{"id":607069,"date":"2021-07-30T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607069"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:22:52","slug":"dangerous-precedent-military-to-enforce-lockdowns-in-australias-largest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-precedent-military-to-enforce-lockdowns-in-australias-largest-city\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dangerous Precedent\u2019: Military To Enforce Lockdowns In Australia\u2019s Largest City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdangerous-precedent-military-to-enforce-lockdowns-in-australias-largest-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607069&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331424669.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Triggered by a soaring rise in cases of COVID-19 in Sydney, Australia, the local government has enjoined the Australian military to help enforce a lockdown on the population of six million people.<\/p>\n<p>Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales (NSW), where Sydney is the capital, stated, \u201cWe can only assume that things are likely to get worse before they get better given the quantity of people infectious in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents there will be forced to wear masks outdoors and to stay within five km (three miles) of their homes. With even tighter restrictions set to begin on Friday, New South Wales Police said it had asked for 300 military personnel to help enforce lockdown orders,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-pm-says-vaccinations-alone-will-not-end-sydneys-covid-19-lockdown-2021-07-28\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMick Fuller, police commissioner for the state of New South Wales, said he had asked for 300 SydneyAustralian Defense Force personnel to be deployed&nbsp;\u2018to boost [the police force\u2019s] operational footprint,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/covid-sydney-seeks-military-help-amid-record-rise-in-cases\/a-58685339\">Deutsche Welle<\/a> noted, adding, \u201cAt the moment, Sydney residents are only allowed to leave their homes for exercise, essential work, medical reasons and to shop for necessities such as food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Lawyers\u2019 Alliance responded harshly to the news of using the military to enforce the lockdown, on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawyersalliance.com.au\/news\/role-of-adf-to-enforce-compliance-with-covid-rules-must-be-well-defined\">website<\/a>, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>Calling on the Australian Defence Force to enforce lock down rules in Sydney virus hot spots sets a dangerous precedent so&nbsp;the role of defence force personnel must be clearly defined, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA). \u201cThe government must urgently explain the nature of the request to the defence force and outline what defence force personnel will be doing to help manage the response to the virus,\u201d said Mr. Greg Barns SC, spokesperson for the ALA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe understand that public health emergencies require the government to take extraordinary measures but using the military to enforce local laws sets a dangerous precedent.&nbsp;Using the defence force to ensure compliance by Australians or to deter civil disobedience is a concerning use of our armed forces. The role of any police or enforcement agencies should be help meet the needs of residents so they don\u2019t have to break the rules.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe state police minister, David Elliott, said an \u2018overwhelming number of people had had a gutful\u2019 of their fellow residents doing the wrong thing, as shown by the number of calls to Crime Stoppers. State police commissioner, Mick Fuller, said there had been 15,000 complaints to the reporting hotline,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jul\/29\/australia-covid-sydney-records-worst-day-yet-for-cases-as-police-get-tough\">The Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>NSW\u2019s health minister Brad Hazzard said unvaccinated people were \u201cextremely selfish,\u201d adding, \u201cI would say even more than that, what a ridiculous position is that when you are going to put health staff at risk and when you get sick, you are going to expect to come into hospital and get paid for by taxpayers. It is time for those who actually think that way to wake up, including commentators who actually don\u2019t base their commentary on logic whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triggered by a soaring rise in cases of COVID-19 in Sydney, Australia, the local government has enjoined the Australian military to help enforce a lockdown on the population of six &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}