Eatery Done Like a Dinner by the Bureaucracy

Police blitz brings public support for Catalano’s Fine Food

As more and more well-informed opinions appear, it is becoming clear that much of the coronavirus lockdown was unnecessary. We should have been isolating only our most vulnerable people, and letting the young and healthy get on with their jobs.

(Adopting sensible distancing and cleanliness does not mean a complete lockdown).

The officious nature of the bureaucracy - none of whom would have ever been exposed to the threat of job losses or the need to continue their enterprise to cover the next ‘pay day’ - is fracturing our normally cohesive society.

And, why does it take three policemen to count 28 people? Can each of them only count to nine?

Or, would this normally be the work of one, if other than the taxpayers were paying their salaries?

Fortunately Perth’s dining public have rallied in support of Joe Murgia’s efforts to keep his enterprise alive during these difficult times.

For battlers to be persecuted in this fashion, tells me that without public protests and support for the Joe Murgia’s of this world our society is doomed.

This incident reminds me of Ayn Rand’s wisdom when she described similar situations:

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.

The best support from the public is to eat at Catalano’s Café and bring all your friends. Telephone for a reservation on 08 9362 1121.