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Post by atacr on Apr 13, 2020 10:24:27 GMT 10
Crime drops around the world as coronavirus keeps people inside nypost.com/2020/04/11/crime-rates-drop-as-coronavirus-spreads/Presently the crime situation is down, no doubt the stats are influenced by a changed police response and changed crime reporting as well as actual changed levels of crime. Will be interesting to see how it trends from here as people get a bit stir crazy and more desperate for some. In our area of the world, home breaks are almost zero, as everyone is home now, but business breaks are going through the roof. Yeah, some of the high-end boutique stores in the Sydney CBD shopping precinct have evidently been removing their expensive wares from their street-front window displays. Apparently they suspect that the ram-raiders and other smash 'n grab merchants may decide to have a crack over the long weekend, seeing as all the Police have been re-deployed to manning the roads out of Sydney to enforce their lockdown on holiday travel and guarding hotels where returning travellers have been forcibly quarantined.
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Post by atacr on Apr 5, 2020 12:59:11 GMT 10
Give them bread and circus. Or at least takeaway grog and internet access.
Yep, was just thinking this exact thing the other day. Imagine for a moment if these restrictions were introduced 20 or 30 years ago in the pre-internet/pre smartphone days before Foxtel, youtube and all the streaming services like Netflix etc; and no facetime, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc on your phones to keep you amused either. The suburban masses would be trapped at home with nothing to do but watch the 6x free to air analogue TV channels that were around then on their low-resolution 34cm CRT TVs and maybe re-watch any DVD & VHS movies they may have had lying around (or have to make frequent trips to the local Videoezy/Blockbuster for fresh content, which would probably be hoarded and the shelves laid bare like the toilet paper isles at Woolies today). In short, people would go out of their minds with boredom and frustration and the whole thing would go to s**t very quickly. The only way the government has managed to get the great unwashed to swallow this bitter pill in today's world with virtually no resistance at all is because people can now sit placidly at home being mesmerised and with their minds numbed by an endless supply of streamed movies and TV series blasting forth from their huge flat-screen TVs in front of them...
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Post by atacr on Apr 5, 2020 9:57:57 GMT 10
I actually found myself in the middle of a crazed panic-buying scrum at the local drive-thru bottle shop a few weeks ago when rumours surfaced on that Sunday that the NSW government was planning to include take-away liquor sales as part of the shut-down of pubs, clubs, restaurants and all other "non essential" businesses including general retail the following day (I work in retail, and had heard the same thing).
It didn't help that the staff at the checkout had been told by head office that they had shifts rostered for the following day (Monday, when the announcement was due to be made) and then it was all up in the air as to what was happening after then after bottle shops were presumably ordered to cease trading; they helpfully shared this advice with their customers, with predictable results...
AS we now know in hindsight the restrictions announced, though severe, allowed take-away liquor sales to continue. I suspect that cooler heads in the government prevailed, realising that they were already pushing their luck as it was by closing pubs, clubs and casinos and thus denying people some of society's favourite vices (social drinking and gambling on the TAB, pokies and keno). If they went all the way by not only forcing people to stay locked-up & idle at home with nothing to do but also then turned off the take-away booze tap, then I suspect they feared that there would probably be a high likelihood of civil disobedience and eventually a breakdown of law & order amongst the general public.
And as we all know, it's not crime or pandemic or recession etc that police and government truly fear but rioting and a collapse of law & order, because this means that they have lost control of the general population and this is the one thing that terrifies them the most.
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Post by atacr on Jul 6, 2019 17:09:41 GMT 10
And meanwhile, all we ever hear about is the left banging on about "man-made climate change", whilst conveniently ignoring the role of the sun as the predominant driver of climate on this planet. Because you can tax "carbon polluters" but you can't tax the sun...
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Post by atacr on Apr 11, 2017 20:11:39 GMT 10
What disgusts me is that when the shoe is on the other foot and it is Muslims being targeted on account of their faith by some bogan yelling verbal abuse at them on a train or bus it is front page news, with all the PC leftists falling over themselves to promote "unity and tolerance" demanding that the Police publically shame and charge the offender. But not a word when it is "poor, oppressed, misunderstood" Muslims perpetrating these violent attacks against innocent Christians simply sitting on a train minding their own business.
So according to the Police, a Christian wearing a cross around their neck whilst travelling on a train passing through a Punchbowl or Lakemba is being "provocative", whilst a Muslim in full-burka strolling around the CBD or in the grounds of St Mary's Cathedral evidentially is not? No wonder this country is going down the tubes...
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