People Are Raising Money To Send A “Huge Bag Of Dicks” To Craig Kelly
Got a text? Send a dildo.
People are sending dildos to Craig Kelly to protest his spam anti-vaxx text messages. Newly formed collective ‘Cock Block Craig Kelly’ are trying to raise $15,000 to send 1000 dicks to the vexed MP after multiple rounds of misinformation were sent to millions of phones across the country.
CBCK hope that the “huge bag of dicks” will send a message back to Kelly, on behalf of those who want to opt out of the United Australia Party’s SMS but can’t, in a more tangible way than simply replying “fuck off”. They say they’ll also send part of every donation to a charity immunising people in developing countries with COVID jabs.
“Sending a bag of dicks is clearly a joke, but the texts UAP sent are not,” the group said in a statement. “Kelly is attempting to undermine trust in the COVID vaccines through his mass text campaign. [He] has been removed from Facebook for spreading misinformation about COVID19, and CBCK doesn’t understand how a man too poisonous for Facebook can still text 14 million Australian phone numbers”.
The frustrations are being felt elsewhere, as medical regulator Therapeutic Goods Administration announced last Saturday they’re preparing to take legal action against Kelly and Clive Palmer for misleading millions of people about the vaccine with incorrect info, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. One of Kelly’s text hyperlinks actually looped back to the TGA’s site, and cherrypicked examples of severe health responses from patients that weren’t necessarily caused by the vaccine as he conflated them to be.
Kelly had previously defended his harmful texts, saying he was “absolutely not” sorry, and what he was doing was “100 percent legal”. Unfortunately, under the Privacy Act, political parties like the UAP are not considered an ‘organisation’ and therefore bypass the ‘Do Not Call‘ register. Experts believe that Kelly’s strategy is an attempt to rope in right-wing voters ahead of the next federal election.
Ticked off civilians have already retaliated by sending unsolicited texts back to Kelly, whose number was leaked online. He’s since changed his number which was again shared publicly.