Dear World,

Australia is now ripe for the silencing.

Like content plump lambs standing in a vast land of plenty, it seems that we have been kicking back forever. Life has been too good and too easy for too long, and many have taken it for granted.

Not all of us, of course – I generalise – but recent generations in this country have never had to face a real existential crisis or challenge regarding our freedoms and rights like other countries have. We’ve never faced any horrific threat to our democracy and personal liberties until recent years – “for our health” – at the hands of the very people many of our own elected.

Until 2020 onwards. And until now.

History is repeating, and many have forgotten what we recently endured.

We have been betrayed. Who have we really elected? Who do they answer to? And where are do they intend to take us? We already know the answer.

Look at what we have become over the last twenty years, but more so in the last five years.

Many of our compatriots bowed too easily to the gods of science and money rather than listen to the voice of God and His laws. Every single one of our institutions – including most shamefully our churches – have been infiltrated, corrupted, and compromised by the thick black smoke of evil.

Australia is one of the most – if not the most – compliant of all western nations. I like to half-joke that as long as they have pubs, footy, and Bali, most “mainstream” (or “normie”) Australians don’t care for much else. That is all they will ever see and be satisfied with. Has this complacency become a drag on our soul as a nation? Are we paying the price for that now? What of the generations to come?

Wave after wave of soft tyrannies have incrementally corroded us. Not enough people stood up when our governments mandated an experimental bioweapon for us to work, volunteer, or visit loved ones in “care”.

But the greatest rays of hope also shone when for consecutive weeks I marched alongside thousands of people in the streets of my city – one of the world’s most locked down – with music blaring, people singing, families and grandmothers hugging and linking arms… It was beautiful to see. Eventually we all retreated into our homes and lives, picking up the pieces of whatever was left from before, if anything. Our communities have been forever scarred, especially in our metropolitan spaces.

Now the next wave is upon us.

Our “world first!” under 16 year old social media ban – commencing on 10 December 2025 – purports to not only “protect” these children “for their safety”, but Australians of all ages will be impacted. Those who do not comply with intrusive and downright disturbing online age verification measures in order to continue accessing their accounts (or create new ones) on various social media platforms will effectively be deleted from the online world.

Isolated.

Ostracised.

Rejected for not complying.

Undeserving of any intelligent participation and discourse, but this time online. Sound familiar? Oh, except for Bluesky, of course.

Online businesses (including mine) will also be severely impacted. Many new small businesses were registered after 2021 due to the Covid-19 “vaccine” mandates. People lost their jobs and realised they could not trust employers, only their own ingenuity. These businesses need social media to find and educate potential clients, students, and other contacts. If such businesses do not comply, their reach (and already sporadic income) will be severely limited at best, but realistically, they will be cut off from the world.

Content takes long hours and days to produce, and it is an enjoyable but very exhausting, labour-intensive process. If these businesses do not comply, they can no longer upload the results of their  hard work onto the affected platforms, like YouTube, for example. What do they do? Real world physical connections after Covid are extremely difficult to establish.

Many of us are hoping that this ban, and all that ensues, will be an embarrassingly catastrophic failure, and we will return to our social media presence unhindered. This is not because we do not care about children, online bullying, and the terrible young suicides which prompted this law, but because we know it is a Trojan Horse for implementing other nefarious agendas being disguised as a good. This entire affair has, and should, rattle us.

It is not the job of governments to parent children and interfere with the rights of parents to raise their children according to how they see fit. You have the kid, you set the rules, including online rules.

Like all things, social media has many negatives, but it also provides wonderful opportunities for creativity, education, and positive connection across the world. One should aim to relentlessly improve on it and educate youngsters about it, not ban it outright (unless you want to, in your own home).

Banning is the new “little black dress”. Have a wardrobe problem? Ladies know about this trick: just wear a little black dress with accessories and you are all set. Or you can compare banning with the Ferris wheel solution: have an unsightly looking city? Just stick a Ferris wheel somewhere and voilà, everything is fixed. Social media is bad? Whack a censorship wall in front of it and all will be well again!

Oh, but this ban will be the perfect opportunity to go outside and live a “real life” because social media is only about memes and full of frivolous chit-chat, right? This reminds me of the infamous “two weeks to flatten the curve” line, with rampant sourdough-making during lockdown. It was an opportunity to stay inside and bake, bake, bake!

The real issue here is force. We can go outside at any time, but that is a choice we freely make. Banning our way through life does not work. Education and common sense does.

Amidst the most intense years of the Covid madness (2020-2023, but still ongoing in more subtle ways) many of the “dissenters” gravitated to social media to share thoughts and find likeminded souls. Such people longed to see how others in their country and the rest of the world were coping. We wanted to share our stories and find strength. Solidarity was necessary while lives were being ripped apart. We found each other and there was a sense of relief: “Thank goodness I am not the only one!”.

Twitter was literally my only lifeline after I was vax mandated out of my Catholic church where I had been all of my life since a baby, including more than twenty years of serving as a volunteer choir member and one of the lead Mass cantors. Apart from immediate family, EVERYONE around me drank the tyrannical cool aid. So I started seeking others like me via social media, and eventually found three or four people who had a similar experience in their churches. I am still connected with them now, but that is about to change.

I lost all “community” at my church. It evaporated entirely after 2020. All of the people I had sung with, choir directors I had known for decades, priests, nuns, etc. went completely silent. When I did not turn up for Sunday Mass in October 2021, after the “vaccine” mandates were announced (in big red bold letters) in the church bulletin because I could no longer sing there, I felt shocked, angry, depressed, and deeply betrayed. No one came looking or asked why. It was as if I had died. “Walking with the excluded” was an oft-promoted refrain, but that was not my experience at all.

So where else could I go? Apart from close family (thank God), I relied on my social media presence to connect with the outside world. I leaned into my writing, then my piano playing and singing via “The MuSinGer” – who had existed before 2020 anyway –  as my creative outlet. Social media allowed me to find a new community away from the insitu insanity around me. But now, once again, it is about to be taken away.

Is it okay to keep one group of people supposedly “safe” at the cost of isolating others? I used to work with tech and resolved a lot of computer software problems. Software rollouts and upgrades are exciting, but they invariably cause more bugs and bigger problems to solve. They don’t tell you about that part though.

So what exactly is the “problem” to be solved here? Are we being shut up so as not to connect after a new deception coming?

“For your safety.” “For your health.”

The global powers that be want everyone to be tracked, traced, and barcoded like an animal. Just like they did with the trial run that was ‘Covid-19’. Remember “contact tracing” and QR code scanning when entering shops,  supermarkets, and churches back in 2021/2022? Remember people being encouraged to snitch on their neighbours? It never really ended – only metamorphosed. They want to know who you are, down to your detailed biometrics, for the “common good”.

What changed, Australia?

What happened to you, old girl?

Where are you hiding?

What happened to the country that was so carefree? So all-embracing of jovial larrikinism? When I was growing up Australians were known for our irreverence, anti-authoritarianism, and self-deprecating humour.

Many factors have contributed to what this country has now become including failures in government policy and execution, globalism, geopolitical influences, degraded values and morals, unstable economies, to name a few – so there really is no one reason to pinpoint.

But I believe one of the most significant reasons why Australia has fallen is because we have – like much of the West – turned our backs on God. Our churches lack a backbone and operate more like businesses. They have overwhelmingly failed in their duty of care to seek and save souls, and still do not dare to comment on the injustices people suffered in the past five years specifically. There are exceptions to this of course, particularly in the United States with clergy like Bishop Joseph Strickland and others.

So here we are. The great silencing is at the doorstep. Will it work, or not?

Eternal vigilance is a must. God is, as ever, our only hope.

The world should be watching Australia. If the social media ban is “successful” here, you can be more than certain that it will be implemented in your country in some form. It is clear that all of our governments answer to a higher global beast.

It only stops when WE ALL say “ENOUGH”.

Make your decision, Australia.

Make your decision, World.

Will you bow, or not?

S.O.S – https://rumble.com/v72gezk-s.o.s.-by-abba.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

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