Gold Coast conspiracists begin doorknocking on houses, leave ‘urgent’ letter

Conspiracists don’t want to be told what to do or how to live, but ignore our request to block their bull. And now they’re delivering it to Gold Coast doorsteps.

A note left in a Gold Coast letterbox.

Neighbourhood watch has taken on a whole new meaning.

A movement by a new club of cookers is now strolling our suburban streets day and night to deliver news of everything from why cash is king to how vaccines are evil and, I assume, when to expect the apocalypse.

A friend recently received her own hand-delivered note in her letterbox with the heartwarming message: “Urgent Message to all Australians: Self-assembling nanotechnology bio-weapon is being found in every blood and urine sample we test.”

Huh?

First, who is giving these people their blood and urine?

Second, huh?

Then there’s a group on social media which is currently spamming every community group on Facebook as they actively try to indoctrinate all of us regular folk to their crazy conspiracies.

There are currently just shy of 7000 members of this particular group, the Aussie Fight Back Club, which seems particularly active on the Gold Coast judging by the videos, but it’s just one of many Australian-based groups that are still growing.

However, this group is particularly focused on its latest “community action”, titled Australia’s Greatest Letterbox Drop, with the stated motive to “exercise your rights and spread the word, one doorstep at a time! Join our volunteer letterbox flyer drop and help us reach as many Australians as we can!”

Facebook group focuses on ‘community action’, titled Australia’s Greatest Letterbox Drop

There is even a sweet photo of a baby in a pram with the comment: “My co-pilot said it’s okay to put in No Junk Mail boxes, cause it’s definitely quality info”.

So these people, who have very specific ideas about how they want to live (with cash under their mattress, their bodies riddled with infectious diseases and living in traffic-plagued sprawling cities) and that they should be free to do so, are equally intent on ignoring our wishes and forcing the rest of us to believe their bull.

They don’t want to be told what to do or to have information forced upon them, but apparently it’s totally fine if they do that to others.

To be fair, one member commented that this kind of hypocrisy might backfire on their movement, but they were quickly shouted down.

“I had a guy question me about delivering junk mail. I said if you consider this flyer junk mail you are a traitor to this nation and should rescind your citizenship and move elsewhere.”

Excellent, so we’re 100 per cent dealing with kind, logical and rational people.

And that’s what worries me.

Along with all the cooker commentary, members are encouraging door knocking and conversations with residents, which really does not seem like it will end well.

Covid conspiracy screenshots.

Just imagine how you might react should someone ignore your ‘no junk mail’ sign, then tells you you’re a traitor and should leave Australia. It’s not exactly the welcome wagon.

Most depressing of all is how, just like Covid itself, the pandemic conspiracies just won’t die but keep spawning new strains.

And while we have to deal with our own breed of neighbourhood nuts, it could be worse.

Down in Wagga, NSW a neo-Nazi group has been littering letterboxes with recruitment flyers seeking to build a “politicised white Australian community”.

If there’s anything worse than cookers in your community, it’s neo-Nazis.

But there’s a reason why they are on the march through our streets and on to our private property … it’s because, unlike social media, no one can fact-check your letterbox.

So when checking what’s in the post, just make sure you have your wits about you … and double-check that your delivery person was not wearing a tinfoil hat.

In the meantime, I might just start my own line in home decor: designing signs with ‘no cooker conspiracies’ for every reasonable resident’s letterbox.