I don’t even know how to begin to feel about this video from the official YouTube account of Defence Australia.

Watch:

Yes, this is from the Australian Army, not some white supremacist group or militia in the country. This was posted 3 weeks ago as what amounts to a recruitment video, although not in the genre of “be all you can be,” but in the “this is what the Army does” sort of way.

They call this population protection, but it sure looks more like preparing to suppress protests than anything else.

The scary music, the soldiers facing off against angry citizens, the violent confrontation. None of this is how I would want my Army to promote itself to potential soldiers.

“Join the Army, beat up civilians” is quite the take. Imagine who is attracted to that sort of thing, and then imagine them facing off against you if you are in a protest against mandates and farm closures, as has been happening across the Western world due to WEF-inspired policies. I have participated in many rallies, all of which have been peaceful, yet all of them have been portrayed as Right-wing hate speech by the Left.

Western governments have been busy labeling citizens who dissent as “domestic terrorists,” and have been clashing with citizens who object to COVID mandates, farm closures, energy restrictions, and similar restrictions on basic civil rights. We all saw the Canadian military use force against the truckers’ protests a year ago, and what has been happening in Europe.

It’s not hard to see that a video of soldiers training to suppress protests is a direct warning to dissenters, and an attempt to recruit people who would be happy to use force against their fellow citizens. Scenes almost exactly like this one were a feature of the dystopian movie Soylent Green, with soldiers clashing against an unhappy and oppressed populace. Soylent Green portrayed a dystopia, yet sometimes it seems like a WEF fantasy reel.

One can, perhaps generously suggest that the Defence Ministry was not sending a warning to citizens who feel more and more oppressed every day, but it’s hard to be generous at the moment to governments that have been using “emergency powers” to bully citizens.

We are not yet at the point where widespread protests are the norm, but for the first time in memory not only the Left but generally law-abiding citizens are standing up to the government with mass unrest. In the United States, it is small scale, as opposed to the riots we saw from Leftists in 2020, but there is a general sense of discontent with the direction of our country. Average citizens are showing up and speaking out as their tolerance for insanity is stretched to the limit.

Here in the United States, the FBI has been busy labeling such people terrorists, the government has been censoring dissent, and politicians have become more and more vocal about labeling opposition to Left-wing policies a danger to the regime. The same has happened across the Western world. When parents protesting the rape of a young girl in a school bathroom are labeled terrorists things are terribly off track.

In Australia, the COVID mandates were particularly harsh, and pushback got intense. Apparently the government’s takeaway from the citizen protests was not that they should care what people think, but rather that the people must be better controlled through force.

Are governments that have been traditionally associated with protecting civil liberties reversing course? We are already a long way down that path, and it sure looks like things are set to get worse.