This Week on GR
September 16, 2021
Welcome back to Gorilla Radio, recorded September 6th, 2021
With Spring approaching Down Under, citizens there are set to begin a
new season under lockdown. For Australians in Victoria State, the sixth
Covid-19 lockdown was due to end last week, but days before the
deadline, Premier Daniel Andrews’ Labour government announced it would
be extended in order to “buy time to allow vaccinations to be undertaken…”
How much time, or how many vaccinations it would take to make this
latest lockdown go away wasn’t made clear, but what’s certain is the
growing restiveness of the population. Last month, hundreds were
arrested during protests of government measures, with the country’s
second city, Melbourne seeing the greatest numbers of arrests.
John Helmer is a journalist,
author, broadcaster, former political advisor to government, and
principal behind the news website, Dances with Bears. Among Helmer’s
many books titles are, ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17’ ‘Skripal in
Prison’, and ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia’. His latest is,
‘Hitler Didn’t Die in Berlin – He Moved to Melbourne Where He Runs the
State Government of Victoria: A True Covid-19 Thriller’. It’s the
chronicle of his legal battles with authorities that banned both his
leaving Australia, and allowing his wife rejoin him there.
He writes: “Right now this is a story with urgent parallels in
the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Spain, and France – in every country where
democratic resistance to abuse of power in the pandemic has run into
identical tactics of lawlessness, and suffered the same fate.”
Today, John Helmer and the search for an inoculant to viral
government malfeasance and the disastrous effects of hubris on the body
politic.