Melbourne Protests:Land Forces 2024 International Land Defence Exposition

[Demons09]

You have too shallow grasp on the military companies to make proper comment.
You sound like Tom Elliot on 3AW with all due respect.

And what makes you an expert.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

VAR and proof of this happening. No company in Australia sells bombs to Israel directly, that is a big lie.

There's 100 weapons countries there from all over the world, it's not a lie.

 

[Celebrity 101]

There's 100 weapons countries there from all over the world, it's not a lie.

At the expo. So what.

They're not convening to find ways to blow people up.

No weapons directly get sent from Aus to Israel.

The lot protesting were as ill informed as the people who camped at Monash. That ended well, the other students thought so little of them, they left out of embarrassment.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

At the expo. So what.

They're not convening to find ways to blow people up.

No weapons directly get sent from Aus to Israel.

The lot protesting were as ill informed as the people who camped at Monash. That ended well, the other students thought so little of them, they left out of embarrassment.

Our major allie America is sending them bombs and our gov did not complain. This is why Labor will lose many inner city seats to the Greens.
Countries like Irelan condemn the transferbof bombs to Netanyahu.

 

[Celebrity 101]

Our major allie America is sending them bombs and our gov did not complain. This is why Labor will lose many inner city seats to the Greens.
Countries like Irelan condemn the transferbof bombs to Netanyahu.

So go protest at the US consulate on that logic.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Demons09 you must have the laughing gas hooked up because you can't stop laughing at everyone's posts.
Maybe you should reply to a post instead of being the class clown.

 

[Demons09]

Our major allie America is sending them bombs and our gov did not complain. This is why Labor will lose many inner city seats to the Greens.
Countries like Irelan condemn the transferbof bombs to Netanyahu.

No one gaf about the Greens they’ll get about 10% of the vote as they always do in case you haven’t noticed Australian’s are doing it tough with the cost of living what’s happening overseas wouldn’t even be on their radar.

 

[Demons09]

Demons09 you must have the laughing gas hooked up because you can't stop laughing at everyones posts.
Maybe you should reply to a post instead of being the class clown.

No just your posts.

 

[burge13]

The weapons they're flogging will kill, nothing surer and you're pissed off by the people who object to that?

Don't you think it sums up these winners that people like arms dealers more than them?

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

(In fact Israel supplies US with weapons.)

If we are demilitarised, what happens next regarding China, Russia, Iran, North Korea? They’re not giving up their weapons!

No one likes the thought of war, but the only way to prepare for the (hopefully remote) possibility is to be well-armed. We’ve never had war on our soil and we hope it never happens but people putting heads in the sand and dreaming of world peace is not real. The world has never been more dangerous.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

(In fact Israel supplies US with weapons.)

If we are demilitarised, what happens next regarding China, Russia, Iran, North Korea? They’re not giving up their weapons!

No one likes the thought of war, but the only way to prepare for the (hopefully remote) possibility is to be well-armed. We’ve never had war on our soil and we hope it never happens but people putting heads in the sand and dreaming of world peace is not real. The world has never been more dangerous.

Demilitarised? No one anywhere is saying that.
The China thing is a beat up lead by weapons companies and the right wing who they lobby.
It would be a lot smarter to befriend China and to not waste our money being a proxy for America.
China don't want war, nor have they ever. America is the war monger.
All China want is resources and basic respect.
As Paul Keating said, they deserve respect for bring 400 million people out of poverty in the last 30 years.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

No one gaf about the Greens they’ll get about 10% of the vote as they always do in case you haven’t noticed Australian’s are doing it tough with the cost of living what’s happening overseas wouldn’t even be on their radar.

You're being a bit ignorant. Arab people are turning away from Labour in droves.

 

[radiojake]

Haha ofcourse the resident bootlicker Demons one of the most prevalent in this thread

 

[Sarcoidevo]

(In fact Israel supplies US with weapons.)

If we are demilitarised, what happens next regarding China, Russia, Iran, North Korea? They’re not giving up their weapons!

No one likes the thought of war, but the only way to prepare for the (hopefully remote) possibility is to be well-armed. We’ve never had war on our soil and we hope it never happens but people putting heads in the sand and dreaming of world peace is not real. The world has never been more dangerous.

Hold on ... what about Anzac Day at the G?

They tell its war every year

 

[rank and file]

I think the expo missed a trick.
They should have set up a 'Green Weapons' stall.
Can be used defensively,will still kill but won't hurt the enviroment.
Get carbon credits for your country if you buy them.
The protest would've been more peaceful.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I think the expo missed a trick.
They should have set up a 'Green Weapons' stall.
Can be used defensively,will still kill but won't hurt the enviroment.
Get carbon credits for your country if you buy them.
The protest would've been more peaceful.

Haha, nice one. But, pandering and appeasing never works.

 

[Demons09]

Haha ofcourse the resident bootlicker Demons one of the most prevalent in this thread

Did you throw the acid at the horses or was is it shit and vomit at the police we all know how you feel about them.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

The weapons they're flogging will kill, nothing surer and you're pissed off by the people who object to that?

Are you suggesting our defence strategy should be to fight future wars with weapons that don’t kill?

 

[rank and file]

Haha, nice one. But, pandering and appeasing never works.

Only saw the ABC news,they interviewed the Israeli expo guy.
There's one guy who will be in it up to his eyeballs.
Joe Hockey:Bondi Partners

Banking on the metal 3-d printers.
All goes back to 1941.

 

[Gethelred]

And of course the Truth that you so much desire is anything that fits in with your ideologies ..... and no doubt anything outside of that is .... pure .... made up .... bullshit

... you told a narrative, supposedly between Albanese and a bloke called Bob (TBF, there's a decent history of blokes called Bob in Labor), about the unlikelihood of a free press without actually having the backbone to make an argument that a free press is undesirable.

This is something of a death by irony: so incapable of committing to a position that there's not really anything worth even arguing against.

How do you like them 4 dot ellipses

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

They sell arms to Netanyahu the baby killer mate

Who sells arms to the hamas baby killers? Same expo?

 

[Rob R]

Demilitarised? No one anywhere is saying that.
The China thing is a beat up lead by weapons companies and the right wing who they lobby.
It would be a lot smarter to befriend China and to not waste our money being a proxy for America.
China don't want war, nor have they ever. America is the war monger.
All China want is resources and basic respect.
As Paul Keating said, they deserve respect for bring 400 million people out of poverty in the last 30 years.

So if Xi doesn't want war, explain his aggression towards his smaller neighbours especially Phillippines and why he has been conducting the largest military buildup in history (outside the world wars) since 2017. Japan, Korea all seem.to think there is a threat from Xi (not China as it is dictatorship and he has undone the great work of his predecessors who started to free the people and work with the world)

I agree with your much earlier comment about why the expo shouldn't happen though, we have procurement processes and don't need the sale event and parties that go with it.

Ps. you should be proud of the way you stand up for minorities and oppressed peoples but why do you not have a problem with Xis treatment of minorities and desire to invade/suppress the Taiwanese, Philippinos, Bhutanese etc



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[kickazz]

Had to repeat what this letter to the editor in The Age said:

The behaviour of anti-war protesters at the military expo reminds me of a line from the movie, Dr Strangelove: “You can’t fight in here, this is the war room.“

 

[Carn The Berries]

How do you think Australia gets the best tech to have a strong military? Expos like this.

End of the day these riots achieved nothing but get everyone to hate your cause and cost the broke state more money

That's absolute BS... Most of this stuff is foreign, there's no need to bring it to our doorstep... It's not hard to find if you go looking for it.

 

[Saint]

It's not relevant to the expo, which is defence of this nation.

Also, you going to protest against whoever Hamas get their weapons from?

Can't have it both ways.

You realise the suppliers of both sides are attending this expo. You can buy drones, RPGs and Guns "as used in Ukraine" "as used in Middle East" etc.

The Chinese suppliers of Russia are there right alongside the US and EU suppliers of Ukraine. The war profiteers don't care to take sides. It's just the buyers.

The reason for the protest is that these are the people supplying weapons to a current genocide. If the genocide wasn't happening, the protests would be a lot smaller.

Wasn't in the office on Wednesday, but went down to have a look on Thursday at how scary it was........

Here's the quakers against genocide. Not scary at all.



I didn't get a pic of the police barricade, but there was two dozen of them trying to be intimidating and nearly completely blocking the bridge to South Wharf DFO.

Here's about 3 dozen of them taking a break. And there were police stationed all the way up to Collins Street. Because some scary Quakers were around. What a complete and utter shambolic waste of Government resources. They say it'll bring in $60m to the economy over 5 years, but it costs then $15m every year for the police (including paying flights and accom to NSW police) to protect. Sounds like typical ALP budget maths.