Posted on 07/12/2024 4:22:15 PM PDT by naturalman1975
An Australian who travelled around the country asking other Aussies if they would fight to defend the nation has received some surprisingly mixed answers.
Surfer and journalist Fred Pawle took his camera and mic to locations including the NSW Central Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Byron Bay, the Gold Coast and Brisbane in recent weeks posing the question to people on the street.
'My initial motivation was whether you would be able to judge the responses based on where you live, so which areas would be more or less likely to defend the country,' Mr Pawle told Daily Mail Australia.
He said the responses for the most part aligned with his expectations, with those in Melbourne - perhaps jaded at having endured the world's longest Covid lockdown - less inclined to fight than those in Sydney.
'In Sydney the percentage of those saying they would defend the country was up around 80 per cent and in Melbourne it was around 60 per cent.
'I was pleasantly surprised by Byron Bay. If you live in paradise wouldn't you defend it? I had to debate a little to get it out of them, but most said they would.'
Mr Pawle said he wasn't entirely surprised that some were so open about admitting they wouldn't defend Australia given increasing polarisation in society.
'The ''greatest generation'' won the World Wars 80 and 100 years ago through willpower, strength and unity - it can seem like those qualities are much less apparent than they were,' he observed.
In the videos, many of the men who answered said they would not hesitate to pick up arms should the nation be attacked.
'I sure would. I live here,' replied one man in Brisbane.
'100 per cent,' replied another. 'Best country in the world, mate.'
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I’ll let the Zeepers fight for President Biden and his Globohomo Agenda, as they seem more than ready to.
No, however I'm not Australian.
Interestingly, there was a time that I would have, quite a while ago.
Aussies were asked that simple question - but had a series of surprising answers
I'll bet.
I find it interesting that Australians might have to fight for Australia since they would be an easy target for invasion.
Australians voluntarily surrendered their right to keep and bear arms nearly 30 years ago.
“Would you fight for Australia? “
Not until they get their minds right and get their guns back.
Just ONE of the things that convinced me to never lift a finger to help Aussies.
Mad Max ain’t walking through the door.
There are likely more guns legally held in private hands in Australia now than at any time in our history.
Americans have been spoon fed quite a lot of nonsense about Australia. Personally, I think it’s communist China behind most of it - attempting to split an alliance they don’t like.
Australians get fed a lot of nonsense about the US as well.
Unfortunately, it often seems to be working.
Fight with what? Kitchen knives and sticks?
As explosion the sise of a nuclear bomb once went off there. The area was owned by the Japanese Red Army. Someone noteworthy wrote a book on it. Couda been the Thunderbolt Kid or the Krakauer fella.
Not a huge surprise, really. What it takes is an extant threat to revive this sort of awareness and the Chinese have provided it in abundance. The problem in this fast-moving world is that if you wait too long for that awareness it might be too late.
Lol, exactly.
My first thought upon reading the question was, WITH WHAT?!?
Just ONE of the things that convinced me to never lift a finger to help Aussies.
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Yeah. And yet we Americans are sending billions of dollars to increase the war effort in Ukie-land. How soon before Biden and NATO screw ups require us to put our boots on the ground?
Ironically, Mel Gibson is from Peekskill New York, and moved to Australia when he was twelve years old.
Hear! Hear!
Your country, love it or leave it.
Sadly the usual slugs come out of the muck to present a list of demands and conditions that could never be met...
I served with more than a few black draftees who used to joke about Cassius Clay's “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong”, they could have refused to fight, everyone knew it was safer in the brig than the bush!
One young man of great honor would perform any task, but would not chamber a round!
A black Baptist from so far back in the hills, the sunlight had to be pumped in.
He always said that his minister taught him it was better to die than take a life. A man of honor.
After asking around about him, the company commander placed him on permanent K.P., everyone thought it was an excellent solution. He served the remainder of his tour in the base camp.
The slugs- nowhere kids Sitting in their nowhere land Making all their nowhere plans for nobody...
This is not Chinese propaganda:
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/careers-subsite/files/lgbtiq-action-plan-2019-22.pdf
or this:
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20220622_01.aspx
Obviously I could provide many such links for the US as well.
The Chinese do not have to make up propaganda—the rot in both countries is very real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E
Jump down the shelters to get away
The boys are cockin' up their guns
Tell us general, is it party time?
If it is, can we all come?
Don't think that we don't know
Don't think that we're not trying
Don't think we move too slow
It's no use after crying
Saying it's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
After the laughter has died away
And all the boys have had their fun
No surface noise now, not much to say
They got the bad guys on the run
Don't try to say you're sorry
Don't say he drew his gun
They've gone and grabbed old Ronnie
He's not the only one
Saying it's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
Tell us, commander, what do you think?
'Cos we know that you love all that power
Is it on then, are we on the brink?
We wish you'd all throw in the towel
We'll not fade out too soon
Not in this finest hour
Whistle your favourite tune
We'll send a card and flower
Saying it's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake
It's a mistake, oh
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake (It's a mistake)
It's a mistake, it's a mistake
(It's a mistake)
With guns, if needed.
There are more firearms legally held in private hands in Australia than at any time in our history.
I know this fact doesn’t fit the narrative you’ve been told about Australia - but a lot of that narrative is a lie.
I’m not saying there aren’t problems in Australia. They are just nowhere near as bad as some people are making them out to be.
Frankly, the transgender movement in the US seems far more powerful than it does here. If it wasn’t for what was happening in the US, I doubt it would have the same traction here. What happens in your country has a lot of influence here.
Google ses......
3.5 million
The total number of registered firearms in Australia currently sits at a record 3,994,891, up from the last time figures were publicly revealed in 2021, which showed just over 3.5 million registered guns. In 2012, the Australian Crime Commission reported that there were 2.75 million registered guns in the country.Nov 22, 2023
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As of August 2001, Australia had purchased back 659,940 newly prohibited firearms (i.e., semiautomatic and pump action rifles and shotguns), and during a second buyback in 2003, 68,727 handguns were destroyed (Chapman, Alpers, and Jones, 2016)
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In 1997, the year after the Port Arthur massacre, Australia had 6.52 licensed firearm owners per 100 population. By 2020, that proportion had almost halved, to 3.41 licensed gun owners for every 100 people.
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