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Some thoughts of ANZAC Day

We Should Learn from the Past

The ANZAC expedition to Gallipoli is now regarded in hindsight, as an

extremely ill-conceived military adventure. 90 years later, we sent

Australia troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, on two more extremely

ill-conceived military adventures, especially so in the case of Iraq

, so we haven’t learnt much in 90 years, have we? We can much more

forgive the orchestrator's of the Dardanelles campaign, than we can the

so-called statesmen of these enlightened modern times, like George

Bush and Tony Blair, who are supposed to have so much more information

and intelligence at their disposal.

On Anzac Day instead of platitudes about remembering those who gave

their lives (nobody actually gives their lives, they have them taken

from them) from politicians who use Anzac Day to cover up their own

mistakes, we should reflect on the mistakes of the past and how we

can avoid them in the future.

What Were We Fighting For?

I heard a radio broadcaster say to a caller on ANZAC Day “Come on, say

your piece, that’s what the diggers fought for , your right to say

what you think”. But we haven’t got the right to free speech anymore,

have we? Political correctness, laws against religious and racial

vilification, laws limiting the rights of landowners to work their

land or to keep the coal seam gas miners off their land,

non-discriminatory immigration, multiculturalism, have reduced the

so-called Western democracies to something resembling the ideologies

their soldiers once fought to keep out. If the “diggers” could see

what kind of country their children and grandchildren have ended up

with, many of them they wouldn’t have bothered. We are now being

invaded, albeit peacefully, by the very ideology, Islam, that the

ANZACs fought at Gallipoli.

The Real Boat People

It is significant that the largest ethnic contingent in the Sydney Anzac

Day march that is, soldiers from foreign lands who fought alongside

Australians, is the South Vietnamese contingent, (and by the way they

are also the best–dressed and most impressive). These people know what

persecution and totalitarianism mean, they braved pirates, storms at

sea and starvation to come here in leaky boats at the end of the

Vietnam War, (even though our friend Gough tried to keep them out

because he was afraid they wouldn’t vote Labor), and unlike the

Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis of today, they didn’t have mobile phones

and obliging immigration agents and taxpayer-funded lawyers to assist

them. It is said half of the Indo-Chinese boat-people perished at

sea. The Vietnamese who made it here and marched on Anzac Day, knew

from experience that what Whitlam called the “liberation” of South

Vietnam really meant in practice was that anyone who had worked for

the old regime could be send to a re-education concentration camps, if

they were lucky, or if unlucky be locked up in a cage for a week like

an animal. Still, even they were lucky compared to the Cambodians

whose experience of Gough-style liberation under the Maoist Khmer

Rouge was a charnel-house of three million dead.

Now, the Liberals who beat the anti-communist drum in the 1960s, are

falling over themselves to please Communist China, the land of the

one-child policy with its baby-killing and forced abortions, and

killing political dissidents to get their organs, not to mention

rampant corruption. Truly, as Lenin said, “When we hang the last of

the capitalists, they will be fighting each other for the privilege of

selling us the rope”.

The Vietnamese who Gough was afraid wouldn’t vote Labor must now be

thinking if it was ever worth voting Liberal.

The modern Coalition apparatchik wouldn’t sacrifice one dollar’s worth

of business by saying anything that might upset the Chinese Communist

Party and yet they blithely expect soldiers to sacrifice their lives

in Afghanistan for “ truth, justice and the American way” just as

they did in Vietnam.

By the way, if the Chinese Communists are our friends, and not our

enemies, don’t they ever ask themselves why the Peoples’ Liberation

Army aren’t fighting alongside us in Afghanistan?

Remember the Women Raped in War

On ANZAC Day we remember the ones who didn’t come back, we remember

the ones who came back with legs and arms missing, or those

traumatized for ever from what they experienced. We remember these who

trudged 100s of miles mile across Europe when the war ended hoping

they could pick up where they loft off, only to find a bomb crater

where their house had been, we remember the refugees who fled across

barbed wire and under gunfire and left everything behind them to start

a new life in a strange country on the other side of the world, but

there is one group of victims of war who are never acknowledged – the

women who have been raped in war. When the Red Army entered Berlin at

the end of World War Two, they raped every female they could lay their

hands on. It didn’t matter how old, young, fat, thin or ugly or even

diseased she was – they suffered the same fate. This was documented in

an anonymous diary called A Woman in Berlin published after the end of

WW2. The Soviet in-breds regarded it as the legitimate spoils of war,

like scavenging or looting, as invaders from primitive societies have

done through the ages. Afghans have slightly Asiatic appearance

because hundreds of years ago their female ancestors were raped by the

invading hordes of Genghis Khan. Right at this moment, according to

the papers, 1000 women a day are being raped in the war raging in

what used to be the Belgian Congo. There should be some way on Anzac

Day of acknowledging these forgotten victims of war.

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Comment by Stephen Cox on May 17, 2012 at 8:46pm: Peter there are many Victims of war one such group still living as slave labour are the Montegnards in the Highlands of communist Vietnam,Ignored and forgotten they have been treated very badly by the Communists because they fought alongside the Special forces both Australian and American.

People will find that Red Label Nescafe Coffee is a product of Vietnam ans made with Montegnard Slave Labor.

Like many other Countries we have betrayed our allies just as we did a number of years back with the Ghurkas who wished to settle in a small part of the Victorian Highlands as they were dispossed by the Chinese Communists moving into Tibet,We betrayed their Loyal Support as well then.

We need a Government that actively recognises those who stood by us and gives them due respect and the opportunity to join with us in this great country if they so wish and are in need of succor and aid.

Not as we do these days where we have a Government that fawns over aiding those who have been our Enemies and betrays those who were our friends.