Unveil the Monument and Raise Flags

Welcome speech.

Welcome to our Friends, Northern Territory Republicans and Guests on this 60^th anniversary and memorial dedication to the crew of the B-24 Liberator # 42 40509 of the 380^th Bomb Group, United States Army Air Force. This site we are gathered at today is sacred, because it is one surrounded with hope. The hope that freedom can still be enjoyed by those of us who, like the men that flew in Nothing Sacred, are prepared to fight for that freedom. We gather here today to honour our friends who paid the supreme sacrifice for our liberty. Sixty years ago today, ten brave American men laid down their lives at this crash site for our freedom.

We now pay honour to each of those men.

Pilot	2nd Lieutenant	Hugh B. Parris
Co Pilot	2nd Lieutenant	Archibald S. Mills. JNR
Navigator	2nd Lieutenant	Andrew B. Edwards. JNR
Flight engineer	Technical Sergeant	Urban V. W. Darlington
Radio Operator	Technical Sergeant	Leonard R. Greene
Gunner	Staff Sergeant	Dossie J. Odom
Gunner	Staff Sergeant	Ralph T. Newbold
Gunner	Staff Sergeant	Albert Mirarchi
Gunner	Staff Sergeant	William O. Miller
Bombardier	2nd Lieutenant	Laverne F. Parsons

Staff Sergeant Frank McGarry, photographer for the flight, survived by jumping from the aircraft just prior to impact. He fractured both legs so badly that they had to be amputated. One can truthfully say - "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." We now salute our friends.

11 Gun Volley Salute

Main Republican speech.

Today our challenge as people, as Territorians is to make sure these brave men did not die in Vain! Today the NT republicans are picking up the flame of liberty and confronting our fascist Government.

A government that has plundered and violated the people of this land for 215 years.

Thomas Paine, that great author of The rights of Man wrote,

" A government not constituted by the people is a government without right."

Manning Clarke that great historian wrote, "On literal reading there is not one section of the Constitution that is democratic. It is an Autocratic Monarchic document"

John Singleton another Aussie icon wrote, "Thus, it is an inescapable fact that in Australia today nobody has any rights at all. What freedom we do have, not by right, but by government permission. The only time our rights are recognised is when a government does not have the constitutional power to commit any act that violates them."

Today we have government without right, we have tyranny and dictatorship of the crown.

In Jim Inness words from Mullumbimby.

Democracy, correctly defined, is a system in which the wishes of the majority are implemented by an elected minority, which consists of approved representatives who are not only elected by the people, but who can be recalled, dismissed for failure to truly represent them. And we do not have such a system here!

The Party system has hijacked the electoral process so that MPs cannot be elected by the people unless they are first endorsed by the Liberal Party Committee or the Labor Caucus.

The result of this sham democracy is that we have a structure in which the general population is asked to vote for an election program decided by behind the scenes manipulators, to achieve ends which are anything but democratic, or in our true interests.

Lets look at this fascist government pedigree

Flogging. One prisoner named Joseph Mansbury had been flogged so often- some 2000 lashes in three years- that his back appeared quite bare of flesh, and his collarer [sic] bones where exposed looking very much like two ivory polished horns. It was with some difficulty that we could find another place to flog him. Tony [Chandler, the overseer] suggested to me that we had better [do it on] the soles of his feet.

Shooting. In July 1864, there occurred a shooting in Cooma, causing the reputation of the force to slump to its lowest level. The police had issued a warrant against James Kirwin on a minor charge. Kirwin was a married man of twenty- four, and had an imposing appearance and a manly, generous nature. He met Sergeant ODonoghue in one of the main streets in Cooma and when the sergeant ordered him to dismount, he turned his horse to escape. ODonoghue shot him in the back and killed him. The incident was made worse by the fact that Kirwins wife gave birth to their child the day after Kirwins death. It was reported that ODonoghue said in extenuation that he had shot Kirwin because he thought that if he had got away he would have laughed at the police. A local newspaper expressed the general indignation when it wrote: "Morally speaking, to all intents and purposes, Kirwin was foully and deliberately murdered."

Disarmament. "History lesson on firearms In 1938 the Germans occupied my country and we had to surrender all our firearms. They were the enemy, so we understood. The Germans lost the war and my country returned to democracy. We again collected, used and treasured our firearms. Then the Russian-supported communists overran my country and we the people had to surrender all out legally owned firearms. The rulers of the "Peoples Democracy" were afraid of the people. The communists were our enemy, so we understood. Today, I am confused. Who is taking my treasured, legally obtained and legally kept firearms? They are all properly registered, I am a licensed shooter as required by the NT law. Is it the fascist or the communist? Please tell me, I am confused."                 Steve Lorman.

Dr. Cameron Watt, Stevenson professor of history, wrote, " The kind of reasoning found in Mein Kampf is not unknown today. And if Hitler has to be understood, the study of Mein Kampf is an essential part of this process. The second reason for its study is that we may know and recognise the arguments of the enemies of democracy in our midst. Hitler was not only a racialist of a peculiarly crude kind. He hated parliamentary democracy and sought to bring into ridicule and contempt those who practised it. He has only too many followers today on both sides of the political divide. So miserably little time and thought is given in our educational system to the analysis and understanding of contemporary of political processes (or the rights, duties and intellectual justification of citizenship) that the public generally seems unable to recognise these arguments for what they are, the shrill tones of the enemies of democracy.

This is the same fascist regime that has failed to abolish slavery, has violated the rights of international refugees, insists on shooting its own civilians with dum dum bullets, who denies biological parents custody of their own children, who violate approximately 50% of the universal declaration of human rights. In our tolerance, our indifference, and at worst our apathy, we have developed in facist police state, in truth today we are a rogue state.

To Quote Justice, Felix Frankfurter,

"We are in danger of forgetting that the Bill of Rights reflects experience with police excesses. It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for safeguards of civil liberties when involved on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly are first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end."

Today in 2003 as America empowers its civilians with "right to carry" laws this fascist government is disempowering its civilians with disarmament.

Today as America continues to amend its constitution and strengthen the fundamental rights of its citizens, this facist government is eroding common law rights by legislation and regulation.

Today as Americas violent crime continues to reduce, Australias violent crime escalates.

More specifically the US constitution has:

Amendment (1) Right to freedom of speech and press, peaceful assembly, and petition government. Does not exist in Australia.

Amendment (2) Right to own and bear arms. Does not exist in Australia.

Amendment (4) Right to security of persons, houses, papers and effects. Does not exist in Australia.

Amendment (5) Right to silence, no double jeopardy. Does not exist in Australia.

Friends, not all that glitters is gold. Today Australia has its own political prisoner in Pauline Hanson and ranks alongside the rogue state of Burma with Aung San Suu. Pauline for right or wrong stood for one nation, but the crown stands for a divided and conquered nation. The crown government has ruled over the people by creating divisions and stimulated fear and ignorance.

Today the Prime Minister John Howard, unelected by the Australian people refuses to apologise to the indigenous people of Australia for 215 years of violation and ongoing humanitarian abuses.

Today the NT Republicans movement unreservedly apologises to the indigenous people of the NT and invites them to join the fight for truth, justice and liberty. Its time for us to unite and take control of our future, our land and our resources. It is time to negotiate a treaty and compensate for past wrongs. It is time for us to collectively unite and face the challenges of todays world united instead of divided.

No longer can we hand government a blank cheque and assume they make honourable decisions.

No longer can we surrender our choices to a government who rules by tyranny and deceit.

"He that would give up freedom for his security, deserves neither freedom or security."

The time has come for us the Territory people to control our destiny. The NT Republicans welcomes the Americans as friends and visitors, we ask that you respect our friendship. Our land, our sovereignty, our culture, our society, is ours and we do not want an American military base in the NT.

Just consider these wise words from 2 great Americans

1. Major General Smedley Butler- War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defence at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then well fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns six per cent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 per cent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldnt go to war again, as I have done, to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for: one is the defence of our homes, and the other is the bill of rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. In short I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

2. Jay Van Andel- We Americans seem to have a habit of making enemies in foreign countries. While American culture is embraced all over the world (sometimes to our well-deserved embarrassment), the political or military influence we wield in many nations is often resented by local citizens. American troops are sent overseas to protect what Washington politicians see as our best interests, but if an American military presence incites people against us, the affect may be to shoot ourselves in the foot. At enormous cost to ourselves through higher defence expenditures, we reduce the success of American exporters and manufactures in foreign markets. But politicians dont seem to understand the power of American business to peacefully gain the cooperation of foreign nations. Because people worldwide like American products, American businessmen make much more effective ambassadors than American troops.

We have reached a pathetic point where popularity is everything. Nothing replaces the value of good. The current lies, deception, pork barrelling, branch stacking, party politics, preferential voting represents evil to this nation. Lets not forget that Hitler, Mussilini, Idi Amin and Pol Pott enjoyed periods of popularity, but I ask you, how does the civilised world view them today?

Just because Howard enjoys a degree of popularity today, does not mean it is right for our nation. We need to get back to core values, is it right or wrong?

Today on the 21/Sept/2003 it is wrong that the most basic human right, the right to life is blatantly and premeditatedly violated. All other rights are built on this fundamental right and are meaningless without it!

Today on the 21/Sept/2003 the NT Republican movement acknowledges the need to change, that we cannot make a silk purse out of sows ear, and lead the way to fundamental constitutional reform.

Today we affirm our support of the United Nations, International law and the establishment of international criminal courts. We assert that the universal declaration of human rights shall be the foundation stone of our community. We further assert that we shall constitute government to govern for the people with appropriate safeguards to protect democracy.

Thank you and may God bless you.