by Harry Mason
9-1-00
Dear Jeff,
It is Friday the 1st of September here in Perth Western
Australia and I am listening to your Real Player archived August 31st
interview with Captain Joyce Riley.
She was talking about US Army personnel doing only training in
urban warfare and gun confiscation war games, and other info
suggesting an iminent mobilisation of some 90,000 special US
Government-Military personnel in late September-Early October. The
following observations re: recent events in Australia might interest
you.
As many US citizens probably know, our Australian private
ownership of most types and calibres of guns was made illegal and they
were "all" confiscated a year or so ago - following immediately on
from some "convenient" terrible gun massacres in Tasmania (and similar
events in Scotland, UK about one month earlier).
Our SAS special forces then suffered a major incident
involving the collision of fully-armed personel laden Black Hawk
helicopters on a night time mission in Queensland. Many key troopers
were killed and maimed in this incident. At the time these men were
involved in a low level high speed interdiction training exercise
attacking an isolated farm house involving a scenario of a force of
"terrorists" holed up at the farm. Such rapid deployment scenario
exercises having been common here for some time. I am informed by
serving and retired Australian service men (with good internal
military contacts) that virtually all Australian army personnel
training in recent years has concentrated on taking out isolated farm
houses full of 'armed terrorists.'
The recent UN Police action in East Timor came as quite a
shock and required a major effort on behalf of our now severely
depleted regular forces. More recently the SAS and other army
personnel have been involved in intensive urban warfare training in
all major Australian cities with abseiling out of helicopters etc.
This training is publicised as taking out terorists that might try to
attack the Olympics. One such training exercise caused significant
explosive ordnance damage to a sports venue in Sydney.
Now the Olympics commences in Sydney on the 14th of September
and runs for several weeks. There will be many international visitors.
Sydney is conducting training exercises such as rapid evacuation of
trains or stations if suspicious packages are found. All of this is
comendable given the current state of humanity, however the long term
Australian Military training exercises re isolated farmhouses and the
confiscation of our guns has made many here wonder just what is really
going down.
The gun confiscation laws were rapidly introduced to
Parliament and rigourously enforced on doubters at local political
meetings prior to their actual adoption by Parliament. The Press
hollered loudly via "overwealming public poll results" FOR the
confiscation of guns. Many ordinary Australians were made to feel and
seem to be pariahs by media coverage for having an interest in guns.
Many prominent persons were heavied by others higher up the
"democratic" control structure to adopt public pro gun confiscation
stances. State Ministers went to Canberra "determined" to get this new
gun nonsense changed. They soon came back much subdued but suddenly
quite vocal now FOR pro gun confiscation laws. Public gun club
meetings were heavily controlled even as far as turning off the sound
system power to prevent dissenters being heard. Thousands of such
dissenters turned up for these meetings - the biggest gun club
meetings ever seen - but the club management control freaks were
already in place - having been offered choice party jobs such as
parliamentary candidatures etc. - (not honoured eventually !!!), or
simply heavied by the Police Commisssioners, to keep the lid on.
Queens council lawyers stated that Magna Carter and the Rights Therein
of the Populace to bear arms were examples of BAD Laws that were no
longer enforced by the legal system. [Arbitary acceptance or
disqualification of existing laws now seems to be the norm for our
society down under]. It was as if there was a strict timetable and
that "they" would brook no counter intention to the removal of the
peoples guns.
Very recently some new laws have been mooted here. They have
been rushed through Parliament - again with almost zero public comment
or protest time. These laws have, or are about to be, ratified by our
Parliament and hence made legally enforceable.
1) A law whereby they can confiscate your bank account and
assets and you must then prove that you obtained them legally.
Publically stated to be the answer to rich Australian business
criminals sequestering their ill gotten gains into trusts, or drug
dealers etc. Recently a man died before going to trial. His assets
were then confiscated under the new law inspite of his never being
convicted of any crime. Thus you are now guilty unless proven innocent
.... Two thousand years of British laws and freedoms won by the battle
death of many have just been thrown to the winds.
2) The few remaining gun stores here are to have enforced very
restricted inventories of guns and ammunition. Presumeably to prevent
mass burglary of large arsenals. Boy, are "they" worried .......
Probably recent popular uprisings and associated events in Fiji and
the Solomons Isles have given our government room wallahs for thought.
3) The Federal Government have introduced a new bill that
allows for Federal Ministers to send in the Australian military to any
trouble spot eg. Riots etc. in any State throughout Australia -
without the approval or request of the relevant State government. This
will be law next week. It has been VERY rushed - allegedly to be in
place for the Olympics. Previously the State Police had to ask the
State Government and they COULD request the Federal Government for
assistance by our national troops. It probably only happened for the
famous Eureka Stockade Miners rebellion in Victoria in the 1800's - if
ever. That rebellion was our rough equivalent of your Alamo and was
ruthlessly suppressed. A few survivors settled in Western Australia
and created my home town of Jarrahdale.
Now we are wondering just what kind of situation could develop
where any Australian State Government would NOT request military help
but the Federal Government would need the legal right to enforce
"help" control of the Australian population by the use of Australian
troops ??? 4) The Tax regime has also been recently changed to include
a 10% "GST" (Goods and Services Tax) with almost everybody now having
to make monthly financial activity reports and provide all details of
business arrangements and bank accounts. You now have an ABN
(Australian Business Number = "Another Bloody Number") number to quote
in all your transactions such that you can now be easily tracked
across all Government computer data bases. Apparently (we are informed
!) WE requested such a number to make it easier for us to interact
with Government Departments.
Now after a few weeks of operation the Government Tax take is
said to have rocketed skywards but most business is experiencing a
25-30% down turn in cash flows. Some are saying the last time they had
to cough up 10% across the board on every transaction was during the
Middle Ages to the Church - it got rich very fast. Of course you can
claim some of this tax back. It took me and two others a few days to
fill in the forms and collect receipts together for my small company.
Yesterday we received a Government cheque for A$120. We feel
incredibly rich. But as fuel just rocketed up from 80 cents per litre
to around 100 cents per litre we will need every cent to survive.
There is also a dog and pony show involving Andrew Peacock (our
previous Ambassador to the USA) visiting all our cities holding
meetings on what do the ordinary Australian population want to do with
the Australian Defence Forces. I wanted to go to our Perth meeting yet
it was not publicised in the press - until the day after the actual
meeting - when we were informed that apparently most West Australians
had requested we greatly increase the size and equipment inventory of
the Australian Military !!!
Now, I happen to agree with this idea - given the nature of
our neighbours we would be fools not to !!! BUT it actually comes over
as a huge Spin Doctor exercise designed to prime Australians to view a
massive increase in taxes for military spending as "wanted by most
Australians". Whether or not we actually do want it !!! For Public
meetings read: specially-invited interest groups .
Journalists here have begun to openly question the Federal
Governments control of dissenting voices - on any issues - They have
been cutting off supporting government grants to various committees
designed to keep a watching brief on Government activities. The
Federal Government is being accussed "that instead of listening and
encouraging Free Speech it is shutting it down on all manner of
issues". At times I feel as if I am watching a live Jonathon Swift
Novel unfold in Brobidnag (Sp?) or some clone thereof - but believe it
this is modern life in a Western Democracy !!!
The scene here is fast approaching that prevalent during World
War Two when rigid control was enforced upon the Nation. From where I
sit it looks likely we are heading rapidly into a totalitarian war
footing. Possible scenarios include serious financial collapse of the
US Dollar and surrogate economies (such as OZ), or the disintegrating
Indonesian "Empire" situation, and recent activities in West Timor
with border crossings by Indonesian Army trained and supplied
"Militias' killing UN soldiers in East Timor. But my money is on more
international scenarios such as that supplied by the normally very
reliable London Daily Telegraph on August the 27th - about 700,000
Chinese troops massing in the Sudan - see below. Remember just across
the Red Sea from the Sudan is Saudi Arabia and all of that oil, whilst
Sadam Hussein Land is not much further away. Just who was testing
cruise missiles across western Pakistan recently ??? I hope I am wrong
but it certainly looks like something wicked this way comes.
The only thing that would really stir up Australians and
require the sending in of Federal troops is the shutting down of all
pubs and footy events - except war and/or totalitarian rule and/or
economic collapse that is. Or, is this an arranged One World
Government sort of thingy ???
Either way personal and civil freedoms appear destined for the
scrap heap AGAIN - and it looks like we've got a major fight on our
hands to "keep the work free".
Best Regards and Very Good Luck, Harry Mason
Perth,
Western Australia
source:
rense.com
sent in by Michel
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