'Firehose' of complaints about NSW Police not investigated as watchdog faces cuts!!!

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/firehose-of-complaints-about-nsw-police-not-investigated-as-watchdog-faces-cuts-20191101-p536jo.html

Self Defence Laws In Australia. Dunstan: NSW Police Minister to brief on self-defence gun laws

More Information Here: https://nationalshooting.org.au/blog/f/dunstan-nsw-police-minister-to-brief-on-self-defence-gun-laws?utm_source=NSC&utm_campaign=ff1bff1358-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_16_11_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_34b833c762-ff1bff1358-27924541

And Here: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/05b20b0c-895a-4792-84d2-d2fc0403bcd5/downloads/Dunstan%20-%20NSW%20Deputy%20Premier%20to%20NSC%20-%20response.pdf?ver=1565950170350

Let us be clear here, using a firearm to defend yourself & your family in an armed, violent home invasion is not the only issue here!

Possessing any object specifically for the purpose of self-defence, lethal or non-lethal, is a criminal offence in Australia!!! There are many women, raped and/or murdered, who Possessing any object specifically for the purpose of self-defence, lethal or non-lethal,  would have been liable to prosecution had they been carrying anything that might have saved them.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/an-assault-on-our-right-to-selfprotection/news-story/f743f8b76f21a586a6efb2396c9b2f8d

Thoughts For The Week By Ron Owen. 16th July 2019

Thoughts For The Week.
“Potentially, a Government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights; for it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”  Ayn Rand
Most of the world has been watching the valiant protests in Hong Kong, young people mainly who oppose the Chinese Governments policy of silencing criticism of Communist China by removing them from Hong Kong and putting them into a secret trial system within China’s mainland where nearly everyone is found guilty. Its basic Freedom, the David and Goliath story but Goliath might awake and smash the Hong Kong freedom protestors at any time.

Meanwhile in the Socialist republic of New Zealand Madam Prime Minister follows China’s lead enforcing a disarmament campaign on the good citizens and banning the people from watching a video supposedly of the killing of 50 people in a mosque, however on close inspection it is a farce similar to a video game, showing toy firearms with flashing torches to imitate muzzle flash. So why ban something that is not what its properted to be? None of the supposed victims are recognisable all have conveniently covered their faces after lying down. When other news media film clips on the six o clock news show mass murders, which are more horrific they are not banned, no one is threatened with 14 years jail for watching the Bali Bombers. The governments are not banning other video games so what is in this video that it makes the removal of the freedom of exchange of information so necessary?

The real objective is to have servile people.

The media and politicians rush with swords drawn to protect the integrity of the Freedom of Speech when it’s a Federal raid on the ABC, when people lives and national secrets are at risk, but not one of them offers to say a word in the defence of protecting the freedom of Speech on the internet. No one wants to glorify in any way the creatures who attach un-armed defenceless people, but to take away the right of people to send it about and say “hey this video is nonsense”, shows that governments and media have other motives. Motives that they are not disclosing.
” We can say that the challenge to protect freedom, is now a challenge the Australian parliament has failed to meet. “Senator Eric Abetz
Motives that are similar to the sinister suppression of the Freedom of Speech in China, are not too dissimilar to the restrictions of freedoms in Australia and New Zealand, while Israel Folau explores legal avenues, the broader fight for freedom of religion and belief continues. Supposedly, the new federal parliament is now in session and the government is promising religious freedom legislation. I will only believe that their intentions are honourable when not just 18 C of the Racial Discrimination Act is removed, but when all of this Act is removed, plus the all inclusive State Anti Discrimination Acts are removed. These Acts do not just suppress the freedom of speech, they create public funded witch hunt inquisitions that use the power of the State to create legal precedents that nullify any safeguards that were put in these Acts to sell them to the dumbed down majority.
Just recently, a man described as the “UK’s Israel Folau” recently won a similar case, the British Justice system must not be as polluted as ours in Australia.

One man with integrity can change the world.

Christian student Felix Ngole was expelled from his social work course at Sheffield University for posting comments critical of homosexuality on Facebook.
After fighting a four-year legal battle, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Ngole.
The decision, which overturned an earlier High Court ruling in the university’s favour, found that “the University adopted a position from the outset… which was untenable” and that the university “wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination.”
The presiding judges pointed out that “The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views will discriminate on such grounds.”
Ngole’s comments were made in the course of a debate on Facebook over the jailing of US marriage registrar Kim Davis. Davis, you might recall, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky and was jailed briefly for contempt of court in 2015.
Our Australian courts have always taken the opposite view ‘that if any person could be offended, no matter how slightly then there is breach of the Act which has to be prosectured.
Senator Eric Abetz describes this sort of  discrimination correctly,
“In an exercise of Orwellian proportions, these sports stars were targeted for exclusion in the name of inclusion and discriminated against in the name of tolerance. You don’t have to agree with Izzy to agree with his right to express his religious views, or his wife’s right to back him.”The Senator then outlined why the Folau precedent is a threat to our freedom.
“Today it’s Izzy’s religious views and his wife’s loyal support. Yesterday it was the Professor Ridd’s scientific views. Tomorrow it might be somebody’s political view. The next might be someone’s environmental view. This is a fight for freedom of speech which impacts us all. The government must, and I am confident will, respond to the expressions of the quiet Australians on 18 May and ensure our freedoms, which were bought with the highest of prices, are not sacrificed and squandered on the altar of political correctness.”Any normal Australian who does not have the financial backing or profile of Andrew Bolt or Israel Folau stands no chance before government selected Tribunals, composed of one person. Their selection is not based on their knowledge but on their opinion and in most of the Tribunals the Rule of law and the Rules of evidence do not apply. One Tribunal member in my case bragged from the bench that he could take his opinion on evidence presented from what he read in the morning papers and ignore whatever I presented in my defence.
We do not have a Constitutional Monarchy, or a Constitutional democracy when we cannot comment or we are prevented from reading comments from others, without the freedom ot interchange information we are no better off than the Chinese people, or the Hong Kong people, the difference in the degrees of suppression we are in is just academic debate.
One Law For All.
We are either one nation with equal justice for all, or no justice for those without government support. Government now will support Muslins, homosexuals, and people with a darker skin colour, but won’t support Christians, firearm owners, and white skinned people. That is Discrimination in itself. If we had a correct justice system we are all at liberty to take any offence of Libel or Defamation to the civil courts, if the government wanted to do something right for once they could easily make the Justice system more affordable. Instead, they increase court fees and work to keep the legal profession exclusive. Without Justice we have nothing to fight for, we are just slaves and unfortunately very soon we are going to have to fight to exist in our troubled world.

This reminded me of someone, but when I remembered who it was, I felt that the Gorilla had been defamed.

“A Labor and Greens paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns.”
And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist. It’s called Prison.”
The War with China? Trade, or Missiles? Either could be terminal for Australia.
Australia is in a very vulnerable location with only a flea bite defence force that is more concerned with attracting more women and homosexuals than defending our continental shores.
Just these latest headlines should wake up our  politicians.
“On Monday, the US State Department announced the $2.2 billion potential arms sale to Taiwan, which includes 108 Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger surface-to-air missiles.”
The Reaction was.
“Beijing lodged formal complaints through diplomatic channels expressing “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” and demanded the US “immediately cancel” the arms sale.”
“Taiwan stands in the frontline of China’s ambitious expansion and faces enormous threats and pressure from Beijing,” the Taiwanese foreign ministry said in a statement.
Lieutenant General Yang Hai-ming of the Taiwanese Army said.”Having the M1A2 to replace our older tanks will quickly and effectively boost our defence capability.” Meanwhile, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York City on Friday- for an official visit. Tsai dismissed Chinese criticism of both her visit and the arms deal. “We don’t need our neighbour to make irresponsible remarks,” she told reporters in New York, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency. She has rejected Chinese pressure to reunite Taiwan and China under the “one-country, two-systems” framework that governs Hong Kong. She said the people of Taiwan stand with the young people of Hong Kong who are fighting for democratic freedoms in ongoing protests.””Hong Kong’s experience under ‘one country, two systems’ has shown the world once and for all that authoritarianism and democracy cannot coexist,” Tsai said.
China Threats, Trade Sanctions.
China has threatened trade sanctions and “Urges the US to abide by the “one China principle” and to “not allow Tsai Ing-wen’s stopover, cease official exchanges with Taiwan, and refrain from providing any platform for separatist Taiwan independence forces”.So the 2020’s presents a real risk of a US-China military clash, seeing as Xi Jinping has said he will not tolerate Taiwanese independence, and they’re not willing to let go of the South China Sea— which is fundamentally at odds with what the US wants.”

Insecurity of Australia’s Oil Supply.
The Coal-To-Liquids Imperative For Australian Fuel Security. (click to read full report)
Stocks in terms of days of consumption cover
Petrol: 20 days
Aviation Turbine Fuel: 18 days
Diesel: 17 days

We are living on a hair-trigger in maintaining supply. There are localised shortages of diesel due to bad import batches, but we have immense dangers to our import supply. (Seems silly as we have a underground lake of Oil Shale in Queensland, but no refineries for it)
Either:
Australia continues as is with potential for enormous economic disruption from supply squeezes and a ballooning trade deficit.Or:
Australia installs Coal-To-Liquids capacity, insulates itself from supply disruptions and generates a large amount of income.

This is a Chinese coal to petrol plant, they have 20 new plants. Australia has lots of Coal.

At 2 barrels to the tonne, one tonne of coal produces 318 litres

The Mazda 3 has a fuel economy of 17.5 km to the litre.

Thus one tonne of coal will fuel a Mazda 3 for 5,580 km.
The Gulf between the Straits of Hormuz and the South China Sea is Growing.The Trump administration is planning to send US Navy ships to help escort oil tankers in the Gulf in order to protect them from possible Iranian aggression

Plus more trouble in the Middle East with the
US-Turkey standoff.The US has strongly urged Turkey to pull back from the deal, the first such move between a NATO member and Russia warning Ankara that it will face economic sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act if it goes ahead with the purchase, reportedly costing more than $2 billion of Russia Cruise missiles.

The first shipment of the Russian S-400 missile system has arrived in Turkey, according to the Turkish defence Ministry, moving the NATO member closer to a new standoff with the United States.
“Once the system is completely ready, it will begin to be used in a way determined by the relevant authorities.””As far as we have been told, the systems will be operational by October 2019.”
Plus we have Trouble Brewing at Home.
The Australian Defence Force is closely tracking a high-tech Chinese spy ship as it makes its way towards Australia ahead of this month’s Talisman Sabre war games on the Queensland coast.
Australian military officials believe the laser attacks on the Navy helicopters came from fishing boats, but it has not yet been formally confirmed if the vessels were Chinese flagged. Beijing maintains a robust maritime militia in the South China Sea, composed of fishing vessels equipped to carry out missions just short of combat. “The Australian Government would view reports of military aircraft being targeted by lasers as an unwelcome and potentially dangerous development,” a Defence spokesperson told the ABC in July 2018.

These Chinese lads are not playing ‘Space invaders”, they have their finger on buttons with power.

The confrontations with the People’s Liberation Army are believed to have occurred as China was conducting its largest ever naval exercises in the hotly contested waters.
Defence sources have confirmed HMAS Anzac, HMAS Toowoomba and HMAS Success were challenged by the Chinese PLA Navy. The confrontations with the People’s Liberation Army are believed to have occurred as China was conducting its largest ever naval exercises in the hotly contested waters.
Hyper Velocity Rail Gun fitted to Chinese Navy Craft.

A Chinese navy warship armed with what looks like a mounted electro-magnetic rail gun has apparently set sail, possibly for testing in the open ocean. Chinese media outlets, such as the state-affiliated Global Times, revealed in March – nearly two months after the first pictures of what was dubbed the “Yangtze River Monster” showed up online – that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy is “making notable achievements on advanced weapons, including sea tests of electromagnetic railguns.”

The Type 072II Yuting-class tank landing ship Haiyangshan and its weapon were spotted along the Yangtze River at the Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan earlier this year.
Global Times reporting in March that Zhang Xiao, an associate research fellow at the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Naval University of Engineering announced her research team was responsible for the “largest repeating power supply system in the world”.The sighting, which comes as China marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Navy in 2019, appears to pre-date US intelligence estimates that Chinese railguns would arrive by 2025. A US intelligence report found that China’s weapon would be able to strike 200 kilometres away with a projectile velocity of 2.5 kilometres per second (9,000kph — greater than Mach 7). While US developments remain classified, the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) gave BAE systems $48.3 million to test phase 2 of their railgun program in 2013. This phase will usher in the development of a multiple-shot railgun, alongside the development of a Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) that would see missiles fire at hypersonic speeds — technology that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Russia had successfully tested in December 2018. The US thus far has spent around $710.5 million on the railgun program, but experts fear it will languish as research weight pulls toward HVPs. “The Americans certainly aren’t going slow. They’ve realised they’ve lagged behind Russia and China and are racing to catch up.”
Yet while the future of our nation is perilous we have governments in Australia and New Zealand advocating disarmament, it brings to mind past follies.

Last time the world was in this much trouble only the lucky ones were given a rifle the un lucky ones had a broom handle.

Past Follies Taught the World Lessons that We Should Never Forget.
In 1777, William Knox, Under Secretary of State in the British Colonial Office, circulated a proposal entitled, “What is Fit to be Done with America?” Knox advocated. To keep them servile, the panacea of disarming all of the people and relying solely on a standing army:
“The Militia Laws should be repealed and none suffered to be re-enacted, the Arms of all the People should be taken away, & every piece of Ordnance removed into the King’s Stores, nor should any Foundry or manufactory of Arms, Gunpowder, or Warlike Stores, be ever suffered in America, nor should any Gunpowder, Lead, Arms or Ordnance be imported into it without License: they will have but little need of such things for the future, as the King’s Troops, Ships & Forts will be sufficient to protect them from any danger.”The British resorted to every possible tactic to disarm the Americans—entrapment, false promises of “safekeeping,” banning imports, direct seizure and finally shooting persons bearing arms.
In response to this repression  a group of the freeholders led by James Otis and John Hancock met at Faneuil Hall and passed several resolutions, including the following:
“WHEREAS, by an Act of Parliament, of the first of King William and Queen Mary, it is declared, that the Subjects being Protestants, may have Arms for their Defence; it is the Opinion of this town, that the said Declaration is founded in Nature, Reason and sound Policy, and is well adapted for the necessary Defence of the Community. And Forasmuch, as by a good and wholesome Law of this Province, every listed Soldier and other Householder (except Troopers, who by law are otherwise to be provided) shall always be provided with a well fix’d Firelock, Musket, Accoutrements and Ammunition, as in said Law.”
The law that they were quoting from was not at the time the American Second Amendment to there Constitution as that was not established until 1787 and 1791, the law they resorted to was the British Bill of Rights of 1689. Where it lists twelve policies by which it was wrong to“endeavour to subvert the laws and liberties of this kingdom“, one of which was
“by causing Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law;”
“all which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm.” and later it states in the seventh paragraph ”Subjects’ Arms.
“That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.”
This and more was the reason for the 2^nd Amendment to the USA Constitution and the reason why that law, the Bill of Rights of 1689 with those famous words unchanged is still engraved in the law books of every State of Australia and New Zealand. Its just suppressed by the same mentality of William Knox from 1777 and dictators in Hong Kong and the treacherous politicians here in Australia who want the good people left defenceless and servile.
Ron Owen
“whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.” John Locke
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Thoughts For The Week 18th June 2019 By Ron Owen.

Thoughts For The Week.

“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.” Ayn Rand

The results of the latest Federal election show that the 2 million licensed firearm owners in Australia chose which ever shade of socialism that they considered least onerous rather than voting for independent/minor parties who stood for the rights of the individual. Many of us did vote the right way, but most followed their traditional voting patterns handed down by their parents, or moulded by university academics. If the 2 million of us who own 6 million firearms, per the Commonwealth Crimtrac /Registry had voted for pro shooting parties we would have had a voice in the Senate, and meaningful block that could protect us from more impositions and begin to correct the atrocities of the past. Instead we have more of the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dummer, Lab/Lib/Nat/Gr the ‘Oligarchy’ that has enslaved us for thirty years.

While we suffer un-warranted searches, 12 month waiting periods, rising fines/fees for doing no wrong, but begging for a renewal, Permit to Acquire, a new application, or one day late in a renewal and start all over again, this whole firearm registration organization is a waste of billions of dollars and human endeavour. Everyone who thinks about this knows that the system is only controlling the good people and does not one twit, to prevent crime, solve a crime or save a life, in fact it costs lives as it leaves the harmless people defenceless. Anyone with the intent to take life is not going to be inhibited by breaking a firearm law.

Just in this last month two interstate policemen visited our premises and I had to give them a statement attesting that I had not received some firearms that had allegedly been sent to our premises from interstate two years ago, the firearms had been located elsewhere. I was informed that they were part of 300 handguns that had been misdirected by one person in their state. I naturally asked why was this not immediately noticed by the new 25 million dollars (or was it 50 million) computer run by the Commonwealth that consolidates all the states firearm registries? I was told that even the new Commonwealth computer system that recorded the information from all states has not got the ability to cross reference State transfers. He also added that the State registries were two years behind in up dating the information.  I reminded him that the last Senate inquiry had found that a third of the items of information that had been recorded had some information/content that was incorrect. Within a few days of this incident another inquiry from another State Police force with another list of firearms.  We had sent (within the two week time allotted for submissions), the detailed Form 10 to QPS but they had not yet informed them that these firearms were now on the Queensland register, again two years old information that had not been processed. Then again a few days later a customer from 2017, who we had registered firearms to his licence and recorded that information which had been sent to the QPS amnesty registry told us that the guns had not been added to his list of firearms. A few days after that we read the press release that the Victorian Police had lost 189 firearms. We know that this has happened in all states and the Defence Forces, so besides all those fake news 3 D printed firearms and all the real ones coming in from overseas there is no shortage of illegal firearms for those with ill intent to acquire. Such as the paroled prisoner in Darwin who was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, he had an illegal pump action shotgun and killed 4 people. The only thing that stops these people is a person with another gun.

Phone 000 and wait to die as the Police are only there to tidy up afterwards, they are never going to be at the incident quick enough. In those situations you have a human right to defend yourself and others, and if you or another are armed, lives can be saved. Governments know this, but chose to keep the people defenceless.

Do We Own Our Lives?
We buy our firearms, we buy a permit to own our firearms and without you doing any wrongs that permit or that licence is removed and so is your ownership. The State controls your property so do you really own property, not just firearms property but house property, or business property, or vehicle property? We used to own and control our own property but with creeping socialism, Bob Hawke’s Gradualism, and John Howard’s Fabianism our rights to control and own our property have been extinguished. Ownership without control is a contradiction in terms: it means “property,” without the right to use it or to dispose of it. It means that the citizens retain the responsibility of holding property, without any of its advantages, while the government acquires all the advantages without any of the responsibility.

There is no difference between communism, national socialism or socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end, communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism, by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

In this respect, socialism is the more honest of the two tyrannies. Just “more honest,” not “better”, because, in practice, there is no difference between them: both come from the same collectivist-statist principle, both negate individual rights and subordinate the individual to the collective, both deliver the livelihood and the lives of the citizens into the power of an omnipotent government and the differences between them are only a matter of time, degree, and superficial detail, such as the choice of slogans by which the leaders delude their enslaved subjects.

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such differences as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights. Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives.  If the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the “right” to “redistribute” the wealth produced by others is claiming the “right” to treat human beings as chattels.

Today in Hong Kong good people are making huge sacrifices to stop their people from being extradited to Mainland Communism, we used to observe the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire, it is un-believable that in our time we have our academics and journalists advocating a return to a full on socialist state on a daily basis. How can anyone believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare. To day you cannot use your land for your benefit, your told where you can walk, where you can go, which cars you want to drive, how your employ people, what business you want to carry out and where it is. Find me a free person in Australia someone who has never been forced by the government to do something?

No genuine person of intelligence could evade or ignore so great a horror on so vast a scale as the social slavery imposed by socialism, but we like the Germans of pre war are accepting it on a daily basis, bit by bit.

Socialism has never been a movement of the people, or from the people. It is a movement of the people with huge amounts of money and power that pay the intellectuals like Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Hitler, and Lenin they originated it in the early 20th Century, and their successors today lead and control today's university intellectuals, from their stuffy ivory towers sending it into those bloody streets of practice where they unite with their allies and executors, the thugs like Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Pol Pot.

During the 1930s the National Socialists ‘Nazis’ defended their policies, and the German did not rebel, they like us today accepted the Nazi arguments. Selfish individuals may be unhappy, the Nazis said, but what we have established in Germany is the ideal system, Socialism. In its Nazi usage this term is not restricted to a theory of economics; it is to be understood in a fundamental sense. “Socialism” for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism, in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics.

The generations that preceded us sacrificed their lives and fortunes to stop socialism in all of its forms, people died on both sides either opposing National Socialism or Defending International Socialism and those that lived had it imposed on them by stealth in the ensuing years.

George Soros, the modern day Dr Gobbels who controls the Media.

“To be a socialist,” says Goebbels, “is to submit the ‘I’ to the ‘Thou’; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.” By this definition, the Nazis practiced what they preached. They practised it at home and then abroad. No one can claim that they did not sacrifice enough individuals.

We firearm owners are the “I” that have to be sacrificed to the “Thou” our rights to the ownership of property and the right to defend our ourselves and our families are to be sacrificed on the alter of Socialism. Forced and pressured not by Dr Goebbels and the Nazis, not by Stalin and Communists but by faceless nonentities from the Socialist /Green/Oligarchy funded by George Sorus and his foundations.

Ron Owen

“whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.” John Locke

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The EU's plan to strengthen civil protection has entered into force

European Commission - Questions and answers

Questions and answers - EU that protects: The EU's plan to strengthen civil protection has entered into force

Brussels, 21 May 2019

In March 2019 new legislation strengthening the Union Civil Protection Mechanism entered into force. Its new element – additional rescEU reserve capacity is now a reality that boosts the EU's ability to respond to and prepare for natural and man-made disasters.

The new legislation to strengthen the existing EU Civil Protection Mechanism boosts EU financial and operational support to disaster response systems of the Member States and participating countries. Concretely, it gradually establishes an additional reserve of capacities, called rescEU. The new system also sees greater investment in preparedness activities and knowledge sharing.

Why did the Commission propose the rescEU initiative in 2017?

Every year, forest fires, severe floods, storms, earthquakes, landslides but also man-made disasters (terrorist attacks; chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear – CBRN - incidents) result in loss of lives and devastate whole regions. Climate change will further exacerbate the impacts of disasters in the future. In 2018 alone, natural disasters killed more than 100 people in Europe. The economic costs are also huge: close to €10 billion in damages on the European continent were recorded in 2016. Last year's forest fire season reminded us once again that the EU must be better equipped to protect its citizens from disasters. In the same time the security environment gets more complex. With rescEU the EU now takes concrete operational steps to better prevent, prepare and respond to all kind of disasters.  

Building on the existing Mechanism, the newly established rescEU creates an additional reserve of capacities to respond to disasters, owned and hosted by Member States, ready to be deployed when needed. The composition of this additional rescEU reserve is based on an analysis of disaster risks in the Union and existing gaps in disaster response and preparedness activities across Member States. Initially, rescEU capacities will include firefighting planes and helicopters. Further means will be added over time, including in those needed to respond to medical emergencies or chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents.

When will rescEU be operational?

Forest fires do not wait. Transitional arrangements are put in place right now to ensure that the EU can draw upon available assets to fight forest fires already in 2019. During a transitional period (until 2025), the EU will integrate national means into rescEU with EU co-financing (75%) of their ‘stand-by' costs.

To date, a total of 7 firefighting planes (6 Canadairs and 1 Dash 8) and 6 helicopters were offered to compose the “rescEU transition” fleet in 2019. The Commission is in contact with other Participating States who have also expressed interest in contributing.

Other rescEU capacities will be developed over time, in particular in the field of medical emergencies (MEDEVAC, Field hospitals (EMT-3 type), etc.) and events related to chemical, biological, radio-nuclear hazards (CBRN). Preliminary technical discussions are taking place with Member States to agree on the type of capacities and numbers needed to be developed under rescEU. The strengthened support to deployment from the European Civil Protection Pool also takes immediate effect upon formal adoption of the revised legislation.

How does rescEU work operationally?

rescEU capacities are to be used whenever Member States cannot cope with a disaster themselves and require extra EU assistance that needs to be delivered fast. It is an additional “safety net”. A great part of operational costs, as well as costs for developing rescEU capacities will be covered by EU financing. rescEU capacities are owned and hosted by Member States. The Commission, in close cooperation with Member States requesting assistance, as well as those owning rescEU capacities decides on the deployment of these capacities.

How does the EU support Member State solidarity through the use of national capacities in the European Civil Protection Pool?

The new policy also includes a number of new provisions that help Member States boost existing capacities and contribute more to the European Civil Protection Pool:

The new legislation aims to incentivise Member States (and Participating States) to help each other in times of need. Concretely, the EU is co-financing assets that Member States put in the European Civil Protection Pool at 75% of operational costs when used inside the EU (or a Participating State) and 75% of transport costs for deployment outside EU.

The new legislation aims to make all existing national assets operational for international deployment. When national capacities need an upgrade or repair for an international response, Member States can request EU co-financing (75% of that upgrade/repair cost provided it does not exceed 50% of development cost of the capacity). These capacities in turn become part of the European Civil Protection Pool and are used to respond to future disasters.

The new legislation establishes a Civil Protection Knowledge Network to support all civil protection actors across Europe, bringing together a full range of expertise on disasters. This allows all disaster response actors to learn from each other and to speak "the same technical language".

The Commission works together with Member States ensuring that investments undertaken via the Structural Funds are "disaster proof". Investments take into account national risk assessments. In addition, the Commission has simplified the reporting approach. In cases where Member States need further support, the Commission makes recommendations on national prevention and preparedness measures.

European Civil Protection Pool: how many assets and from which countries?

The European Civil Protection Pool (former "European Emergency Response Capacity") comprises over 100 response capacities offered to the Pool, committed by 23 different Participating States.[1] These include assets such as firefighting teams and aircraft, flood containment, water purification, and chemical biological, radiological and nuclear detection and sampling. Experience has shown that pre-committed capacities are not always enough, because disasters can occur simultaneously. The Commission therefore strengthens the European Civil Protection Pool by providing increased Union financing to Member States for the adaptation, repair and operating costs of Pool capacities. This provides a significant additional incentive to Member States to commit their capacities to the European Civil Protection Pool.

Does this new structure also work for activations of the Union Civil protection Mechanism outside the EU?

The new policy focuses on strengthening the EU and Member States' collective ability to respond to disasters in Europe. However, as is the case now, any third country or international organisation can activate the Mechanism and make a request for assistance. The European Civil Protection Pool can be mobilised. The Union budget covers the transport costs of these operations (75% of transport costs).

In those cases where disasters affect Member State territories and EU citizens abroad, rescEU can also be mobilised. Operational and transport costs are then entirely covered by Union funding. The Participating States of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (Iceland, Norway, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey) equally benefit from the new possibilities offered under rescEU.

How does the new legislation improve preparedness and prevention?

Prevention and preparedness are the cornerstones of an effective response to natural disasters. Investment in disaster prevention has a clear benefit – saving lives and livelihoods as well as minimising economic and physical damage. The new policy strengthens disaster prevention and continues to support Member States in improving their disaster risk management. Through a simplified reporting framework the EU asks Member States to report on key risks through risk assessment and risk management capabilities summaries, as well as to provide additional information on prevention and preparedness measures related to key risks with a cross-border nature or those low probability risks with high impact.

The legislation also provides targeted support to the Member States frequently affected by severe disasters to strengthen their prevention and preparedness through the establishment of consultation mechanisms, and the possibility to deploy expert missions and to make recommendations.

How many times has the Union Civil Protection Mechanism been activated since 2014?

Over the last five years (2014-2019), the Mechanism was activated more than 100 times for disasters both inside and outside the EU.

How much does rescEU cost?

The new legislation foresees a budget increase of around two hundred (200)* million euro for the upcoming two years (2019-2020).

[* this number takes into account expected budgetary decrease from €242 million to allow for increase of share of redeployments given Member States position]

For more information

Press release - rescEU: EU establishes initial firefighting fleet for next forest fire season

[1] Link to the map: https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/getdailymap/docId/2893

 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_QANDA-19-2590_en.htm

Thoughts for the week by Ron Owen 20/3/2019

Thoughts For The Week.

“What you do in your lifetime will echo down through eternity”,
Marcus Aurelius.

Thoughts for the Week,
Is this the Start of Catastrophic Abyss?
Malevolent Media.
It only needs a ‘Left Wing Nut case’, (M16,SIS visits & Russian Terrorist lists) with an agenda to support Communist China to kill 50 people and the Maleficent Media have a piranha like feeding frenzy on the innocent firearm owners. They dance in the bloody intestines of good people turning, night into day and black into white. When he is positively “left wing” yet they say a “right wing extremist”. Two attacks at the same time, yet now say “one lone wolf gunman”. No one asks why one of the Mosques attacked had a firearm and fired back at the attacker chasing him away, or is that a case of a firearm stopping a massacre and the media wants to know nothing about it? ‘Gunman’ but never ‘Bombman’ he had two Bombs. The media says ‘Only Right Wing extremists’ are ‘Mass killers’, forgetting the Islamics who have massacred 84,000 people since 911. The ‘Left Wing Nutcase’ stated in his manifesto that he wanted stop civilian firearm ownership, so the NZ government carry out his agenda, banning firearms in New Zealand. Meanwhile, in Australia 55 million dollars is given to Australian Islamic Mosques if this was going to Christian churches the media would scream that the government is establishing a religion in breach of the Section 116 of the Constitution. Media Control is the Manufactured Consent on the Road Serfdom. Who Controls the Media?

As in last month’s “Thought for the Week” I explained the logical reasoning why people choose to live in a community, and not live in nature (the log cabin within isolate families).  To explain, in return Good Government has a responsibility to the people who elect and support them. This month I wanted to explain in detail how those four main reasons form the legs of the table that support a nation state.

The Social Contract (nothing to do with Socialism) is the basis of Constitutional Government.

1. Defence, from internal and external aggression.

2. Defence of Property.

3. Resort to Justice.

4. Defence of Individual Rights, including Free Speech, Movement, Thought and the right to defend all of the above with arms suitable for their defence.

‘That a Good Government has a sacred duty to protect its citizens, when they fail to do this, the duty, not just the right, devolves to the Citizen themselves.’

However, due to the tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand and the insane response by our media and puppet parliament, I can use this as an example of how modern governments are in severe breach of our Social Contract.
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Firstly, let me say that the creatures that orchestrated and carried out this despicable attack on civilians including women and children are monsters and if found guilty by a jury of 12 should receive the death penalty. For all attacks like this, which ever ideology that the victims follow,

Senator Anning and his wife Fiona visiting the Owen Guns Trust Museum.,

the perpetrators have no excuses, no defence, they have a political motive, they are employed to destroy the cohesion within a community.
In the manifesto Tarrant states Remove the Rights and Freedoms of the public and be intent on killing as many victims as possible to achieve that goal. They are every sane person’s enemy and should be put down as quickly as possible, in the same manner as we should treat all mass killers of civilians.
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Government Break’s Down the Social Contract.

Defence has Been Removed.

A. Government without permission from its people, provide for invasion of an alien culture to settle within its borders. These alien people support an extremist ideology of World Conquest, conversion to Islam or die, which threatens the lives of the host nation. Converting an external threat into an internal threat is not defending its own people.

B. Government countenanced the import to New Zealand of a terrorist, again failing to defend the people from external and internal threat.

C. Government failed to defend the worshippers at the two Mosque’s.

Justice Will be Removed.
This event will be used as a tool to destroy more legs to the table, as 500,000 plus innocent firearm owners will bare the brunt of this guilt.  The media have already charged them, and put them before a Kangaroo Court and they have been found Guilty and sentenced to losing their rights, property and freedoms.

Even though,
“A second shooting happened at a mosque in the Linwood area of the city. One Friday prayer goer returned fire with a rifle or shotgun. Witnesses said they heard multiple gunshots around 1.45pm. A well known Muslim local chased the shooters and fired two shots at them as they sped off. He was heard telling police officers he was firing in “self defence“.”They were in a silver Subaru,” he told police.” from the NZ Herald.

This proves,

1. That firearms in the hands of the victims saved lives at one Mosque;

2. That where civilians are disarmed as in the other Mosque they are killed with ease as the Police were not in attendance for 36 minutes.

To disarm the citizens when the government has abrogated its responsibility to defend, makes this a duty not just a right for the civilians to defend their families and themselves. This again breaches the Social Contract, the reasons that we chose to live in a community.

We the innocent firearm owners in Australia will also suffer the ‘slings and arrows’ of this outrageous fortune with further losses to our rights.

The suspects also had ‘Bombs”. Are they going to ‘Ban Bombs’ of course not as they are banned already, which also goes to show that banning firearms in the same fashion is no deterrent to these, terrorists of any persuasion. These tragedies only serve as false excuses for politicians who continually demand more power in the hands of themselves.

As soon as one leg of the Social Contract table is removed all of the other three are broken and reduced to firewood. The media and the government will quickly remove the blame from the suspects and place it squarely on the shoulders of the firearm owners.

Property Will Be Removed.

When the New Zealand government legislates to remove the semi-auto rifles and shotguns and maybe pump action shotguns it removes the rights of its citizens to own the product of their labour. When a bird works to unearth a worm, the worm belongs to the bird and his family, the bird can if it wishes distribute the worm to its family. Once the precedent is made that allow governments to take property of one person and give it to another such as the police, then they can use that precedent to take any property they like because the public has not been strong enough to resist these impositions.

The only way that they can disarm the innocent firearm owners is to send other men with guns to take them away.

The Freedom of Speech Has Been Removed.

On Sunday 17th of March 2019 Facebook informs me that my post has been removed and I have been sent to Facebook silence Prison for Seven Days. Appealed of course as I could not find anything in the text that insults anyone or threatens or berates in bad language, but I stay banned. Please read and spread about far and wide if you feel that it is fair comment.

“Again the Truth has to be suppressed. Senator Fraser Anning speaks the truth. This tragedy would not have happened if it was not for New Zealand’s Immigration Policy. Obviously, if there were no Muslim in New Zealand there would be no Mosques and no Muslims to be shot. Same as with Australia No Muslims no Problems, No Sharia Killings and No Vigilante Response. If we have a cohesive unified population we have no terrorism. This could not have happened in Japan, not because of their Gun laws but because they have No Muslim immigration.

Were we asked if we wanted an Islamic community within Australia, Were the Brits, or the Germans or the New Zealand’s asked, No, they were not. The Governments knew that eventually the people would rebel against this invasion. No one blamed the Maori people from rebelling against their invaders.???  Ron.

I then included an image of Senator Fraser Annning’s Press Release.

Senator Anning lashed out at New Zealand for the way it handled immigration.

“I am utterly opposed to any form of violence within our community, and I totally condemn the actions of the gunman,” Senator Anning said in his statement.

“However, while this kind of violent vigilantism can never be justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence.

“As always, left-wing politicians and the media will rush to claim that the causes of today’s shootings lie with gun laws or those who hold nationalist views but this is all clichéd nonsense.

“The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place.” “What effect has this idiot had on us? (Tarrent) He has given the elites carte blanche to censor the internet at every stroke.

I have never condoned a tit-for-tat response here, nor advocated for violence and murder, and will keep working to share my concerns about some of these things in a peaceful manner. Legitimate concerns about runaway immigration, creeping sharia and the like are fully fair and need to be heard. But resorting to what the jihadists do daily is not the way to proceed.”

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has already referred a censor motion to parliament to try and silence Senator Fraser Anning. Quote, “Parliament, I’m sure, will express a very clear view about what he’s had to say,” Mr Morrison said.

Our governments and media cannot abide any opinion that shows them in an ill light. We have to make that small candle light into a spotlight exposing the truth. Already we have those wanting to clamp down further on conservative sites, and censor the internet.

Again, the media, most political leaders and most experts are already speaking of how Muslims are living in fear, and are talking as if they experience such fear every day. Yet, they have NOT been the main victims of terrorism acts. They have been the main perpetrators.

As mentioned the blame game is already happening. As just one example, one social media post said this was directly due to the words and policies of people like Senator Fraser Anning.

Here is a Quiz, is there any of these tragedies, below, that have not got as much air and media attention as this current media feeding frenzy in New Zealand. Could it seem that Muslim lives are much more important, or does the media have the bit between its teeth as it hunts up hysteria to produce the Gun Bans that it loves.

Do you recall the same fury for these disasters or does this current media play remind you of the Port Arthur delirium?

2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring 240

2004 Madrid, Spain train bombings The explosions killed 193 people and injured around 2,000.

2004 Beslan, Russia school Killing 385

2005 7 July London bombings – Four suicide bombers attacked London Underground trains and a double decker bus during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 784.

2013 Kenya Westgate shopping mall attack killing 67 injuring 175

2015 Kenya April 2 148 people, most of them Christian students killed 148

2015 France November 13 A series of terrorist attacks in Paris kill 137, and wound 368.

2015 Belgium March 22 2016 Brussels bombings that resulted in 35 deaths and 300 wounded.

2016 United States June 12 49 people were killed and 53 injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The shooter, Omar Mateen, pledged allegiance to ISIL .

2016 France July 14 87 people (including the perpetrator Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel) died during the Bastille day attack in Nice, 434 were injured.

2017 Manchester UK.Arena Bombing Twenty-three people died, and 139 were wounded, more than half of them children.

2017 London UK March 22 A man drove a car into pedestrians on the south side of Westminster Bridge, injuring 49 people, 4 of them fatally.

2017 London UK. London Bridge attack, a van ran over multiple pedestrians on the London Bridge. On Borough Market the occupants of the van stabbed multiple people killing 11 and wounding 48.

This is only a few examples to see a huge list click on this link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

Journalists at New Zealand press conference were heard to say”Have we been paying too much attention to Muslim terrorism?” Incredible. Anywhere from 200 to 600 million people have been murdered in the past 1400 years in the name of Islam.

We are now just supposed to forget all about the other terrorism, and pretend that Islam is a religion of peace? Yes non-Muslims can and do commit acts of horrible violence and terror, but not even blood thirsty ideologies like godless communism came close to killing as many people in terms of sheer numbers of Islam.

Indeed, it is at this point that we need to be reminded of some home truths. It is perfectly clear that this sort of violence and terrorism is perpetrated on a daily basis against Christians, Westerners and others by Muslim attackers all around the world. As one example, a new report notes that 11 Christians are killed every day for their beliefs, mostly by Muslims. It looks at the ten most dangerous nations for Christians, and finds eight of them are Islamic nations.

World Watch List

In the meantime, we continue to wonder at the lack of Justice as we seem to have so many double standards today.

Yet even in these early stages, we can see how the leftist media will be operating: they will put this attack down to right wing views, to Christianity, to anti-immigration groups, to the conservative alternative media, and so on. It will be open season on anyone and anything even remotely resembling a conservative, a Christian, or those who have expressed legitimate concern about border policies, and unchecked multiculturalism.

For example, we have just learned on the media that one apparent Muslim terrorist who had planned to bomb an entire plane might be given a free pass: “An Australian-Lebanese man in custody on terrorism charges in Lebanon will be freed on bail this week, after the Australian Government agreed to hand over crucial documents. Amer Khayat, 41, is accused of plotting to blow up an Etihad plane on a flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi in July 2017 using two bombs, one hidden in a meat grinder and another hidden in a Barbie doll.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-14/etihad-sydney-meat-grinder-bomb-plot-terrorism-amer-khayat/10899146

All such killing and attempted killings must be fully and soundly condemned. But the actual historical record is all one-way traffic. Most acts of terrorism conducted around the world are Islamic attacks. Since 9/11 alone there have been nearly 35,000 deadly Islamic terror attacks.

Already we have talking heads asking for stricter Gun Control.
Is it because such killings and attacks are so utterly common and routine, the media give them no coverage so not much outrage is produced. Moreover, every time another Islamic jihad attack occurs, especially in the West, everyone seems to bend over backwards and claim this has nothing to do with Islam and we should not even speak about Islam. They say the whole Muslim religion should not be tarred and feathered because of the actions of these few terrorists, yet have no compunction at all in condemning millions of innocent law abiding firearm owners for the actions of couple of evil idiots. The Difference is Gun Laws, the media and the politicians love it, for them its better than Christmas.

No, the politicians intend to keep increasing immigration and diversity whether we like it or not. They have no right to do this. They have no mandate to do this. Senator Fraser Anning proposed a referendum on immigration and he was torn to shreds by the media for his efforts. They are so intent on tearing the fabric of our societies apart. If they keep ignoring the wishes of the people then soon, Tarrant may yet get the race war he was wishing for, and the rest of us have been trying to avoid. Their delusional obsession with creating a rainbow, multicultural society can only have one outcome.

There is no Spring without Winter, without Mistakes there is no Learning. There is no Life without Death, without Doubts there is no Faith. There is no Peace without War, without Fear there is no Courage. For without Mistakes, Doubts and Fears there are no pathways to Wisdom.
Ron Owen.

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