Fox News host Tucker Carlson compares Australia's Covid exit strategy to 'Chinese authoritarianism' before claiming Aussies can't fight back because the country was 'disarmed' of its guns
- Fox News' Tucker Carlson said Australia has become as overbearing as China
- He also made bizarre claims Australians can't respond after being 'disarmed'
- Draconian lockdowns, especially in Victoria, have angered many Australians
A conservative American television host has claimed Australia is becoming 'like China' over the nation's policing, lockdown and vaccination policies as he stoked wild conspiracy theories on air.
Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his eponymous Fox News program to blasting Australia's pandemic response and exit strategy, claiming that the country's slide into 'Chinese authoritarianism' was a lesson for the United States.
Mr Carlson's monologue suggested the government Down Under had 'disarmed' the locked-down public so 'they couldn't rebel', despite violent outbursts from those belonging to the 'Freedom Rally' movement recorded in Melbourne throughout September.
Popular American television host Tucker Carlson has bizarrely claimed Australia is becoming 'like China' over our policing, lockdown and vaccination policies as he stoked wild conspiracy theories
The popular news anchor began his spray by taking aim at the Australian Federal Police raids on the ABC in 2019, which he said 'seemed a lot like Chinese authoritarianism'.
He said after countries like the United States were left horrified by images of Wuhan citizens at the start of the pandemic being 'welded into the apartments to starve' and taken away to 'unknown locations', he claimed the same things were now happening in Australia.
'Two years later what does Australia look like? Well it looks a lot like China did at the beginning of the pandemic that's the sad truth.'
The top-rating political commentator turned much of his attention to Victorian police for 'beating... peaceful protesters' and 'hunting down' people for minor lockdown indiscretions.
The top-rating political commentator turned much of his attention to Victorian police for 'beating... peaceful protesters' and 'hunting down' people for minor lockdown indiscretions
Australia has been branded a 'fascist state' on US TV after footage aired on Fox News of the brutal arrest of a Melbourne man for smoking a cigarette (pictured)
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant sent conspiracy theorists wild with an innocent comment about life after lockdown when pubs reopen a month ago
'In just two years the Australian police went from raiding news rooms to beating people in the streets, so maybe the lesson is things can change very quickly,' Mr Carlson said.
'One moment the English-speaking world is mocking China for being dystopian and autocratic the next moment they're aping China and hunting people down who are two blocks from their own home.'
He made reference to a clip from Australian television of a man wrestled to the ground by Victorian police for not wearing a mask while smoking a cigarette a block from his home.
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He also defended Anthony Karam, who became a fugitive from NSW Police after refusing to self-isolate after a Covid test as 'sparking a national manhunt because he sneezed in an elevator'.
'Not all Australians are on board with this,' Carlson said, in an apparent reference to anti-lockdown protesters.
'But because Australians were disarmed by their government a few years ago there's precisely nothing they can do about it.'
The 'disarming' comment appears to be in reference to Prime Minister John Howard's decision in 1996 to reform Australia's gun laws in response to the country's worst-ever massacre.
On April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, then 28, killed 35 people and injured 23 more at a historic site in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
The laws banned rapid-fire guns from civilian ownership except under certain, restricted licences and tightened requirements for firearms licensing, registration and safe storage.
Multiple social media accounts accused the state's most senior health bureaucrat of having a secret agenda after she hinted QR codes were likely to stay so people could be contacted if they had visited a Covid exposure site
The very term New World Order has long been associated with the idea of globalists having an agenda but the evidence, so far, indicating Covid originated in Wuhan has sparked new conspiracy theories about Communist China spreading a virus to destroy liberal democracies in the West
'Look at what's happening now, they're being crushed,' Carlson said, as Fox played a video of violent clashes between Victorian police and protesters.
He finished by returning to the seemingly innocent 'new world order' comment made by NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant Health three weeks ago.
He appeared to claim news outlets worldwide were deliberately ignoring Australia's decline because it was driven by a move to a new world order.
Just over a month ago Mr Carlson also slammed Australia's ongoing Covid lockdowns likening the 'totalitarian' country's draconian restrictions to a 'science-fiction' film.
At the time he compared Australia to North Korea.
