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“Either way I have already won! We are just blessed that we didn’t have to take the vaccine.”

Eventually, I am certain it will be win-win.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

"Fam expresses concern that if our institutions fail to consistently uphold human rights, over time, the government and its associated institutions will lose legitimacy.

'Government gains its legitimacy from the consent of the governed,' he says."

Actually, there is no legitimacy, only raw power. The government and its institutions don't have de jure authority. It's de facto. They have the power to compel compliance. So does a robber with a gun. It does not imply "legitimacy" or "authority." That's a con job for the gullible sheep. The social contract is entirely mythical. It's hypothetical only. There is no consent of the governed. I never gave consent to be vaxxed. We don't even have democracy. Democracy as conceived of by the ancient Greeks was direct, participatory, not represenative. We have the technology for democracy, but we don't have democracy.

I hope the judge or judges in the Sydney Trains case are all fully vaxxed and keeping up with their boosters while also engaging in vigorous cardio after each booster.

So sick of these parasites on the bench.

When vax safety and efficacy is fully debunked they need to be held to account.

A referendum should be held allowing for retrospective legislation to put them on the scaffold.

What goes around comes around.

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I recommend this piece for more perspective on how little fairness we should expect: https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/die-unfair-arbeitskommission

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

"Fam expresses concern that if our institutions fail to consistently uphold human rights, over time, the government and its associated institutions will lose legitimacy."

Until then people suffer from the overreach. Same old story. We stop defending what previous generations fought so hard for, with tears, blood and sometimes their lives. The next generations fall asleep again. Are we bound to repeat this cycle endlessly?

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These decisions are absolutely unconscionable. My husband was terminated and the Fair Work Commission failed him and his colleagues in their decisions (and countless other Australians). In the unlikely event he had won his FWC case, his employer alluded to the fact that they would never accept the decision and would do whatever it took to have it overturned (wasting millions of taxpayer dollars in the process). These people do not care that they have destroyed the lives of their former employees, nor wreaked irreparable damage on our communities.

I wish Joseph and his colleagues all the very best going forward. I am also thankful for people like Peter Fam; he is a truly good man.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Judges are appointed from the ranks of lawyers, the occupation that, according to psychopathy researchers, is number 2 for % of psychopaths, just behind CEO at number 1 and just ahead of police at number 3. After decisions like this, forensic accountants should comb through judges' financial affairs with a fine tooth comb. Any sudden, unexplained payments and any connections toPharma should be fully investigated.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

other Substackers recently have shown the Jab is not up to product Spec (eg WalNut).

Can they go back and apeal the apeal based on the Quality control issues?

And what a sordid trick this is...

"However, in the appeal, Sydney Trains successfully argued that they had never actually begun an investigation into the drivers, and that therefore Clause 33.5 did not apply."

So another lesson here is, if an investigation is supposed to happen, make sure it happens.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Another one to add to my collection of 400+ FWC mandate cases.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

I kind of get the feeling from Australia that 'might is right' in a lot of situations. Seems to run more on a cronyism / old boy's club dynamic. That would be one of my main discomforts in moving there permanently.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

We cry out for justice!! Sadly, we may have to wait until the next world

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Despicable action by a corrupt employer

who had no need to remove those workers at all. Unjust action by the legal profession to support their stand.

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”Government gains its legitimacy from the consent of the governed,” he says. “Failing to uphold human rights will make our current governance structures unsustainable. And that would cause huge social disruption.”

We are quickly heading to the point of no return, and without saying what I am thinking, you all know what I am thinking. The word "disruption" does not cover it. They are currently covering for this with their crocodile tears and distractions for the Voice to Parliament, but we know what is happening behind the scenes. The pressure relief valve is completely blocked and about to blow https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/dear-australian-politicians-and-doctors

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Long have I queried the legitimacy of any negative judgment, bought by the judiciary during the Covidian years, against any poor folk simply requesting bodily autonomy and the right to retain their livelihood. We all lose when the gavel drops and judgments go against our fellow Australian’s. Mounting precedents strengthen ‘their’ spurious position. High Court Justices and Magistrates in this country have by and large parroted and remonstrated the GOVT line which has proven fallacious and corrupt. I’ll second the psychopathy tendencies.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

The reality is these corporations have used the weight of the law to impose the government’s edicts on their employees, regardless of any impacts or even the slightest genuine necessity or proof of necessity. There is something genuinely sinister and sociopathic at work in this country, and the average punter still thinks that if they vote Labor or Liberal they’ll get their answers, but it’s far worse than that.

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Great article -- a calm and thorough discussion of a terrible evil.

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Mar 26, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Bill Gates admitted on TV that the 'vaccines' don't work, so what is the point?

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