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Svengali Gold Member Offline Please don't thank me Posts: 3474 Gender:	Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets Reply #15 - Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:12am Next pledge. No liberal will be living in intellectual, spiritual and mental poverty by 2115.
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Reply #16 - Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:18am

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

I'm on the honour roll.

This is the first time I've heard that there a former soldiers on our streets. It's pretty disgusting. I'm not a warmonger either. If I had my way none of our men would be fighting in muslim countries.

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Reply #17 - Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:23am

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:18am:

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

I'm on the honour roll.

This is the first time I've heard that there a former soldiers on our streets. It's pretty disgusting. I'm not a warmonger either. If I had my way none of our men would be fighting in muslim countries.

Noted and corrected. Empty space above where your name was.

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Reply #18 - Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:25am

Svengali wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:23am:

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:18am:

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

I'm on the honour roll.

This is the first time I've heard that there a former soldiers on our streets. It's pretty disgusting. I'm not a warmonger either. If I had my way none of our men would be fighting in muslim countries.

Noted and corrected. Empty space above where your name was.

Thank you. I tell a lie, I don't mind seeing ISIS getting bombed. What they are doing to other human beings is disturbing.

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Reply #19 - Jan 9^th, 2015 at 12:59pm

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:25am:

Svengali wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:23am:

Rocketanski wrote on Jan 8^th, 2015 at 11:18am:

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

I'm on the honour roll.

This is the first time I've heard that there a former soldiers on our streets. It's pretty disgusting. I'm not a warmonger either. If I had my way none of our men would be fighting in muslim countries.

Noted and corrected. Empty space above where your name was.

Thank you. I tell a lie, I don't mind seeing ISIS getting bombed. What they are doing to other human beings is disturbing.

Not one of the lip service patriots on Ozpolitic stepped up and gave shelter to a homeless veteran.

Come on Red Baron, show us what all your flag waving stands for. Take some veterans into your home to thank them from saving you from nazis, commies and muslims.

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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 31417 Gender:	Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets Reply #20 - Jan 9^th, 2015 at 1:54pm Have you?
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Reply #21 - Jan 9^th, 2015 at 3:13pm

No - but I used to cut the lawns free for an old Digger with a broken back and his aging father. Nobody else would and the locals rubbished him.. calling him Sticks because he used two sticks to get around. Treated with contempt..... a Far Ken disgrace.... but pretty normal human behaviour.

He also used to get hot showers at my place.... his Dad's place had a wood-fired water heater and neither of them could operate it... his dad was a WWII Digger and pretty old.

Guy used to cook for the SAS.... a fine occupation and much needed....

I have a spare bedroom at my flat in town... a homeless Digger is welcome...

Trouble is many don't fit too well into living indoors.. it depends on their experiences.

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Reply #22 - Jan 9^th, 2015 at 3:19pm

Gnads wrote on Jan 9^th, 2015 at 1:54pm:

Have you?

I am not a war monger like Gnads the lip service patriot
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Gnads offering a homeless veteran a room. Fat chance!

Gnads fomenting attitudes that lead to Australian involvement in foreign conflicts. Every chance!

Still waiting for Red Baron to have a flagpole installed on its lips.

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We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
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Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 31417 Gender:	Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets Reply #23 - Jan 9^th, 2015 at 3:50pm Once again you 5 minute wonder you wouldn't have a clue I don't support the war in Iraq & Afghanistan .. or anywhere else in the ME. Our troops should be at home. Take you BS up with Abbort. Naff off Noddy.
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Reply #24 - Jan 25^th, 2015 at 11:00pm

Svengali wrote on Jan 7^th, 2015 at 10:28pm:

it_is_the_light wrote on Jan 7^th, 2015 at 8:14pm:

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

Soren, couch commando, lip service patriot, dishonorable discharge
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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

many blessings

you have posted a list of masonic dupes concocting a

bipartisan switcheroo where every horse is freemasonic

along with one trick ponies and ham fisted hacks

these are forgiven yet exposed

and so be it

namaste

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Soren confessed and was dishonorably discharged.

Thank you for not being ashamed to perform a circle w a n k.

Fap on, boys.

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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets Reply #25 - Jan 25^th, 2015 at 11:20pm Sorry Svengali, I only like women, with an IQ well above average. So please get over this disturbing obsession you have with me..
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innocentbystander. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4723 Gender:	Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets Reply #26 - Jan 25^th, 2015 at 11:29pm Some people like being homeless, a lot of them have burned all of their bridges with family and friends, if you gave a homeless person a home, a car and a job and came back in twelve months time they'd be out on the street again.
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Re: Sign of the times? Diggers die on Streets
Reply #27 - Jan 26^th, 2015 at 10:36am

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 9:19am:

(it's Tony's fault)......

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/help-our-homeless-diggers-the-disgrace...

"DIGGERS now represent almost one in 10 of the homeless people who are at risk of death on Melbourne’s streets.

Surveys of Melbourne’s most desperate homeless people have found that alarming numbers of those who are most vulnerable are veterans.

The Herald Sun can reveal there has been a heartbreaking increase in the numbers of people who served overseas in dangerous trouble spots, only to find themselves forgotten at home.

The military veterans slowly dying on our streets include young men from recent theatres of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The surveys of hundreds of people sleeping rough were compiled under a vulnerability index, which identifies demographic and clinical factors linked to a “significant risk of dying”.

Soldier suicide: Number of veterans taking own lives more than triples Afghanistan combat toll

22 Apr 2014

Friday's Anzac Day events will commemorate those who fought and fell in wars - but what of those whose names will never be on memorial plaques, those who continued their struggle with demons back home, and lost?

The number of serving and former soldiers who have committed suicide is now more than triple Australia's combat toll in Afghanistan.

Former Australian signalman Chad Dobbs is worried the ADF and Veterans Affairs do not appreciate the breadth of the problem.

He tried to overdose when he returned from Iraq and Afghanistan anxious, depressed and lost.

"What I did over there mattered," Signalman Dobbs said.

"I had a prominent job, I enjoyed what I did. When I came home all that went away. I didn’t really have any self worth anymore."

He says it is falling to the very people who tried to take their own lives to stop colleagues from doing the same.

In one case Mr Dobbs received a call from a mate who was standing on a ledge, ready to jump off.

"While he was waiting on a ledge he called to say goodbye to me," he recalled.

"Luckily I had someone else with me at the time who was able to call his duty room, his work, and got him the help that he needed."

The ADF's Joint Health Commander, Rear Admiral Robyn Walker, says it has not found a link between operational deployment and suicide.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-22/number-of-soldiers-committing-suicide-trip...

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Reply #28 - Jan 26^th, 2015 at 10:53am

Lots of people homeless and suicidal, why the focus on veterans who willingly served in war zones overseas. The suicide link comes with the territory. Lots of professions have high rates of suicide. Ive lost quite a few colleagues over the years, just the way it is. Nothing terrible about the way veterans are treated, they have access to emotional and financial support, counselling etc. Up to them if they take it up.

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Reply #29 - Jan 26^th, 2015 at 11:22am

Svengali wrote on Jan 6^th, 2015 at 10:34am:

Surely those who have supported government military policy will offer the veterans a room in their homes?

Step up war monger denizens or hold your silence on military matters.

The dishonour roll. Drums please!

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Step up or shut up war monger denizens.

Fixed......

If you don't agree, show me where I have incurred your nomination......

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