In Melbourne, the most locked down city in the world, the state government has just introduced the first pre-crime legislation amid a veritable torrent of laws and regulations getting shoved through state parliament while the opposition is locked out of the parliament.
Several dissidents have already been arrested for thought crime, however, this isn’t nearly distopian enough for the far left premier Dan Andrews. He’s now going after pre-crime. If that sounds like a SciFi movie, you’re correct.
Spielberg’s 2002 Minority Report was set in the distant and unlikely future where the protagonist, played by Tom Cruise, is accused of a future murder that a computer program and human clairvoyants predicted he would commit. At the time it seemed far fetched and far away. Unfortunately for the people of Melbourne, it is right now and right here.
Naturally, the law is couched in terms that enable the noble government and police force to protect the defenseless citizens from future terrorists and from themselves. The supposed basis for this is that a Somali-born Australian convict killed a receptionist in a kidnapping in 2017. Under the current regime in Victoria, the potential saving of one life in the future is worth permanently removing layers and layers of civil protection from citizens.
Even the name sounds good: Terrorism (Community Protection) Amendment Bill 2021. Who wouldn’t want to be protected from Terrorism? Even better, it isn’t about punishing people. It’s about re-educating people. Heck, I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t benefit from a bit of re-eduction.
Terrorism (Community Protection) Amendment Bill 2021
This bill aims to prevent potential criminals and terrorists from becoming violent terrorists through achieving “therapeutic objectives.” The law doesn’t define what these are, other than helping to reduce or prevent the radicalization of potential terrorists. These potential terrorists aren’t bad people — just citizens needing support from the government — which is why they are defined as “supported persons” in the law. However, if they don’t attend their re-education (“support and engagement plan“) as mandated by the government, they can face up to two years imprisonment.
This ain’t play school. If the government determines that you need to be re-educated, you’d better start adjusting your attitude.
Ironically enough, two years is the precise amount of time these “supported persons” can be subject to compulsory “support and engagement plans,” or as the government also calls it, “Programs to address exposure to ideologies that are radical and violent.”
Unlike normal criminal procedures, though, there’s very little oversight to this program.
The police need to get a judge to sign off on an order (similar to obtaining a warrant) and that’s it. No trial. No public hearing. Nothing on the public record. The police can simply inform you that you are now a “supported person” and are required to do whatever the court agreed to for the next 12 months (and another year if they ask for an extension).
“Supported persons” can appeal for a revision of cancellation of the “support and engagement plan” through a court. However, these court hearings are secret and passing on any information (e.g. your name) to a public report gets you two years in prison. So after the government disappears dissidents, they can’t suddenly appear in a news article or else the publisher faces the prospect of also being disappeared.
Targeting dissidents and Anti-Vaxxers
If there were one person this law is aiming at, it’s Michelle Smit. This radical far right extremist claims that people should have the right to determine what medicine to take. Such extremist views have no place in Dan Andrews’ Viktoria. Here’s what the law is targeting:
A behaviour engaged in with any of the following intentions may, in certain circumstances, indicate that the person engaging in that behaviour is radicalising towards violent extremism: the intention of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.
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Given that Monica Smit just set up the Reignite Democracy Australia movement, a political party, she sits pretty squarely within those sights. But wait, as they say, there’s more!
Any of the following behaviours engaged in with an intention set out in that subsection may, in certain circumstances, indicate that the person engaging in that behaviour is radicalising towards violent extremism: making, disseminating or endorsing statements expressing hatred, serious contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule of the public or a section of the public statements supportive of the commission of an act that would create a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public.
Terrorism (Community Protection) Amendment Bill 2021 p12
It took a lot of words to finally get to the “risk to the health or safety of the public” but they did in the end. In today’s context, that means anyone who is anti-vax, vaccine hesitant, a sovereign citizen, or anyone who subscribes to the notion of “my body my choice.” Standup comedians should also note that “severe ridicule” of a section of the public can indicate radicalization towards violent extremism that requires a year long “support and engagement plan” in the new quarantine facility (gulag?) being constructed in Mickleton, Victoria.
For clarity, the law emphasizes that there’s no need for any evidence of planning a crime, thinking of a crime, or even considering taking any criminal action. This is not a “thought crime” law. It’s a pre-crime law. And it applies to anyone. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s an excerpt from the speech in parliament by Shaun Leane, Minster of Local Government:
While government and law enforcement agencies can utilise significant intervention when a person has radicalised to the point where an attack is being planned or is about to occur, there is currently no legislative mechanism to intervene when a person is at risk, or in the early stages, of radicalising towards violent extremism. This Bill will complement existing powers by ensuring that we have the appropriate mechanisms to not only address the threat of violent extremism as it arises, but also to help divert vulnerable people away from radicalisation before they present a threat to the Victorian community.
Movement speech for the second reading of the TERRORISM (COMMUNITY PROTECTION) AMENDMENT BILL 2021
In case you are wondering about the thought crime laws, the best one is the Commonwealth anti-terrorist law which allows infinite detention of terrorists, suspected terrorists, acquaintances of suspected terrorists, and potential witnesses to potential terrorist crimes.
Yes, that covers nearly everything… except that part where no crime was contemplated nor even imagined. That’s why Victoria needed the Terrorism Amendment Bill 2021.
Right now, any political dissident is at risk of being subject to a “Support and Engagement Order (SEO)” which has ZERO limitations and safeguards with respect to what the “supported person” can be subjected to. Dissidents will be subjected a broad range of treatments aimed at a specific therapeutic objective, which can include psychological treatment, drug treatment, and potentially a frontal lobotomy (they were popular in Australia in the 1960s and 70s).
A police officer or a government officer can apply to impose a “support and engagement plan” on pretty much anyone in Victoria, Australia, or anywhere in the world who are “at risk of radicalising towards violent extremism.”
That’s right. This law aims to help you save yourself against your future self. Thank you Uncle Dan.
Here’s a list of likely targets:
Monica Smit (Reignite Democracy Australia)
Tim Wilms (Unshackled)
David Hiscox (XYZ)
Ruckshan Fernando (Real Ruckshan)
Avi Yemeni (Rebel News)
Morgan Jonas (MCJ Report)
Michael Griffith (Cafe Locked Out), Topher Field, Kyle Mitchell, Joel Gilmour, Tami Jane, Dr Simon Floreani, and a bunch of others.
Don’t worry though, the quarantine facilities house north of 500, so there will be a thriving community in the ghetto.
P.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This bill allows forced vaccination
For some reason I totally missed what appears to be the main point of this legislation: forced vaccination.
Specifically, this law can require a supported person to undergo a medical procedure or take medication to achieve a therapeutic purpose. The therapeutic purpose includes:
(2) Without limiting subsection (1)(a), a thing
Terrorism (Community Protection) Amendment bill 2021 p18
may be done or designed to address the
underlying causes of a person’s radicalisation
towards violent extremism if it provides for
the person to be connected with—
(a) the community; or
(b) a positive support network.
In other words, it doesn’t need to have a therapeutic purpose other than allowing a supported person to engage with other people in a setting where vaccines are required.
Initially, this is “voluntary” but if the supported person refuses then the police just need a warrant.
But at least it goes to a court right?
Yes, but no proof required
No proof required for the court
Usually courts have three levels of proof:
- Beyond reasonable doubt
- Preponderance of the evidence
- Clear and convincing evidence
But not here in Victoria. All you need is “yeah, probably.”
22CJ Standard of proof
Any question of fact to be decided by a court
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under this Division is to be decided on the
balance of probabilities.
This low standard is usually reserved for civil cases rather than terrorism laws.
So if there’s a 51% chance that you may be, say, ridiculing the public or a section of the public (as Dan Andrews does every day) than the court will impose a compulsory engagement plan which may include both vaccination and time in the reeducation camp.
You’ll also have a permanent record, you terrorist.
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