Sunday, January 31, 2016
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Grenades.
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Grenades.: http://brethrencoast.com/weapon/early-grenade.jpg
Friday, January 29, 2016
A Woodsrunner's Diary: 17th Century Supplies and Provisions List For Immi...
A Woodsrunner's Diary: 17th Century Supplies and Provisions List For Immi...: Provisions List 1630 A Catalog of such needefull things as every Planter doth or ought to provide to go to New-England Victuals for a w...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Stop the execution of 49 juvenile offenders in Iran
Stop the execution of 49 juvenile offenders in Iran: Amnesty International Australia - Promoting and Defending Human Rights in Australia and around the world.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
A Woodsrunner's Diary: A New Ramrod For My Pistol.
A Woodsrunner's Diary: A New Ramrod For My Pistol.: I have made a video on making ramrods this afternoon. Not one that shows the actual making, but a description of the process & a talk on...
Medical Research. VIDEO.
Medical research in Australia is being quashed by our government. Just another move to put Australia behind the 8 ball & a little closer to being a third world country.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Black powder international championship 2011 johnny cash ( Australia) co...
I am sharing these types of videos around so that the general public can see the sporting & fun side of firearms. Some may ignore them or even rubbish them, but we may also get through to a few more people who have an open mind.
Keith.
Keith.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Useful Australian Plants. The Bloodwood Tree.
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Useful Australian Plants. The Bloodwood Tree.: Use in bush medicine. Occasionally a bloodwood tree will shed a piece of bark, hence opening a "wound" through which a blood-...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The Survival Connection By Keith H. Burgess.
The Survival Connection By Keith H. Burgess.
I will tell you a little about our group, who we are and
what we do. Firstly we are an 18th century living history group,
called the New England Colonial Living History Group 1680-1760. I started this
group some 30 odd years ago, and we have an online presence in our official
forum. Living History is about interpreting and recreating past lifestyles, a little like Historical Re-enactment,
except that we do not generally put on displays for the public and we go into
the skills & equipment far deeper than the re-enactors do, and we emulate
common personas in everyday situations rather than just military as re-enactors
tend to do.
Part of our activities is Experimental Archaeology. That
is the using of equipment, clothing & foods to establish exactly how an
item was used. Sometimes this involves actually making that item. This can be
anything from making fire in a primitive or period manner, to building a ship
& sailing it on a trade route. Now there is another side that has been
added known as Experiential Archaeology, which is the continuing use of the
skills that we learn in experiments. We only wear period correct clothing, and
we only use period correct equipment.
Not so much in Australia’s colonial past, but more in the
New World colonial past, life was all about survival for those colonists who
chose to live in the wilderness. They had to find or make some of their own
tools, they had to often travel on foot to their destination carrying these
tools and other supplies. On the way and once there they had to deal with the
threat posed by natives and criminals. Everyone who was strong enough to hold
and aim a gun was expected to know how to shoot. Plus there were a host of
other skills needed to construct a dwelling, grow and hunt for food and to
complete certain chores.
Now it does not take a total genius to realise that the
above situation is very much in line with our needs as modern survivalists. All
the more so because modern equipment rarely teaches us anything other than this
is a throw-away society that we live in. Where as primitive equipment teaches
us much about flora, fauna and our environment. A typical example would be the
difference between using the “real” flint and steel method of fire lighting that
has been in use for hundreds of years, and using a ferocerium rod. Many people
do not learn about plant tinders when using the ferocerium rod, or the
difference between plant tinders and kindling. Making fire in the rain can be
difficult with a ferocerium rod, but not with a flint and steel. The skills
learnt by using the flint and steel extend to the making and use of the fire-bow,
flintlock fire lighting and reading glass fire lighting.
With the 18th century knapsack and contents I
carry, along with other simple tools, I can survive a lifetime in the
wilderness. Can a modern survivalist with what is considered mostly camping
equipment claim the same? I very much doubt it. So what we have in 18th
century living history is tried equipment and primitive skills. But it gives us
something else that is of the utmost importance in survival, and that is a
reasonable level of comfort. I will gladly admit that most of what I carry on
my person is for comfort and not necessarily required for my survival. I can
survive without carrying any equipment with me into a wilderness, but it is a
very hard life until one manages to make a collection of primitive tools to
make life easier, and even then we are talking about a Palaeolithic lifestyle.
By carrying 18th century equipment combined
with the period and primitive skills, I can at least guarantee that my level of
comfort will never drop below that level. Where as if I were to carry only
modern clothing and equipment, slowly over time as items failed to work or
broke and clothing wore out, I would be cast into a very primitive lifestyle
regardless of the skills I may have learnt over time. If I were using a modern
firearm it too may have ceased to function, or I may have simply run out of
ammunition. Those using modern compound bows would be no better off, as these
tools require special arrows, bow strings and parts.
However, do not think that I am totally against the use
of modern technology; I believe that if we are able to carry some modern items
as well as our period gear, then that would be an added advantage. The more
people you have, the more you can take with you, but if I have to leave
something behind, it will be the modern firearms etc that will in time break
down and constitute a lot of weight for little gain. Modern medicine is an
absolute must carry, despite what you may know about primitive methods and
herbal use. Regardless of what you carry, you must keep one thing in mind.
There must be a compromise between maximum self-reliance, and minimum weight.
If you have to leave the city or if you are forced from
your bush retreat, you will need to make the right choice of equipment the
first time. You may never get a chance to correct any mistakes, so choose
wisely. IF you are serious about preparing for survival, and for you this is
not just a game or a pastime, then you need to forget about looking like
someone in the military. The military always has relied on back-up supplies and
equipment. You, we, will NOT have that option. Whatever we take with us must be
practicle, hard wearing and last us the rest of our lives.
Our group's forum. Anyone is welcome to join. http://eighteenthcenturylivinghistory.freeforums.org/
My 18th Century Blog: http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com.au/
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Supplies for Virginia colonists, 1622
A Woodsrunner's Diary: Supplies for Virginia colonists, 1622: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-colonial/5338
Monday, January 18, 2016
QLD police respond violently to Indigenous woman
QLD police respond violently to Indigenous woman: Amnesty International Australia - Promoting and Defending Human Rights in Australia and around the world.
The behavour of these police officers is disgusting. They are in this woman's house. Can you imagine them treating you like this in your house?! These officers need sacking, & we need a complete
overhaul of the policing system. How people are chosen for working in the police service for one. How people are treated by police officers.
Members of my family including myself have experienced the rudeness & provoking attitude of police officers with absolutely no reason what so ever. This NEEDS to be stopped or I strongly suspect it is going to get worse.
Keith.
The behavour of these police officers is disgusting. They are in this woman's house. Can you imagine them treating you like this in your house?! These officers need sacking, & we need a complete
overhaul of the policing system. How people are chosen for working in the police service for one. How people are treated by police officers.
Members of my family including myself have experienced the rudeness & provoking attitude of police officers with absolutely no reason what so ever. This NEEDS to be stopped or I strongly suspect it is going to get worse.
Keith.
Friday, January 15, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Something To Think About. What If By Ron Owen Of Owen Guns Australia.
Do we work for Parliament, or does Parliament work for
us?
Who is the slave and who is the Master?
Questions to Provoke Thought and Action.
Personal liberty is the birthright of all persons and our Constitutional documents recognize that liberty is personal and cannot be sacrificed by a majority vote of representatives, but only by individual consent? What would change if powers given in our Constitutional documents no longer limited parliament but were actually used as a justification to extend parliamentary authority over every realm of human life? What if our Monarchs, first Minister in Australia, Prime Minister Turnbull made himself a Monarch? What if the Prime Minster assumed that everything he did was legal just because he has the numbers in the House of Parliament? What if he could interrupt your regularly scheduled radio and TV programming for a special message from him? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and your texts without a search warrant? What if the violation of the right to privacy is a gateway to all other government violations of personal liberty? What if the High Courts, Justices no longer looked to the Constitutional documents to determine the authority of a law, but rather simply to what other Justice’s who preceded them thought about it? What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitutional documents were so ignored that our grandparents would think they were living in the old Soviet Union? What if the States were mere provinces of a totally nationalized and fully centralized government. What if the Constitution was amended stealthfully; not by Constitutional amendments dully ratified by the people in a referenda but by the constant and persistent expansion of the Government’s role in our lives? What if our parliaments decided that its own powers were above the Constitution? What if the Constitutional document were no longer the Supreme Law of the Land? What if you believed that our Constitutional documents represented the moral principles of our forefathers who valued our rights and freedoms at a higher in price than the parliament powers to interfere with them? What if those who wrote the Constitution believed that personal liberty is the default position and parliament power the exception? What if the Constitution means that our rights should be maximum and governments control minimum? What if the greatest right protected by the Constitution is the right to be left alone, the right to be oneself, the right to answer only to one’s own free will? What if our parliament is essentially the contradiction of that liberty?
Who is the slave and who is the Master?
Questions to Provoke Thought and Action.
Personal liberty is the birthright of all persons and our Constitutional documents recognize that liberty is personal and cannot be sacrificed by a majority vote of representatives, but only by individual consent? What would change if powers given in our Constitutional documents no longer limited parliament but were actually used as a justification to extend parliamentary authority over every realm of human life? What if our Monarchs, first Minister in Australia, Prime Minister Turnbull made himself a Monarch? What if the Prime Minster assumed that everything he did was legal just because he has the numbers in the House of Parliament? What if he could interrupt your regularly scheduled radio and TV programming for a special message from him? What if he could declare war on his own? What if he could read your emails and your texts without a search warrant? What if the violation of the right to privacy is a gateway to all other government violations of personal liberty? What if the High Courts, Justices no longer looked to the Constitutional documents to determine the authority of a law, but rather simply to what other Justice’s who preceded them thought about it? What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitutional documents were so ignored that our grandparents would think they were living in the old Soviet Union? What if the States were mere provinces of a totally nationalized and fully centralized government. What if the Constitution was amended stealthfully; not by Constitutional amendments dully ratified by the people in a referenda but by the constant and persistent expansion of the Government’s role in our lives? What if our parliaments decided that its own powers were above the Constitution? What if the Constitutional document were no longer the Supreme Law of the Land? What if you believed that our Constitutional documents represented the moral principles of our forefathers who valued our rights and freedoms at a higher in price than the parliament powers to interfere with them? What if those who wrote the Constitution believed that personal liberty is the default position and parliament power the exception? What if the Constitution means that our rights should be maximum and governments control minimum? What if the greatest right protected by the Constitution is the right to be left alone, the right to be oneself, the right to answer only to one’s own free will? What if our parliament is essentially the contradiction of that liberty?
What if you needed a license from the government to
speak, to assemble or to protest against the government? What if the government
didn’t like what you planned to say and so it didn’t give you the license? What
if the right of law abiding firearm owners to defend their families and homes,
their property only applied to government employees! What if parliament
considered the police an adequate dispenser of justice and removed your
recourse to a Trial by Jury and the Rule of Law? What if the Police looked and
acted like troops and you couldn’t distinguish the military from the police?
What if parliament could remove your rights and titles to
real estate property? What if parliament could legislate to remove you from
your businesses and places of work with no compensation. What if the parliament
could send Police to your homes and remove legally owned property from law
abiding citizens who had done no wrong. What if Police could write out their
own search warrants in defiance of the our Constitutional documents? What if
parliament could continue prosecuting you, in its courts until it got the
verdict it wanted? What if the parliament could force you to testify against
yourself, simply by labeling you a ‘domestic terrorist’! What if the
government could torture you until you said what the parliament wanted to hear?
What if the parliament allowed your children to be tortured so they could get
to your property? What if Police, Judges and lawyers intimidated juries into
convicting the innocent? Would it be a cruel joke to call a country like that a
‘Free’ country? What if those who love power defeat those who love liberty in a
parliamentary election? What if there is no one left to enforce the
Constitution against those in power?
What if every parliamentary witch hunt never stops until
it finds or creates a witch? What if every government inquisition never stops
until it finds or creates a heretic? What if government does create modern-day
witches and heretics and then arrests them and seeks credit for keeping us safe
from them? What if they never posed any threat? What if we fall for this?
What if half the people in prison had never harmed anyone
except the government? What if the whole purpose of the Constitution is to
limit the government, not to unleash it? What if the people had no rights
except those that parliament chose to allow? What if our elected officials
didn’t really ‘live among us’ but instead all had their hearts and homes in
specially guarded compounds. If it was proved that taxation was really theft,
and un constitutional would you still pay it? What if voting didn’t mean
anything anymore because both political parties stand for one Big Government?
What if parliament could write any law, regulate any behaviour and tax any event
and all Constitutional protections were meaningless. What if you knew that
parliament had slowly engineered the removal of all of our Constitution
protections. What if all of the above has already happened? What if all this is
happening right under our noses? What if you could love your country but
despise what parliaments have done to it? What if , to love your country, you
had to change or abolish it? What if I am RIGHT, and what if the parliament is
WRONG? What if it is dangerous to be RIGHT when the parliament is WRONG. What
if a parliament that rejects its own Constitution was to be rejected by the
people? Is it better to live as a slave, or to suffer fighting for FREEDOM?
What if Australia greatest hour of danger is right NOW? What do we do about it?
Ron Owen owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
Please Sign the Petition to Protect your Firearm Rights. This one is one is on
the Queensland Government page and will be tabled in Parliament at the end of
February 2016. Please Hurry.
Ron Owen owenguns@spiderweb.com.au
Please Sign the Petition to Protect your Firearm Rights. This one is one is on the Queensland Government page and will be tabled in Parliament at the end of February 2016. Please Hurry.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
The NRA Just Sent Obama A BRUTAL Warning That He Will Never Forget....
Same here in Australia, the government refuses to come down on criminals, including the wealthy that refuse to pay their taxes. But the government does punish law abiding citizens in many ways including firearms restrictions which even includes primitive matchlocks, wheellocks & flintlock muzzle-loading guns. Crazy, unjust & corrupt to the core.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
On Firearms Control In Australia. By Robert Borsak.
Today I was asked by Fox News in London to comment
on whether or not Australia's firearms laws work to stop crime in light of the
decision by President Obama to
reform American gun laws.
Our advocacy is being internationally recognized and it
is about time that law abiding firearms owners get a fair go.
The show will air soon and we will get a copy of the
segment as soon as we can get our hands on it.
In the meantime, here are my thoughts as an Australian
law abiding firearm owner:
As President
Obama attempts to reform America gun laws, the issue of gun control
and violence is yet again in the spotlight. My thoughts and sentiments on this
are not centred around American gun control or gun culture per se, but rather
the Australian experience.
It is deeply disturbing that every time the issue of gun
control is debated in America or other jurisdictions for that matter,
Australian guns laws are hailed as the gold standard – a benchmark for leaders
to achieve. Well, they are not.
As a starting point, we are not America, we do not have a
constitutional right to bear arms, and in fact our constitution does not afford
ordinary citizens many rights at all. Instead, what we have is an array of
draconian and impractical state and national firearms laws, underpinned by a
‘Howard’ mentality that somehow regulating law abiding people will deter crime.
But the facts and evidence fly in the face of many of
these ‘anti-gun’ lies and misinformation.
In late 2015, following intensive discussions with Robert Brown and I,
the NSW Deputy Premier and Police Minister, Troy Grant, rightly pointed
out what the Shooters and Fishers Party have been saying for over 20 years,
“Greater than 97% of all firearms incidents reported in NSW relate to
unregistered, or unbranded, or unmarked firearms… NSW has an illegal firearm
problem”.
This has been the reality in Australia for decades. The
vast majority of firearms crimes committed are done so with the use of an
illegal or unregistered firearm by an unlicensed individual.
Logic dictates then, does it not, that the Government
should focus the vast majority of its time and resources on curbing the illegal
firearms trade and tough sentencing measures? Rather, successive governments
have spent over a billion dollars on targeting law abiding firearms owners
through failed registration schemes, confiscation and pointless “tough gun
control” measures.
Further, independent and statistical research indicates
that the regulation, including banning, of firearms, has little to no causal
effect on the rate of crime. The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and
Social Research published a working paper on The Australian Firearms Buyback
and Its Effect on Gun Deaths, which ultimately concluded that the NFA did not
have large or long-term effects on reducing firearms homicide or suicide rates
in Australia.
Our gun laws are nothing to be proud of. In fact, they
represent one of the most vile and draconian attacks on personal freedoms and
culture. They have been formed, and continue to be formed, on lies, political
mileage and misinformation.
In 1996, the Howard Government decided that we couldn’t
be trusted with semi-automatic rifles and pump action shotguns anymore, yet it
seems criminals didn’t get the message?
Even today, the ordinary Australian citizens cringes or
questions me when I tell them I love shooting and hunting. I don’t blame them
though. I blame the collective efforts of politicians like John Howard,
anti-gun groups like The
Australian Greens and Gun
Control Australia, and most of the media. This atmosphere of paranoia and
ignorance was created by them. It is our job to unwind the damage and further
our rights in the process.
Licensed firearms owners are among the few classes of
people that are acknowledged and endorsed as fit and proper persons. Criminals
are not allowed to obtain firearms licences period. Ownership and use of a
firearm is a highly held privilege. With that privilege we have the right not
to be associated with or disadvantaged by the action of senseless cowards.
Relaxing firearms laws to make it easier and more practical for law abiding
citizens to enjoy their sport and cultural pastimes is not going to result in a
mass shooting or spike in gun crime.
To my fellow law abiding firearm owners, and to anyone
who truly values personal freedoms and fact based decision making, I say this:
The fight for the roll back of these firearms laws will be a generational
struggle, but united, we have a strong and growing voice that will not be
silenced!
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
A Woodsrunner's Diary: The Well Equipped Woodsrunner.
A Woodsrunner's Diary: The Well Equipped Woodsrunner.: This post is just to encourage people to improve on their equipment when ever they have the opportunity. In our busy lives we can sometimes ...
Monday, January 4, 2016
How To Vote For A GM Free Australia April 2015
Sadly this may be how it is supposed to work in Australia, but it does NOT work this way. We are being ruled by a dictator government that is totally corrupt.
School of the Renaissance Artisan: Thoughts from the peeler: What am I?
School of the Renaissance Artisan: Thoughts from the peeler: What am I?: Nothing happens in a vacuum. Not even this curious obsession of mine. The artisans of the 16th century were part of a larger society and so ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016
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