DISCIPLINE IN THE PNG SERVICES

I am writing as a past officer of the Australian Army who served two years (1975-1977) at the Joint Services College of Papua New Guinea that had an abortive plan to give joint training to the RPNGC, PNGDF and CS.

It failed badly within 4 years due to an inability to design and implement a common curriculum for three services. The problem may still exist with the return to joint training.

Police did not want to have their cadets trained in search and destroy techniques when they just wanted them to raid a night club.

The discipline of the PNGDF and RPNGC has severely declined in the last 30 years for reasons that are not the fault of any one person.

There is a serious lack of discipline the result of the officers and non-commissioned officers being unable to control the rank and file in military units and police posts.

They set up their own justice system implemented with violence and destruction in the community.

Very few convictions result giving the signal to the rank and file that their actions are acceptable.

Some attacks on the public and police have been carried out at the hands of officers who may be trying to show they are fight leaders to be respected in an era of no wars. The PNGDF may suffer from daily boredom.

There was a semblance of order with Australian officers and NCOs holding command posts but all that disappeared in later decades as positions were taken over by the PNGDF and RPNGC. 

There was once strict security on service bases and control over use of weapons and vehicles.

The early commanders were given a rush training experience that complied with the demands for independence by the United Nations from the mid-1960s.

With no criticism intended, Lt Diro became Brigadier within 6 years. Soon after that he was visiting the commander of the Papua Merdeka General Seth Rumkorem who was flown to Moem Barracks in Wewak for talks. That caused a political crisis.

The Bougainville conflict began the break-down of discipline as soldiers pursued their own private wars and vendettas against the civilian population.

To the credit of certain officers, the Sandline campaign was scrapped, preventing wholesale massacres of innocent Bougainville people. It was a plan the nation would prefer to forget.

But there is now a practice of any soldier or policemen in calling out his mates for vengeance on some civilian, police officer or organization. It is a matter of resentment for the PNGDF that all rank and file police have the power of arrest.

A soldier may be evicted from a nightclub for drunkenness or violence. So he goes back to his barracks to raise a group of soldier mates to come back to bash the security guards at the nightclub and wreck the establishment.

So much of this violence is ignored by the PNGDF which may give the impression that such breach of discipline is acceptable. Some soldiers conduct themselves with the viciousness of the Idi Amin goon squads. The media recently reported no disciplinary action in past breaches.

It is a problem that most soldiers of the PNGDF and Australian Army have never been to war. 

There was a serious incident at Igam Barracks several years ago during the Bougainville conflict when PNGDF officers refused to participate in combat training by Australian officers who had never been to war when most PNGDF officers had suffered on Bougainville.

Today, most Australian officers have never had combat experience. There are now serious discipline problems reported in the Australian media particularly on sexual violence.

There are more serious problems in the PNGDF with the old animosity against the RPNGC remaining deep despite a return to joint training at Igam Barracks.

The CS are just the poor cousins who like the other services suffer on retirement from a lack of pension money. 

It is sad that serving officers are required to retire on the date set down but are not given pensions and required to leave their married quarters to live in poverty. Families starve.

It may be the wantok system is the major cause of break-down of discipline within the rank structure. Officers and senior NCOs are afraid to discipline soldiers for fear of reprisal for them and their families.

In earlier times, there was a formula for recruitment province by province. This may well have gone by the wayside with recruitment from a few favoured provinces.

We used to be told that if there was a serious external threat, a battalion of Australians would arrive to take command. That may now be an aging pipe dream.

We read of the slow jihadist moves in Indonesia. Radical high school and university students are starting to support a jihadist caliphate in Indonesia. Sharia law exists in the province of Aceh.

Time will spread the jihadist message over the Indonesian nation within a decade and push through West Papua to Papua New Guinea. Moem Barracks in Wewak may be a prime target.

A major problem in the PNGDF and RPNGC is the level of domestic violence. So many married servicemen do not have accommodation. 

In the past, soldiers would bring families and girl friends to live in the soldiers' quarters at Murray Barracks. That would be hell on earth with violence and sex abuse throughout the quarters. Sons of police have been known to be criminals.

Major Bruce Copeland

Australian Army (retired)

Training Officer Igam Barracks 1975-1977

WHAT DO FOREIGN PAEDOPHILES WANT FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA?

Many national LGBT are kind and gentle boys like the kind and beloved late Moses Tau. Many become the toy boys of foreigners. The real predators are the foreign paedophiles.

Foreign paedophiles to Papua New Guinea are mainly Australian and seeking to set up a paedophile playground in the Pacific. The sky will be the limit on the rights they want for LGBT men, women, boys and girls.

They know that PNG is a soft target nation far safer than jihadist Malaysia, Singapore and increasingly Indonesia that appears moving to the adoption of Sharia law. Papua New Guinea will be in the hot seat within a decade.

Paedophiles will want an LGBT family built up in Papua New Guinea with young children being groomed to be LGBT bisexual. LGBT bisexual children began their lives as straight but had their sexuality waylaid by paedophile adults who may have addicted them to the poppers drug.

Regardless of the official paradigm shift to family, the foreign paedophiles will want to destroy the solidarity of families and the authority of parents.

Children are to have right to be free from parents, churches and schools. Adult paedophiles will have the right to sex with children and take children from the care of parents.

Paedophile men will adopt the Melanesia claim to polygamy while bisexual men will seek sex with both boys and girls.

Children will be given the right to access to free condoms from care centres. This was a controversy in Goroka some years ago with the Save the Children officer condemning local care groups for refusing to pass out condoms to children.

Children will have the right to STI treatment for HIV, gonorrhoea and syphilis with the right to abortions without the knowledge and consent of parents.

Security guards at foreign apartment compounds will be advised not to give access to angry parents and family seeking an abducted child believed staying in a paedophile apartment.

Foreign paedophiles will misuse the schools Personal Development curriculum claiming that children from grade 5 upwards have knowledge of sex and that the Age of Consent can be lowered or removed.

With passage of any legislation, there will be pressure for all convicted paedophiles to be released from prison, even those who have raped 4 month old family children.

Underage boys and girls will be allowed access to night clubs, allowed to drink alcohol with a blind eye turned to the children being taken home to bed by paedophiles.

There will be a greatly increased interest in child sex and pornography. There is a great misinformation campaign to hide the fact that children are being abused mainly by foreign LGBT men and women.

EDITORIAL ON FAMILIES IN SOCIETY

The National 14 May 2018 Strong family units make strong societies.

It is time for foreign and national hate campaigners to stop the hate game and give the affirmation that families need.

What happens in a family unit should be setting the foundation of how children will move and interact in the community.

All fingers point to any government of the day, blaming it for diverting its focus away from matters that should be addressed.

Realistically, given the current situation the country is in, the Government can only do what it can do and the rest of it now falls back on families.

Changes may not just happen overnight but it can be achieved if all efforts are put into empowering a family unit, especially the father and mother with the help of the church.

They can be empowered with the skill to impact the message of love, sharing and forgiveness.

The family is where children can be raised in a safe and stable environment. Both father and mother have an important contribution as each has a different perspective.

They can uniquely help children of both genders to learn important skills relating to marriage, education, work, morality, ethics and social interaction.

Families are a place where three or four generations can care for one another from cradle to grave. These include the sick, the vulnerable, the disabled and the aged.

It gives family members a sense of purpose and meaning that paid jobs can not do. The family is the basic unit of society. But do we as a society really think about what that means?

The bonds between husband and wife, parents and children, are firmly planted in history that we often take for granted until the bonds break down from time to time.

Ask any child to draw his or her family and you get the traditional picture of father, mother, brother and sisters with perhaps the family cat or dog thrown in for good measure.

The theme for the 2018 United Nations Family Day is “Families and inclusive Societies.” The family is the nucleus of society. 

Every time a family breaks up, the society is affected in some way. When long lost families get together, societies benefit.

Parents are the epicenter of any household. We should not be alive today if not for our parents. So when families bond as friends and intermarry, they tend to share everything.

If constructive beliefs  and moral values are built and passed on to the next generation by each family, a great nation is developed.

FAKE NEWS ON SEX WORKERS AND MSM.

The National and Post Courier 16 May 2018

Perhaps the PNG Government could legislate to ban LGBT people from bashing their LGBT lovers and stop them from blaming everyone else.

The fake news campaign has started with reports on sex workers and MSM. There is a change in not laying the blame on families.

Journalist Grace Auka Salmang wrote of legal issues, stigma and discrimination and violence posing barriers for young people. This is gross exaggeration with half true and false news.

The reporter tells of people facing violence from police, clients and communities. The implication has always been of these people facing problems with care groups and families. 

They claim to be afraid to seek VCCT for fear of being reported to police. What nonsense. Care groups workers test and dispense medication and never ask for details or make condemnation.

A young man John Tim in The National reported violence from his bisexual interests. Perhaps he faced problems with violence from his girlfriends or from the MSM lovers.

There are several criminal implications in  sex work. Some men and women have sex with underage boys and girls and never use a condom. This is a legal issue. Do the foreign paedophiles want the Age of Consent lowered or removed?

Gay men and lesbian women  bash lovers and subject them to all kinds of abuse. Their stance on domestic violence is gross hypocrisy. Men may bash sex workers and refuse to use a condom. Please click:

Domestic Violence in the LGBT Community - Center for American ...

https://www.americanprogress.org/.../lgbt/.../domestic-violence-in-lgbt..

Jun 14, 2011 - The majority of gay and lesbian families are happy, healthy, and ... Both straight and gay victims of domestic violence experience a similar

Paedophile activists want to attract kids on to the streets and groom them to be LGBT. Angry parents have responsibilities to protect their kids from paedophile predators. This is parental love not stigma.

Sexually active men and women bring shame to families by behaving in the community like sexual dogs. Do they want the Government to legislate against shame of parents?

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT GRADE 11 - DIARRHOEA

If we have a severe attack of diarrhoea, we must replace the water and salts quickly.

We have to understand the working of the human body. Food goes down the food or alimentary canal to the stomach and on to the small intestine where water, salts and nutrients are absorbed through the gut wall to be spread around the body tissues from kidneys to the brain.

The small intestine is full of bacteria that has the work to break down our food. These are good bacteria. When the bacteria from the contaminated meat arrives in the intestine there is general infection of the small intestine.

Danger of Diarrhoea: This is a very dangerous sickness that can infect any person. It can be caused by the person eating contaminated meat that has bacteria busy breaking down the tissues. Absorption through the gut wall is stopped by the bacterial infection.

The nutrients and water pass straight out as pekpek water. As there is little or no water absorbed through the gut wall, the pispis or urine stops.

This is very dangerous as the body is not receiving water or salts. This can damage the kidneys and cause brain damage as the body has dried up over a period of days.

The next task is to remove the bad bacteria from the gut. This is done by antibiotics Septrin or Amoxylin. Within a day, the pekpek water stops. 

That means that the water and salts are being absorbed through the intestinal wall again now that the bad bacteria is dead.  The body organs are receiving water again.

The pekpek is hard again not like warm soup. The water is no longer passing out with the pekpek. The brain is working well again with water and salts.

Diarrhoea can kill if the sufferer is not treated with antibiotics. They can be brain damaged.

Danger of antibiotic abuse: The world faces a crisis that may attack every person living on earth over the next few years. The bacteria and viruses of the world are becoming immune to antibiotics.

Fifty years ago, children with infections on their bodies were given treatment with the infected area in hot water and antiseptic Dettol. The germs infecting the wound were killed and the sore slowly healed with more bathing in hot water and Dettol.

Now people are giving the child two or three antibiotic Amoxylin tablets. This kills most of the germs. But the strong germs that remain are becoming immune and strong enough to survive Amoxylin.

This occurs with HIV treatment, TB and malaria. There are TB germs that can travel from person to person in cough droplets and the germs are immune to anti-TB medication.

There has not been a new antibiotic on the market for several years as the germs are becoming immune to all drugs.

What is going to happen to the human race if we cannot stop immune germs? The first antibiotic was penicillin but that was almost a century ago. The human race may all die out.

People must not take one or two antibiotic tablets and then stop. They must take the whole dose of 12 -15 tablets. That may kill all germs and not cause immunity.

MY THREE GRAND SONS

I have two mixed race daughters aged almost 21 and 20. Both are tall, elegant and turn heads in the street. The elder has two sons whose fathers was Jeffrey Nape ex-speaker of parliament and member for Sina Sina.

My younger has an 8 month old son who is the most handsome mixed race boy I have ever seen. He is a baby gentleman. He is good natured and laughs a lot. 

The two children of my elder are as different as chalk and cheese. The elder thinks that he gets his way by screaming and crying, screaming and crying for lollies, chocolate milk and money. 

At 4 years old, his antics are coming to an end. Omnipotent children end up not getting what they scream for.

The younger Jeffrey is a perfect gentleman. I seem to have adopted him as my little puppy dog. When I leave the house to go to the market, he is right there with his hand in mine as we walk through the gate. When I come home from work, he is waiting arms outstretched on the road.

I call him Dimples for obvious reasons. At the roadside market, he is in his element. He greets any person who greets him, shakes hands and waves good-bye. Dimples is becoming a celebrity.

I tell people in Tok Pisin that his name is Jeffrey Nape son of the ex-speaker who died. He now lives with my daughter and me. I tell them he is the junior member for Sina Sina electorate in Chimbu and will take his place in 2040.

I am just hoping that Dimples and Jonathan will teach the kid screamer that more is achieved by politeness and being likeable. I just hope he does not end up a teenage punk. He has to learn to satellize not act like an omnipotent bully. 

These are key concepts on Child Psychology. Let us hope that love and caring does the trick with the older boy. Today, I took him and his young brother to town and he was a perfect gentleman.

RADICALIZATION OF INDONESIAN UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS

In a media report today, an Indonesian intelligence officer advised that a percentage of Indonesian university and high school students support the setting up of a radical jihadist caliphate in Indonesia.

This can cause bloodshed in Indonesia with radical jihadists pushing across the border into Papua New Guinea. The military base of Moem Barracks will be no match.

Let us hope that refugees already in this country are not already jihadist sleepers ready for action. But then most will be Melanesian Christian. Aceh Province already has Sharia Law rule. West Papua will fall to the jihadists.

Indonesia was always a laid back trader Moslem nation. That will change within the decade.