red baron wrote on Sep 9
th, 2014 at 3:01pm:
Australia has had the benefit of be able to put on the 'rose coloured glasses' anytime we feel like it.
Wars go on overseas, sometimes we are involved sometimes we aren't but it is always 'over there'.
There is a time bomb ticking in Australia and it's due to go off any old time. The ISIS Jihadists have called on their followers world wide to attack the West 'where they live'.
Does anyone here think, yes everywhere except here, after all this is OZ.
The wake up call will come as a shock, when the first zealot has the gonads to step over the line and carry out ISIS orders on our soil.
This will be a hair trigger effect, which will encourage more of the (usually) young to prepare to 'die for the cause'.
Australia will morph into the 'frightened society' and the innocence, that is the hallmark of this Country, will disappear in a flash, never to return.
Am I a dooms dayer? No I'm a realist and every one of you should think about how best you are going to protect your families, when these crazies set themselves loose.
They said the same thing about the French once. And the Dutch. Then the Russians, then the Krauts.
Then the Krauts again, then the Japs, then the Russians again as well. The Chinks got a good look-in, and the Indonesians have always been up there, somewhere - after the Dutch, of course.
Whenever we've been short of someone, we found the boongs. When we ran out of boongs, we discovered the leftards. Thank heavens for small mercies, eh?
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.