Democracy ???? Here ???? today ???? We are currently flying under Emergency declaration S194, under the provisions of the Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 That declaration is read along with the virtually identically worded Restricted Activities Direction (no2) and Stay At Home Direction (no4). All of that is actual laws that we are relying on, and describes what we know as the Lock Down Restrictions. Wording in legal instruments is generally very carefully considered and is vitally important. Laws are regularly pulled apart mercilessly on the basis of the meaning of single words, and we have an entire government and monstrous legal system that relies just on those words. The entire basis of our theoretical democracy revolves around the law, the existence of law, and
nothing more than the law. Ill stand corrected but Im pretty confident that most laws we have are written down in words, and not too many that only exist in weasel words yelled out in a press conference one day. The wording of the laws effecting us in this crisis actually contains very little of the publicly portrayed very broad reaching and target specific restrictions that we are repeatedly having forced down our Victorian throats. In law, artistic license, making crap up on the fly and the old "do what I say not what I mean" are irrelevant, out of place and are unenforcible. In essence and in simple terms if the specific words don't exist, the behaviour isn't restricted; and rightfully so because in this example we are talking about the single most important, precious and sacrosanct right any person on earth can have, freedom. The cause of many wars, at the cost of many millions of lives. There are many words down here, describing restrictive behaviour, being thrown around that aren't actually exist in any written instrument. For example if it the law says "food", which it does, no-one can just thrown up adjectives that don't exist like "groceries" and "supermarkets" etc. If it says "exercise", which it does, no-one can just chuck in a few additional criteria they like the sound of like "walking" "not golfing" "around your neighbourhood" "for only 45min". If it says I can shop any retail outlet (Part3, S6 (1)(c)(viii) , on-one can leave that out entirely just because they personally dont like the idea of it. Thankfully, it not supposed to work like that .... although at present??? Dan Andrews has taken the unprecedented step of suspending parliament indefinitely, so in very real terms in a nano second and without warning 57% of the Victorian population instantly retained absolutely zero representation or voice at all. Non Govt MPs attempting to contact Ministers have been summarily ignored. Parliament hasn't sat for 4 weeks now, and Parliament is where accountability of the Govt, oversight and scrutiny takes place; in fact Parliament is precisely where this so called
democracy is actually supposed to be. A crisis is no excuse to summarily trounce peoples rights nor is it an excuse for poor and unlawful governance. The effect or greater good of the unlawful directions are irrelevant, and it should never be a case of "its all for a good cause", because next time the cause may not be so noble, but your ability to stop it will be just as non existent. Hands up anyone who knows of any other point in history where a Parliament was hijacked, and stormtroopers used to strong-arm the masses on the basis of lawless ideology ... nah, probably never happened. Not having a personal dig at you
@BJM, but if you can find even a sniff of "
democracy" around here
, please point it out to me.
I bored out of my skull, I'll end up washing the paint off the car, and I need to find solace in stupid and mindless Youtube videos