I fully agree with Alan Jones
"It may be unfashionable to make the point but we should be seriously concerned, not about why Novak Djokovic was granted an exemption but rather why he is now being treated like a virtual criminal.
Whatever emotions might dictate, the image to the rest of the world is of the police state that we have seen operating in Victoria for some time.
In these things, facts go out the window.
The first fact of significance is that Tennis Australia has imposed far tougher rules for those seeking exemption than would apply to any other Australian entering the country.
All applications are what is being called "blind", that is, all personal details - name, country etc. - have been redacted.
It is clear that the bulk of the applications for exemption by players and officials have been rejected.
The Djokovic application was approved but, repeating, the approval was granted without the expert panels knowing the name of the applicant.
So, Djokovic arrives in Melbourne with an exemption. Then he was told his visa application was flawed.
But those asking Djokovic to give reasons why he has been granted an exemption are now not giving reasons why the visa application is flawed.
It appears that other players, unnamed, with similar visa applications, have been allowed into the country.
But all that aside, is this an appropriate image for Australia? That the world's leading tennis player, with no convictions of any kind other than the fact that some may disagree with his views, is now being treated like a criminal; firstly, reportedly, hauled up in a room at midnight with armed guards and then, reportedly, being told to leave the country tonight.
And now, politically, it is being weaponised.
The federal government are trying to say the Victorian Labor government were prepared to let Djokovic in when, in fact, visa matters are a matter for the federal government.
It gives every impression, as with so many issues, that governments are prepared to abandon facts and cave in to pressure from the left-wing Twitter mob.
Admittedly, people are angry that apparently unvaccinated people, be they tennis players or anyone else, are allowed into the country when other Australians have made massive sacrifices.
But Djokovic did not make the rules. He just applied for an exemption.
The exemption was objectively assessed by "medical experts".
Djokovic was granted an exemption.
Now it appears that the visa rules which have applied to others who were granted exemptions, do not apply to Djokovic.
It is easy to see Djokovic as the villain; but the image of an Australia treating a bloke like a common criminal owes more to the behaviour of a police state than it does to a liberal democracy.
You either have rule by law or rule by the mob.
Which is it?"
