They Are The Criminals, Not You!

Tucker Carlson delivered this speech in Melbourne, Australia, on 2 July 2025.

"In Great Britain, for example, Canada for example, your closest cousins, your parents and first cousins, people go to jail for noticing. You literally go to jail. You don't like what the government's doing to you, shut up racist and go to jail! They send people to jail... every day! And not for standing and, you know, Hyde Park and screaming, but for writing on Facebook!

So, imagine a government that totally destroys the country, which is criminal behavior, and then criminalises complaining about it! That's not a legitimate government, that's a tyranny! That's a tyranny! And if that were happening in some widely recognised tyrannical country, East Germany 1975, everyone's under surveillance. 

By the way, I don't think East Germany 1975, which was famously the most surveilled nation in the history of the world, I don't think they had seatbelt cameras. No they didn't, that was too far even for Eric Honecker... These countries have become, including my own, had become surveillance states, and the point of that surveillance is not to keep you safe, it's to punish you for noticing what they're doing to your country, actually! That's not the behavior of a legitimate government.

And if you think that's like a right-wing point, you've bought the lies. That's not a right-wing point, that's a simple observation about human rights. No privacy, no freedom... When they're forcing you to do things for your own good, over time you question, like, is this really for my own good or are they just softening me up to obey? 

So, when it really comes down to it, when they want to inject me with some creepy compound that hasn't been tested, that they'll be able to like shoot me with a rubber bullet if I decline, and I'll be so trained to be obedient that I'll kind of put up with it and I won't do what I should do... I shouldn't put up with that because that is not a free country, that's a tyranny, and you have absolutely no obligation under the most basic precepts of human rights and natural law to put up with that for 1 second, period.

THEY are the criminals! YOU are not the criminals!"