a citizen militia is the best prevention of war. it doesn't scare the neighbors, while making invasion unprofitable. but it requires citizens.

you can't invade someone with a citizen militia, so kings, presidents and prime ministers reckon they are useless. you need professional soldiers and tanks, with air mastery, to invade a country. nations whose masters like to dream of conquest are big on military hardware.

you can invade with professional armies, but do not necessarily win wars with them. 5000 guerrilleros in iraq have been discomfiting 150,000 professional soldiers for 5 years now, longer than hitler resisted the red army. the viet minh beat the foreign legion, the hungjun beat the chinese national army, the viet cong helped drive out the yanks.

politicians hate active, organized citizens. they prefer hired guns, and subject-workers. that's the way they've organized oz, and the media help keep it that way. "leave politics to us professionals", they say, and let the sas do the fighting, until we need conscription to save the nation from our bungled foreign adventures.

Hopefully, this threads about organisation, encouraging preparation, for a citizens army whilst theres time.
Its not about a few blokes running around with bolt action rifles, not knowing what they are doing.
Its about taking the time now while there is an opportunity, to do home guard.
Both China and Indonesia look at us with considerable desire.
I dont feel its of modern weapons or even nuclear weapons either.
That cuts out the GOD factor.
For over 50 years since Hiroshima God kept the balance; and nuclear holocaust simply didnt happen. If nukes are going to go off its HIS Domain... whether He allows it or not.
I think some will in certain places but not necessarily here. That leaves huge scope for manpower.
Bushies, in the form of a citizens army.
My picture of the future is simply and its based on what appears to be reliable prophecies sent from The Lord to the Christian churches about an invader (theres a whole area in this that most people have never come across. Only if you are where The Holy Spirit moves, in Holy Spirit churches, will you see and understand about visions and prophecies).
Defence doesnt want to do a citizens army so whats left?
I think its down to the gun clubbers already, which could create law problems.
An army is coming down from out of asia. They will take about half of the land, for at least a while. I dont know where America is. She appears tied up somehow. All Australias ships and aircraft came to nothing. All their technology got fired off and its was down to hand to hand. Enemy paratroopers first then landings afterwards. Thousands died in the face to face conflicts. Conscription was intense. Only the young kids and the aged escaped. Thats my whole perspective. A very specific, narrow vision of the future.

Come on TurnRightThenLeft.
Its all in the specific context of a home guard defence force, with guns secured away under lock and key from those that do criminal things.

Gibo: "Only if you are where The Holy Spirit moves, in Holy Spirit churches, will you see and understand about visions and prophecies"

I think Gibo's been over-indulging in the 'holy spirits' again.

Well CJ.
Its a world apart where I live. Its a seperate place. A very, very special place. Youre all invited in... but I think many of you wont come until you need Jesus Christ to help you. That time is coming of course. Its full of wonderful people, hugs and kisses are common, fellowship is very dear. Healings happen, miracles happen, prophecies happen, people get visions, the Word of God is uplifted above all. When youre filled with The Holy Spirit, the supernatural is every day. After 24 years in the christian churches I now find the outer world somewhat strange and darkening. Governments arent looking after the peoples. Who could deny that. Defence looks at the world without the Holy Bible. People dont care much about anything. My world may be small but its more real than most folks who believe in little other than themselves.

Dear Gibo,

It's all right to believe in yourself.

God formed you with perfect feet and hands and a heart that beats non-stop, sometimes for a hundred years. He made you complete. Why then do you assume He made you empty?

He didn't, of course. You inherited a thousand generations of wisdom, skill, poetry, song, all the sunrises and sunsets of knowledge past.
You are the sum of all the people who went before you.

You are a refinery of inherited intellectual wealth. The full flood of antecedent wisdom is piped and stored within you - how to climb the highest mountain, slay the biggest monster, how to survive fear and how to summon your own courage and take pride in your wonderful intelligence.

Inside you are more possibilities than you could possibly use up in one lifetime.

If you can dream it, you can do it, because the instinctive knowledge of how to succeed is already programmed within you waiting to be turned on. Waiting to flow like a river as you come on stream.