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Stephen Andrew: Vaccine passports coming soon, controlling where you go, what you can do & much more

Earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of Australians were told they could now access their brand-new digital coronavirus-vaccination-certificates, which are basically vaccine passports.

The certificates have a fancy coat of arms hologram on them, and include the person’s name, date of birth, and a green tick declaring the bearer of the certificate has been-vaccinated.

Government Services Minister, Linda Reynolds, said the new record would make it simple and easy for people to now show their vaccination-status when asked.

Don’t be fooled. This seemingly slow and piecemeal approach, hides a carefully laid out strategy to advance the eventual roll-out of a fully-fledged “vaccine-passport” system in Australia, as quietly and unobtrusively as possible.

Despite the best efforts of the Government’s team of behavioural ‘nudge’ strategists, however, there can be no mistaking where things are heading in Australia.

According to US critic, Naomi Wolf, the passport issue is the “hill we all need to die on”. Last month, she told Fox News:

“I am not overstating this. I can’t say it forcefully enough. This is literally the end of human liberty in the West if this plan unfolds as planned. Vaccine passports sound like a fine thing, if you don’t understand what these platforms can do …

“It’s not about the vaccine. It’s not about the virus. It’s about your data. And once this rolls out you will no longer have a choice about being part of the system”.

“What people have to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all. What that means is that it can be merged with your Paypal account, your digital currency, tax records …Microsoft is already talking about merging it with payment plans.”

“Your networks can be sucked up. It geolocates you wherever you go. Your credit history can be included. All of your medical history is included.”

In other words, it provides the perfect platform for a Chinese-style ‘social credit’ system in Australia, and you better believe that’s what the government will use it for.

The heavy-handed propaganda we are seeing in the media that links these “passports” with a return to “freedom” has – like Orwell’s inverted “freedom is slavery” – all the twisted logic of doublespeak.

If this system allows access, it can just as easily be reversed. Think on that.

Stephen Andrew statement on legislation

If passed, the Public Health and Other Legislation (Further Extension of Expiring Provisions) Amendment Bill 2021, will take Queensland’s rolling state of emergency into its third year.
Under the State’s Covid-19 Emergency legislation framework, these emergency powers bestow enormous legislative and executive decision-making powers in the hands of a few, with no oversight, public debate or parliamentary scrutiny. They must be held accountable.
Without any clearly defined exit strategy, there is also a real danger that the Government’s use of these emergency powers and measures, will become normalised over time and eventually, permanent.
Under the ‘rule of law’ model this country was founded on, any exercise of the Executive’s regulation-making powers must be proportionate and reasonable, and strictly ‘time limited’.

Accountable for strategy

Maintaining an infection eradication strategy in Queensland – something that was never mentioned or discussed in the beginning – risks a future of economic impoverishment, endless snap lockdowns, disruptive travel restrictions, panic buying, rationing and routine draconian punishments for citizens exercising their democratic rights and freedoms.
Queenslanders are now effectively being ruled by Executive Decree, with absolute power vested in an unaccountable Executive, and none of the usual ‘checks and balances’ essential to a functioning democracy.
That’s why I have decided to draft a Parliamentary Petition against the Bill, requesting Parliament to oppose it and prepare new legislation that better safeguards our system of government and the people’s rights and freedoms.
I will post the link to the Petition, all things goin well today and hopefully we can get as many people as possible to sign it.
The more people that sign it, the more Government will be forced to listen.