Posted on 01/10/2022 5:09:26 AM PST by george76
Tennis Australia demanded to confiscate the group’s signs because they were deemed “inappropriate”..
Video has emerged of tennis fans at the Australian Open tournament being harassed by an official ordering them to hand over all their homemade Novak Djokovic signs or be thrown out.
In the wake of the Australian authorities revoking the tennis star’s visa and holding him hostage for days, it appears that fans are now not even allowed to express any support for their favourite player.
The footage shows a fan at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne being approached by an official who eventually admits that he has been tasked by Tennis Australia to confiscate the group’s signs because they are “inappropriate”.
The man refuses to explain why the signs are inappropriate and just keeps repeating the claim and stating “you know why.”
The signs read “Free Novak”, with one declaring that the champion player is being held ‘hostage of a communist state’.
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oday, Djokovic has won a court hearing reinstating his visa and allowing him to leave a detention facility. However, the Australian immigration minister has threatened to re-cancel the player’s visa.
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As we highlighted last week, authorities clearly planned to make an example out of Djokovic over his beliefs on vaccination as a warning to others.
The tennis champ had his possessions, confiscated, was interrogated for 8 hours, woken up while trying to sleep and subsequently forced to stay in a flea ridden ghetto hotel full of illegal immigrants and criminals.
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Cheer really loud then.
Vegemite Macht Frei
You either have to be a man to stomach the stuff or a girl to like it.
Is Djokovic a 4-letter word now, or does the word translate into Fire (in a movie theater)?
I don’t think so. But I guess when you DESTROY the rights of individuals, why not just keep doing it - after all, it’s kind of fun oppressing others.
Aufulstralia
I never really liked him that much nor the Green Bay Packers but this year is different.
Welcome to Nazi Australia.
Apparently the inmates in the former prison colony prefer to remain as prisoners. The leadership is clearly made up of descendants of former guards.
That's not true. The global model is that other socialist model, fascism. They just use the carrot of communism to get the useful tools help implement via votes or riots.
Vegemite Macht Frei
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LOL! Dark humor there.
The first sign of a Totalitarian Government is the ignoring of legal judiciary decisions they do not agree with..................
Wow, I had no idea Oz was this crazy. I always thought they were OK.
I'm tempted to say the gov is just desperate for an Ozzie to win the Oz Open.
But it's a tough call. They do revere the Sacred Virus over God and Queen.
The land down under is acting just like North Korea. Now I understand why commentator Sydney Watson got the heck out in late 2019 and now is on The Blaze TV in Las Colinas, Texas.
Australia needs its own version of FJB...
Covid free woman recounts time In Australian Quarantine Camp: 26-year-old Hayley Hodgson, who spent weeks in a quarantine camp despite the fact that she never tested positive for covid, being locked up in a prison. . She has since lost her job.
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