1. Sheriff refuses to enforce lockdown
Two screaming toddlers watched on as their father was dramatically dragged to the ground by police at a tense anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne on Sunday.
Hundreds of Victorians frustrated by the state’s lockdown measures gathered at the steps of state parliament, joined by conspiracy theorists including anti-vaxxers and those who outrageously blame the global pandemic on 5G technology.
The protest reached boiling point when police began separating protesters who were breaking social distancing and lockdown laws.
Dramatic footage captured by onlookers showed the father being spoken to by a group of police, while his two young children lay in their nearby pram.
Three other officers then pulled the pram with the distressed children away from the father, prompting onlookers to scream at the police.
‘Oh my God!,’ one woman screamed as more bystanders gathered around.
‘F**k off!’ another witness yelled at the officers.
The man’s partner then rushed to tend to her screaming children, while a swarm of more than 20 police officers surrounded the father.
‘Honey please calm down!’ she yelled out to her partner, who was pinned to the ground by at least five officers.
3. Detailing the Fusion GPS BS and the Democrat coverup of the conspiracy to attack
Here is a 45 minute clip on the same issue, with former AG McCarthy speaking to former NYC Mayor, Rudy Giuliani
4. San Fran is giving out free booze and drugs to the homeless while putting them up in hotels.
(I wonder if they will be arrested if they sell the drugs and buy healthy food)
5a. Catholics Warn of Coronavirus Creating ‘World Government Beyond All Control’
The letter, signed by Catholic notables including German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano from Italy and Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, former bishop of Hong Kong, claims the pandemic is being exploited to restrict basic rights “disproportionately and unjustifiably”.
Catholic bishops in Germany have dissociated themselves from a letter in which several prominent clergy questioned the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and measures taken by governments the world over to stem its spread.
In the 1,300 word letter, which in addition to its pastor signatories is said to be also supported by “intellectuals, doctors, lawyers, journalists and professionals who agree with its content”, is said to be motivated by “sacred duty”.
?“The facts have shown under the pretext of the Covid-19 epidemic, the inalienable rights of citizens have in many cases been violated and their fundamental freedoms, including exercise of freedom of worship, expression and movement, disproportionately and unjustifiably restricted. Public health must not, and cannot, become an alibi for infringing on the rights of millions, let alone depriving the civil authority of its duty to act wisely for the common good. This is particularly true as growing doubts emerge from several quarters about the actual contagiousness, danger and resistance of the virus. Many authoritative voices in the world of science and medicine confirm the media’s alarmism about Covid-19 appears to be absolutely unjustified,” the letter begins.
5b. Germany: Catholic chiefs reject cardinals’ coronavirus ‘conspiracy theories’
Catholic bishops in Germany have dissociated themselves from a letter in which several prominent Catholic clergy question the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken by governments across the world to stem it.
“The German Bishops’ Conference’s assessment of the coronavirus pandemic is fundamentally different than the appeal published yesterday,” Bishop Georg Bätzing, who heads the influential body, told the Catholic KNA news agency.
Other German Catholic clergy chose harder words in their criticism of the appeal. The vicar general of the city of Essen, Klaus Pfeffer, said on Facebook that he was “simply speechless at what was being published there in the name of the Church and Christianity: crude conspiracy theories without facts or evidence, combined with aggressive right-wing populist rhetoric that sounds alarming.”
(There really is a stunning amount of important materials and analysis in the Reader’s Links post today. For those of you visiting this site and not familiar with how it works, please click through to the Reader’s Links post and check out the comments there.)
Thank you Yucki, Johnny U., M., Wrath of Khan, Richard, ET., PePi, and all who sent in materials.
Crazy week last week to be followed by a crazier one this week no doubt.
