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ASIO confirms anti-mandate protesters not violent extremists

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The mainstream media tries to falsely paint anti-mandate protesters as extremists. Its the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s job to monitor people who are actually violent extremists. They told me what we already know. Protest and political dissent against mandates is completely lawful and it is only a small fringe element who take advantage of the whole group to push violence. The overwhelming majority of anti-mandate protesters are law-abiding peaceful people.

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Thank you very much Senator Keneally. Senator Roberts.

Thank you, Chair. And thank you all for appearing today. Recent public statements from you indicate ongoing issues of interference by foreign nationals in Australia, including attempts to influence the electoral process. Is this considered to be an ongoing threat from that identified foreign power?

As I said, in my threat assessment centre there are multiple countries. So this threat is real. It happens at all levels of government, local, state and federal. And that threat continues. In fact, espionage and foreign interference is now supplanted terrorism as our country’s principle security concern. And that’s not to take away from the terrorism threat.

Are the identified risks. Well, you just told us they’re serious, very serious.

They are.

Right throughout all levels. From your public, changing the topic slightly. From your public statements, why are so many everyday Australians opposed to mandated COVID-19 vaccinations? They’re opposed to the mandating, not to the vaccinations necessarily. Why are they being monitored?

Well, that’s not my remit. That’s nothing to do with me in terms of whether people are opposed to mandates or want to get vaccinated. That’s not a violent extremism problem that doesn’t fit within my head security. So we don’t monitor or follow those people. If those people also happen to be violent extremists promoting communal violence or politically motivated violence then they would get my full attention. But if they’re not in that category as I said in my speech last week,

“The vast majority of these protestors we’re seeing at the moment are not violent and they’re not violent extremists.”

Mike Burgess, Director General of Security Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Senate Estimates 14 February 2022

That’s very pleasing to hear that confirms pretty much exactly what the AFP commissioner said just an hour or so ago. But the press has perhaps taken a slant on that. So thank you for clarifying that. And having been at the protests on Saturday, people are just excellent. Why would you consider? Okay. You’ve eliminated that. You said in your recent security annual threat assessment that you do not have a problem with people holding opinions. And would only intervene when these opinions involve promoting violence. You’ve just confirmed that again. What evidence links everyday Australians exercising their right to peaceful protests to being considered domestic terror extremists? I take it that’s a media exaggeration.

Well no, in terms of protest protests, its lawful public dissent is totally appropriate and right for people to do, but actually if people are preparing for or advocating acts of violence then they do fall into my agency’s remit and we will watch them carefully to understand what they’re up to and with our police partners work to stop them from harming Australians.

Yeah. There is a small element just about every group who takes advantage of the group.

There certainly is.

Thank you. No, I don’t need to answer… ask the seventh question. Everything’s covered. Thank you, Chair.

Thank you very much, Senator Roberts.

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Malcolm Roberts addresses fired anti-mandate workers at Queensland Parliament

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On the second of February I marched in solidarity with teachers, firies, nurses, miners and veterans opposed to the vaccine mandates through Brisbane to Queensland Parliament where I addressed the crowd. This is my speech at that rally.

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What one word captures what Dan said? Apart from freedom. Why do you do your jobs? Because we care. Emergency services people care, it doesn’t matter if it’s policemen, ambulance men and women, the nurses, doctors, teachers, aged care, NDIS.

Pathology.

Pathology, there you go. Everyone cares, and it really comes through. These policemen here, they care, and they… By the way they’re saying, “Keep going.” But I- I just wanna reassure you, that’s my main objective today, first of all, let’s recognise that there are people here who are never going to get injected, I’m one of them. And there are many here. But I don’t get penalised in parliament, you do, because you’re not in Parliament. But you elect the representatives who will represent you in parliament. That’s what we need to remember, that’s the first thing. The second thing is, there are lots of people who have been voluntarily injected, some want it, that’s their choice, I’m fine with that. And then there are many people, and they support us here, who have been injected against their will. So, we might be getting hammered mate, but they are getting doubly hammered. And now their kids are staring down the gun barrel.

Boo!

So, we’ve all heard about the emergency services people who were heroes just 12 months ago, and are now villains. We know that… Well, last time when we got here, Dan and I went up to the security and said, “Could we see Annastacia Palaszczuk or the Health Minister?” They said they will come down, no one came down. The premier is not here today, but I wrote a letter last time, requesting a meeting with emergency services people and the premier. I got a reply, one of few replies from premier, she didn’t mention anything about a meeting, not a thing.

Did she mention anything about integrity?

No . Well, we’re coming to that. The next thing I wanna reassure you with, is that we will continue to support you, Pauline and I. We will continue to support you, we will oppose all government legislation in the Federal Parliament, until freedom is restored. And I wanna acknowledge, and support, and admire, Gerard Rennick, George Christensen, Craig Kelly, Alex Antic, for backing us. They cop a lot of flak, but they’re backing us. And they’re doing it on their own within the party. The next thing I wanna mention is, exactly what this gentlemen here said, your dad, Elena, you’ve done a good job mate. This issue highlights the corruption. The State Government, is now beset with accusations of corruption. As a Senator in Federal Parliament, Pauline and I, tried to negotiate an inquiry into the misuse of federal funding after disasters in this State. The Labor Party opposed it, the Greens opposed it. We had an agreement with the government that they would support it and I’d be chair of it, and then we’d dive into the misuse of these federal funds. And at the last minute, I believe the government was honest on this occasion, but at the last minute two Queensland senators, Matt Canavan and James McGrath, threatened to cross the floor and vote against the government, so, the government caved and voted against the inquiry into the misuse of taxpayer’s money. This is another abuse of taxpayer money, they’re transferring $8.3 billion out of our pockets as taxpayers to big pharma. That’s all it’s about apart from control, it’s about money and control. And what we’ve got to remember, is all the instances of hypocrisy in the last two years. The instances of contradicting the facts, the instances of policies and mandates that are not based in fact and go against fact. We’ve got to remember all the lies, we’ve got to remember the corruption. We’ve got to remember who’s getting the money and who’s getting control. This is not about controlling a virus, if they wanted to do that, they could have passed- They could have allowed ivermectin to continue to be used. They could have used proper testing, tracing, quarantine, like Taiwan’s done, and the best in the world. But there is no pandemic of deaths, this is about coercion and control, and it’s about money for big companies. So, what we need to do is, everyone here, including me, is responsible for this. Because we have voted either Liberal or Labor forever. They take us for granted. And parliaments these days do not hold governments accountable, they don’t serve the people, they work for the parties, and their power brokers, and their major sponsors and donors. So, who changes that?

We do.

We do. Who changes it? We do. So, when you vote in the next elections, state or federal, think about that. Put the majors last, put the minor parties first, you know which one I’d prefer, but you vote according to what you think, and you allocate preferences according to what you think. Don’t believe the bullshit from the major parties, they do not allocate preferences, you do. When you get a how-to-vote card, identify the parties, then screw it up and put the parties where you want. But above all, vote for strength of character in candidates, policies, and values. So, I’ll just remind you of that. And I wanna congratulate Matt here, because he’s come up with a little flyer, www.standupandvote.com.au. It’s about educating people on how to vote. There he is there. One last thing, for those of you who think this is the end game, no, it is not. My office stopped the Cash Ban bill, with the help of Pauline Hanson, and we eventually converted even the dopes in the Labor Party in Federal Parliament, and the Greens and the minor parties, and the independents, to vote against the Cash Ban Bill, we kept cash. Cash is extremely important, ’cause the moment you haven’t got an option for cash, they control every transaction that you enter into, everything. So, we squashed the Cash Ban Bill, we also are on top… We’re not on top at all about this COVID Bill, but we’ve got the issues in public, and people know. The real end game here, is the Digital Identity Bill.

Yes.

Oh, I’m so pleased to hear people understand it. That is the real game, they will control everything you do. That’s what they’re using it for. We’re fighting it now, we’ve got a series of seven videos coming out, the first one went out yesterday, please watch them and educate yourselves about that. That is the end game, to control your life, control your life, control your life. That’s all they want. Every single electronic transaction, all your medical data, gets fed into a corporation and sold overseas. And then if you want your medical data, you pay for it, to get it. That’s the way this Federal Government is going, and Albanese backs it.

Now, that’s lazy.

So, just be mindful of that, this is extremely important. In 20 years time, your kids and grandkids will look back and say, “Thank you very much for having the courage to stand up.” Because like this fella and this lady, we care, we all care. Thank you.

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