"Ce mai faceti?" is the Romanian version of" G'day mate."
Romanian was the language I spoke during my childhood because both of my parents were Romanian. I felt like I had been there from the stories I was told about life in pre-World War Two Romania. I ultimately did travel there several times from 2007 onwards.
Romania used to be one of the wealthiest countries in Europe. It was blessed with rich agricultural lands, an abundance of minerals, and the largest oil field in Europe at Ploesti. Bucharest, the capital, used to be called "The Paris of the East".
Oil was discovered at Ploesti in the 1850s, and it had the first oil refinery in the world in 1856. During the First World War, part of the Gallipoli campaign, which Australians are familiar with, was the troops attempted to break through the Turkish lines to get to Romanian oil. Later during the Nazi era, the Allies bombed the Ploesti oil fields because they were the primary source of oil for the Germans.
Following WW2, a Communist regime was installed in Romania, and by 1965 a megalomaniac named Nicolai Ceaucescu seized power. Freedoms and rights were totally suspended, food was rationed, and people couldn't leave the country unless they had large sums of money to pay the government. There was no free speech. Thankfully, after 41 years of Communist rule, the people revolted and executed Nikolai and his wife in a public square; such was the pent-up rage.
This brings me to Australia, 2021, a far cry from the country I adopted in 1980. Meet Romanians living in Australia who experienced Communist rule. They will tell you that the imposition of tyrannical edicts in the name of Covid-19 is what they fled from in Romania. We have our own megalomaniacs here in Australia, such as some of the State Premiers.
So what does Australia have in common with Communist Romania?
Do we have freedom of speech today in Australia? Absolutely not in the public square. For instance, if you are a doctor and oppose the government's policy on Covid, or if you try to treat a Covid patient with Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine, you will have your license revoked.
If you express your human right of free speech on social media, opposing the "vaccines", you will also have your right to practice and earn a livelihood suspended.
Australian media is totally on board with the Covid jabs. In fact, they are the arm of the Australian government, censoring any contrarian views. A government-media complex is characteristic of totalitarian regimes.
Whether you are a doctor or not, you lose your right to work in almost all circumstances now if you don't get injected. What is really frightening about all this is that many Australians are okay with suspending our civil rights, including police state tactics used on Australian citizens for not wearing a mask. Dobbing in your neighbours is now a virtue, as it was in Communist Romania.
Can you travel where you want? Absolutely not. Travel between states is restricted. At times there have been such restrictive lockdowns that you could not leave your metropolitan region to travel to another part of your own state.
Everywhere you go, you have to sign in or hold up your phone to scan your QR code, so the government will know where you are at all times. This is a form of brainwashing used in Communist Romania. The only difference is that during the reign of Ceaucescu, there were no smartphones.
Finally, and perhaps the most disturbing are the comments that so-called leaders make about their own citizens. For instance, Mark McGowan, West Australian leader, recently stated, "Anti-vaxxers are wacky, nutty and dangerous" and urged them to "act like normal, rational human beings and get the job." No, Mr McGowan, everyday people who think carefully about what they put into their bodies and their children are rational.
The tactics used are straight out of the Communist playbook. However, there is hope. Saturday, November 20, I was at a huge Freedom Day rally in downtown Perth, with an estimated 40-50,000 people. Similarly, there were large rallies in other Australian cities.
Perhaps people are starting to rise up as more and more realize what is going on and that their freedoms are rapidly being eroded. This is was what happened in Romania. The people had had enough and took back their country.
With all due respect, I'd say it's worse now than then. It's inconceivable what's going on in the western world, while things like these were expected in the old Romania. The current political class is low intellectual, can't see the effects of their own decisions, they are narrow focus and are not capable of debates with real people. F (grade of course) them it is still too nice.
I, would very much like to know WHO is going to be held accountable when all the very serious problems arise? It is well documented of side effects being experienced now BUT what about the ones yet to occur? Many, many Scientists and reputable medicos etc have reputably forecasted what can and will happen. Will this be another "asbestosis" in the waiting?