From: Paul Edwards, mutazilah@gmail.com
To: Committee Secretary, PJCIS, PO Box 6021, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Date: 2021-01-28

Dear Sir,

This is the SIXTH ADDENDUM to my previous submission regarding:
"Inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia".

I would like to discuss the circumstances where I would be
willing to pick up a gun and kill someone personally. You can
then decide whether you think I am a threat to Australia.

First of all, I'm a very big fan of the Australian military.
This movie demonstrates everything I love about Australia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthorsemen_(film)

It was only when it came to the 2003 Iraq war that I first
found out that only 50% of Australians subscribe to that
(my) mentality of liberating the world. I consider liberating
the world to be the most noble of causes, and I wish to be
a noble person.

When I was 17-18 I was reluctant to join the military because
I wasn't ready to die.

But when I was something like 20-21, working as a computer
programmer (both my passion and my skill) someone told me
that you can actually sign up to be in the Reserves as an
SAS. That piqued my interest and I made the effort to find
out what the entry requirements were to join the Australian
military. There was a particular distance you need to be
able to run in a particular time and I didn't meet the
requirements (from experience). I could have trained to try
to meet the requirements but I'm physically very lazy and
I decided not to bother. Obviously I realize that my
personal participation in the military is not going to make
any tangible difference to Australian capability. Whereas
with programming I thought I could write significant amounts
of public domain code to benefit humanity. All while sitting
down making minimal physical movement. So that's what I
chose to do with my life.

In hindsight I am glad that I never went anywhere near the
military. I would have been a mediocre soldier at best, and
I get into a lot of interpersonal conflicts due to my grating
personality, and to me, part of "liberating the world"
includes doing things like genociding Australian rapists in
order to protect Australian women, and the same goes for
other human rights abusers, including an Australian soldier
who bullies me, and there is too much of a chance that there
would be a situation at "target practice" that results in
"oops, I accidentally shot and killed that bully". Which
reminds me of an Australian driver on TV who said that he
was driving once when a bicycle rider darted in front of
him dangerously (being an asshole), with the expectation
that the driver would be forced to slam on his brakes.
But oops, he didn't slam on the brakes fast enough. I don't
think the biker was actually killed though, just needed to
face the music of causing an accident by being an asshole,
and having a damaged bike and maybe injuries.

But there is a problem with not wanting to be a hypocrite.
I want Australian soldiers to fight and potentially die
for the freedom of others. If I expect others to die for
freedom, I should be willing to do it myself. Actually,
now that I am older, I am totally willing to die for the
cause of freedom. I've already done all my research on
how to protect and expand the free world, and if anyone
is interested in my research, it's all there. To date
no-one at all has shown any interest. So I'm ready to die.
I would like to make an open invitation to the Australian
government. If they make a determination that Australia
(or any other member of the free world) would be safer
with me dead, they are welcome to kill me. I do ask that
it be a painless and quick death. I do not mind if it is
done extrajudicially. If an Australian SAS sniper blows
my brain out from behind while I am on my way to the
train station, that's fine. It will upset my wife, but
other wives are also upset to lose their Australian
soldier husband in Iraq too, and that's a price that
needs to be paid.

There is another situation where I made a conscious choice
to prove that I'm not a hypocrite. I love animals and don't
want to see them suffer. But at the same time I want to eat
meat. I lived in Fiji for 3.5 years and my ethnic Indian
neighbors kept chickens etc and slaughtered them. I never
did. I was still a teenager at the time. My father actually
had a knife, which I "requisitioned" and spent a lot of time
sharpening, even using jeweller's rouge. I went to visit my
neighbors some years later, I think in my early 20s, and took
my knife with me, and asked for permission to kill a chicken
next time they were slaughtering one. They agreed to let me
do it. I did indeed follow through, and cut the neck off
the chicken. That's the only time I've ever done it though.
I prefer to outsource my killing. But I'm willing to do it
personally if ever required. I'm not willing to give up
meat. I've also watched "Earthlings". Still not willing to
give up meat. If Australian soldiers can die for a cause,
so too can Australian cows. Anyhow, "Earthlings" "solution"
to cows sometimes suffering when being slaughtered is to
effectively genocide cows, not something the species
probably wants to happen to them if they knew what was
being planned.

Anyway, being willing to die at the hands of the Australian
SAS does not cover my willingness to actually pick up a gun
and kill another human. I've never proven that I actually
have the capability of doing that. I noticed on "The
Lighthorsemen" that there was an Australian soldier who
couldn't bring himself to open fire either. I could be like
him, I've never been tested. But I hope that deep down I am
not a hypocrite and I am willing to do it.

As per previous submission, I advocate NATO invading Australia
if they intend to install a constitution that protects my
human rights, such as the right to be able to open my bedroom
window without being exposed to disgusting cigarette smoke.
In order to not be a hypocrite, if and when NATO forces arrive,
I will be unarmed unless the Australian government has pressed
me into service. I will not fight the NATO forces. I will
instead look for an opportunity to sabotage the ADF operation.
I don't think I could bring myself to actually kill an ADF
soldier though. Maybe I would try to wrestle away his gun or
something to try to get him to stop firing on NATO troops and
surrender. If I get shot by him or another ADF soldier, that's
fine, I died trying to do the right thing. But without killing
a soldier in a democracy (on eiher side).

But it is very unlikely an untrained goon like me would be
pressed into service in the first place. What I would instead
do is wait for NATO forces to arrive near my location, and
then make an effort to approach them with my hands up, holding
flowers if available, and let them take me in, and explain to
them that I wish to defect. I'm untrained but I'll do whatever
they wish me to do. Unless they want me to do a war crime such
as rape an Australian woman. If a single Australian woman is
legally and deliberately raped by NATO forces, that means that
ALL Australian women don't even have the right to not be raped
secured. If that is the case, I'd rather lose my right to not
be exposed to cigarette smoke than for Australian women to lose
their rights. So if that's what they intend to do, I'll tell
them to fuck off back to where they came from, and attempt to
sabotage the NATO operation instead. I would actually ask them
why they would want to rape an Australian woman. They may have
some strange ideas that you need to sacrifice women to make
the sun rise, and I will explain to them that I am right and
NATO is wrong, that the sun rises without human intervention
and I'm willing to fight and die for that belief.

Assuming that I have successfully defected to the NATO side,
and have confidence that they are going to improve Australian
law rather than make things worse, they may well put a gun in
my hand and tell me to put my money where my mouth is and go
and kill ADF soldiers. Wow. While in principle I accept NATO
as the new government forces, and the ADF as rebels, the ADF
are still very close ideological allies too. NATO is only
giving me a marginal improvement. What I want is for the ADF
to realize the position is lost and that they need to
surrender. I will insist that NATO forces give the ADF an
opportunity to surrender if they expect me to kill one. I
want to be able to gain contact with the ADF soldiers so that
I can explain that they are on the wrong side of this war
morally (protecting smokers so that they can harm
non-smokers, instead of protecting innocent non-smokers) and
that they don't have the technical ability to defeat NATO
forces, it's a lopsided battle. So they are trying to kill
innocent NATO soldiers for no good reason. That makes THEM
the bad guys. If they still insist on fighting, they are
effectively saying to me "we don't give a flying fuck how
much smoke you are forced to breathe, like it or lump it".
I will explain to them what they have effectively done, and
tell them "Ok, fine. You are a human rights abuser and an
enemy of mine, I'm now going to kill you.". Then I believe
I will be willing to actually kill an Australian soldier.
But like I say, I've never been tested. Maybe I'll just pee
in my pants and cry instead. Note that in the 2003 Iraq war,
the US tried its best to give the Iraqi conscripts a chance
to desert. The US has no interest whatsoever in killing
Saddam's conscripts. Not revenge for 9/11 or any other
reason.