Posted on 12/17/2014 10:32:54 PM PST by naturalman1975
THE Australian public has hailed the police as heroes following the siege in Martin Place.
The 17-hour stand-off at the Lindt cafe involved NSW police officers as well as members of the state Public Order Riot Squad, Dog Unit, Negotiators, Aviation Support Branch, Police Rescue and elite Tactical Operations Unit.
Now, Sydneysiders and the rest of the world are mounting a campaign to express their thanks to all those who risked their lives.
A Facebook page has declared this “Say Thanks to the Cops Day”, and members of the public have been stopping police in the street to express their gratitude.
One officer was clapped and cheered when he went into a McDonald’s in a western Sydney suburb for food, said a spokesperson for NSW police.
“Most people have been really, really supportive,” he said, “Members of the public have been approaching police on the street and there’s been a fair amount online.”
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The Facebook page read: “Despite the horror of the Sydney Siege that took place overnight one thing stood out that represents a shining light for our way of life. That is the professionalism and bravery shown by the Police Officers who worked non stop for the entire 17 hour siege.
“When watching footage of these guys storming into the Lindt Café it is important to remember that they are not just police officers. They are husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters. They are just ordinary people like you and I putting their life on the line for us.
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The creator of the page, Joseph Del Duca, told news.com.au: “We are really encouraging people to thank the cops in anyway they feel comfortable. Be it a handshake, a nod or offering to shout them a coffee
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You are lying now, no one has asked you for an invitation, no one is asking you to refer anyone, I have seen you do this on this thread and other threads as you will lie your tail off to try to win disagreements, I’m still waiting on your sources from past threads as you claimed you were temporarily away from your historical research and would get back to me as soon as you returned home, etc. etc. .
There is nothing wrong with you posting the name of the forum especially since as you say, it is closed to us anyway.
I am not lying and I’m not going to continue this discussion with you. If you can’t remain civil, there’s little point.
Go ahead - criticise people who put their lives on the lines for other people. I’ll treat such views with the contempt they deserve.
Have the last word if you want it. I’m not going to waste any more time on you.
Maybe the reason he can’t tell you the name of the forum is that they’ll put him on double secret probation if he does so.
In fact, maybe he’s already on double secret probation for doing that once before.
He wouldn’t be able to tell you that, being double secret and all.
Sure you are lying, talking to you is like trying to pin down mercury with a thumb, it is impossible to get to the truth.
Anytime some attempts to pin you down on something, you start going into the same song and dance of ‘sources in another country that you don’t currently have access to’ (the UK on that thread), to a secret forum that we can’t even know the name of, because it is too hush hush.
You sound fine until someone starts seeking a little more, then the dance starts.
Since you are a professional military historian, you should have been more informative than you have been on this topic.
Yep, it’s getting pretty thick.
In 2012, it was 730,000 gun owners, down from 765,000 in 2001, what is it today?
The number of legal firearms in 2012 was 2,750,000.
About 172,000 hand guns are owned by the people.
About a million. You get somewhat different figures from different sources - ranging from around 730,000 as you mention from a US study done by the Library of Congress, up to 1.2 million by a 2011 study done here in Australia by Bauer and English, so 'about a million' is a decent midrange figure.
The number of legal firearms in 2012 was 2,750,000.
Close enough - 3 million is a more common estimate, but that's not that different.
About 172,000 hand guns are owned by the people.
That's about right - these get counted properly, because of the category licences and permits, so that's a fairly solid number.
Since you are a professional military historian living in Australia, I thought that you would post the precise figures and sources, if you disagreed with the numbers that I found, and preferably for 2013 instead of 2012, as I posted.
As someone who claims to be a professional military historian, you sure seem to dislike to post facts and sources, until you do I will have to stick with the figures that I have seen so far.
I feel like I’m beating my head against a brick wall.
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