{"id":4461,"date":"2020-09-17T23:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2020-09-17T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:57:07","slug":"4461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4461","title":{"rendered":"Medico Stalinism in Australia State of Victoria:  Victoria, Australia to jail &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; Victorian Government Pushes New Bill to Detain \u2018Conspiracy Theorists,\u2019 Anti-Lockdown Protesters, and Families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Medico Stalinism in Australia State of Victoria Victoria, Australia to jail &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; .  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victorian Government Pushes New Bill to Detain \u2018Conspiracy Theorists,\u2019 Anti-Lockdown Protesters, and Families<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/STALIN-AND-FREE-SPEECH-1024x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/STALIN-AND-FREE-SPEECH-1024x430.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/STALIN-AND-FREE-SPEECH-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/STALIN-AND-FREE-SPEECH-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/STALIN-AND-FREE-SPEECH-500x210.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shortpixel.ai\/client\/q_glossy,ret_img\/https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Untitled-2.jpg\" alt=\"Staff Writer\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> By <a href=\"https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/author\/caldronpool\/\">Staff Writer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/victorian-government-pushes-new-bill-to-detain-conspiracy-theorists-anti-lockdown-protesters-and-families\/\">September 16, 2020<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/caldronpool.com\/victorian-government-pushes-new-bill-to-detain-conspiracy-theorists-anti-lockdown-protesters-and-families\/#disqus_thread\">29 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n Victorian government will debate a new bill in the State Parliament \nthis week which would hand authorities the power to forcibly detain \n\u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d and people suspected to likely spread \ncoronavirus, such as anti-lockdown protesters and their close contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\n passed, the Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill will allow the state to \ndetain anyone they suspect of being \u201chigh risk\u201d or likely to negligently\n spread COVID-19, either if they have the virus or have been in contact \nwith an infected person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/victoria\/people-who-refuse-to-self-isolate-could-be-detained-under-proposed-victorian-law-20200914-p55vm0.html\">The Age<\/a>,\n a state government spokesman said the rule could be applied to \n\u201cconspiracy theorists who refuse to self-isolate or severely \ndrug-affected or mentally impaired people who do not have the capacity \nto quarantine.\u201d<ins><\/ins> Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those detained could then be placed in quarantine facilities, such as hotels, where they can be monitored by authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\n Sunday police fined 200 people and made 74 arrests during an \nanti-lockdown protest in Melbourne. Could this bill lead to the \nmass-forced quarantining of similar anti-lockdown protesters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will\n the legislation result in anti-lockdown protesters being deemed \u201chigh \nrisk\u201d of spreading the virus, resulting in the forced detainment and \nmandatory quarantining of their family members, work colleagues, and \nclose friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medico Stalinism in Australia State of Victoria Victoria, Australia to jail &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; . Victorian Government Pushes New Bill to Detain \u2018Conspiracy Theorists,\u2019 Anti-Lockdown Protesters, and Families By Staff WriterSeptember 16, 202029 Comments The Victorian government will debate a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2415,2374,2414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}