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As the officers enter her home, she says "You can show me your search warrant before you go through my house."Police appear to be oblivious to the impact of their actions, expressing themselves as 'satisfied' with the raid and arrest. The public, not so much :
The officers let her know that she is under arrest "in relation to incitement."
"What on Earth? Excuse me, what on Earth?" Buhler asks, shocked, saying that she has "an ultrasound in an hour."
The officers explain, as they handcuff her and read her rights to her, that she's being arrested for incitement over a Facebook post about a protest to end the lockdown.
"And I wasn't breaking any laws by doing that," Buhler says.
"You are actually," the arresting officer says, "And that's why I'm arresting you."
The man of the house suggests that the officers should just ask her to take the post down, and Buhler says that she would be "happy to delete the post," adding that the situation was "ridiculous."
He goes on to suggest that she can also not do the event, since it hasn't even happened as yet. But the officer instead continues the arrest, stating "we believe you are committed to it."
The officers go on to state their intention to seize all computers and mobile devices in the home as Buhler breaks down in tears.
"Any device in this house, we're taking," the officers say.
The event was called Freedom Day Ballarat, and was to be held on Saturday at 11 am in Ballarat, Victoria. The post stated that the protest was intended to be peaceful, to follow all social distancing measures "so we don't get arrested."
"September 5 is FREEDOM DAY!" It read. "As some of you may have seen the government has gone to extreme measures and are using scare tactics through the media to prevent the Melbourne protest.
"Here is Ballarat we can be a voice for those in stage 4 lockdowns. We can be seen and heard and hopefully make a difference!"
It calls for an end to the lockdowns, and to stand for human rights, noting that Australia is a "'FREE' COUNTRY!"
This was classified as a call to incitement, and police, who many have said are guilty of drastically overreaching their power, entered a woman's home and arrested her for a social media post wherein she wished to assert her freedom in a free country.
The Victoria Police gave a statement that said they were aware of the gathering, and that "Any gathering of this nature is in blatant breach of the Chief Health Officer's directions and puts Victorian lives at risk."
Yahoo! News reported that the officers intend to arrest the others involved in organizing the protest, which is in violation of directives from the Chief Health Officer.
In a message likely to further stir up public outrage, Victoria police insisted officers, who put an expecting mother in restraints over an anti-lockdown post, acted "reasonably" - although she described it in chilling terms.
Victoria state police responded to the mounting outrage on Thursday, with Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius confirming he has seen the viral footage. According to him, the police team "have conducted themselves entirely reasonably, they've been polite, professional."
"We're absolutely satisfied the members behaved appropriately and in accordance with our policy," Cornelius stated, referring to "briefings provided to me."
He admitted, however, that the optics weren't so great. "I would be the first to acknowledge the optics, for want of a better description, arresting a pregnant female, it's never going to look good," he said.
Meanwhile, Buhler herself - who officially faced "incitement" charges later on Wednesday - recalled the experience. "Honestly, I was scared I was being kidnapped by people because they weren't in uniforms," she told reporters.
Expanding on her Facebook message, Buhler said she didn't realize calling for the anti-quarantine gathering was an offense, adding she was ready to cooperate with police. "If the police had just called me and told me to remove the post I would've done so," she said.
Study: Are Election 2020 poll respondents being honest about their vote?What's more reliable are broad 'psychographic snapshots' that pull in social media chatter, phone conversations, online searches for candidates, etc. All data the NSA and shadow intel agencies have access to. So they know, for sure, what the result will be, and are adapting their strategy accordingly. Last time around they were cooking up Russiagate at this point...
What CloudResearch Found
- 11.7% of Republicans say they would not report their true opinions about their preferred presidential candidate on telephone polls.
- In contrast, just 5.4% of Democrats say they'd be reluctant to share their true voting intentions — roughly half the number of Republicans reluctant to tell the truth on phone polls.
- 10.5% of Independents fell into the "shy voter" category, just a percentage point lower than how Republicans react to phone polls
Comment: He's not the only one. Democratic St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson hasn't been living in her home for 2 months. She gave a similar excuse as Wheeler: Maybe Democrats will realize these Antifa and BLM nutjobs aren't their friends. But we're not holding our breath!