From: Paul Edwards, mutazilah@gmail.com
To: Committee Secretary, PJCIS, PO Box 6021, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
Date: 2021-01-08

Dear Sir,

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

In my second addendum, I stated this:

I treat every smoker outside my house as if he were a
7-foot tall Maori who is already pissed off about his
wife leaving him, and has a naturally bad temper, and
I have previously heard his wife screaming (before she
left him) and I've seen him beat someone outside my
house to a pulp in the past, and he's just got out of
prison for an assault charge after previously being
let out for a murder charge.

I have since realized that this is not the complete
story, and now I enter another extreme position.

If someone attacks ME, it has to be pretty severe
before I will respond, even though I have the inherent
right of self-defense. I will instead let it slide, and
see if OTHERS will gang up on the human rights violator,
and do a citizens arrest, and call the police. I may try
to run away, and most observers would probably suspect
that I am a coward, potentially running away from someone
smaller than me.

However, if SOMEONE ELSE is illegally attacked, I will
respond violently to THAT, if I think I am in with a
chance. You can see exactly that playing out here:

http://antisubjugator.blogspot.com/2010/02/indian-rumblings.html

This is counter-intuitive and the exact opposite of
what almost everyone else in the world will do.

To abstract the problem some more, ideally, if I were the
US President after 9/11, I would have sat completely still
and said nothing at all. I first of all want to see how
the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD is going to react. In an ideal
world (which is exactly what we should be aiming for), the
entire non-US world should have said "We're not exactly sure
why the US is sitting still and saying nothing, but WE will
not stand for this attack on a beautiful democracy that has
done so much for the world. WE are going to spare no effort,
and we are not going to rest until the root cause of 9/11
has been identified and completely eliminated from earth.
In short, we're about to tip the ENTIRE WORLD upside-down.".

Another abstraction. In my opinion the ADF should be renamed
to the AOF (Australian Offense Force) and be permanently
deployed overseas, trying to spread the ideology of freedom
(by liberating others, exactly as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq),
and forbidden to operate on Australian territory until such
time as Australia itself is actually under attack. We can
instead ask allied countries to station THEIR troops/assets
in Australia as required. This provides the AOF with a strong
incentive to ensure that Australia has as many ideological
allies as possible. It's not just Australia that should be
doing this - all members of the free world should. As I said,
radical, counter-intuitive, extreme. I am trying to spread
my extremist ideology, and willing to call on other state
actors - NOT terrorists - to help spread my ideology, by force
of arms if I can convince them that it is a good idea AND
they have a decisive military advantage - I don't want to have
a bloody drawn-out war over this radical issue - although I
note that the US War of Independence was a bloody drawn-out
war to install a radical constitution. But I am only doing
it by exercising my freedom of speech to espouse my radical
and controversial ideas. I am a 100% completely peaceful
Australian citizen. Again, I understand that I am completely
and utterly outgunned. Marx was similarly peaceful, but had
radical (and stupid) ideas too. Those ideas inspired others
to act, violently. Perhaps someone will be inspired to implement
my ideas too. Perhaps that someone will be the Australian
government. I can't predict what it will do. The Australian
government has ALREADY violently implemented SOME of my
ideology when they bombed Afghanistan and Iraq to install
democracy. I hope the Australian government will continue
their good work, even if we don't share the EXACT same
ideology. Maybe the Australian government thinks that MY
radical ideas are as stupid as Marx's. I don't know. And
the Australian government is not the only government I lobby.