Vietnam veterans returning home to face hostilities and suicides
A letter from Afghanistan war veteran Dr Daniel Mealey to Chief of Defence Force General Angus Campbell
Dear General Angus Campbell AO, DSC,
It may surprise you that on the minds of many serving and former-serving ADF personnel, is the belief that only a major invasion at this stage – a bloody war on our own soil – will re-calibrate your priorities, and those of our misinformed civilians.
Historically, you saw the need to contract a civilian sociologist $7.3 million to help you understand your SASR soldiers’ perceptions about you, and their perceptions of the Afghanistan war to which you deployed them. I’m now offering you my own appraisal – free of charge – to ensure that you see why there is a growing disconnect between you and your soldiers. This is an appraisal from someone of 5th generation Army stock; an Army doctor, Afghanistan veteran, and someone who the Royal Commissioners thanked first in their opening address, as being pivotal in forming the Royal Commission to investigate defective ADF leadership.
in private practice in Moruya, NSW
You will be watching very closely, the case of CPL Ben Roberts-Smith VC, MG – a case that resonates strongly with a growing number of aggrieved veterans who have faced impossible battles at war – and then at home – with their individual human rights conflicting against politically-motivated bureaucracies harming them.
Increasingly, our vets battle for basic welfare, healthcare and legal rights to avoid becoming one of the 1,600+ veteran suicides under your watch. Meanwhile, our civilians, from a position of unprecedented comfort in our country, commandeer our media and justice systems toward meaningless conflict surrounding race, gender, and climate.
Nowhere in our civilians’ cumulative conscience does their agenda leave for room for empathy toward soldiers who have killed an enemy at war. This is an agenda that you and your senior officers have absorbed, in the knowledge that there is much personal gain from absorbing it.
There is an ideology at play here, one that grew Australian roots circa the Vietnam War. Those who have lived (or served) through the Vietnam War era will attest to the speed with which Australians supported, and then turned on their own soldiers.
How does an entire nation start from a position of supporting a war on Communists (or a war on Taliban Terrorists for that matter), to turning on the soldiers we sent to fight them?
It’s a question that has puzzled me, a question that leads to more questions about how civilians have been so easily manipulated by our militantly socialist media. It seems that human minds (when not properly grounded in informed moral principles) can so very easily – and mindlessly – be swept away by propaganda.
We all know what propaganda is: information with equivocal versions of the truth, ruthlessly spread for the purpose of a ‘cause.’ Recognising propaganda appears to be a global challenge – but it’s the “spreading” part that interests me.
B.A. Santamaria warned us about the “spread” of communism. We know that from the time it took from initial boots on ground in Vietnam, to the time it took us to bring them home, the ideological, atheistic and anti-human errors of communism were strategically targeted toward our wharves, our universities, our schools and even our seminaries. While our soldiers were fighting the visual representation of communism, our academics and politicians back home allowed ideological communism to march right through the front door.
The impact of this infiltrated ideology upon our soldiers coming home from Vietnam yielded an inhospitality resulting in overwhelming veteran suicides. Importantly, the university students who spat on our soldiers returning from war, would one day become our politicians, our professors, our university and ADFA lecturers. The infiltrated ideology that drove Vietnam veterans to their suicide is the same ideology driving Afghanistan veterans to their suicides too.
What I’m suggesting is that ideologies of an enemy can kill (and have killed) far more of our soldiers than the war itself. This demands that those schooled in the art of moral theology, philosophy and ethics be called upon to protect our military – our final bastion of self-defence – from destructive, ideological errors that have so easily been spread around the globe.
Sadly though, the Top Brass of our military has warmed to the machinations of socialist politicians who dictate which senior officer will be politically appointed to the position of “Governor General.”
The Chinese Communist Party’s indifferent response to those injured or killed by its Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), is a response that could arguably be compared with senior ADF leaders’ indifferent response to those harmed doing their jobs.
Zhang Tan was a director in the United Front Work Department’s Religious Administration Bureau reporting directly to the PSC. His monitoring of Christians and his enforcing of the CCP’s one-child policy has been linked to quite literally, countless deaths.
The CCP has outwardly embraced socio-capitalist wealth, but its tenacious allegiance to communist principles has created a situation in which the valuation of the individual has become reduced to their economic contribution.
Mr Zhang gave a rare glimpse into the CCP, interviewed by reporter Steve Viney: “[CCP] leaders have nothing to do with the ones below them, just like the whole mechanism of the Communist Party — it only looks at the faces above, not the people’s feelings below.
“The CCP doesn’t use the ordinary people’s perspective, it uses a comparative sociological perspective” that elevates the collective good over the individual’s value.”
The problem with this ideology is that by definition, “the collective good” is defined by neither the value of individuals nor their input. It involves a set of relativist outcomes defined by those holding the power. If we’ve learned one thing in the history of histories, it’s that those with power often become disconnected from the needs of the individuals they control, landing in leaders who “have nothing to do with the ones below them,” looking only “at the faces above, not the people’s feelings [nor their human rights] below.”
Leaders looking up, and never down breeds indifference to anyone harmed in their wake. It allows for entitled careerism, a medal-lust that blinds a leader to accountability.
1,600+ of your own Australian Defence Force members are dead, and yet our politicians and journalists are drunk on the fumes of an upwardly focussed, positive appraisal of our leaders’ successes.
I’m calling “communism” on this ideology, and it’s time Australians did so as well. And if they don’t, the writing is on the wall for this country for it to fall – with much bloodshed – like every other country that succumbed to this morally-vacuous, anti-human ideology.
There is a way back for all of you Sir. To overcome this ideology demands a cultural and moral shift in ADF leadership, to uphold the value of individual soldiers – as opposed to the current practice of throwing them under the bus when it is politically convenient to do so. In continued service to my ADF family,
Dr Daniel Mealey
Afghanistan Veteran
Shane Sigley said “I was three years too young for Vietnam thank God.”
Yes, I turned 18 in 1971 and luckily wasn’t called up for N.S., Whitlam came to office just in time for me.
And as a young man of the times was strongly anti-war,
peace movement; even secretly defied my parents and participated in the huge Moratorium March along Bourke St. lol
I never held any resentment of ex-serving members of the ADF nor encountered much of it at all TBH; after all I could well have been one of them.
A sad reflection of today’s youth, no anti-war movements, mostly cancel culture and pro-degeneration crap.
Dr Daniel Mealey, Afghanistan Veteran said:
“There is an ideology at play here, one that grew Australian roots circa the Vietnam War. Those who have lived (or served) through the Vietnam War era will attest to the speed with which Australians supported, and then turned on their own soldiers.”
In 1972, I was in the Regular Army in an Infantry Battalion serving with many National Service diggers (Nasho’s) all good blokes, lot of respect for them, then and now.
In 1972 Gough Whitlam won the Federal election. By the afternoon of the day after the election most of the Nasho’s had quickly returned their issued gear and left the unit – gone home.
Gough Whitlam was praised for quickly closing down National Service, but, at the same time, before he and his Government were sworn in, he and another of his newly elected mates were making changes to acts / legislation and the like. All highly dodgy and done in (at the time) secret, especially as they were not even sworn in at the time – this has been reported on previous Cairns News posts.
That was the start of Whitlam turning our (now their) Government(s) into corporations with business names and numbers fully under the control of overseas entities.
At the time the demigod leaders of the Defence Forces would have been aware of what Whitlam and his mob of traitors were doing, they had ASIO, ASUS, Military Intelligence, Membership of not so Secret Societies and similar, available for info.
If I was to be told, no, they did not know what was being done by the traitors, i would have to be sitting down, otherwise I would likely fall over due to laughing so much.
Most politicians and Defence Force leaders (then and now) would have to be aware of what was done to give away, sell off and promise to others, our (now their) Australia.
We know what was done, and we do not have access to the secret and supposedly hidden info they had then and still have today.
If a leader such as Dr Daniel Mealey puts his head above the crowd and lets us know what is wrong with the Defence Forces leaders, how could you not support him?
Shane Sigley said – “He just wanted to have all his military life behind him and forgotten.”
IMO, a wise man – it’s called “burning your bridges”, and FWIW that’s one bridge that sorely needs to be burned. For any intelligent self-aware individual that can step back and see the bigger picture, not a damn thing has changed since those sorry days. If anything, it’s gotten worse.
Shane Sigley said – “I think it telling that today’s veterans think it will take an invasion of the country by a foreign force to knock the brainwashed woke idiots back to something resembling reality.”
Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Australia (and many other Western countries) have ALREADY been invaded by a foreign force – our many foreign-owned private armies filled with shit-for-brains hired mercenary thugs impersonating “police” epitomise that reality – and the cluelessly complicit, intellectually challenged and morally bankrupt “woke” idiots are all a part of that. And needless to say, the entire structure of Australian governance, from top to bottom, has been hijacked and is completely OWNED by foreign genocidal pychopaths. We’re already in a deep hole, and these bastards just keep digging deeper.
It remains to be seen, what will finally trigger a proper response by Australian patriots and inspire the Fat Lady to dust off her fat tonsils and sing? I fear we still have to survive years more of this genocidal Luciferian shit – eight more years, according to Martin Armstrong.
Why are there no slums in China?
Walking the streets in China’s cities, you will however, quickly notice one marked difference – the absence of large slums or pervasive homelessness that is so common to most of the rest of the world.
https://dongshengnews.org/en/why-are-there-no-slums-in-china/
I had a mate, a Vietnam veteran, who when I first met him claimed to fought in Korea. Later he revealed he was so betrayed by the whole process, he threw all his medals in a drunken stupor into the Breakfast Creek from the Breakfast Creek bridge one ANZAC day and swore he was finished with it. He never marched in an ANZAC parade or played Two Up at the local RSL again. He just wanted to have all his military life behind him and forgotten. But he could never forget. So he helped people in his community working on their cars from home. He was a top bloke, the salt of the earth.
I was three years too young for Vietnam thank God.
The doctor has a point about the infiltration of our universities. Surely the mindset in the Wokests has it’s roots in that betrayal of our nation back then when my mate got the cold shoulder instead of a welcome and glad you are back. I think it telling that today’s veterans think it will take an invasion of the country by a foreign force to knock the brainwashed woke idiots back to something resembling reality.
I believe something really terrible is approaching our doorsteps, something that will cause us to, as a nation, finally humble ourselves and ask God save us. We did that seven times in World War Two. But you wouldn’t know about that and besides it’s venturing outside the secular bubble we have opted to live in to hide ourselves away from the reality of our times.
The purposeful undermining of a Country’s Defence Force serves only to weaken it.
It is an appalling betrayal of those who have gone before.
We have seen that in a number of ways more recently, whether it was through injurious harm via a ‘vaccine’ trial, or by bringing woke agendas into their quotas and rank.
The Dr has obviously seen too much, and realised too much.
He joins the ranks of the disillusioned.
Nonetheless, the next generation will see the glamour.
The opportunities. The travel. The comradery.
Perhaps even the honour.
Until they too are spat out, only to realise, just like the Dr, that the war they were fighting was at home all along.
Perhaps nobody even cared.
Now that’s profound.
The ADF is just another cog that obviously needs a good clean out.
As usual, starting from the top.
I can’t see that happening.
Hand in jacket.
Yes.
Ron said
“For our present troubles there should be (likely is) just one or a few words that will cover all of the above, maybe we should use that/ those words.”
– The Synagogue of Satan sums it up nicely IMO.
Yes ron, communist or fascist or similar, all of them involve tyrants, are equally wrong and all lead to the same perpetrators, no one.
Only one of them have names and they just happen to be the one’s with over 1400 graduates (also with names) in 122 nations implementing the Great Reset agenda. This is the same organisation whose members are IMF, UN, NATO, Gates, Bilderberg, Club of Rome, CFR, WHO etc etc. You know, the one’s dictating our future but hey, it doesn’t matter what you call them, so very few choose to see what’s happening around them while they’re busy making other plans and even if they did, they’d just go ooh ahh and go on to the next article.
daviddd2 – “Get a grip on yourselves, dreamers! You’ve been gaslit. Keep ignoring the FASCIST elephants in the room while you’re busy looking for the little reds under the beds.”
I agree with you.
Communist, Fascist, Zionist, Khazarian Mafia, WEF, and many other titles/ entities.
There is a bit of all of them in what has been done to us and our country.
Any person making comments about any of the above mentioned grubs would be correct when describing any of the many elephants in the room.
Communist, Fascist, etc, all slightly different means to the same end, the total control of an entire population. All involve tyrants, death, destruction, minions and lackeys and traitors.
Call it communist or fascist or similar, I for one do not care which means is being described, all of them involve tyrants and are equally wrong.
For our present troubles there should be (likely is) just one or a few words that will cover all of the above, maybe we should use that/ those words.
Cheers
With all due respect for vets past, the Bay of Tonkin incident was a false flag event. Australian soldiers were fighting as fictitious war for fictitious reasons in the fictitious belief Communists were about to invade Australia and the US would save us if Australia was attacked. As we have no enemies except the one’s we create, a better way of gaining respect is stop following the orders of the US MIC funded ASPI.
As for China being the Boogy Man, when will you clowns accept the fact China’s rise is a direct result of the collective west transferring research, development and manufacturing to China who diligently researched, developed and manufactured their Orwellian surveillance technology to US specifications for distribution in the once free west.
As for Communism, while you clowns are wasting trillions of tax payers money buying fictitious US weapons to fight fictitious US wars, the real threat to world peace is happening all around us but like so many others, you refuse to even look. It’s called Technocracy, it’s fueled by AI, it’s real and it’s happening now.
What a sad read! Yes, the “communists” have taken over Australia. lmao!!!!!!!
They control the country’s financial system and have de-privatised everything and got Australia into hock to the international “communist” bankers for over a trillion dollars in a decade or so. lol
The “communists” openly run the Australian banks, the mega corporate world and the Australian economic means of production…. i.e. Land, Labour and Capital! lmao
Get a grip on yourselves, dreamers! You’ve been gaslit. Keep ignoring the FASCIST elephants in the room while you’re busy looking for the little reds under the beds.
Billy Hughes’ “Montefiores” of yesteryear are still very much in control of the sheep run. Anything else is just pulling your own wool over your eyes.
My apologies to Dr Daniel Mealey the comment of “useful idiots on the photos in the article” was supposed to be for – https://cairnsnews.org/2023/07/12/what-is-foolish-albanese-doing-at-a-nato-conference-trying-to-drag-australia-into-ww3/
Dr Daniel Mealey
Afghanistan Veteran:
“There is a way back for all of you Sir. To overcome this ideology demands a cultural and moral shift in ADF leadership, to uphold the value of individual soldiers – as opposed to the current practice of throwing them under the bus when it is politically convenient to do so. In continued service to my ADF family,”
Well said.
Since about the years of Vietnam on wards, the main problem in the Army has been the officer (demigod) leaders and to a much lesser extent senior NCO’s. They have become detached from the diggers and secretive, as if there is something else going on that the rank and file does not need to know about.
Need to know – there is a party and you will never be invited.
Unless the officers and senior NCO’s are trained and more aligned with the “ordinary” soldiers, the already set in concrete divide of the ranks will continue to worsen.
Wipe the them and us. Them being the demigod officers and the us the ordinary cannon fodder soldiers.
Totally ban the membership of not so secret societies and the like. Get rid of politics in the ADF. The officers and senior nco’s should be totally loyal to their soldiers and the Australian people, not to secret societies, religions, political parties old boy/girl Universities.etc.
The rot has already set in, the people of Australia do not notice it when the ADF march in the streets – all looks well.
We have a very different Army these days, not just because of new equipment and technology, but mainly due to the re – calibration of the moral compass used by the demigod leaders.
Would the present ADF shoot down peaceful protestors in Australia?
I do not wish to give an honest opinion about that question on this forum
Do not expect much to be said from serving soldiers, they are bound (gagged) by the official secrets act, etc.
Trying to “drag Australia into a war”? No! It is Australia that has been WILLINGLY used since ages to lend a different face to the same greedy monster that thrives on global wars and profits. Sending Albo to a Nato conference is the same as Australia taking part in the European song contest hosted in Israel. As Albo his German counterpart Scholz is “LABOR” but having never worked as one that “labors” in the fields and in real life but as Albo, Scholz is “leading” their political labor parties of the to be fully extinct workers and their industries. Scholz has studied “LAW”, German law© sanctioned and approved by the Zentralrat.
As we (including these useful idiots on the photos in the article) are all on the same side of idiotic usefulness lured to BELIEVE in all entertainment brought forth by Authority which is actually nothing but a comfortable lie that will rake in all earthly belongings and coin, the greedy clockwork of precision ticks on and on and on to reach its final goal – the complete submission of the masses and without any exit along the way.
Australia as a Nation never had the chance to win a war for independence. Fragmented and divided as never before in Australian history but united in soaking in distractions as the addictive daily bread that keeps Australia “alive” and not looking into other directions that could lead out of the global prison for the men that turned sheep.
“Aggrieved veterans who have faced impossible battles at war” instead fighting for freedom and sovereignty at home sums it up nicely.
Editor, cairnsnews said – “Did you miss the part where he said there is a Royal Commission into ADF mismanagement?”
With the utmost of respect – and I’m delighted to be educated on the subject – since when did a Royal Commission achieve ANYTHING besides urinating great gobs of cash into unelected beauracrats’ greasy pockets?
Meanwhile, the ADF stands back, looks on and trains to SUPPRESS CIVILIAN CROWDS in support of the various private mercenary armies ILLEGITIMATELY impersonating Australian “police”, while Australia burns. A Royal Commission won’t change ANY of that, beyond maybe tightening security in the chicken coop so the foxes don’t have to work so hard to manage the chickens.
The chickens are the “useless eater” Australian people, BTW – just in case the penny hasn’t dropped yet. And if we haven’t yet noticed, the ADF is running security for the foxes as they fire up that big black cooking pot and get to plucking all those chickens.
And also just BTW, OF COURSE Communists will gain grass-roots support when the country has been hijacked by uber-Fascist Globalist stooges – seeing as how the two ideologies are diametrically opposite on the economic tyranny spectrum (with equivalent results for the poor useless eaters caught in the middle). All the better for the baby-eating Luciferian Globalists to divide and conquer us on the way to the abbatoir for extermination.
If we want to start focussing on the Trade Union Communists, then we’ve swallowed the bait, hook line and sinker – we’ll be chasing the WRONG enemy and wasting all our time, energy and resources while our REAL adversaries HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT continue with their plans to herd us all into a corner and KILL US ALL OFF.
Here’s a great idea – let’s have a CIVIL WAR between the ADF and the naughty Trade Union Communists, and our heroic ADF will ride in on their white horses and save the day! Hurrah!
And then our treasonous fake corporate “government” with their collection of heavily armed private mercenary armies impersonating “police” can go full retard and sweep all the surviving refuse into the incinerator for THEIR Luciferian Globalist masters with the full support of our heroic ADF – the very ones our heroic ADF SHOULD HAVE been protecting us from in THE FIRST PLACE. But I suppose that’s not their job, is it? Never has been.
“They only look up at the faces never down “ It’s a game of dominating and being dominated. oBrien 1984 by George Orwell
Then why doesn’t the investigator do something about it?
It would seem by his comments he is a few jumps ahead of most commentators and the contributors here. Like it or not the old
style commos are all among us. We suggest you attend an executive meeting of any trade union and they will be happy to tell you they are communists.Did you miss the part where he said there is a Royal Commission into ADF mismanagement? Editor
It would seem the good Doc is a few jumps ahead of your comments Pat. Ed
Communism, communism, communism…
… and not the slightest acknowledgment anywhere that NONE of the countries that we helped invade and trash for the Americans were threatening Australia (or anyone else, for that matter) in any way. And ergo NONE of the trauma and casualties inflicted on Australian troops would have happened if we had just kept our noses out of other people’s countries. Not to mention slaughtering foreigners in their own lands, far far away from Australian soil.
I hate to say it, folks, I really do – but this misbegotten war hero Dr Daniel Mealey seems to be living in a self-sanctifying bubble, someone who not only can’t see the woods for the trees but lacks sufficient political cognition to call out his superiors for their blind obedience to our treasonous fake corporate “governments”. He lacks the capacity to call a spade a spade, apparently because he’s unable to even recognise a spade when he sees it.
It’s not our military commanders’ fault, it’s not even our treasonous fake corporate “governments” fault, it’s those naughty communists that we’re “fighting” over there (like a pack of violent home invaders “fighting” the home’s occupants) who have come over here to Australia and “infiltrated” our society and turned the civilian population against us!
Really?
Perish the thought that it might not be Dr Daniel Mealey’s fabled foreign “communists” behind the plot to bring down Australia, but instead a pack of treasonous sold-out genocidal Luciferian stooges right here in Australia that are the source of most if not ALL of our problems.
BTW, Dr Daniel Mealey said – “There is a way back for all of you Sir. To overcome this ideology demands a cultural and moral shift in ADF leadership, to uphold the value of individual soldiers – as opposed to the current practice of throwing them under the bus when it is politically convenient to do so.”
… said the fox in a chicken suit sucking up to his furry superiors.
Yeah, good advice, stop treating your tin soldiers like expendable pieces of crap, making all those rosy promises of benefits and support to them to entice them to sign their lives away, and then laughing in their faces and sending TEAMS OF BARRISTERS to make sure they get jack shit when the time comes to pay the piper. How about them apples?
And how about NOT using them as cannon fodder to fight someone else’s umitalteral unprovoked wars of aggression in someone else’s Games of Empire?
And how about the %@#!!%$ ADF (how’d ya like that Ed?) grow some %@#!!%$ BALLS and stand up for what’s RIGHT and stand up AGAINST our treasonous fake corporate “government” for the %@#!!%$ Australian people who they are SUPPOSED to be serving?
And anyone who doesn’t like that can kiss my hairy black %@#!!%$.
ah the game of cause and effect kevin moore
Collingwood v Essendon
Democracy v Communism
Left v Right
Words to foment primal mass hysteria sponsored by big BISness.
From behind, they poke and prod the always forward looking furry little tree climbers.
It’s not communism people need to worry about, its fascism. The author is living in the past of 40 years ago, the world has changed. There are very few communist countries now. The China of today is a different country. To go on about communism is to further the brainwashing about China in the lead up to the war that the US wants – and if Australia takes part it will be a disaster for this country.
He should realise that the military are nothing more than canon fodder in the great scheme of things – war crimes happen from the top down. And Australia had no right taking part in the false flag war on Vietnam and all the others since.
And Australia is doing it again sending men, munitions and our money to neo-nazi Ukraine which is completely under the boot of the West (as we are too it seems). Our diggers must be turning over in their graves.
Russia was pushed into a corner to commence its SMO, by design, so that the West could make war on it through Ukraine. Well I bet they are sorry for making such a stupid mistake but cannot and will not admit it – and so it will be with China. The US/UK are using us.
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars (Video)
By Michael Rivero
I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this. Transcript here
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
“Wars are the Jews harvest, for with them we wipe out the Christians and get control of their gold. We have already killed 100 million of them, and the end is not yet.” (Chief Rabbi in France, in 1859, Rabbi Reichorn.)
“Show me who makes a profit from war, and I’ll show you how to stop the war.” – Henry Ford
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What bugs me is that most of the time if not all the time, wars are only about money and depopulation as far as Elites/Pollies are concerned. We send soldiers to fight for banks nothing else. I feel for them being tricked into fighting wars that we should never have been in. There is only one country I can think of that actually used nuclear bombs in war and that was the USA, the so called peace keepers of the world. So to be honest this soldier and any others should remember this b4 whinging about how normal Aussies treat them considering they fight nothing but the banks wars, killing people.