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In regard to 'voluntary informed consent'...consider the extraordinary pressure people in Australia were under to submit to the Covid vaccinations.

For example, here's Michael Gunner, then Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in November 2021, consider the way he is dictating to the people, and using the 'anti-vaxxer' labelling:

Reporter: "Do you think at all that your rhetoric around calling people anti-vaxxers, some of whom were vaccinated, has had an impact at all on vaccine take-up in parts of the Territory?"

Michael Gunner: "I'll repeat it. If you are anti-mandate you are absolutely anti-vax. I don’t care what your personal vaccination status is. If you support, champion, give a green light, give comfort to, support anybody who argues against the vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer absolutely. Your personal vaccination status is utterly irrelevant. If you campaign against the mandate, if you campaign against people being vaccinated in vulnerable settings, teachers in classrooms, I'll be really clear, at that point in time, people are actually supporting the idea of a teacher being unvaccinated in a remote community classroom, with kids who can’t be vaccinated. I reject that, I still reject it. And if you are out there in any way, shape or form, campaigning against this mandate, you are absolutely anti-vax. If you, say, pro-persuasion, stuff it, shove it. We are absolutely going to make sure as many Territorians as possible are vaccinated, that is our best protection against this thing. And if you look at the Doherty modelling, that's only come out since, that said we'd be double dosed at 80, in remote communities, five and up. I think you'll see our vaccine mandate is absolutely crucial to protecting lives, particularly Aboriginal life. And I will never back away from supporting vaccines, and anyone out there, who comes for the mandate, you are anti-vax."

See: 'Stuff it, shove it': a furious Michael Gunner calls out those against vaccine mandates - video. The Guardian, 22 November 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/nov/22/stuff-it-shove-it-a-furious-michael-gunner-calls-out-those-against-vaccine-mandates-video

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My distrust in governments began when I read about the conscripted British troops during WW1 were ordered by their superior officers selected from the upper class, were ordered to charge German machine guns and poison gas that killing thousands of them per day 1914-1918 totaling one million dead and millions more permanently disabled. There was a missing generation of young men of reproductive age that left just as many spinsters who never had children.

At my primary school all my teachers were unmarried women. I sometimes think it was a deliberate strategy to cull the working class, who were getting too socialistically minded, and to head off a potential working class revolution.

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I just got done watching this, I really appreciated your last question re: skepticism in other topics, I thought that was insightful and I was humbled by John’s answer of “it’s all way above my pay grade”. That’s refreshing to hear an academic say, in a world of endless punditry.

Which means that I also take no pleasure in wondering how long it will remain published before YouTube removes it. Every time I enjoy something they remove it. Sorry Norm, Jessica, you were lovely and generous hosts who were polite and to the point, and YouTube doesn’t allow for that anymore so far as I can tell.

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May 27, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

What a terrific statement John made at the end about the respect for the dignity of human life. If we managed to get back to the basics of individual sovereignty and move away from organizations removing our humanity our world has a chance to be a better place. Protect the vulnerable. What a hopeful HOPEFUL ending. Great interview. Much appreciated.

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After the successful lauch of their first bioweapon they are trying again. Next comes cyberCOVID when the internet is closed. The only way to get back online will be your WHO vaccine passport. The banks are then closing, your money will be converted in to digital currency causing hyperinflation. Disease X will then be released. The only way to travel, work, go online or shop will be with your vaccine passport and digital currency. Your currency will of couse be deleted if you protest. If this happens it will be over my dead body.

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

Hey Norman, just wanted to say thank you and you did a great job of asking pertinent questions that most people shy away from - you have a new fan here!

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

Thanks for the interview, which I enjoyed. I don't enjoy watching people having to dance along the tightropes of being trashed (e.g. for mentioning 'deaths'), forcing them to be more circumspect than I would otherwise like. Interesting personal story (of John Campbell, especially) of people navigating in real-time the nightmares of the past three years. Like many others, John was taken in by authoritative advice (by PMs, CMOs, etc), which turns out to have been both highly conflicted and - let's face it - just plain wrong. Others have continued to run the same line, while (ironically!) he has realised the problems and is now criticised by those who presumably thought he ought to have worked out the skullduggery earlier. Hindsight is always too easy. The three people in this interview have done (and continue to do) us a great service, in different ways, and it was great to see them all on the same screen.

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I haven't even watched this yet and I am smiling. Thank you for doing this interview.

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

The saddest part of the whole video was looking at participants trying to control every single word / sentence to avoid being kicked out of media. I guess if we could see conversations in the USSR or the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War period they wouldn’t look much different from these ones. It is sad to see the damages that censorship is doing, the fear for your profession, for your freedom. But people think they are freer and living in democracies. Good on them.

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The fundamental issue is that people were deliberately misled about the manufactured Covid crisis - by governments, by the scientific and medical establishment, by the corporate mainstream media.

The main game all along was to get needles into arms, to make people submit to medical interventions on demand.

Why? Why did they want to vaccinate everyone against a disease it was known from the beginning wasn't a serious threat to most people?

It seems it was because they wanted to develop massive vaccine markets, and capture people in a digital ID system from cradle to grave, aka the 'vaccine passport' they've been wanting to implement for years, see for example: https://health.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2022-12/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf

The medical 'profession' has cooperated with this scheme, what a massive betrayal of trust...

In this regard, please see below my email to the Chief Medical Officer of Australia, Paul Kelly, titled: The destruction of voluntary informed consent in Australia under the guise of the 'Covid emergency', 6 May 2023.

In this email I argue that Paul Kelly and the AHPPC capitulated to then Prime Minister Scott Morrison and National Cabinet's desire for mandatory vaccination, precipitated by Paul Kelly and the AHPPC reneging on their original advice that Covid vaccination shouldn't be compulsory for aged care workers. This reversal set off a cascade of Covid vaccination mandates around the country. Once voluntary informed consent was trashed for the aged care workers, it was trashed for all... See email below:

Paul Kelly, as Australia’s top doctor, how could you cooperate with mandated medical interventions being imposed on Australians, trashing the legal and ethical principle of voluntary informed consent?

It appears you led the conscription of the medical profession for the then Morrison Government's Covid-19 vaccination rollout, in contravention of the Australian constitution.[1]

Health practitioners were compelled to support the Covid vaccination rollout without question, as dictated by the AHPRA position statement dated 9 March 2021.[2]

Paul Kelly, in June 2021, the AHPPC capitulated to the former prime minister Scott Morrison and National Cabinet’s demand that aged care workers be forced to submit to Covid vaccination to keep their jobs.

Denying aged care workers a voluntary decision on this medical intervention was the thin end of the wedge that opened the floodgates to a cascade of Covid vaccination mandates across Australia.

The AHPPC facilitated Scott Morrison's original plan that Covid vaccination be "as mandatory as you can possibly make it… We’ve got to get about 95%…taking medical advice…", as he announced on 3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell in August 2020.[3]

Paul Kelly, in your position as Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, you are Chair of the AHPPC, in charge of the Chief Health Officers of Australia’s states and territories.[4] You are also the Director of Human Biosecurity[5] under the Biosecurity Act 2015. In these roles you have been the most powerful person in Australia, an unelected bureaucrat. Along with the AHPPC which you chair, you (and Brendan Murphy before you) provided the "specialist medical and epidemiological advice" used by the then Health Minister Greg Hunt, and Governor-General David Hurley, advice used to implement and extend the human biosecurity emergency period for Covid-19, during which people were locked down, masked up, placed under surveillance, tested, and injected, including under mandates.[6]

In July 2021 I wrote to Greg Hunt, asking what is the definition of 'the emergency' being used to justify the declaration of the human biosecurity emergency; what is the "specialist medical and epidemiological advice" provided by the AHPPC, and has it been objectively and independently assessed; and queried the qualifications and expertise of members of the AHPPC and 'other experts'. I received no response to my questions from Greg Hunt.

Paul Kelly, you're a medical practitioner registered with AHPRA, and must be aware of your and your colleagues’ legal and ethical obligation to obtain voluntary informed consent for treatment, as stated in Good medical practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia. AHPRA personally confirmed this duty of practitioners in a letter to me dated 20 September 2021: "Practitioners have an obligation to obtain informed consent for treatment, including vaccination. Informed consent is a person’s voluntary decision about health care that is made with knowledge and understanding of the benefits and risks involved.”[7]

Paul Kelly, on 4 June 2021, it appears you were alert to your responsibility to ensure voluntary informed consent be obtained for vaccination, as it was specifically announced that the "AHPPC does not recommend compulsory COVID-19 vaccines for aged care workers".[8]

The AHPPC stated: "Mandating COVID-19 vaccination must balance the rights of an individual in the workplace against the public health benefits of vaccination at the time..."

On the same day, an ABC headline announced "Scott Morrison to use National Cabinet to lobby state governments to go against health advice on COVID vaccination".[9]

The ABC reported: "The Prime Minister will lobby state and territory leaders to overrule medical experts' advice and force aged care workers to get the coronavirus vaccine... The panel of health experts, chaired by the Chief Medical Officer, has advised for a second time against making the coronavirus vaccine compulsory." (My emphasis.)

This is incredible! On what basis could Scott Morrison overrule the 'medical experts' advice', and lobby state and territory leaders in National Cabinet to force aged care workers to have the coronavirus vaccine, and deny them voluntary informed consent?!

Subsequently, on 28 June 2021, it was announced "The National Cabinet agreed that COVID-19 vaccinations are to be mandated for residential aged care workers as a condition of working in an aged care facility through shared state, territory and Commonwealth authorities and compliance measures."[10]

Paul Kelly, the rogue and unaccountable National Cabinet headed by Scott Morrison, usurped your position as the most powerful person in Australia...

You and the AHPPC capitulated to Scott Morrison and National Cabinet, rubber-stamping their decision after the event, as announced in your own statement a day later: "AHPPC recommends to National Cabinet that the residential aged care workforce be vaccinated against COVID-19, as a condition of working in a residential aged care facility…"[11]

The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation called it out at the time, being "concerned that mandating vaccinations for the aged care workforce could be a 'political decision, not a health decision'".[12]

This was indeed nothing to do with health...this was a political decision, resulting in the theft of personal autonomy and bodily integrity, in what is supposedly a 'free country'. You subsequently boasted "Australia was one of the first countries internationally to mandate COVID-19 vaccination", in your co-authored article published in the Medical Journal of Australia in November 2022 - Implementing mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for Australian aged care workers.

Yes, Australia was one of the first countries in the world to trash voluntary informed consent for the Covid vaccinations...not an achievement to be proud of...

Paul Kelly, a cascade of Covid vaccination mandates was precipitated by you setting the precedent with aged care workers.

AHPPC mandates were subsequently imposed for people working in health care, disability, and in-home and community aged care[13], followed by further employment mandates imposed in the states and territories across both public and private sectors, along with 'vaccine passports' being required for entry to retail, hospitality and entertainment, and participation in sport etc.[14]

For millions of Australians a digital vaccine certificate was required to be included in society - it was No Jab, No Life. With medical privacy deliberately undermined, the social exclusion and isolation of 'non-compliant' people was actively encouraged.

An apartheid was created to punish people who refused to consent to the Covid vaccinations, denying them their livelihood and locking them out of the 'vaccinated economy'. People were discriminated against and ostracised, cancelled out of society for refusing to comply under the pressure, coercion and manipulation to submit to the Covid vaccines, in contravention of valid consent, as stipulated in The Australian Immunisation Handbook.

This is the biggest act of treachery in Australia's history - it's the theft of freedom.

The medical profession is at the heart of this scandal, led by you, Paul Kelly, the Chief Medical Officer of Australia: you have destroyed confidence and trust in the health system.

Health practitioners should never have cooperated with mandated medical interventions.

There must be an urgent investigation into this fiasco, this disgraceful stain on Australia's history - the deliberate politicisation of medicine to subjugate the Australian people.

Sincerely

Elizabeth Hart

Independent researcher investigating vaccine products and conflicts of interest in vaccination policy

vaccinationispolitical.net

Original email accessible via this link: https://vaccinationispolitical.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/the-destruction-of-voluntary-informed-consent-in-australia-under-the-guise-of-the-covid-emergency.pdf

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

Elizabeth, I think you know the answer to your question. Some sort of mix of deference to authority (partly understandable as everyone cannot know everything about everything and sometimes has to take on trust what they’re told) and partly just plain corruption. The case of Andrew Hill and Tess Lawrie is a good case in point: when millions of dollars and research funding and institutional survival are at stake, people are conflicted. When (previously) trusted high-status peer-reviewed journals are also corrupted, it becomes even harder to know what counts as evidence. (Both Norman and Jessica have given good examples of the journal’s problem, as have others such as Pierre Kory. I don’t know how my local GP (or - gasp - my local vaccinating pharmacist) has any hope of telling fact from fiction in such a world. It’s no accident I think that some of the thoughtful voices (such as Robert Clancy’s) come from retired people, no longer reliant on the mob for their well-being.

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

EXCELLENT! As always!

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May 28, 2023Liked by Norman Fenton

I have watched John's channel since late 2020 & have watched him slowly HAVE to come to terms with the fact that everything he had held dear to him in his profession was not all it seemed. There was one particular video where I literally cried for him, I can't remember which one it was, but it was the realisation in his face & tone in his voice that he had been duped. You can hear by what he says that he still doesn't want to quite let go yet, which is understandable. Having dedicated your life to medicine, only to be deceived at the last hurdle, must be heart breaking. He now has to re-evaluate everything he thought to be true. Most of us throughout our lives have, at some stage, been put in a position where we have had to change what we thought about something or someone. Thank you Norman for helping us see how data & statistics can be manipulated to show whatever it is "they" want you to see. It's made me question rather than just accept.

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As a youth I contemplated a benign dictatorship as the best form of government in which the State existed for the individuals. As an elderly man I now realise that there is nothing benign about any form of dictatorship. Jessica is right, sovereign individuals and sovereign States are the most precious objectives of society. No matter how you dress up those fundamentals, it always comes down to us being individuals, free to decide what gives us happiness. Too many States and their enabling organisations seek to rob us of that freedom and all that goes with it. This video discussion was great.

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Interesting. He's still on probation as a "good guy" AFAIC but excellent interview.

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Thank you Norman. Outstanding interview with Dr. John & Jessica. You are all 3 of the leading truthers of this scam.

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