Right Now - Playwright & Historian Michael Gray Griffith Tells Us About His Freedom Fighting Tour
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On this week's Right Now, journalist Jackie Devoy talks about her new film, Playing God.
Playwright turned freedom fighter historian, Michael Gray Griffiths.
He joins us from Australia to talk about his road trip around the country, documenting the effects of the last two years.
UK fisherman Chris Gill is on the line telling us why he's donating his weekly catch to his local food bank in an attempt to undermine the Great Reset.
And Joe Wood, host of Alien Nation podcast, is here talking about the recent Pentagon hearing about the rise in UFO
activity.
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Hello and welcome to Monkeypox.
More fear porn for the masses.
It really sums up the last two years perfectly.
Switch on the news and it will tell you your roof is caving in.
They just switch the cause.
The result is always the same though.
Be frightened. Oh, and hand us all the power you possess as free sovereign human beings and we'll make sure you're all right.
In March 2021, at the Munich Security Conference, they ran a tabletop exercise called Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats.
Now, during that conference, they simulated a manufactured monkeypox outbreak.
The outbreak would appear in, you guessed it, May 2022.
It goes on to predict something like 27 million deaths by May 2023.
Now, imagine this scenario.
Me and my mates, we get together to hold a conference for a laugh.
Ten quid a ticket, you get your lunch included, soup and a sandwich, no refunds.
At that conference, we run a scenario predicting an outbreak of a very rare illness that's never caused a pandemic before.
And then over a year later, in the very month we said it would appear, it appears.
Do you reckon me and my mates would be getting a visit from the police?
I think we probably would. Now, couple that with Bill Gates telling anyone that would listen in November 2021 that they needed to be wary of a smallpox bioweapon being released and that the next one would get attention.
That was coupled with his very sinister smile, if you remember.
It makes you wonder exactly what is going on.
We're being lied to, now I put my house on that, but to what extent remains to be seen.
The last two years have no doubt affected people around the world in lots of different ways.
Our next guest, he quit his profession as a result of global events and embarked on a whole new way of life.
Michael Gray Griffiths was a playwright in Australia but quit when the prospect of playing to segregated audiences reared its ugly head.
He's now become a self-styled freedom fighter historian and is currently travelling around the country in his truck Charlotte the truth bug, capturing the emotions and feelings people have gone through during the last 24 months.
He says the powers that be are trying to erase history and it's important that it's documented properly.
I caught up with him a few days ago and began by asking him how the project started.
Well we really winged it really.
There was a massive gathering in Canberra of literally a million Australians came to the national capital from all over Australia.
And I was one of the first people there to be streaming it.
And there was nothing like it ever before.
And they all came for one thing.
They came for freedom. They just wanted to let people know they wanted freedom.
And when I was streaming them, they were coming up and I was saying, why'd you come?
And they just said, I was compelled to come.
I had to come. They grabbed the kids.
And these people have driven like 3,000 kilometres, 2,000 kilometres.
A lot of them have no money.
And they filled this place called Epic Camp.
And overnight it went from having 50 people in it to...
It was...
Well, it was a refugee camp.
It was the anti-vaxxer couple of Australia, maybe the world.
And we were there for 22 days.
And when we left...
And we had this thing called Charlotte the Truth Bug, which was just this four-cylinder little truck with banners on the back.
When we left, we came to go back to Melbourne.
We came through Sydney and then down the coast.
And because I'd been streaming a lot, people knew the truck and they were coming out of the towns to meet me.
And because I'd been recording people's stories, People just wanted to tell their stories.
And so I told my comrade and the other freedom fighters in Melbourne, rather than me hanging around Melbourne, just interviewing the same old people, we're just spreading around the same people, I'm going to head off.
And go to every town I can and see if Australia is fully compliant or whether there's resistance in every country town.
And literally every country town we go to, there's these resistance groups and I interview them.
And it's been extraordinary.
What kind of stories have people been telling you?
And what is the reason behind you doing it in terms of what you think it can achieve?
Is it purely to document this as a time in history?
Well, first off, it was to basically try to be a recruitment officer for the freedom fighters, because we're a minority.
And so I thought if I could find people, courageous people, Who tell their story, then maybe that would make someone in another town do something.
And that actually happened. We were in this tiny little town called Streaky Bay, and a young woman came up and said, I've heard about you.
I'd like to tell my story.
So she got in the truck, told her story, and I forgot about it.
She's a lovely girl, but I forgot about it.
When we got to Darwin months later, here's a girl, young girl running for politics called Taylor.
And Taylor lost her, she was going to be a teacher.
But because of the mandates here, because she doesn't want to get vaccinated, she can't finish her course.
She only had three weeks to go.
She got in a very dark place and then she saw Amber's video.
Now she's running for an independent party in the federal election.
So it's interesting how this works.
As we were going along, I was realizing as I'm recording these stories, like people with severe adverse reactions that the mainstream media ignore, the politicians ignore, the doctors, the whole medical fraternity ignores.
As I recorded them, I realized that these people's history that they're actually living was being erased as it was being spoken.
So about a month into the journey, I realized we're actually historians.
We're actually capturing a history that our society is trying to erase as it's happening.
And so it sounds a bit nutty, I know, but that's what we do.
We just keep going. It sounds great.
It sounds like you're doing something really important.
Well, it's bizarre.
You know, we've been to these tiny little country towns.
Like, there's a town called Coober Pedy where they live underground.
They dig caves underground because it's so hot.
And we got told, look, it's all Nazis there.
They're all against us.
Everyone's vaccinated.
No one's on our side.
But we thought, we'll go there and we'll have a look.
And so we're driving there, and it's 600 kilometres to get there, and the truck only does 80 kilometres an hour.
And the middle of the night, we got to this petrol station.
It's the only petrol station for 200 kilometres.
And we pay for the...
We fill her up, and then I go in, and this guy just...
And we used to have Australia...
People used to say,''G'day, mate.
How are you going?'' But everyone's masked up.
And we walked in, and this guy just yells at me,''Where's your mask?'' I said, oh, we don't wear them, mate.
And he goes, this is South Australia.
It's the law. I said, oh, well, arrest us.
And because it was like one o'clock in the morning, we're driving through the night to get away from the heat.
Anyway, he took the money.
He looked really annoyed.
He didn't know what to do. And then I went to buy a carton of milk because we were starving.
The only thing we had was muesli and he wouldn't let us buy anything.
So we're driving down the road and instead of milk, we had muesli with beer, which is actually delicious.
And you put a load of muesli in your mouth, and then you take a swig of warm beer, and it's actually delicious.
It's really tasty.
So we're driving down the middle of the night doing this.
Anyway, we got to Coober Pedy, which is a really rough town.
They dig for opals.
And we set up our little truck.
We set up our flags.
We got the Australian flag set up.
And we set up our little table ready to interview people.
And all these people turn up and they want to tell their story.
And then one woman said, I want you to come stay at our place.
And we stayed in her underground house.
And then I said, you know what?
It'd be great to do a live show from here, but we need a bigger place.
And she goes, well, my husband built a chapel that he's never used.
It's next door. And we're like, what?
And then we go next door and here's an underground chapel that he built.
Can you get rid of that? Unbelievable. And we did the, with Wi-Fi, and we did the show from there, and these people were turning up who didn't know the old people.
They just knew. We got an interactive map on our site, cafelockedout.com, so you always know where we are.
And these people are turning up and they just want to tell their story because Australia has been silenced.
We have been driving not through how you're going, mate, everything, throw another shrimp on the barbie.
We've been driving through throw another shrimp on the barbie and your neighbour under the bus.
We've been driving through a broken heart.
Australia's gone. I'm telling you it's finished.
All the beautiful myths that we used to sell to the world, they're gone.
We're an occupied country now.
The occupying force is fear and the soldiers are in the people's souls and everyone looks frightened.
Everyone's frightened to talk.
And we drive through there and these people who are just bursting, bursting to talk, Come up and talk to us.
A perfect example is a fireman who talked to us the other day.
We're getting his audio ready and he's been vaccine injured so they're getting ready to get rid of him because he can't take the third booster.
And the other 16 firemen that lost their jobs because they didn't want to get vaccinated They've had everything removed.
They've become non-persons.
In this depot in Darwin, and Darwin's a really interesting town, it's basically, you could have lived there, worked there 40 years ago, and your picture's still up somewhere.
There's bits of you in the depot, because of the brotherhood, you know, are now gone.
They're told by their bosses, anything that can identify these people, and that's what we're documenting.
It is bizarre.
And something else as well, which maybe people don't necessarily realise in terms of Australia, is the size of the country.
So if someone says, say, in the UK, oh, we're driving around the country, that's okay.
But Australia is absolutely enormous, isn't it?
I mean, those distances are...
Unbelievable. Well, we left Melbourne 70 days ago today, so we've been on the road for 70 days, and we're just over halfway around.
And that's because we stopped to tell people, and we do the little towns, but basically we stop for a night or two nights to capture everyone that wants to talk, and then we move on.
But yeah, it's taken us 70 days to hear.
Although we did have a...
We had a seven-day...
A stopover in WA in a tiny town because Western Australia had a closed border.
You couldn't get across if you were unvaccinated.
So we decided to test it.
And once we got across, they made us isolate for seven days.
So that was a seven-day break.
So it's 63 days really.
But that was really funny.
It literally is a fractured country in that sense then.
I mean, what's the authorities reaction to what you're doing?
Because all I can see from here is that you're bringing people together and that feels to me that that's like their worst nightmare.
Well, it's interesting, you know, we've been expecting more flack than what we get.
But at the moment, maybe, you know, with the Facebook page is going well, we've got over 100,000 followers, and we've never boosted anything.
So I'm getting shadow banned a lot.
But there's, and we get a lot of bans, but The authorities don't talk to us.
A lot of the compliant people don't talk to us.
It's just this growing group of people who are very concerned on the future of Australia who cheer us on and want to meet us and house us, put us up.
So we survive on the kindness of strangers.
Like even this house we're in now, this is from an old couple.
Who are living in this tiny town called Catherine.
It's a tiny little one-horse town.
Eight years ago, they started fostering indigenous children.
So they're from Croatia. They had these three children.
All girls, two of them sisters.
And they basically brought them up, still with their traditions, so they still knew their real parents, but they were learning Croatian.
So they're in this tiny little town, you've got these three Aboriginal girls knowing Croatian.
They're doing extremely well in school, but the father, or the older man, Had a severe adverse reaction to the second jab because they had to be jabbed to keep the kids.
And while he was waiting for some tests before taking the booster, the authorities called up and said, we're coming to take the kids away in 40 minutes.
And they did. And they ripped the children away in 40 minutes.
After being in this family for eight years, they're a part of the, they're gone.
And they're doing this all over the top of WA and Northern Territory.
But a lot of people don't want to talk because they're terrified they'll never see their foster kids again.
But these people were Croatian, they were annoyed, so they wanted to talk.
And then they've given us their house.
We've driven down to Catherine and we're staying here for a couple of nights.
And so we sort of travel.
I'm not that religious, but you almost feel like you've got something by your side where these amazing interviews turn up.
And if we don't find a place to sleep, we sleep in a swag.
Do you know what a swag is?
No idea. Okay, a swag is like a tent shaped like a coffin and it can open up on all sides and it's really comfy.
It comes with a mattress. And it's just really, really comfy.
And it's easy to set up.
And we sleep in that.
As a playwright, which is obviously your profession, do you think that's really helped you to get the stories out of people?
Yeah, because what I do is I give them the first act.
You know, say I'm at a resistance meeting, say, in a town like Port Hedland.
I say, what's your name and what are you doing at a resistance meeting in Port Hedland?
That's the first act, and they fill in the second act, and I just wait for them to finish off the third act, because we're natural storytellers.
It's like people being at the pub.
They learn how to tell the story succinctly and entertainingly, and most of the time they get it.
And if they start to waver off to different subjects, I try sort of to nudge them back, but usually they're remarkable.
The other night in Darwin, I did a speech saying that in a time of silence, the best defense is to speak out and having the courage to speak out.
And this young Malaysian Australian came up and said, I want to speak.
And he was a pharmacist who'd left the profession.
And he did this, he like let it all out.
He'd been storing it up for a year.
And that's just going bonkers on with people sharing it and wanting to get to know him because he talks about how to deal with adverse reactions, what you can take, the medical profession, what he thinks in the vaccines and all these other things.
So yeah, it's, you know, it's amazing.
You're giving such a voice to people.
I'm not going to play to segregated audiences, so my career is over.
I'm 55, so I'm not going to start another career.
I don't want to live on my knees in their world, so I'd rather die on my feet in this one.
Absolutely. And so I became a freedom fighter by default.
I thought, this is my generation's fight, and I'm going to fight.
And it's only when I came back, I thought, well, I don't want to do politics.
I'm a good storyteller, so I'll do this.
It's fantastic what you're doing.
It's fantastic what you're doing. People need to know these stories.
It's vital that future generations know so that we don't repeat history again.
Absolutely. But thank you so much for talking to us, mate.
And I know you had to, like you say, you were driving hundreds of kilometers to get there to talk to us.
We really do appreciate it. I didn't do the driving.
I got a Polish I've got a Polish freedom fighter with me called Krek.
He's a machine. He drives and I sit in the back whinging.
Oh, magic. We'll pass on our best to him and thank you so much again, mate.