the Globalist Satanic ideal of the ‘Anti-human Abnormal,’ the long desired dystopia forewarned by Orwell’s prescient words: ‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on the human face — forever.’
Protesters were gathering. Undeterred by the Stasi intimidation and humiliation of those unjustly arrested during the week, they defiantly amassed, numbering hundreds, each an embodiment of the indomitable human spirit. They were there to protest Andrews’ evisceration of Democracy: his COVID-19 Operation had savagely torn the vital organs of commerce, industry and people from the connective tissue of society. These individuals had gathered on behalf of all the imperilled lives of each and every Victorian – if only they were voicing the exclusive value of Black Lives – they would have been greeted by kneeling police; showered with lotus petals, and given the keys to the city.
Their chant was “FREEDOM!”
This was unacceptable. Such vocal stubbornness must be broken, or be brought to breaking. The mass hypnosis of the duped, deluded and despicable enablers must be maintained; talk of freedom is outlandish, and if too loud, it will be disruptive to the sound sleepers. A ‘Sieg Heil’ was gestured toward the wall of staunch police, and then another, and a journalist would later publish her lotus-chewing anxiety in a piece revealing: ‘Australia’s Rise of White Supremacy’ amongst the anti-lockdown conspiracy crowd, incapable of discerning that it was done in irony. Andrews’s crippling siege on all Victorians must be upheld, for Victoria must fall, she must be cunningly collapsed. Indeed, the scaffolding for a Socialist Utopia shall rise from the chaos: a Socialist-inspired Technocratic Tyranny.
Cornelius knew his objective, and his legions of militarised enforcers were strategically positioned for a triumphant media exhibition. They would prevail!
While a helicopter provided continuous footage of those gathered to peacefully protest, a smaller group, cut off, and now surrounded and huddled on the ground, were soon dramatically encircled by countless footsoldiers brandishing batons; flanked by numerous lowlife mounted officers looking down from their high-horses; and with black hearts and blackened minds, shiny-black stormtroopers, each encased in Chinese-plane-delivered dehumanised exoskeletons, absurdly costumed extras from some B-Grade Sci-Fi, rushed in wedge-formation to removed and arrest the small group; repeating the wedge as a vulture swoop, picking them off, one-by-one, as if they were extracting militants from a newly surrendered ISIS encampment.
Somewhere in distant suburbia, a television displayed live coverage of the unfolding scene. While a mother watched, horrified and teary-eyed, her 6-year-old daughter entered the lounge-room; distracted momentarily from her childhood innocence, glaring at the screen, she asked with concern: “Mum, why are all those police jumping on that person, they aren’t doing anything!”
Pure of heart, a child knows.
Oh, but my niece was entirely wrong, those people were doing something tremendous — they were defiantly holding truth in the fist of their extended arms, thrusting it outward for the Great Sulphurous Beast to consume within its tremendous jaws, and they did not flinch, they kept their poise, eyes unblinking while offering the hand, losing the arm, but ultimately force-feeding the Truth to the Monstrous Lie. They did that for all Victorians, Australians and peoples of all Nations of Earth, they did the most necessary thing:
They ‘held the fort’ by standing for Truth.
“Australians all let us rejoice, For we are young and free”
Now, that fort can never by dismantled, can never be overcome, for once it has first been held, and the act understood in the mind of a child — others are shown the way.
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Aerial footage of the police operation. At the 26-28 minute mark the wall begins to form around the protesters:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=642072836747361&extid=cRoV1awyqxk0KWKn
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*Lotus Eaters Wikipedia entry:
“In Greek mythology the lotus-eaters (Greek: λωτοφάγοι), were a race of people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, a plant whose botanical identity (if based on a real plant at all) is uncertain. The lotus fruits and flowers were the primary food of the island and were a narcotic, causing the inhabitants to sleep in peaceful apathy. After they ate the lotus they would forget their home and loved ones. Those who ate the plant never cared to report, nor return.
Figuratively, 'lotus-eater' denotes ‘a person who spends their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns’.”