It is as if lockdowns, mask mandates and contact-trace people detectors weren’t enough.
He is doing it all-but-silently and doing it without anyone’s knowledge, and certainly not with their consent. In other words, just like with the QR code mandates, by stealth.
MANDATE
(Daily, manic press briefings about a casedemic certainly have their uses. They hide other things going on).
Dominello has been driving the NSW vaccine mandate in order to lock in a vaccine rollout intended to save his colleagues’ political hides.
But it is becoming clear his approach will not work. A vaccine quota is not needed for public health and will not, in any case, return people’s freedom.
It might be enlightening for the citizenry of the Premier State to know a little about those who are making the decisions that have crushed our freedoms. Their histories, backgrounds and belief systems.
Let us start with Mark Latham’s recent statement on what is afoot with vaccines: “With no public consultation, the NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello has announced his plan for the introduction of vaccine passports.
“For the first time ever, adults will have to reveal their private health information to strangers just to go shopping for food and live a normal life (cafes, restaurants, cinema, sporting events, travelling around, children going to school). People without a vaccine passport will also lose their jobs in many workplaces.”
The privacy and freedom implications of this are huge. This goes well beyond QR codes, right to your private health information.
This is to force everyone to be COVID vaccinated, even though many people:
- are waiting for clearer evidence about the safety of these vaccines, especially given that AstraZeneca has led to six Australian deaths, with a further 90 blood clot episodes and over 28,000 reports of adverse reactions (official Commonwealth TGA data);
- do not want the vaccines pushed upon their children;
- have conscientious objections to vaccines on religious and other grounds; and
- do not support the government holding and controlling so much private information about their lives.
Dominello has not even consulted his own MPs about this dictatorial announcement.
To his eternal credit, Mark Latham is, along with Fred Nile of the Christian Democrats, emerging as a much-needed freedom fighter resisting vaccine tyranny.
Tanya Davies, a government backbencher with the annoying habit of espousing conservative causes and defending the underdog, has signalled a private member’s bill and has elicited open support from two other backbenchers (Nat Smith and Kevin Conolly) and, indeed, from a minister (Anthony Roberts).
SHAMEFULLY
The Labor opposition, we know, wants to crush COVID dissent. The protests were, Chris Minns said, “inexcusable”. Shamefully, Minns has said his Party would not support Ms Davies’s bill.
Ms Davies has an unnamed Labor supporter as well. That person is too scared to come out at this point.
As per The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper: “A person may not be vaccinated for any number of medical, ethical or religious reasons,” Mrs Davies said.
“We as a government should be protecting people’s individual rights and circumstances. Employees should not be forced into COVID-19 vaccination. This is an assault on an individual’s freedoms and civil liberties.”
Ms Davies’ bill has emerged in the context of the Premier’s own drive for mandatory vaccine passports for construction workers in COVID hot spots.
Another of the Premier’s ministers Attorney General Mark Speakman, the man responsible for pursuing the truly absurd sex consent legislation, claimed: “Why should vaxxed tradies’ freedom be held back by those who won’t vax?”
A cynical observer might just about conclude that the whole rigmarole with LGA-specific, tough lockdowns was set up solely to allow the Premier to wheel in localised and industry-specific vaccine passports as a trial run, under the radar.
No doubt, even to suggest this would be to invite the charge of “conspiracy theorist” in these fetid times.
Except that now we know the NSW government has mandated vaccines for teachers, other educational staff, and is beavering away in the dark in relation to other industries. Who on earth will be safe?
Since launching her bill, Davies has become a beacon of hope for all the freedom-fighters out there, not to mention workers.
BRAVE
She has built an enormous social media following on the back of her brave stance and now delivers nightly podcast updates on her progress.
Unsurprisingly to those who are familiar with the NSW government, Davies has been bullied in her Party room and traduced by the compromised media vaccine cheer squad. The “rogue” MP is at it again.
The bullies in chief have been the clueless deputy Premier John Barilaro and the unspeakable Speakman.
Some weeks back now, the Prime Minister claimed (according to Sharri Markson and Yoni Bashan): “…mandatory vaccination could breach discrimination laws, and that Australia’s policy remained that vaccines should be voluntary and free.”
He also (alas) stated: “…businesses could pursue their own vaccination policies as long as they were legal and reasonable.”
Ms Davies perceptively noted: “The Prime Minister’s comments in the past few days have left the door wide open for employers to force their employees to be vaccinated. The federal government has effectively privatised compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations.”
Indeed. Davies herself was heartened initially by Morrison’s statement, but has since come to realise that industry-mandated vaccines with Liberal governments working hand in glove to achieve them, and rolled out via Victor’s app, prove Morrison’s initial statement to have been a self-serving lie.
As always, he has simply outsourced the hard bits to the Premiers and to their industry association mates. Our rights get crushed while he sits in the corner.
So, back to Victor Dominello. Who is he, given that most people have probably never heard of him?
Well, he has held a number of ministries within the NSW government, none of great consequence before he was appointed Minister for Digital and Minister for Customer Service after the 2019 election.
PASSPORTS
Dominello is armed with all the innovation and management-speak buzz words. The technocrat’s technocrat, a man of totalitarian bent, clearly, as anyone in favour of vaccine passports surely must be, and now he has been given the power to run our lives.
One definition of technocracy is: “…the government or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts.”
Technocracy is not simply rule by experts, which we clearly have already in this age of governance by unelected chief health officers.
It also has overtones of the coming new order of artificial intelligence, of rule by algorithm, of Beijing-driven “smart cities”, of the sinister “internet of things”.
Of government knowing everything about us, including – thanks to contact-trace – where we are at any given moment. (Much of the march towards technocracy is clarified by Patrick Wood’s excellent books, including Technocracy Rising).
The whole tyrannical management of COVID by government is only possible with surveillance technology. None of this could have happened fifteen years ago. So Dominello is “following the technology”.
It is said that Dominello is a geek. This is a polite term for technocrat.
An article in the Financial Review newspaper last year was headlined ominously as follows – “Victor Dominello’s Brave New World of Citizen Control”. Aldous Huxley, indeed. With a soupcon of Orwell, and a dollop of William Golding (Lord of the Flies).
The same article linked Dominello’s alleged “innovation” to the State’s “gold standard” approach to managing COVID. Perhaps a little premature on the part of the AFR. Or perhaps the price of gold has slipped.
Says Dominello: “The models I look to in terms of innovation are Apple and Google.”
SURVEILLANCE
So, his heroes are the kingpins of what Shoshana Zuboff, in her ground-breaking book, has termed “the age of surveillance capitalism”.
This is, indeed, a creepy man to have making decisions about people’s (until now) inalienable human rights.
Then there is this: “Relentlessly challenging centuries of plodding Westminister-style government and vested stakeholders interests, Dominello is an intriguing mix of evangelist, political philosopher, change agent and pragmatist.”
This would be the “plodding Westminster-style government” that has formed one of the core pillars of Western liberal democracy.
Just what we need in office – a techno-evangelist out to trash traditional caution in government. A tool of the technocracy class that now runs the world from Davos, Beijing and Surveillance Valley.
The man again: “The changes [to a single app Service NSW] are more than simple digitisation of services, he says. The technology for QR codes, used to track people in retail and hospitality venues, has existed for years making their implementation ‘relatively easy’.”
Tracking us down. Inflicting harm on innocent people. Ushering in the deep State. Telling the burly coppers of the NSW Police State where we are. So they can hunt us down and harass us some more.
How did they do it? As Shoshana Zuboff outlined in her book, they hid what they were doing, they made much of it free and easy to use, they argued it was all about customer focus, and they made it all fun! Especially appealing to the clueless generation, aka millennials.
Dominello argues consumers will “always gravitate towards a better service delivery”.
“It’s like water and gravity. [People will] quickly find the easiest point. That’s transformation in action.”
Clearly Dominello doesn’t get irony. He is lying to himself as well as to us: “The world is splitting between autocracies and democracies,” he says. “What is one of the fundamental rights or freedoms in a democracy that we wish to protect that you just don’t get in autocracies? Privacy.”
REBELLION
Technology should be used to enhance privacy, he says!
Really? Almost single-handedly, he is, with the health bureaucrats and with his ally the Premier, turning the once great State of the Rum Rebellion into a fascist super-State, with blighted lives strewn across the land.
Perhaps in his techno-innocence, Dominello thinks that surrendering our medical privacy to government is okay, so long as it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands (outside of the government).
Where does Dominello stand philosophically? Is there anything in his world view or background to hint at an inner-authoritarian? Here is Victor speaking to a journalist in 2013:
Is Dominello at the smaller-l end of the Party? “Some people would typecast me that way, but some would see me as very conservative on some topics. I’m a lawyer, so traditionally I’m a civil libertarian…
Whoa … He says he is a civil libertarian! A civil libertarian now responsible for progressing within the NSW government the most far-reaching attack on civil liberties in the history of this State.
A member of State cabinet that is sanctioning shocking new police powers, bringing in the army, arresting business owners, crushing dissent, using every form of surveillance known to man, putting whole sub-regions of Sydney under house arrest.
A government that is now a global laughing stock. A government criticised by the Chinese for being too draconian on COVID.
Now Dominello is attempting to ensure that those who are resisting vaccine tyranny, for whatever reason, when they see it, are prevented from living normal lives, from going to the cricket, from clubbing – if you are into that sort of thing – from having a beer at the local, from travelling interstate for a holiday or to see family. Or travelling to work if you are employed in one of the now-targeted industries.
He has already mandated (from July 2021) QR code-only entry to just about every institution across NSW. Schools. Shops. Universities. Clubs. You name it. Under Victor’s regime, you may shortly need a vaccine passport to go to Mass.
HOLY COMMUNION
I wonder how Victor’s “deeply Catholic” mother would feel about that. QR codes at the altar rail for Holy Communion.
This is tyranny and surveillance by stealth – again.
This evil has been creeping up on us very quietly during 2021. This covert operation mirrors the approach taken by the political class in other Western countries. Recently the French President broke cover, and has copped a shellacking on the streets.
Hence the normal practice of COVID politicians prevaricating, speaking in riddles, feinting, effecting a sense of decision-making agility, dodging questions, avoiding giving straight answers, calling “passports” something else, and backing and forthing on one’s attitude according to the political breeze, an approach perfected by the British Labour Opposition and its leader, Keir Starmer.
Sky News reported in March 2021: “Discussions are underway for a vaccine passport-style plan for NSW residents which may prohibit a person from entering a venue if they have refused a COVID-19 jab.”
Certificates would become readily accessible on the Service NSW app, and data sharing arrangements between the federal government and Service NSW are underway.
The government predicts airlines, clubs and entertainment venues may mandate the vaccine.
Hence in March, Dominello was treading very warily: “A spokesman for Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello, who is responsible for the Service NSW app, added that ‘a range of options will be canvassed to ensure the vaccine rollout is implemented effectively’.
“We will work closely with the federal government to determine the best way forward,” he said.
A range of options. Implemented effectively. Vaccine rollout. Keep the voters guessing.
Damon Rees is the public servant in charge of customer service for Service NSW.
Damon Rees assured [us] that once a vaccine passport was officially decided, cybersecurity would involve ‘a range of people and a range of organisations’.
CAHOOTS
“We would engage a range of external organisations from the start in the design and delivery,” he said.
“Once a vaccine passport is officially decided,” he said. Not much doubt, then, about the direction of travel. Well, we are there already.
It is clear that the government has been in cahoots with the corporate class on vaccine passports.
We also notice that NSW public servants have learned from their political masters to never give any real information away, and to speak in riddles.
But Rees did let the cat out of the bag, by accident. “Once a vaccine passport was officially decided…”. They have been planning this a long time.
Dominello has revealed by his vaccine passport plans that the man who once (allegedly) heavied a local councillor over a development matter remains a bully. (He was referred to ICAC in 2017 but they didn’t pursue the matter).
Now he is seeking to bully every single soul who refuses the jab, worker by worker and industry by industry. Still a bully. But, alas, not still a liberal.
So, we can see that Dominello is assuredly following the technology. Pity he isn’t following the science on COVID. If he had been, he might know some of the following facts:
- Vaccines are not needed, since over 99 per cent of those who get COVID recover fully;
- Vaccines do not work, as ever mounting overseas evidence shows, if the objective is to prevent transmission of the COVID virus;
- This vaccine is not, actually, a vaccine;
- There are tens of thousands of cases, only a small minority of them reported, of COVID vaccines causing great harm to those who take them;
- Vaccines seem to help reduce symptoms and death, though by how much is highly contested and yet to be fully measured, and in any case there are drugs around that do the same job without the side effects.
In which case, the whole case for vaccine passports evaporates.
And no, Minister Roberts, those who refuse the jab are not “idiots”, as you suggest.
These facts lead, inevitably, to people asking the not unreasonable question – why, then, in God’s name are they doing all this? And where does this leave the NSW government and the Service Minister?
