That will be 50,000 rifles the Chinese army and navy will not have to face when they com knocking on NZ’s door.
Reminds me of England and NZ in WW II.
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
“Yes, after Dunkirk; after the fall of France; after the horrible episode of Oran; after the threat of invasion, when, apart from the Air and the Navy, we were an almost unarmed people;...”
NZ in WW II... PAY ATTENTION TO THE LAST PARAGRAPH! Almost like England after Dunkirk when, unarmed, they prepared to repel a nazi invasion with those great traditional English weapons, the hay rake, garden hoe, pitchfork and scythe.
From FReeper Savage Beast
New Zealand during World War II, before it succumbed to the insanity of the decadence of Western Civilization:
“A frightful Japanese broadcast has steeled us for the worst. It came through two nights before I left. A Japanese professor was describing New Zealand and how it would be developed by the Japanese.”
“Maoris, as true members of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, will be allowed special priveleges. White men will be used on the farms. He said that the lush fields, the wealth, the cities were in their grasp at last. The day of reckoning with insolent New Zealanders was at hand. Immortal Japanese troops would know what to do.”
“The old men—well, your wife’s father and mine, for example. They are stationed at the beaches. They know they dare not retreat. They have taken their positions now.”
“The home guard is next. They have been digging in furiously. They occupy prepared positions near the cities and the best beaches. The regular army will be thrown in as the fighting develops. Everyone has decided to fight until the end. The cities and villages will be destroyed.”
“Many families have gone to the hills. Cars are waiting to take the others at the first sign of the Jap fleet. My wife and the kiddies have gone. Your wife...said to tell you that she will stay until the last.”
“It was my humble duty to assist in preparing the defenses of Auckland. I issued several thousand picks, crowbars, and axes. There were no other weapons.”
~James Michener~
Tales of the South Pacific
New York: Fawcett, 1946, pp. 17-18.
The tyrants who would love to subjugate the American People know that we are armed.