No-Vaxx Djokovic to be Deported From Australia in Disgraceful Political Act by Supposed Liberal Democracy

World No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic is to be deported from Australia following a court ruling upholding the cancellation of his visa by the Immigration Minister. The Telegraph has more.

Three Federal Court Judges heard the appeal over the Australian Immigration Minister’s decision to revoke Novak Djokovic’s visa on health grounds.

Djokovic’s lawyers argued the Minister had provided no evidence the Serbian’s presence in the country may “foster anti-vaccination sentiment” when scrapping his visa.

In response, the Government highlighted Djokovic’s anti-vaccination stance and his “history of ignoring Covid safety measures”.

The world No. 1 spent Sunday in his lawyers’ offices, under the guard of two immigration officials, while the challenge was heard via video link.

After just over three hours of deliberations, the three judges decided unanimously to uphold the Immigration Minister’s right to cancel Djokovic’s visa.

Djokovic had the option of trying to take the legal fight further but said although he was “extremely disappointed” by the decision he would cooperate with the deportation.

The Immigration Minister Alex Hawke welcomed the unanimous ruling of the judges to uphold his decision “to cancel Mr Djokovic’s visa in the public interest”.

Australia’s strong border protection policies have kept us safe during the pandemic, resulting in one of the lowest death rates, strongest economic recoveries, and highest vaccination rates in the world. Strong border protection policies are also fundamental to safeguarding Australia’s social cohesion which continues to strengthen despite the pandemic.

Djokovic released a statement saying he was “extremely disappointed” with the court ruling.

I would like to make a brief statement to address the outcomes of today’s court hearing.

I will now be taking some time to rest and to recuperate, before making any further comments beyond this.

I am extremely disappointed with the court ruling to dismiss my application for judicial review of the minister’s decision to cancel my visa, which means I cannot stay in Australia and participate in the Australian Open.

I respect the court’s ruling and I will cooperate with the relevant authorities in relation to my departure from the country.

I am uncomfortable that the focus of the past weeks has been on me and I hope that we can all now focus on the game and tournament I love.

I would like to wish the players, tournament officials, staff, volunteers and fans all the best for the tournament.

Finally, I would like to thank my family, friends, team, supporters, fans and my fellow Serbians for your continued support. You have all been a great source of strength to me.

Before delivering the orders, Chief Justice Allsop explained that the case wasn’t about whether the Immigration Minister made the right decision but whether the decision was so irrational or unreasonable that it was unlawful. Given the scope of discretion given to the Minister under Australian law it would have been extraordinary if the court had overturned his decision. The court has now adjourned and will set out the reasons for its decision later.

The political backdrop in this once liberal and tolerant country was underlined by an opinion poll published by the Age newspaper on Sunday which showed almost three-quarters of Australians believed Djokovic should be sent home without playing in the Australian Open, while just 14% of the 1,607 people polled said he should be allowed to stay. The Government is likely to have an eye on the approaching election.

It is truly shocking that the country would deport the world’s No. 1 tennis player and defending champion over not being vaccinated. Worse, it has done so despite him coming to the country on the understanding that he has an exemption, and despite a court already overturning one attempted visa cancellation. Indeed, in making the latest cancellation the Government no longer claims Djokovic doesn’t have an exemption or a valid visa, but simply uses its prerogative to cancel the visa on what amounts to political grounds – that Djokovic’s presence may “foster anti-vaccination sentiment”. To back this up it pointed to his “history of ignoring Covid safety measures“, the relevance of which to fostering “anti-vaccination sentiment” is unclear. It is a naked political act for political reasons and no one is pretending otherwise.

Prime Minster Scott Morrison said: “It’s now time to get on with the Australian Open and get back to enjoying tennis over the summer.” But following deportation Djokovic faces the prospect of a three-year ban from entering Australia and difficulty entering other countries as well, unless exceptions are made. What appalling treatment of someone who should be an honoured guest and who only came to the country because he was assured he had a valid exemption. Fellow player Vasek Pospisil has said Djokovic only went to Australia on the understanding he could enter lawfully: “Novak would would never have gone to Australia if he had not been given an exemption to enter the country by the Government (which he did receive; hence Judge Kelly’s initial ruling)… There was a political agenda at play here with the elections coming up which couldn’t be more obvious. This is not his fault. He did not force his way into the country and did not ‘make his own rules’; he was ready to stay home.”

The Victorian Council for Civil Liberties has slammed the ruling and the system that allowed it, tweeting that it demonstrated Australia’s “dysfunctional and chaotic visa cancellation regime”.

The Minister has successfully used his ‘God powers’ to cancel Djokovic’s visa on the basis of how his perceived views might impact anti-vaxxers.

The court only looked at whether the Minister exercised his powers lawfully, and not at what the decision should have been.

The Djokovic saga highlights the use of these extraordinary personal powers and Australia’s dysfunctional and chaotic visa cancellation regime. Liberty Victoria joins the call for an inquiry into this unfit-for-purpose regime.

Disgraceful behaviour from a supposedly liberal and tolerant democracy. Australians should be utterly ashamed of themselves and their country and when they finally wake up from their lockdown-induced mass psychosis, perhaps they will be.

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rayc
rayc
4 years ago

The biggest casualty of this pandemic has been one’s faith in humanity.

Covidiot
Covidiot
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Quite, though here as I am, ready to support Djokovic’s decision tooth and nail, I thought one good thing that could come out of this was him using his considerable platform to speak honestly and openly about what he thought of vaccination mandates and the madness of the last 2 years in general. It would have been great if he could use his media presence to stick up for the millions who feel the same. To data he has not done that at all, so far quietly acquiescing with the decision.

I’m left with the impression, so far, that Djokovic is only focussed on his own selfish ambitions and has no thought for others in worse situations due to mandates. It’s a shame tat winning titles seems to be more important than basic human rights and freedoms.

I hope, in time, he proves me wrong

realarthurdent
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

Perhaps once he is safely back in the territory of a free liberal democracy he will be able to speak more freely.

Paula
Paula
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

What an extraordinary comment. What media presence does Djokovic have? He is being routinely demonised by the mass media and has received no meaningful support from the profession or fellow players. If he has been approached with offers to ‘tell his side of the story’ he would probably be right to be cautious about that. He has made a principled stand – if all he cared about was winning titles he would simply have taken the vax. I would love to hear more from him, I’m sure we will, but as long as the ‘millions who feel the same’ stay quiet and carp from the sidelines, nothing will change. The cavalry ain’t coming to save us. Everyone needs to play their part, however small, to speak out while we still can.

John001
John001
4 years ago
Reply to  Paula

He should obviously be interviewed by Joe Rogan.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago
Reply to  Paula

If he all he cares about is winning future titles,surely it is in his best interests not to take the clot shots.

lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago

Perhaps he doesn’t want to take the shot because he doesn’t want to risk collapsing during the game, as so many athletes have.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Paula

“If all he cared about was winning titles he would simply have taken the vax.”
I imagine Djokovic has declined the vax Precisely because he values his health and future, without which there’s no winning of titles, anywhere. I wonder where England will stand this summer when Wimbledon comes around.

Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

And I wonder how many of the vaxxed top notch tennis players will be left
standing. All the strain and stress of a five set match is potentially lethal if the heart is at all compromised.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Liberty4UK

Perhaps that is exactly what this demonic Australian Government is waiting to see so they can blame ‘anti-vaxxers’?

We wait with interest for A. Neil’s next rabble-rousing rant in the “Daily Mail”!

jrobs
jrobs
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Indeed! All distraction from the high level bio weapons they have been working on for decades.

jrobs
jrobs
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

It’s not a vaccination so all the anti-vax hysteria is deliberate distraction. https://rumble.com/vsocno-la-quinta-columna-issues-report-on-microtechnology-found-in-pfizer-vials.html

SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

At the moment it looks like Wimbledon is the only grand slam he can play in. I hope he plays and wins it to show all the winners of other falsely called Grand slams are also rans.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Paula

If he hasn’t taken the vaxx – as I am fairly sure he has not – then that of itself is a principled act.

Given his position and status, he would likely have been offered an injected with the placebo in it [come on, we all know it is going on], but knowing that that isn’t an option to the hordes of people all over the world being jabbed with God only know what, the fact that he has declined that, even though it is interfering with his professional career, then that is a principled act.

I would imagine he will speak more openly when he has got safely home and had some time to rest and recuperate.

I, for one, will listen with interest to what he has to say.

Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

Oh come on, give the guy a break.

They say actions speak louder than words and Novak has taken a principled pro-choice stance and has seemingly got on with “normality” as much as possible, demonstrating that ridiculous rules created by ridiculous politicians are not worthy of following.

He already is a figurehead for our side of the argument, but he didn’t ask to be and I suspect doesn’t want to be. We should respect that.

Too right he should be focused on winning titles. He’s an elite sportsman with a limited career span, and has a great chance to become the player with the most grand slam victories. This will cement his claims as arguably the best player of all time.

That might not mean much to you, but the only way you get to that level is by absolute single-mindedness, along with immense hard work, determination and dedication. There are many great tennis players, but very few of them win even a single grand slam, let alone 20.

You don’t throw away all that ambition just because of a disgraceful decision by a deranged, tinpot dictatorship.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

He is just a tennis player, not a god.

divoc origi 19
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

I would have more respect for him if he hadn’t got caught trying to game their system. Just tell Australia to fuck off, and then go win the next slam. If you are going to use exemptions then make sure you do it properly (and don’t get caught flouting your quarantine period with school kids). It just adds to the belief in the eyes of the masses that people like us are selfish, when for the vast majority, nothing could be further from the truth.

jrobs
jrobs
4 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

You shouldn’t need an ‘exemption’ from an unlawful trial experiment of the injection of a bio weapon. It has nothing to do with health or a virus so all the anti-vac hysteria is deliberate distraction and obfuscation. https://rumble.com/vsocno-la-quinta-columna-issues-report-on-microtechnology-found-in-pfizer-vials.html

SteveMol
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

Djokovic wasn’t well liked before this debacle and had he been vociferous regarding his own thoughts about the vaccines, would have played into the hands of those wanting to cast him off as just another privileged anti-vaxxer. As it is, many people have now changed their view of him and are ridiculing the Australian Government, which can only be a good thing. To paraphrase Socrates, the wisest man knows the right time to say nothing.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

HE’S A TENNIS PLAYER FFS – HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE “SELFISH”!!

SimCS
4 years ago
Reply to  Covidiot

So someone standing up and enabling the Aussie (& other) govt to make utter fools of themselves and their ridiculous pandemic restrictions doesn’t help anyone else? We need the Novaks of this world to bring this whole sordid episode out into the open, such that people will start thinking for themselves and not kneel down on the doormat of govt dictatorship. Who was it who said (something like) “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees”?

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

But my faith in the humanity of the Australian authorities has been fully vindicated, as they can always be trusted to do the wrong thing. As for the public, it would seem that nearly three quarters of them are classic cases of Stockholm Syndrome and while they are so easily fooled there will be no way back to any semblance of normality for Australia.

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

It will remain forever in the group of pariah nations currently headed by itself and Austria.

debra
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

lets not forget the staggeringly high number of people in this poll (1,607 people polled) 😏We know that It’s easy to select a group of people who are likely to agree with you & we also don’t know how the question was framed.
I suggest more AU citizens feel like we do than not.

SteveMol
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

I’m not sure the figures are as high as we’re being led to believe for those with apparent ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. I know many people who’ve had 1, 2 or 3 jabs but are now saying “no more”. You’re hard-pushed to find anyone prepared to try and justify the need for a 1st jab when the current narrative is that you need a 3rd.

bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Perversely Rayc…
Djokovic’s Australian Govt mistreatment still aids the Old Normal freedom fighters camp.
His vexatious handling just goes to prove and reinforces bluntly that none of this Kabuki Covidian cult theater is about public health, SARS Cov2 data or scientific facts. It’s pure and simply bio-techno-fascism, though what horrifies is the amount of Ozzie social media that damns him. TG for Neil’s weekly sanity pep talk…
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1482653482305961985?s=20

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Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

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J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Worse still: there hasn’t even been a pandemic.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

No .. not humanity…just disgusting, bloated and obscenely wealthy, unchecked Oligarchs and insatiably greedy Banks and Corporates and their fellow-travelling, cringing political and media jackals who have together made all this happen

Andy R
Andy R
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

nicely put!

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Not quite – some who inhabit “humanity”, yes, but politicians, modellers, Nudge Unit and other Civil Servants….emphatically not.

You only have to read the testimony of grieving families “laughed at ” by Partygoers, medics who have exercised their human right to dictate what goes into their bodies, amongst many others – humanity is very strong, just that large parts of the “cohort” have binned their’s.

cornubian
4 years ago

History is littered with examples of the atrocities that ensue when the medical profession abandon their traditional principles and judgement in favour of unquestioning subservience to governmental diktats – medical involvement in torture, forced sterilisation and human experimentation being examples. The genetic engineering based therapies now being deployed by the medical profession as ‘covid vaccines’ have not undergone the full review process required for full regulatory approval. In fact, all the Covid 19 injections are approved for emergency use only and are still, supposedly, in Stage 3 trials. However, it was reported in the BMJ (20/8/21) that these Stage 3 trials will never in fact be concluded because “There is no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed”. It was also reported by NPR (19/2/21) that Moderna had allowed part of its control group to be destroyed when 650 volunteers who took the experimental Moderna injections at a company called Johnson County Clinical Trials were unblinded, with the placebo group being offered, and given, the injections. Moderna later announced that “as of April 13, all placebo participants have been offered the Moderna covid-19 vaccine and 98% of those have received the vaccine.”… Read more »

loopDloop
loopDloop
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Excellent post.

Bungle
4 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Here here!

MichaelM
4 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Hear hear!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

First class piece of work which Dr Will should secure by adding to the DS library.

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Hear hear 🙂

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Indeed. Hats off!

jingleballix
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Yes, note too that s.45E Public Health Act 1984 – which the government has based its C-19 policy on – states;

Medical treatment
(1)
Regulations under section 45B or 45C may not include provision requiring a person to undergo medical treatment.

(2)
“ Medical treatment ” includes vaccination and other prophylactic treatment. ]

Which is why I suspect that no NHS employees will be dismissed – although there are worrying signs – Johnson has said twice that, “We need to have a national conversation on mandatory jabbing” – that government is planning to repeal the law and abandon their commitment to human rights charter such as the Nuremburg Code, and UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

If I am right – then we are well and truly doomed.

Make no mistake, with Labour’s support, they can do this.

CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Yes this is what most concerns me , the problem is human rights are just words on pieces of paper and can be denied by any law (legislation). Whereas inalienable rights are can never be extinguished and are immutable. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10406999/Sixteen-17-year-olds-eligible-booster-doses-Monday.html . Yet more disturbing government propaganda,

Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

The Labour party that warned a Conservative government would water down human rights outside the EU.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Hugh

and what the bloody hell have they done by supporting policies like lockdowns – expanded the scope of human rights in the UK so that people can live their lives as they wish? Where have you been since late 2019?

flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

I believe Johnson’s selfishness and desire to cling on to power will stop him doing this. He’s been scared shitless by the anger from the public and his own backbenchers over ‘PartyGate’, if he does something so stupid as repeal human rights/Nuremberg Code, it will finish him and he knows it.

watersider
4 years ago
Reply to  flyingjohn

Mrs von der Loyan (?) the unelected “President” of Europe is on record as saying she wishes to revoke the Nuremberg Code.
Btw her husband is a director of a German biological (warfare?) Establishment.

Infidel
Infidel
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

This is an exceptional piece of writing in desperate need of mass exposure.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Pfizer drugged up both sides of the Phase II dose level determination trials. They are desperately trying to do so with the current Phase III side effect type and incidence trial. They are desperate to mask the adverse reactions of their mRNA drug delivery system. Why? Because it is their key to ‘personalised medicine’ which will be a llicence to print money. It will eliminate all clinical trials as the drugs are personalised. Phase III drug trial costs are one of the biggests costs in drug development and most candidate drugs fail in trials.

If everyone takes the drug, they will be able to say the mRNA system is safe, and no one will be able to counter them. With personalised drugs, they also have no fear of class actions against them.

JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Indeed an excellent post.

Another first:

11 First vaxx to patently fail, something evident within the first 6 months of its introduction (Israel), yet it was believed necessary to continue with a product that had blatantly failed in all aspects – did not stop infection, transmission, serious illness, hospitalisation or death for more than a few months, if it even did that. For some reason it was believed that repeated doses of a failed product would as if by miracle turn it into something that worked.

The need for mankind to be able to ‘believe’, even against their better knowledge and clear, indisputable facts. Unfortunately not a first.

mishmash
4 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

12. First pandemic response vaccine to be produced without a clinical sample of pandemic causing virus.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Thank you for this!

At what point will we attach the adjective “wicked” to the ‘captured’ media and ‘compromised’ medical professionals?

Sue James
Sue James
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

This is absolutely my concern too. I’m a participant in the Johnson and Johnson trial. Having been given an injection in December 2020 which might or might not have been a placebo, the study managers were quite happy to allow me at age 63 to be at large in the world with a 50% chance that I had not been vaccinated, all through the “waves of infection” in early 2021. Yet all of a sudden, in June 2021, when vaccine passports were starting to be threatened, they became concerned for my safety and unblinded the trial, vaccinating all the control group (of which it turned out I had been one). When omicron arrived in December 2021 the study offered to provide me with a vaccine booster. I declined, one of the reasons being that at least I would once again be a member of some kind of control group. My faith in medicine, “science” (I don’t even know what science means any more!) and just plain honesty of practitioners of medicine and science has been completely and utterly destroyed.

cornubian
4 years ago
Reply to  Sue James

I’m sorry to hear of your new found disillusionment with the medical profession but I’m afraid its always been the case that many professionals are simply hired guns who say what their paymasters want them to say. Their views are then promoted as ‘expert opinion’. Once the paymasters have brought up most of the professional membership, complete with governing bodies and regulatory agencies, their views get called a ‘consensus’ – which must never be challenged. This is how the climate hoax, and now the covid scam, have materialised.

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flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Ditto

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186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Sue James

Dear Sue James, if you read “The Great Cholesterol Con”, “Doctoring Data” and “The Clot Thickens” you will get an even deeper understanding how some – I stress some, as it is clearly not all, but maybe a large majority – of “the medical profession” have surrendered to the pharmaceutical sharks, put their analytical acumen in deep sleep, and descended to the level of “Dispenser” ( might have been a very bad J K Rowling villain) but still blithely pocketing the cash from all sources. I came to your conclusion some years ago but have revised my opinion a minute fraction – only due to 2 life saving interventions by Paramedics; Dr Kendrick’s decades long studies, as he sets out do have an upside; however it will be a very long time perhaps before what he describes is reversed so you can reinstate your trust. The great difficulty the medical profession have is that they have “known this” for ever, they now “know” that more people “know” that they are utterly compromised as a profession and that makes for very tough decisions on “our” part when faced with life threatening health conditions – how do we work out if what… Read more »

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

I’m sure the current carefully placed UN ‘officials’ are trying squash the Nuremberg Code – it is so inconvenient for their purpose!

flyingjohn
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Which is why I believe that no politician has been injected with this experimental gene therapy. The publicity photos of them being injected were most likely a saline shot.

SteveMol
4 years ago
Reply to  flyingjohn

Absolutely. And in particular, the pictures of HM The Queen receiving “the vaccine”. Of all the people in the UK they were prepared to use as human guinea pigs, she would be the last.

liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Apologies, fully support your excellent comment. Flagged by mistake, admins please note

liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
4 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Excellent post, thank you. Fortunately, (or unfortunately if you are a manufacturer of these products) I am a registered member of a control group – the SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Control Group http://www.vaxcontrolgroup.com

Milo
Milo
4 years ago

I checked the link you supplied.

There is an image of a card which says that the person is a member of a registered control group and must not be vaccinated.

Is that an ‘exemption’ to being jabbed which nation states will recognise which would allow you to travel?

liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
liz.thornborrow@blueyonder.co.uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I haven’t tested this for foreign travel. I’m informed that the Q code works for domestic venues. Is there a facility to ask your question on their website?

jingleballix
4 years ago

The world’’s professional tennis players should boycott the Australian Open – and every other tournament there – starting NOW.

They should withdraw, leave the country immediately and never return to play there.

Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Well, they won’t. Most probably support the ruling.

John Dee
4 years ago

It’s like in all other parts of society: ‘If I’ve taken the trouble to get jabbed, why should someone else get away with not doing so?’

jwills
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

Exactly. We critical thinkers and supporters of free choice insult their intelligence

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  jwills

Oh, I don’t think it’s impossible to insult it.

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  John Dee

If I am in the queue for crucifixion why should that guy be in the queue for being let go?

Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Unfortunately that won’t happen, but as far as i’m concerned the tournament is effectively void and is now nothing more than an exhibition.

So if, for example, Nadal were to win, he is officially on 21 titles, but I’ll always maintain that the Aussie Open 2022 should not be recognised, and that he’s actually on 20.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

They absolutely won’t.

Without a doubt, the jab is seen by them as a tax they have to endure to continue playing tennis professionally and they resent anyone who tries to dodge it.

At a deeper level, they also resent Djokovic for having the courage they’ve lacked to stand up to the extortion. His actions remind them of their weakness and lack of principles.

In my eyes, they are sad, pathetic humans and I won’t spend a minute watching them. Their sport is pretty much dead to me.

Horse
Horse
4 years ago

Djokovic must permanently boycott the Australian Open on the grounds it’s wrong to support fascism and tyranny.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Horse

Tend to agree, but his nationality and recent events might open up a very large Hornets Nest….if ever there was a time for him to keep schtumm, surely this is it?

T-Centralen
4 years ago

They should be renaming their stadium after him yet they used him as a political pawn.
He’ll be back and even more fired up for Wimbledon and Roland Garros. No doubt he will still end his career on more slams than Nadal and Federer.

cryptical
cryptical
4 years ago

What utter and absolute stupidity. Australia and so many of our “liberal democracies” have become Covid police states, nothing more and nothing less, nothing to do with logic, common sense, or reality. What an incredible state of affairs. Who could have believed this two years ago?

Brett_McS
4 years ago

The Australian Open should lose its “Grand Slam” status, perhaps retrospectively.

Plenty of crazy in Australia, but one thing I have noticed that is less crazy than most places: Except in Victoria (of course) Australian children have never been required to wear masks, in school or out. Swings and roundabouts.

jwills
4 years ago
Reply to  Brett_McS

I think secondary have in qld. I could be wrong

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago

We may agree that it is wrong to deny entry to somebody because they have not been vaccinated. However to claim this decision is unworthy of a “liberal democracy” is patently false. The definition of a liberal democracy is one where a democratically elected government acts according to the rule of law. That’s exactly what happened in this case.
The decision to deport him was made by a bonafide judge and an elected government. It is also overwhelmingly supported by the citizens. I agree that Australia is suffering from an illiberal “mass psychosis” but this decision is anything but a “failure of liberal democracy”.

mwhite
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

 The definition of a liberal democracy is one where a democratically elected government acts according to the rule of law.”

What if they pass a law that would allow an atrocity?


mishmash
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

It is the responsibility of good citizens to break bad laws.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Then they would be voted out of office. That is why both Australia and GB have elections so the people can decide if they approve of the policies. I’m sure it won’t have escaped your attention that both Morrison and Johnson are unlikely to remain PM for long. Surely that’s the sign of a healthy liberal democracy?

Andy R
Andy R
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

The UK is quite clearly a one party state. Democracy in the UK is a sham. We have the pretence of control over our political masters while the likes of Epstein and his tyrannical paymasters have the real control over them.
If you think this decision is the decision of a liberal democracy you are woefully mistaken! This is the decision of a state controlled by oligarchs that control all the means by which any political party can possibly be elected.

John Dee
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

The judge merely concluded that there were insufficient grounds for overturning the relevant minister’s decision to revoke Djok’s visa. It’s rather easier to deny non-citizens’ rights – especially when you’ve been imprisoning and mistreating your own for almost two years.

refusenick
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

What is meant, I think, is that ‘liberal democracy’ has failed because it has shown itself capable of trampling on individual rights despite ‘following the law.’
i was a fan of the Joker before and am a much bigger fan now, given his principled stand. However, in a way I’m glad they made this decision as it would otherwise have been ‘one rule for the plebs and another for the elites.’ I have nothing but contempt for the authorities, however, and their repulsive authoritarianism.
Their actions also demonstrate – once again – the bizarre mentality that insists on jabs for others because the already jabbed aren’t protected by their own.

Bungle
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Hello Clive. Following the Nuremburg trials, we got the code of the same name to ensure that Nazis and fascists could no longer make temporary laws to suit their vile agendas. This applies to all liberal democracies, though totalitarian states ignore it.

The Helsinki Protocol, for medical ethics, followed and I just leave you with this: Ethical considerations must always take precedence over laws and regulations (Art 9).” To argue against this is an act just like those supporting Hitler so, please don’t do it.

You probably think you are making a valid point under freedom of speech; you are not, you are acting in support of a totalitarian government. As for your point about the majority supporting it, if they supported racism or slavery, would you say that made it democratic???

The key thing about democracy is that it supports the individual voice, however lonely that voice may be. To argue against this is against natural, inalienable law!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Excellent.

Bungle
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Cheers HP.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Godwin’s Law rules again!

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

Godwin’s Law rules again. The Helsinki agreement depends on agreeing on what is ethical. I assume therefore you are against the deportation of illegal immigrants from the shores of England? It’s also worth noting that it looks like both PMs of Australia and GB are soon to be out of a job. That seems like a fully functioning liberal democracy to me.

Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

So in a “fully functioning liberal democracy” it is the norm to have –

  • Mass psychological operations against the people
  • Widespread and persistent state propaganda
  • Unprecedented censorship and intolerance for alternative views
  • Shameful and deliberate misinformation represented as truth
  • The withdrawal of basic freedoms and civil liberties on a whim
  • The demonisation of those who do not wish to take part in a state-sanctioned medical experiment

And so on.

I’d say the above is most often found in fully functioning dictatorships.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Draper233

Which is why both Australia and GB have elections so the people can decide if they approve of the policies. I’m sure it won’t have escaped your attention that both Morrison and Johnson are unlikely to remain PM for long. Surely that’s the sign of a healthy liberal democracy?

Draper233
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

It might be to you, but a couple of token figureheads being kicked out and replaced by another couple of token figureheads is not my idea of a healthy liberal democracy.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  Bungle

I think you won that one “to nil”….

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Nope, you can certainly argue that it’s democratic, but not remotely “liberal”, in the sense that word is used in the phrase liberal democracy. It is more appropriately classed as tyranny of the majority.

The essence of a liberal democracy is that people are not persecuted for political reasons, such as over a risk that they might foster political dissent.

To view this as acceptable in a liberal democracy you would have to give credence to the laughable claims of the panickers that the “vaccination” rules are somehow relevant to the spread of a serious disease, thereby giving it a patina of “public protection” justification. But these claims are, as stated, literally laughable.

(As an addendum, clearly he is not a citizen so the state owes no duty to him beyond basic humanity, but nevertheless his treatment reflects and is based on the general political persecution of dissent over the “vaccinations” in Australia, which is what really identifies the country as illiberal.)

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I agree that the policies of the current government are illiberal. Which is why both Australia and GB have elections so the people can decide if they approve of the policies. I’m sure it won’t have escaped your attention that both Morrison and Johnson are unlikely to remain PM for long. Surely that’s the sign of a healthy liberal democracy?

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

As far as I can see, neither of the two are facing removal because their covid panic policies were too illiberal. Both are facing replacement most likely with less liberal successors, and certainly the opposition parties to both are less liberal.

As far as “liberal democracy” is concerned, this could be said to reaffirm the “democracy” aspect but it says nothing about the “liberal” aspect. I think it’s very reasonable to say that Australia can no longer be classed as such. Rather atm it is an illiberal democracy – a tyranny of the majority, in which the dissident minority faces serious oppression. Do you disagree?

Though it’s also important to bear in mind that the majority opinion that rules is one created by massive, dishonest fear propaganda and a spurious emergency, which morally at least brings the democracy aspect into question. Again, do you disagree?

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Hitler was elected and then went on to make laws similar to those now being enforced in the penal colony

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Godwin’s Law rules again.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Could you please take your genocide supporting shite elsewhere please

SJDR
SJDR
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

You might consider deleting this post, if you can (delete it).

SJDR
SJDR
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Awaiting approval, apparently.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

To compare the deportation of one man to the atrocities in Northern China or Rwanda is a tad extreme don’t you think? By the way, it’s quite possible to be against vaccine mandates without wearing a tin foil hat!

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Alex Hawke released a statement following the court decision: Australia’s strong border protection policies have kept us safe during the pandemic, resulting in one of the lowest death rates, strongest economic recoveries, and highest vaccination rates in the world. Strong border protection policies are also fundamental to safeguarding Australia’s social cohesion which continues to strengthen despite the pandemic. It is debatable if any of the above is factually correct. There were no really infectious cases from the start in Australia but somehow they managed to lockdown a continent for 100 or so. The death rates, as everywhere have ballooned as a result of injections. Closing borders does nothing to stop spread. Finally, Hawke states that border controls are key to”safeguarding Australia’s social cohesion.” That’s a fine insult to the people of Australia and an admission that the government case is garbage. So one man entering Australia to play in a tennis tournament is the equivalent of Garibaldi marching on Rome? This court has stretched the legal interpretation to provide the government with the decision they require – sounds familiar – and in the process seriously undermined the essence of good law – reasonableness. Djokovic was not demanding entry to Australia… Read more »

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I assume that you don’t support the deportation of illegal immigrants from England’s shores either?

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Nice bit of whataboutery, Clive. The comparison is a false equivalence.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

I do support the deportation of illegal immigrants from the UK. Are you trying to infer that Djokovic was hoping to set himself up in Australia and make it his home?

In what way does Djokovic compare to an illegal immigrant?

Mixing and matching to suit a desired outcome is exactly what this Australian court has done. By doing the same you have shredded your argument.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

What argument? He appears to be suffering from echolalia – I picture him wandering around muttering ‘Godwin’s Law, Godwin’s Law’ to himself, as if that somehow justifies the arbitrary imposition of government authority in Australia!

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

As hominem attacks are the last refuge of a loosing argument.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

‘Losing’, not ‘loosing’ ;).

Citing ‘Godwin’s Law’, as if that is anyway meaningful, is no way to win an argument.
You appear to be siding with the Australian government – is that really the side you are on?

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

At no time have I agreed or disagreed with the decision to deport Djokovic. Their government has decided that his presence is undesirable. Just as many think the presence of illegal immigrants in England is undesirable. My point is that the decision, nor even the misguided and illiberal lockdown and vaccine mandates of the current government, mean that Australia is not a liberal democracy. Both Australia and GB have elections so the people can decide if they approve of the policies. I’m sure it won’t have escaped your attention that both Morrison and Johnson are unlikely to remain PM for long. Surely that’s the sign of a healthy liberal democracy?

A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

I see, so 1930s Germany was a liberal democracy. After all, they were just delivering what the people wanted.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

Godwin’s Law proven again!

artfelix
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

I’m not sure it applies when it’s actually apposite to the point. Nazi Germany, in this case, being the obvious example of why what you originally said was bollocks.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

Except that Nazi Germany wasn’t a liberal democracy.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

And neither is Australia!

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

Strange statement given that Australia has a federal election in 3 months time and all the polls suggest the current Government will loose control. That sounds like a fully functioning liberal democracy to me.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

It’s not liberal, though, is it? And it’s not much of a democracy when the main parties are singing from the same hymn sheet and have the MSM lying and manipulating for them.

Old Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

When the law itself is an atrocity then upholding it is in no way an example of liberal democracy.

There used to be laws allowing you to drown witches on ducking stools, there used to be laws allowing you to burn Catholics for holding mass, there used to be laws that allowed you to chemically castrate homosexuals, do you think that when a government acted according to those rules it made them an example of liberal democracy?

I don’t.

Bungle
4 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

Superb examples OB, thanks.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  Old Bill

I agree that we couldn’t hold up the ruling classes in medieval times as shining examples of democracy mainly because they weren’t elected. I also agree that chemical castrations aren’t appropriate which is presumably why a liberal democracy outlawed them.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Why are you not accounting for the fact that just about everything the Australian public believes regarding Convid is based on lies, deceit, fraud, misinformation, brainwashing, use of hypnotic language, terrorism, extreme state violence and outright fascism. It has been covered many times on here, but it cannot be repeated enough. In 2020 there was no common influenza. There was Covid19 in 2020. Covid19 and influenza have the same mortality rate and to many extents, the same symptoms. Therefore, the background risk of being alive or dying from a respiratory illness did not change in 2020. Anyone who believes in the validity of this scam is a victim – they are victms of state terrorism. Anna De Buisseret for example has outlined how due to the obscene levels of coercion and deceit and brainwashing by the British state it is impossible for anyone in the UK to give informed consent to these clinical trials. In fact, terrorising a population in this way and concocting fake health emergencies to force people to take treatments and obey is ILLEGAL EVEN IN WARTIME. Shameful comment. Disgraceful reflection of DS. Lawyer Anna De Buisseret Speaks On Nuremberg 2 & Common Law https://www.bitchute.com/video/IKu0XZP9Tpl6/ Worlds top… Read more »

Bungle
4 years ago

We all need to listen to Anna and act accordingly. Ioannidis data accepts PCR and is therefore well too high. Divide by 10 and you may be close..

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago

Careful reading of TDS would alert its readers to the fact that Covid 19 in 2020 and 2021 did nothing have the same fatality rate as flu. The good news is that, if you read TDS, in 2022 the IFR of Omicron appears to be about the same as flu. It’s also worth noting that as a functioning liberal democracy the leaders who concocted such illiberal policies as lockdowns look likely to be out of a job in the not too distant future.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Isn’t it funny how a question in parliament last September resulted in the confirmation that the IFR for Covid-19 was 0.096. The same as flu.
Omicron is far less deadly.
You seem to have swallowed the government data manipulation, as promoted by the BBC!

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

To date there have been 132000 deaths in England and 12.8 million cases identified. I’ll let you do the math but you’ll find your decimal point is in the wrong place. The 0.096% figure quoted by Steven Baker, who I am a fan of, related to a distinct cohort in time, not to the total IFR rate across the pandemic.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

You’ve been brainwashed – you truly believe that 132,000 deaths were ”from Covid, not ‘with’? Do you wear a mask, I wonder?

Omicron is less dangerous than the original variant by some distance.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

To date there have been 132000 deaths….”

Nothing more to say as you have “said it all”.

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Hitler was democratically elected.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

Godwin’s Law rules again.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

That’s a pathetic response. Please arituculate what it is you think Godwin’s Law does. How does citing the ‘law’ constitute an adequate response or rebuttal to the point?

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago

I subscribe to the position that reductio ad Hitlerum is a valid criticism of any post. In a liberal democracy you are free to disagree.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

What on earth are you talking about? What do you think ‘reductio ad Hitlerum’ means, exactly? It’s meaningless. Do you actually believe you are expressing a proper fallacy?

Again, please arituculate what it is you think Godwin’s Law does. How does citing the ‘law’ constitute an adequate response or rebuttal to the (any) point?

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago

I’ll leave you to study the principle of Godwin’s Law and the philosophical concept of reductio ad absurdum. I think it is rather apt in this case. In the liberal democracy that we enjoy you are of course free to disagree.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

‘I’ll leave you to study the principle of Godwin’s Law…’ Why are you being coy? You’re the one invoking the ‘law’ yet you appear completely unwilling to articulate why you think merely citing the ‘law’ is meaningful. Suggesting others ‘study’ the ‘princple’ (as if they aren’t already familiar with it) is merely a deflection when the burden of responsibility falls on you to demonstrate why simply citing Godwin’s Law constitutes an adequate response. ‘…and the philosophical concept of reductio ad absurdum…’  Reductio ad absurdum, from which ‘reductio ad Hitlerum’ borrows its name, is the name of a proper logical fallacy. ‘Reductio ad Hitlerum’ is a pseudo fallacy. It’s stupid. One could easily substitute Hitler/Nazism for Stalin/Communism, or Mao/Communism and pretend a fallacy has been committed whenever a comparison to Stalin or Mao has been given. It’s meaningless.  Regardless, this pseudo fallacy has nothing to do with Godwin’s Law, which simply states that the longer an internet discussion continues, the more likely it is that a comparison with Hitler/Nazism will be drawn. I hate to break it to all you Godwin’s Law fans out there, but this is not an overly remarkable observation. The same ‘law’ can apply to Stalin, Mao,… Read more »

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

It is a failure of liberal democracy because a liberal democracy used to be defined as more than an iron-fisted rule of a confused majority.

Some principles, usually enshrined in a democratic country’s constitution, are not subject to being overruled by simple majority, and certainly not by a decree of a single minister.

If a country allows such arbitrary trampling of liberty in its boundaries, it may call itself a “democracy” all right, but it’s surely not a “liberal” one any more. In fact, it has been known by any democrat worth their salt that the greatest danger to democracy is itself undoing its own existence – by majority vote no less. So let’s call Australia what it is now, a collapsing, non-liberal democracy, on the road to something much worse.

JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

You’re on a roll today. Well said.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

His / her exact opposite will take over the laptop later this evening.

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

It looks like Scott Morrison, and hopefully Boris, are not much longer for the post of PM. That seems like a liberal democracy functioning rather well.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

After having read the entire thread, I’m left with little more than a tedious semantic discussion around the definition of a “liberal democracy”.

The deportation of Djokovic is an abuse of power by a government, on the pretext of shutting down dissent against an experimental vaccination programme that by any reasonable measure is itself an abuse of power and a violation of human rights. All of that to try to make good on the previous abuse of power which has been the brutal lockdown of Australia.

If a liberal democracy is one in which one has to wait more than 2 years to have any chance to push back on a litany of power abuses of unprecedented scale, then you can take your liberal democracy and shove it up where the sun don’t shine.

In the meantime, perhaps we have to find a new term for what most of us here seem to understand as the free society we all more or less enjoyed before 2020.

And Clive, if you think elections in the UK and Australia are going to fix the abuse of power and the damage done, I’ll have a bit what of whatever it is you’re smoking.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Btw, at what point is it no longer Godwin’s law?

The state promoted hatred and marginalisation of a group in society? Concentration camps? Extermination?

No? Does it have to be a nasty looking man with a funny moustache and a swastikad arm raised high shouting in German, otherwise, it’s Godwin’s law?

artfelix
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

“Unworthy of” is not the same as “incompatible with the legal framework of”. One is a value judgment, and a correct one, the other is a statement of fact.

A liberal democracy could, if the people supported it and it was carried out in accordance with the legal framework of the country, implement the death sentence for jay walking. That would be unworthy of them, I imagine you’d agree?

clivepinder
clivepinder
4 years ago
Reply to  artfelix

The history of liberal democracies is full of bad judgements. The measure of a functioning liberal democracy is that they are rectified.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Digging your heels in and constantly parroting the line “liberal democracy” is frankly lazy. We are not living in a liberal democracy and even a blind man wearing a mask would agree.

Given that the loss of Bozo would mean his replacement by somebody of a more fascistic bent I hardly think that such a result would allow any of us to rejoice and claim a triumph for democracy.

Given that governments of the western ilk are operating in lockstep it is naiive to not conclude that some unit bigger than national governments is controlling the various nations. The suggestion that salvation will arrive via the ballot box is frankly absurd.

All governments in the western sphere have declared war on their peoples and our misery is not about to end despite the hot air of politicians, which I suspect is nothing more than further gaslighting.

The Great Reset as Schwab and Charlie Windsor like to call it is happening, we are living through it. They are not playing.

Rescue via a corrupt electoral system? Talk about wishful thinking.

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Really?

Where exactly is the rectification of the murderous invasion of Iraq, carried out knowingly under deceitful pretences by Blair? Oh right, yes, his Knighthood. That’ showed him.

Or his appointment as UN special envoy to the Middle East. Gosh, that really rectified that.

And his lavish Blair institute and constant air time pushing vax passports. I’m really thankful to be living in a ‘liberal democracy” where the big mistakes get properly rectified.

What a load of bollocks.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

Is this what you mean by “liberal democracy”. You are either baiting people or seriously deluded.

The puppet show
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NBswKoRWE7Kf/

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

The law here appears to be: “you are not required to be vaccinated, unless you are not vaccinated, in which case you are required to be vaccinated.”

I guess if the majority of the herrenvolk support an action though then it’s beyond criticism.

186NO
186NO
4 years ago
Reply to  clivepinder

So a liberal democracy is able to enact laws with no regard to the effect on its citizens – even where an effect is demonstrably unfair, lacking “equity” or in conflict with other enacted laws (viz allowing (sports) people to enter unvaccinated subject to quarantine etc)?

I suggest that such a regime is in no way liberal.

mwhite
4 years ago

Shutting the gate after the horse has bolted come to mind.

Australia’s COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations hit new records (yahoo.com)

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

My piece makes a similar point.

Doom Slayer
4 years ago
Reply to  mwhite

Aus, NZ etc are going to realise there is nothing like a good spread of natural immunity. Something thats needs to be constantly poked with a stick and agitated in order to keep in good condition. They can expect a tsunami of various problems in the future.

John Dee
4 years ago

I think the Aussie authorities had painted themselves into the proverbial corner with this one. There wasn’t a good outcome to be had. They obviously decided that, should Djok win again while the jabbed under-performed or collapsed with heart problems, they’d look worse than if he wasn’t there – so it’s bye-bye Novak!

Bungle
4 years ago

John Pilger “two of whose maternal great-great-grandparents were Irish convicts” has often described Australia as the most racist country on the planet. I’ve only been twice and only to the south east but I did watch in blank amazement as schoolkids were taken around certain immigrant (i.e. European) settlements wearing 18th century English clothes. It is often like this with me; I know something’s wrong but can’t put my finger on it. Now it’s much clearer – those European powers now in the ascendant positions, don’t want any other dissenting voice criticising their basic narrative which supports their power positions.

James Leary #KBF
4 years ago

DM. 

When I read bilge like this, it gives me a taste of what medieval life must have been like for the average farmer or tradesman. Trapped in a vicious black comedy between on one side ignorant superstition backed by lethal coercion from the church, and heavily armed agents of the government (King) stealing your sons for the army and raiding what little wealth the Church allowed you to keep. And no law. 

You owned very little and you were unhappy. 

Coming to a society near you. 

‘OLIVER HOLT: When I look at Djokovic, I see a dangerous fool’

https://mol.im/a/10406615

jingleballix
4 years ago

Why is he ‘dangerous’?

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

He has an independent and intelligent mind. Tyranny hates this.

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Because he is challenging the approved narrative.

jingleballix
4 years ago

Apologies – you were quoting Oliver Holt……..one of the most ‘obedient’ sports journalists in Britain – he’s a f****** disgrace.

Draper233
4 years ago

Bilge indeed. You only have to see one sentence to understand how emotionally brainwashed Holt actually is: “So even though my father was coming to the end of his life before the pandemic hit…” In other words, a classic “with Covid” death, which would have happened anyway. But instead of looking at it with a rational mindset, Holt goes on to express some absurd, unscientific opinions such as: “thousands of grieving families in this country who have lost loved ones, some of them because of the actions of people like him [Djokovic]” “[Djokovic] still turned up for a photo-shoot the next day [of being positive] and posed for pictures without a mask.” “I don’t see any rational reasons for [not wanting to take the vax]. Not a single one.” “the myth of increasing heart problems among young vaccinated athletes is a myth that persists” “[Djokovic] should have had a bit of class. He should either have got the jab or he should have stayed away.” Holt is quite representative of the irrational, bedwetting zealotry that has been pervasive in the legacy media over the last 2 years and I can only hope he reflects with embarrassment on this article at… Read more »

T-Centralen
4 years ago

Can the DS stop perpetuating the “No-vaxx” meme? He is by far the highest profile individual to come out fighting on our side of this matter – ie freedom to choose without coercion. Allowing authorities to lump his views into the generic anti-vaxx camp is essentially partly why he is now on a flight home. We should at least not stoop to cheap puns that damage our own ability to nuance on the issue.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  T-Centralen

Yes words are important

He is not ‘anti vax’

He is a ‘dissident’

Menckenitis
4 years ago
Reply to  T-Centralen

Aren’t most of us on here anti-tyranny. Vaccines are one of the tools, tyranny is the underlying motive.

T-Centralen
4 years ago
Reply to  Menckenitis

Yes I would say most DS readers are anti the authoritarian response to covid-19 and in favour of individual medical liberty of choice.

The other side of the debate has consistently used terms like “far right”, “conspiracy theorists” and “anti-vaxxers” as a smear to stifle proper debate.

Djokovic Is the highest profile public figure to make a stand on our side of things. It seems strange that the DS essentially keep repeating the “No-Vaxx” moniker. Feels like we are doing their job for them.

Dickymoo
Dickymoo
4 years ago

Where shall we go on our expensive holiday this year dear? Not Australia you say, because it’s chock to the gunwales with hubristic-covid-alarmist-political-bedwetter-tyrant-types and seems to be a very oppressive and discriminatory environment so it’s put you off ever visiting. Yay, fine by me, let’s go to Mexico again, the kids love it and the Mexicans warmly welcome anyone normal regardless of their personal medical choices, or maybe Japan, they seem to have fostered a respectful vaccine stance too.

Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago

Fuck Australia it’s a shit hole and they can’t cook chips

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Jaguarpig

Because they carry them round on their shoulders for too long

Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

😂

BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Australia is now an apartheid state. It needs to be boycotted and condemned.

jingleballix
4 years ago

Yes……..we can help…..stop buying their wine, beer and foodstuffs.

Old Bill
4 years ago
Reply to  jingleballix

Yeah, and we should whip their cricket team too!

Oops too late.

BS665
BS665
4 years ago

It is. Apartheid not based on race but on medical tyranny.

John001
John001
4 years ago

Australia still seems to be full of convicts.

I don’t know about others but I’d support the Daily Sceptic management if they were to send a warm message of goodwill to Djokovic and say that many of its readers are in full agreement with his stand against medical fascism. I certainly am.

Anyone know if Serbia will become a more hospitable country to tourists?

Stephanos
Stephanos
4 years ago

I said this about Macron a few weeks ago but it is worth repeating here.
The Immigration Minister Alex Hawke will live to regret this decision. And so will the Australian judges.

jwills
4 years ago
Reply to  Stephanos

I wish but lose faith sometimes

Victory Gin
4 years ago

….

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refusenick
4 years ago

the Serbian’s presence in the country may “foster anti-vaccination sentiment” 
So he’s being denied entry because the government thinks his views (regarding vaxx mandates etc) will diminish ‘social cohesion.’
That’s a pretty insidious phrase.

refusenick
4 years ago
Reply to  refusenick

… and further confirmation (if such were needed) that it’s about control and “not about what they say it’s about.”

JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago
Reply to  refusenick

Also proof that he is being denied entry for political reasons. Something that used to be referred to as political persecution.

Ironic, as all Western societies have for the last 7 or 8 years been subjected to huge flows of illegal aliens on the grounds that they were ‘political refugees’ who we were duty-bound to accept and protect.

refusenick
4 years ago
Reply to  JaneDoeNL

My memory’s a bit hazy, but wasn’t Michael Savage refused entry to the UK a few years ago because of his political views?
In some ways, the Novak story is actually part of the media/big tech cancel culture scandal, no?

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago

Brilliant clips from Russ Brown – documented details about the true nature of viruses – how they are truly classified as parasites and bacteria – plus more. Also included the Mike and Doug show that looked into Pirbright patents early in The Scamdemic.

Viruses are bacteria parasites say Pirbright Institute
https://www.bitchute.com/video/843kkIDeRrHI/

Project Veritas Shilling For Rothschild Pirbright Like David Martin
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ASHQKfhgRG7z/

QinetiQ explained on the Mike & Doug Show March 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFY5rCTBh8

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago

I cant watch this but this stuff needs to be aired so people can realise how serious this situation really is:

Heart Attack on Pitch – Jan 8 2022
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HDjsTECxdhqM/

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago

This is nothing to with covid. Other players were let in under similar circumstances. The reason he is made an example – he led support in Serbia against an attenpt by a large Australian mining company to take over some mining resources.

Edit: memory failure. Here is a report on the incident:

https://firstsportz.com/tennis-novak-djokovic-backs-the-growing-protests-in-serbia-over-the-rio-tinto-mining/

“he also raised his voice of concern amidst the growing protests in Belgrade over the mining contract given by the government to Rio Tinto company that plans to extract Lithium, which in return would be harmful to the environment and the citizens feel the government is overlooking the health for economic benefits.”

Lithium is the new gold in the Brave New EV ‘Freeze a granny’ world.

bagpusskitty
4 years ago

Why won’t today’s update page load? Is it just me?

PoshPanic
4 years ago
Reply to  bagpusskitty

Didn’t for me either

Amtrup
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Nor me. Got a page telling me that was a “critical system error”.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  Amtrup

Me tooo fixed about midday gmt

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  bagpusskitty

If it persists, it is possibly a browser version issue. Yester day a site I have been viewibng for years failed to load, just displaying an error message indicating a server problem. The site is fine on a more recent, but less useful, browser.

The original html concept was to present information without concern about fine format details. Now it seems to be appearance over content. Welcome to the corporatisation of everything.

Victory Gin
4 years ago

This is not about public health or the virus this is about power and politics – its about making an example out of Djokovic and sending a warning to anyone else who attempts to defy the despotic totalitarian regime now in control of Australia.

To be honest I don’t know why Djokovic would want to play there – Australia appears to be run by corrupt criminals. I’m never want to visit that place again – my money is going on vacations to Serbia instead.

Novak Djokovic is a hero …

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PoshPanic
4 years ago

Djokovic’s gracious response and acceptance of this Minority Report future crime verdict, will win him more fans.

Sceptic Hank
Sceptic Hank
4 years ago

This ‘once liberal and tolerant country’ has been hysterically pro-vax for many years, so this decision does not surprise me. The term ‘anti-vaxxer’ is used liberally to insult anyone voicing opinions outside the narrative. People are terrified of being branded as such for fear of attracting scorn and ridicule. Ironically, it should actually be a compliment – given that it actually means someone who respects a healthy body’s own ability to to fight infection vs reliance on a cocktail of toxic chemicals that in the case of Covid, has been completely useless and dangerous to boot.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago
Reply to  Sceptic Hank

If anyone did that to me I would show my genuine vaccination card, listing vaccines with 10 year renewal periods. 3 months is a joke for anything other than Big Pharma’s bottom line.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago

‘I respect the court’s ruling and I will cooperate with the relevant authorities in relation to my departure from the country.’

This whole bizarre, contrived drama has been worthy of a tinpot banana republic, yet Djokovic ‘respect[s]’ the ruling upholding the decrees of political thugs. He has tried his hardest (short of taking the experimental technology) to participate in this odious apartheid, and now walks away with a whimper, respecting the ruling upholding the evil decrees of power-crazed lunatics.

Djokovic ought to have stayed as far away as possible from this backward hellhole and campaigned against the apartheid rather trying to join it. He could have used the appropriate moral, rational and scientific arguments to shine a glaring light on the absurdity of this whole thing.

The bottom line is, as best as he could, Djokovic tried to comply with medical apartheid. Thus I find it utterly astonishing that the so-called ‘sceptical community’ holds him up as a hero.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago

Look on the bright side. If he hadn’t turned up at all, there would be no hullaballoo. Instead, he has you something to whine about.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

All eyes on the Serbian tennis player whilst Boris and pals fart in your face.

refusenick
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

What a fatuous comment. Come back when you find an argument, Arfur mug.

Arfur Mo
Arfur Mo
4 years ago

Sure Incontinent Ridicule

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

Come on, you silly little mug, where’s your argument against my position? Let’s see it.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

That’s not an argument against my position, Arfur mug. That’s a pathetic, snivelling ‘Other players were let in under similar circumstances’ apology for compliance. Are you dense, Art? You’re not really a sceptic are you, Art? Are you the sort of sceptic of no conviction who produces his COVID/health bona fides in order to enter a venue, like Toby Young does for the football?

Try again, Arfur mug.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

Moderate Radical
4 years ago
Reply to  Arfur Mo

One way or another, right, Arfur berk?

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Emerald Fox
4 years ago

Polish-my-bonce-with-Mr-Sheen Javid says he’s going to remove the pre-purchased test requirement for arrivals to the UK at the end of January. But only for the Holy Fully-Vaccinated.
The ‘Unvaxxed’ must continue to be punished for not wanting to co-operate.

JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

How else are they going to hide the fact that the vaxxed are infected far more frequently than the unvaxxed?

Reverting to the CDC’s ‘don’t test the vaxxed’ trick of last May, which was what started the lie that the vaxx prevented infection and transmission, at least for a few months. It has probably never done any such thing, but by refusing to test the vaxxed in the first 6 months or so of the roll-out, that’s how they gave their bogus claim credibility.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago

Clearly, Australia isn’t fit to host a tennis major – whoever wins the title this year, wins it by default, too.