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SOURCE: Met Police's Cressida Dick promises to crackdown on people ignoring coronavirus lockdown rules
MAN: Who the f*** do you think you're grabbing? Hey, who you grabbing?
POLICE OFFICER: Off the train now!
MAN: Who the f*** are you grabbing? Get off me! I told you no!
POLICE OFFICER: Get off the train or I'll get you off.
MAN: Now get off me. Now you've been told. Get the f*** off me. Oi. Who the f*** are you grabbing, mate?
POLICE OFFICER: I'll spray you, mate.
MAN: What? You're not spraying me for nothing.
PASSENGER: He hasn't done nothing wrong.
ELIAS CLURE: There's a significant police presence there. A number of these protesters chanting "freedom."
PROTESTERS: Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
CLURE: We can also see that crowd. Just the size of that crowd and the number of police that have gathered. There's public order response, there's mounted police as well. Also riot police have mobilized to try and manage this crowd.
SOURCE: Anti-lockdown protests met with heavy police presence in Melbourne | ABC News
The nightmarish police state that is coming into view on the back of this pandemic panic is not a temporary state of affairs, nor is it a haphazard set of measures thrown together on an ad hoc basis; it is the creation of a new form of governance. This new form of governance relies on the perceived sense of crisisin this case, a public health crisisto justify constant surveillance of the public and new powers to inhibit the travel of anyone deemed a health risk.
Famed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has documented how this biosecurity state is being erected on the back of the panic that 9/11 and the war on terror helped induce in the public.
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