Australian Court Finalizes Deportation Order for Djokovic – No More Championships for You, Sir

Yeah, see.

I told you there was no chance they were going to let Djoker play.

They locked him in a prison “hotel,” then some judge ruled that his medical exemption was actually valid, then the government declared that he was a “mind criminal” and arrested him again.

No doubt there was big money involved. Djokovic is one of the most famous and well-paid athletes in the world. But there was just no way he was going to be allowed to play.

Australia is really doing this whole “dystopian police state” thing in the reverse. You’re supposed to secretly disappear your political opponents for unclear reasons. Instead, they are publicly disappearing their political opponents and then explaining that they’re doing it because they are mind criminals who could potentially incite negative sentiment towards their totalitarian rule.

RT:

A court has affirmed the decision by the Australian authorities to cancel Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time. The Serbian star will now be deported, meaning he is unable to defend his Grand Slam title in Melbourne.

Djokovic, 34, had been fighting for a second time to stay in the country, having seen the initial cancelation of his visa overturned by a Melbourne circuit court judge on Monday.

The government disputed that decision after the personal intervention of Immigration Minister Alex Hawke in the case, paving the way for Sunday’s hearing in front of a panel of three judges at a federal court.

Chief Justice James Allsop said the court’s ruling to uphold the immigration minister’s decision to revoke Djokovic’s visa was unanimous.

Allsop said the full bench of the federal court was not being asked to decide on the merits of the minister’s decision, but instead to review the legality of that decision.

“These grounds focus on whether the decision was for different reasons irrational or legally unreasonable. It is no part of the function of the court to decide upon the merits or wisdom of the decision,” said Allsop.

The government’s case included the argument that by allowing the unvaccinated Djokovic to remain in the country, it would incite anti-vaccination sentiments among the population.

“Rightly or wrongly he’s perceived to endorse an anti-vaccination view. And his presence here seems to contribute to that and could lead to more people becoming anti-vaxxers,” government lawyer Stephen Lloyd had said.

Just to be clear:

  • The government ruled that there was no valid health-related reason to deport him, and then
  • The government ruled that “potentially causing Australian citizens to question the policies of the Australian government” was a totally valid reason to deport him

This is like if… sorry, I’m having a hard time with an analogy.

But if “incitement to distrust government policy” is a violation of the law, then what are the wider implications of that?

Doesn’t that just mean that everything the government does is like a Mandate from Heaven, and it is therefore illegal for anyone to question it? Does that not mean that the government can literally just do whatever it wants, and anyone who disagrees – or has the potential to inspire people to disagree – is a de facto enemy of the state subject to whatever sanctions the state finds reasonable?

None of these policies were voted on in the great democracy of Australia, which is a key member of the “our values because of who we are” coalition. And there is surely no way to vote your way out of them – the current government has already started putting opposition politicians into concentration camps.

Albeit, they put the guy in a camp publicly, then let him out – this same strange, backward tyranny.

As the situation in Australia has continued to spiral totally out of control, no one has suggested that any of these massive changes – which amount to a total overhaul of society itself – be voted on. They’ve also completely outlawed protests against them.

But hey – what’re they supposed to do?

There’s a virus.

And you cannot simply allow for there to be a virus.

That’s not who we are.

As far as Djokovic – well, he’s already won the Australian open.

Nine times.

What he is doing in forcing the Australian government to cross yet another line, and serving as a rallying point for the people globally, is a much bigger deal than a tenth win would have been.

And frankly, he might not even have won this year – the other thing that people were suggesting is that they were keeping him in this fake hotel prison, without access to normal food let alone training, so he would be in no shape to win a championship. They could then let him play and do poorly (as anyone denied a right to eat and train properly in the weeks before an event presumably would) and use that as pro-vax propaganda – claim that he played poorly because he had “long Covid” and that the vaxed are much stronger than he.

Ironically, most of the other athletes probably have fake vax certificates. At this point, after what we’ve seen with the FIFA collapses and deaths, it’s not really believable that any high-level athlete would get this vax – nor is it believable that an athlete at this level wouldn’t be able to arrange a fake certificate.

Addendum

After writing this, I was thinking about it a couple hours later and here’s another important point: Djokovic has never actually made any anti-vax statements. Obviously, anti-vax people support him, and that is apparently the issue the court was dealing with. They may also have been trying to see inside his mind (obviously, he doesn’t want the vaccine).

But just to be 100% clear: he has never made any public statements against the vax. I think that adds another layer of bizarreness onto this whole situation of “deportation for incitement to distrust government policy.”