The Government is Your Friend ..

Our 'media' is used by it's owners to bend your feelings and beliefs - in whatever direction supports their current schemes for control and wealth gain. - Their managers are skilled at psychological influencing their audience with emotional language.

When a dog is shot it can be reported in many ways .. "Armed gunman shoots childrens pet." or "Dangerous dog attack threat ended." or "City pavement fouling and disease risks improved by animal control."

Princess Diana in Angola 1997

When there were reports that Soviet military were using small plastic anti-personnel mines in Afghanistan 1979-89 - the western press hyped it up to such a degree, - to demonize the murderous Commies, that action was taken to BAN Cluster Bombs and "mine" munitions via the 'Ottawa Treaty'

PFM-1 and PFM-1S SOVIET Anti-Personnel Mines.

These small but deadly Russian mines were classified as inhumane ..

Deformation of the soft plastic skin of the mine forces the arming plunger to strike the detonator, detonating the mine.^[14] Because the body of the mine is a single cumulative pressure primer, it is extremely dangerous to handle the mine: The Imperial War Museum states that "A pressure in excess of 5kg would activate the mine".^[1] Holding it between the thumb and forefinger may be enough to make it explode.^[11] The charge is usually nonlethal, although sufficient to maim.^[11]

However .. When it was later disclosed that the Russians had made their mines BY REVERSE ENGINEERING & copying AMERICAN BLU-43/B & BLU-44B MINES - as deployed by U S forces during the VietNam War .. things went a little hushed.

The American mine itself is made out of soft plastic, and is hydraulically activated and contact/pressure detonated. The color of the plastic varied and could be olive drab, tan, brown, or camouflaged, and had no painted or molded markings. Each mine contained a small amount of liquid nitromethane/nitroethane explosive and was designed with a shape that would cause it to spiral down to the ground, removing the need for a parachute.

This sub-munition is the American BLU-43, also known as Dragon's Tooth, a High-Explosive-Blast (HE-Blast), aerially-dispersed, hydraulically activated, contact-pressure-fired, plastic-bodied, scatterable, Anti-Personnel (AP) landmine that is designed to wound by its HE-Blast effect.

- These were widely used over VietNam, Cambodia & Laos 1955-75 - and as Laos, Cambodia and America were NOT at war - they went largely unreported.

- Don't Panic about these U S and Russian killers .. as we British are not kindly innocents in a cruel world ..

During this era, I - as a young man, was employed in England as a plastics technician - quality controler setting-up Injection Moulding machines for production of plastic components.

The companies I worked for made any crap they could for a profit - including glass filled nylon components for the release mechanisms of BRITISH BL755 Cluster Bombs - as developed by Hunting Engineering UK with the Ministry of Defence. This contract was successfuly fulfilled - with 8,925,906 sub-munitions produced .. me being informed by my contact "Jack H" that our bomblet release mechanisms had worked great when tested in VietNam - having been transported there by air in RED CROSS MARKED AIRCRAFT that he had personally supervised the loading of.

These British Cluster Bombs, tested in VietNam, - were used in both the Falklands War, the Bosnian war, and in the Gulf War.

Jack was a war hero from WWII who got hit on the head when on patrol in woodland in Germany, and saw red .. single handedly eliminating seven enemy combatents.

Over a pint - Jack told me that he had moved-on to his next development project, which was anti-personnel mines shaped as small coloured childrens balls designed to explode when handled or kicked.

- BUT he explained - once you perfect the explosive devices and widely deploy them .. you move to the next stage of saturating the land mass by dropping millions of totally harmless identical inert balls to paralyse any enemy movement and life very cheaply.

Great eh,

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we citizens are required to.

Marty K.