Jay of Melbourne, 30 odd years ago I spent nearly 3 weeks living amongst pilings and beams of the Fremantle wharf area. Rats the size of Scots Terriers chewing at my GP boots and cockroaches whose demeanour was fearsome, 4 of them could carry you away while you slept.

What was I doing there? Carrying out a small 'surveillance operation' to ensure that several 20' containers of drugs landed safely on Australian soil to disappear into the populace.

Who arranged it all? The government of the day. No one can tell me now, nor could they then, as to why this amount of illicit substances was let loose on us. All I know is that several weeks later, in Sydney and Melbourne many heroin addicts died as a result of a very "pure" batch landing on the streets.

No Jay, the real criminals are the ones in Armani suits, infesting the cabinet offices and corporate board rooms...not the dumb Triads, 5T's & ex Communist Bloc rejects, or even the Middle Eastern gangs...no these poor fools are just the patsies the government has set up via MSM & want us to hate, wanting us to direct our rage and indignation at.

The great social experiment being conducted at present where immigrants are not expected to assimilate, but to exercise their religious/political opinions and freedoms (read: non adherence to any laws of the country they reside in) under the UN, is well on its way to creating the division in society they wish to capitalise on.

Divide and conquer is what this is all about. The so called "nutters" sitting 50 metres up on top of a Jarrah tree are probably the only sane people left.

ttbn, correct - democracy hasn't existed in Australia since the 39th Battalion was ordered to Kokoda by MacArthur and the proxy government of the USA sailed into the Coral Sea.

"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." (Serj Tankian).

Albie Manton in Darwin,
I remember your Fremantle import well, and the aftermath.
The same thing happens quite regularly here in Cairns.
Once they set up a false trail out in the middle of Australia where a small plane
crashed carrying a large amount of Heroin, not that anyone ever saw the drugs,
and all the while when the smarties were attending they brought in,
through Cairns, 5 ton of the big H pure.
the frog brought 3 ton in on a black converted minesweeper through Cairns.
Nobody searches anything here in Cairns.

ChrisG, I had long thought there must be others who had witnessed similar goings on as I did.

Steele, we had the "Fuhrer we had to have" in the form of John Winston Howard. Under his stewardship Australians saw more freedoms and common law rights eroded and taken away than in any other time in our history. Attorney General Phillip Ruddock being the primary architect of those since 9/11. Jingoism was at that time running at its highest level since WW1. We even saw the ancient offences of treason & 'crimen exceptum' brought to the fore. A New Age Inquisition afoot.

The War on Terror, the witch hunt for the enemies of democracy...the net result - we have bombed 'freedom' into Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine and a few other places the Electronic Whorehouse chose to ignore along the way. Surgically precise missile strikes and drones delivering amputations, burnt flesh and ongoing agony for many innocent souls whose only crime was to be born and reside in the target area.

Returned servicemen & women committing suicide at an alarming rate, no debrief from the mission and left out to dry because their government doesn't give a toss. We spend $13 Million per day on US military equipment and technology but cant spend $1 to help former ADF members who served their country. I'm very certain this is going to bite us on the bum before much longer.

You can stick your nationalism, your patriotism...where the sun don't shine !

//The difference is that from the 1980's crime began to fall in Australia, then in the late 1990's it began to plummet, we thought the bad old days were behind us.//

The bad old days are behind you. The crime rate has been declining steadily for a long time now.

//The new crime wave//

New crime wave? What new crime wave? Stats or it didn't happen.

Sites such as the ones below hint at "problems" with accepting refugees:

http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/01/stop-muslim-immigration-to-united.html

http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp0001/01RP05

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-04/steketee-languishing-at-sea/6522340

Lets go back a bit before the War On Everything...

"Almost 20 years ago, Bill Clinton signed an act that has had considerable ramifications around the globe; the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Act, which effectively rendered the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 all but useless. The Posse Comitatus Act was created to limit the powers of the U.S. Federal Government in using its military personnel to act as domestic law enforcement personnel." (Ellery 2015)

Whilst the US president chose to abrogate his country's laws, a similar ongoing agenda has been carried out under the governments of Howard/Abbott & Co which has assisted in the facilitation of eroding our freedoms and hard fought for rights.

Fuhrer Abbott: "...regrettably, for some time to come, Australians will have to endure more security than we are used to..." Hansard (Sept 2014)

Fuhrer Howard: "...why the matters at stake go to the very credibility of the United Nations..." Hansard (2003)

The formation of Border Force with their distinctive black uniforms was no coincidence, for their powers are far reaching, almost approaching the powers of arrest and seizure of the various state Fisheries Officers, who are in themselves administering draconian legislation.

But back to the thread...globalism and nationalist ideals. Like recruits who have their flowing locks removed upon enlistment, we are all being reduced to a "common denominator value" with the end game of culling any debate, right of reply and the ultimate goal of having obedient sheeple who follow their leaders bidding, whether here in Australia or indeed any western nation.

Oh, stats and crime Toni. I know a police Superintendent who could tell you how the politicians fabricate or manipulate statistics. She would also tell you just how much crime, especially violent crime, has risen; African and Middle Eastern gangs being big contributors. Politicians actually lie about things they don't have the guts to change.