Commentary As Anzac Day Dawn Services were held across the nation, another lockdown in Perth and the Peel region after two cases of locally acquired COVID-19 forced their cancellation in Western Australia (WA), with the people instead asked to commemorate the day at home. These lockdown measures compromise at least two of our most cherished and important freedoms: freedom of assembly and freedom of movement. Even more significantly, such measures come from politicians who consider themselves “progressives.” These leaders are motivated by a supposed desire “to make our world better.” But, as U.S. Justice Louis Brandeis correctly warned, “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men [and women] of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” The reasons for this present lockdown in WA are illegitimate. Like Stalinism, the government is deploying its coercive power with threats of criminal sanction and other forms of arbitrary action upon the individual, which …