THE “TRUCKIE BLOCKADE”: An Act of Resistance, or a Deception for Ushering-in Stage 5 Restrictions?
PANDEMIC WRITINGS, Melbourne, Australia (2020-2022): piece originally published August 25, 2021
A couple of months back, I was sent material outlining how Victoria would go into another lockdown on August the 5th. At the same time, people were circulating screenshots from an anonymous “insider” who forewarned of a “Stage 5 lockdown” in September, and that their would be ‘food shortages,’ ‘Martial Law’ and the ‘army on the streets going door-to-door (possibly vaccinating people in their homes)’.
At the time, it all seemed unlikely.
In the first days of August, Victoria had just emerged from its fifth lockdown, and it seemed that the “August 5th lockdown prediction” would not come to pass. However, on August 5th, as if preplanned, ‘mysterious community cases’ were once again conjured to immediately collapse Victoria into its ongoing Lockdown 6.0.
The August 5th Lockdown date had been unnervingly correct.
During the evening of August 20th (on the eve of the Anti-lockdown Protest, August 21st), the Herald Sun and other sources (in an act of psychological priming) were speculating about ‘a looming Stage 5 lockdown,’ with additional restrictions, and what exactly they might entail: ‘20 minutes-a-day outside for exercise, shopping only one-day-a-week, all cafes and takeaway stores closed, construction closed, etc.’ Even former Victorian Premier, Jeff Kennett, contributed to the ever-amplifying paranoiac-panic by tweeting about how ‘two different sources, food companies’ had informed him that Victoria would be subjected to an extended lockdown ‘until the New Year.’
However, despite the dreaded anticipation of Andrew’s dire declaration on the morrow — Stage 5 restrictions were not announced as part of the additional restrictions imposed upon Victorians that day.
Now, in the last week, numerous posts have circulated about a “Nationwide Truckie Blockade”1 (alleged to be planned for August 31st) that will be a “solidarity act” of defiance against the Federal and State Governments, and will supposedly show them ‘who is actually in control of Australia.’
Many prominent public figures are eagerly anticipating this actually eventuating (having thousands of trucks strategically parked and immobile, forming a blockade, and effectively stopping the commercial heart of Australia). We are being cautioned to be aware, and to stockpile food, and to anticipate a potential food shortage and other supply stoppages. It is being promoted as a “blockade” that will represent the people (in particular, the Truckies) fighting back on behalf of the besieged people of Australia. Supposedly, it will be a “blockade” for "freedom.”
However, what if it is actually anything other than what it is proclaimed — and quite possibly, intended to achieve the exact opposite (or, achieves this unintentionally?)
We are already in a protracted lockdown-siege, as the Government seeks to strategically coerce obedience and maximize the uptake of a sinister medical experiment by waging an endless siege-of-attrition. Many are utterly exhausted at this stage, finding themselves demoralized and fragmented by the ruthless psychological warfare that has eroded all former aspects of their recognizable normal: a deliberate theft of Hope.
So, having ‘food shortages’ when money is already short, with many not even being in a financial position to even stockpile in advance of a potential “Truckie Blockade,” would be a contributor to overwhelming trauma, anxiety and stress. Not having ready access to food (or the perceived fear of such a reality), and the stimulation of a primal terror of imagined starvation — might just completely break people.
Indeed, such a “Truckie Blockade” might actually provide the justification for the government to have the ‘military on the streets, going door-to-door’ under Stage 5 ‘Martial Law,’ with people unable to leave their homes for more than ‘20-minutes-a-day’ and ‘only shopping for groceries once a week.’
If grocery shelves are empty — the established societal decency amongst people will rapidly degenerate; and anarchy and chaos will be unleashed in a foreseeable rampage of unbridled lawlessness: home invasions, looting and violence.
How would this be quashed? What might the large percentage of those who are still hopelessly enthralled to the COVID Cult, demand, plead and grovel for: Stage 5 Restrictions, Martial Law, and the military on our streets to quell the civil unrest, and to assist with reinstating some semblance of draconian order.
This is my perspective. I have no overriding information or ‘anonymous source’ that might suggest that I am correct. I am just expressing my reservations based upon what I perceive to be a foreseeable outcome for the stated action. I hope I am entirely incorrect in my projected worst-case-scenario speculation. However, I simply do not have a good feeling about the “Truckie Blockade,” and I personally hope that it does not come to pass…
... and if it does, may it go the way of the people.
POSTSCRIPT: It did not come to pass.