Having An Incorrect Meme Will Result in 5 Years Of Jail In Australia

     People in America often don’t realize how lucky they are to have a 1^st Amendment. In Australia, you can be thrown in jail for five years if you have books, memes, or other such possessions that are deemed “violent extremists material”, and even goes so far as to declare that otherwise innocent pictures or books could be declared “violent extremist material” if in combination together they are deemed to be so!

🚨5 YEARS PRISON FOR ACCESSING ‘VIOLENT EXTREMIST MATERIAL’ ONLINE (unless you’re a fed or journalist)🚨

The new Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures amendment to Counter-Terrorism legislation has outlawed the mere access of so-called violent extremism material online. pic.twitter.com/o6yGp6zcn0

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

This would seem to apply to everything from PDF books, the ordering of books online, and even the storage of memes that could be construed as promoting ‘violent extremist content’. The irony is that the only exceptions for such possession are for those engaged in… pic.twitter.com/ViyVmVSrYC

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

… law enforcement activity and journalistic activity, or activity of a private individual assisting law enforcement. So, the law itself is designed to be abused by police and journalists collaborating together to entrap private citizens. This offence carries a 5yr sentence. RT!

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

     Oh, it gets worse…

“Material is also violent extremist material if: it is ‘reasonable’ to consider the material together with other material; and were all of the material to be taken to be a single item of material, it would constitute violent extremist material.” So they can arbitrarily pair…

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

… unrelated items together to argue they’re ’violent extremist material’. So, would possessing a book in defence of nationalism and then separately an historical photo of some military unit be able to be considered together as ‘promoting ideology of violence’ and ‘violent acts’?

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

The law was largely the culmination of relentless campaigning from the chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission, Dvir Abramovich. In parliament, promotion of the bill was championed by Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. pic.twitter.com/nRuSzeC3VQ

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

Furthermore, just posting a photo that features a swastika online is now punishable by 12 months imprisonment. 🚨RETWEET THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND DECEPTIVE ATTACK ON PATRIOTS! 🚨 pic.twitter.com/m8zXm4T03W

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 7, 2024

This Bill had bipartisan support, and the level of absurdity is such that they exempted the ISIS flag from banned symbols for the Muslim community. Islamic terrorist symbols are okay but pro-White symbols aren’t? Share far and wide❗️Australia 🇦🇺 is under tyrannical control! pic.twitter.com/XEPS70Je9a

— Eugene T, PhD (@e_truman1) January 8, 2024

     There but for the grace of the Bill of Rights would go the United States of America.

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