Sisters and brothers. Watch the video above, please.
A mentally disabled Australian woman was arrested and is being prosecuted for an “antisemitic hate crime” after she accidentally pocket-dialed a Jewish nutritionist.
The voicemail was blank. No words. No threats. Just background noise.
And the nutritionist reportedly said she felt “immediate fear and nervousness.”
I truly don’t know what to say. That this woman, who CLEARLY has intellectual disabilities, and seemingly has no idea what’s even going on, was arrested BEFORE Benjamin Netanyahu pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the order of the world.
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This is not “antisemitism.” This is authoritarian theater.
Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: if a government can take a woman with an intellectual disability and drag her into court over a blank voicemail, then the word “hate crime” has been emptied of meaning and repurposed as a weapon.
This is what a panic looks like when it metastasizes into policy.
And we’re being told Australia needs more of this. More power. More prosecutions. More criminal penalties. More speech policing. More fear.
There’s “hate speech” legislation in the works that appears explicitly crafted to expand the exact dynamics we’re watching here—dramatically increasing the scale, frequency, and consequences of prosecutions that function less like justice and more like message discipline.
If you can be prosecuted for a silent voicemail because someone imagined it was dangerous, then let me be clear: the law is no longer about conduct. It’s about feelings. And once a state decides feelings are enough to criminalize you, nobody is safe—because feelings can be manufactured, coached, amplified, and weaponized.
A pocket-dial today. A prison sentence tomorrow.
Australians are being asked to trust a system that would do this—and then give that same system even more authority to imprison people for years over political expression.
That’s not “combatting extremism.” That’s criminalizing dissent.
And it’s happening after the world just watched years of escalating efforts to stomp out criticism of Israel and crush pro-Palestine protest—while an active genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for over two years.
So no, I don’t accept the premise that this is some brand-new emergency requiring extraordinary new powers. I think it’s the opposite: the powers are the emergency.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
