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Police drop anti-lockdown incitement charge against Ballarat woman Zoe Buhler · The Slippery Slope

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  Oh, i j felon here. Thank you for listening to the
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  if you don't mind that the fantastic and what's the first
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  two lines of Advance, Australia Fair?
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  Well, the new version. Anyway, it says Australians all
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  let us rejoice for. We are one and three used to be.
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  We are young and free but now it says, but we are one and free.
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  Yeah, well, I think over the last couple of years, the one in
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  three has been speedily changing.
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  I'll read this story to you. Let me know what you think.
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  This headline says police drop anti lock down incitement charge
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  against Ballarat. Woman, Zoey Bueller.
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  Now, you may remember what happened with this article.
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  This is all to do with the lockdowns that happened in
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  Victoria, and Victoria was was quickly, running towards
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  becoming a police state, all because of the, the Year the
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  incitement to fear the rallying cry from the media that we all
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  have to be scared and be locked down and our politicians
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  inciting fear upon us. It was disgusting.
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  Anyway, look, I'll read the stories.
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  Isabella at woman who was charged with inciting others to
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  breach a state lockdown. Has had a case thrown out of
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  court. Zoe Beulah was arrested in her
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  Ballarat home. In September 2020 while she was
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  pregnant the mother of three life.
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  Streamed her arrest showing police handcuffing her in a
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  video that later went viral and sparked concerns and from the
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  Australian Human Rights Commission, the arrest came
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  after she created a protest event on social media, citing
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  concerns that she had about the impacts of lockdowns.
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  During the pandemic, in the Ballarat magistrates court, this
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  morning police prosecution applied to have the charge
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  struck out, which was approved by magistrates.
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  Mock stratman in a statement. Victorian police said they
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  withdrew the single charge following an assessment of the
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  case determining. It was not in the public
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  interest to continue with the prosecution.
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  Miss Beulah. Now, 30 years old says she was
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  relieved but had no regrets outside the court.
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  This morning she says I think it's disgusting, our rights and
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  freedoms were taken away. I pretty much felt that way.
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  The whole time is Beulah set off, you can still be
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  considering my options. Options going forward especially
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  with regards to being handcuffed.
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  While pregnant Is Beulah says she believed she had been
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  experiencing Prosper, post-traumatic stress disorder
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  and the legal costs of contesting.
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  The incitement charges had been a bird cost will be agreed upon
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  between the parties at a later date.
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  So in March 2020, the Victorian Chief Health officer and
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  Commonwealth Health, Minister were granted special powers to
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  issue to issue. Lockdowns, if necessary to
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  minimize the rate of transmission of covid-19, they
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  have a not enacted a lockdown in Victoria since October 20. 21 in
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  the end, Justice will be served where it is needed.
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  It's important to stand up for what is Right.
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  Miss Beulah said, I guess my message for Dan Andrews, who's
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  the premier 444 Victoria, it just in case you're not from
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  Australia. So I guess my message for Dan
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  Andrews would be. I hope one day you'll have your
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  day in court. So another article which I'll
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  read and this is an opinion piece really from reporter
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  Andrew bolt. This says something rotten in
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  the state of Victoria goes on to say that Sky News host.
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  Andrew bolt says, there was Court Victory today, which
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  underlines something is rotten in the state of Victoria.
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  So, Victoria Police today dropped yet another charge they
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  laid in the lockdown? Mr. Bolted.
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  A charge of incitement against Zoe Bueller, who's a pregnant
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  woman who was arrested two years ago in a home.
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  Handcuffed in front of her children for riding a social
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  media post, promoting a protest against Premier, Daniel Andrews,
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  cruel lockdowns. Now, the footage of that arrest.
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  It went around the world Victoria's, shame was seen by 10
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  million people, mr. Bolt said, police, dropped the
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  case after two years of worry and after she was treated like a
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  public menace. Miss Beulah was told nah not in
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  the public interest to continue. He said, so listen, I do happen
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  to know a little bit about about policing about law enforcement.
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  This is a common tactic. I think it's actually it's it's
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  disgusting. It should not be allowed.
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  But it is a common tactic, it's a bullying tactic used by police
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  to intimidate and Bully. The public.
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  They will charge you with something like this incitement
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  for this. Zoe Bueller, and then just hang
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  the charge, over your head for whatever time frame.
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  They deem necessary. And at any time, they could have
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  pulled the charges at any time, they did not have to go for two
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  years hanging overhead. And then at the very last minute
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  goes to, Court, Toria police, just withdraw.
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  The single charge following an assessment of the case, really?
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  An assessment of the case you couldn't assess the case before
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  two years and then they determine no.
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  No, it's not in the public interest to continue with the
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  prosecution that assessment could have been done the day
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  after the arrest that assessment could have been done the day of
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  the arrest. They could have gone there
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  spoken to miss Beulah, given her a Warning.
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  You know, I advised her against what you done, after to take the
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  post down Rick, given her a warning or they could have, they
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  could have still gone ahead with the arrest done the charge.
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  It could have been pulled, literally the next day, a couple
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  of days later they would have known a long time ago.
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  Prosecutors would have known that they would have had it in
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  mind. Know.
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  We're probably going to have to pull this charge.
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  It's not in the public interest. It was never in the public
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  interest, but what police do. What they're allowed to do in
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  this country. And it is disgusting that they
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  are allowed to do this. They are allowed to charge
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  people and then hold it over your head.
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  You cannot move on with your life.
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  You are, you caught up in a quagmire of legal costs of
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  worried. You can't, you know, if you were
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  going for another job and then they do a background check.
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  Well, then this would come out that, you know, you've got this
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  charge hanging over your head, you cannot just move on with
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  your life, and they're allowed. To hold you back.
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  It's despicable action that they are allowed to take.
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  As I said, it is bullying and intimidation.
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  This is government-sanctioned bullying and intimidation and it
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  should not be allowed to happen. Australians all let us rejoice
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  for. We are one and three.
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  I don't think so. We continue on our slide to
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  becoming a police state. The police need to be held.
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  More accountable are state governments.
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  Our politicians need to be held more accountable.
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  You should not be allowed to intimidate people with these
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  kinds of tactics to bully people with these kinds of tactics.
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  It could have been dealt with two years ago, but they they
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  made a choice. The prosecutors, the police in
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  Victoria made a choice to hold this over.
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  Mrs. Buell is head for two years.
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  They I made that choice. They should be made to answer.
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  Why did they allow this to go on for that long?
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  Because they don't have to pay for anything.
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  It's all the public purse apace. The the taxpayer that pays for
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  the prosecution, the pays for it to go to court, that doesn't
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  cost them. Anything doesn't cost the
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  individual anything so when everything just gets billed back
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  to the government, well then the people the people doing it,
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  don't care. There's no cost that they can
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  see. So they don't care the taxpayer
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  funds, the bill, they'll just keep running the bill Higher and
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  Higher. And then at the last second,
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  They pull it and say oh no sorry about that.
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  Will just it's not in the Public's interest.
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  We could have decided that a long time ago.
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  We knew that from the start but we like to intimidate we like to
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  bully. That's my opinion.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.