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Chris Minns says that “confronting” security measures are needed — but the prospect of police snipers and soldiers on Australian streets forces deeper questions about government failures and national decline.

The NSW Government will deploy police with long-armed firearms at New Years Eve events and are considering stationing soldiers outside Jewish schools and synagogues.

Premier Chris Minns told journalists the scenes would be “confronting for some people”.

Meh. It’ll only be confronting for those of us who can still remember Australia.

Minns said…

“But the truth is, we want to make sure that they’re in a position to send a message that security is the No. 1 obligation of any government.”

Which begs the question, if security is the number one obligation of any government, what the hell have Minns’ federal colleagues been doing these past few years?

How does importing ISIS brides square with security as the number one obligation of any government?

How does handing out tourist visas to Gazans match up with the government’s obligation to prioritise security?

But here’s the real question that needs to be asked of Chris Minns, and certainly of our Prime Minister…

Why shouldn’t Australian’s find snipers stationed on grandstand roofs at the MCG confronting?

Why shouldn’t Australians be unnerved by Rambo cops at New Years Eve festivities on Sydney Harbour?

Why shouldn’t Australians think having the army posted outside Jewish places of worship represents an utter failure of governance in this nation?

Would Chris Minns and co kindly explain to the rest of us how we arrived at this point?

Where Did the Old Australia Go?

I remember an Australia where none of this was necessary.

Where did that Australia go?

And have we given up on ever getting it back?

Must we all now just get used to living in a police state because we suddenly — inexplicably — have neighbours who might want to include us in their jihad menu?

Here’s an idea…

Rather than accepting this state of affairs and deploying the army for domestic policing, why don’t we instead arrest and where possible deport the people who are terrorising this country?

Rather than having the army post soldiers outside Sydney’s Grand Synagogue, why don’t we instead have the RAAF prepare a Hercules transport plane for the first lot of deportations?

Actually, scrap the Hercules. Make it a C17. They’re faster. And they take twice as many hate preachers.

That’s a use of the military I think we’d all support. And far from confronting, it would be comforting to most Australians.

Avoiding the Root Cause of Our Problems

Deploying soldiers at Jewish sites to protect the safety of Australians is like putting a bandaid on cancer.

What an indictment on the federal government that the risk to Jewish Australians is so high we now have state premiers seriously thinking about engaging the armed forces to protect citizens.

Just on that, you’d think that engaging the army for domestic security purposes would be a question for the Prime Minister.

And then you remember that our PM is Anthony Albanese.

Say no more.

I’ll finish with one more question…

How long does Chris Minns propose that we keep the army on the streets?

Weeks?

Months?

Years?

Forever?

How long before we end up looking like some fractured, failed Middle Eastern or South Asian country where military guards patrolling streets are the norm?

The situation in this once blessed country is now beyond ridiculous.

Our politicians — even the best ones like Chris Minns — will do everything in their power to avoid ever mentioning the root cause of our problems.

And the longer this drags on, the more the root cause is forgotten and we are all caught up in their fog of obfuscation and misdirection.

That is, of course, the Federal Labor Government’s plan. A plan the compliant left-wing media (ABC et al) is more than willing to aid and abet.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Unplash.