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Hours to go before two of the Bali nine are to face the firing squad in Indonesia. The Australian government is attempting a 'hail Mary,' but every reasonable thing that can be done has been. While it is true that there is Indonesian pride which is ensuring the sentence will be carried out, there are other issues too. Myuran and Andrew are both guilty as charged. The penalty is the one assigned for the charge by Indonesian law. A few others who had been assigned the death penalty have had their sentences commuted. There are allegations flying around. One allegation is that the sentencing judges asked for a bribe. Another is that the Australian Federal Police should have waited for the return of the drug dealers before arresting them so as to use Australian law, not Indonesian law. While the behaviour of the judge, were it true, reprehensible, it would be hard to uphold a malpractice case where the judge was not paid any money. But if the judge were paid money, then it would mean that others not assigned a death penalty would have to have their cases examined. The allegation involving the Australian Federal police would lead nowhere too. Police are apolitical and expected to fight crime by direct opposition, not by temporising. The allegation was raised by friends of the ALP who were seeking to make a name for themselves without helping the Bali Nine, and they achieved that end. They have worked to oppose practical steps that might have helped the two who will die tonight. The ALP could have had their lawyers advising the two to help investigators early on. It has been ignored recently, as media try to blame the Liberal Party for the coming executions, but when the Andrew and Myuran could have helped themselves by coming clean to the investigators when they were caught, they stonewalled and threatened others, claiming their colleagues who had not been captured had a long reach. That long reach won't help them. It doesn't help them now, as it is old news. They have no bargaining chip, except a claim they have rehabilitated. But rehabilitation is never a mitigating factor in a death penalty offence. They committed their crimes when they were young, too young to judge the consequences, but old enough to know them. I know people who know them. I don't want them to die. I am angry at the ALP Government for politicising and not helping them when they could have. I hear celebrities outrageously campaigning against those who have worked hardest to save Andrew and Myuran. I note the campaign against Mr Abbott has over reached, and some celebrities have apologised. Too late for two to be executed. Send any flowers to the ABC who have campaigned against the Australian Government against the interests of Andrew and Myuran. Andrew, take courage. You are going home.
The executions in Indonesia involve more than the two Australians. Indonesian law is firm on the issue for a reason. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, then Australian PM Bob Hawk speaking with a senior Chinese official pointed out Australia had room, and perhaps she could accommodate some of those pushing for political reform in China. The Chinese official asked "How many millions do you want?" Indonesia is not rich and struggles to pay their public service enough to be impartial. Their solutions are cheap and nasty. Kudos to any who can find a better way.
On this day in 1192, dope fiend assassins killed the recently elected king of Jerusalem. In 1253, a Japanese monk named Nichiren simplified Buddhism. In 1503, the Spanish fought the French with firearms on both sides, a first in history regarding fire arms. Apparently they were effective, but they took out all the sport. In 1789, Captain Bligh faced Mutiny on the Bounty, and lost. In 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad, laid ten miles of track in a single day, a record never again achieved. In 1887, war with France was avoided when Kaiser Wilhelm I ordered the release of Guillaume Schnaebelé by Prussian secret police. In 1932, a vaccine for Yellow Fever was announced. In 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. The execution of Clara seemed harsh. She was 33 years old. Her brother was captured at the same time. He wasn't executed, however. Marcello Petacci was shot trying to escape.
2014
Reading is a joy and it is important to challenge yourself to get the most joy. one such challenge is the Douglas Hofstadter work "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" which I was given as a textbook in Pure Mathematics in 3rd year university. Gödel, was a mathematician whose contribution rivals any of the greats. His two theorems of incompleteness have been used by idiots to claim God does not exist, and by logicians to show that the consistency of axioms can not be proven within an infinite system. He was born on this day in 1906. As for the book, I have bought it four times and never once finished it or completed many of the exercises, but it is awesome.
Love and hatred are primal emotions and are often involved in times of war. In the US, the civil war was divisive, and people made choices on conscience with profound consequence. Robert E Lee was head of the US military at the beginning of the schism, and from the south. He chose to fight for the south and so many millions of Americans died in four years of bloody fighting. Brothers were pitted against brother. What value the ethics that had Lee make his choice? And when it was done, an unhappy victor turned Lee's backyard into a cemetery, now called Arlington. Any soldier of the US who dies may be buried there. Powerful is vengeance, yet the West is different to the East. When, in China, a dynasty fell, all the bureaucracy that supported it was burned. When Mohammed died, his entire family was eliminated to the last child by his followers. But in the US, a mourning, angry US allowed Lee and his family to live. On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born, great grandchild to General Lee. She is 88 years old, and has been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for her mentoring, including Truman Capote with his work "In Cold Blood." Love has not raised from the dead those who perished in the Civil War, and yet love heals, tends to the wounded and grows to support those who survive. Love is the only answer to hate that addresses the wounds of survivors.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 357, emperor Constantius II entered Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. 1192, assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne was confirmed by election. The killing was carried out by Hashshashin. 1253, Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. 1503, the Battle of Cerignola was fought. It was noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder. 1611, Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1789, Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. 1792, France invaded the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. 1796, the Armistice of Cherasco was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad laid 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched. 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. 1887, a week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
In 1910, frenchman Louis Paulhan won the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. 1920, Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. 1930, the first night game in organised baseball history took place in Independence, Kansas. 1932, a vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans. 1944, World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. 1948, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Centre. 1949, former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, was assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others were also killed.
In 1950, Bhumibol Adulyadej married Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Also 1952, Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ended as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, came into force. Also 1952, the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) was signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1965, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops landed in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. 1969, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France. 1970, Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorised American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. 1975, General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departed for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. 1977, the Red Army Faction trial ended, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. Also 1977, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure was signed. 1978, President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, was overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
In 1986, the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. Also 1986, High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster were detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. 1987, American engineer Ben Linder was killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. In 1988, near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane's fuselage ripped open in mid-flight. 1994, former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pled guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996, Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gave a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defence. Also 1996, Port Arthur Massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opened fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others. 2001, Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
Hours to go before two of the Bali nine are to face the firing squad in Indonesia. The Australian government is attempting a 'hail Mary,' but every reasonable thing that can be done has been. While it is true that there is Indonesian pride which is ensuring the sentence will be carried out, there are other issues too. Myuran and Andrew are both guilty as charged. The penalty is the one assigned for the charge by Indonesian law. A few others who had been assigned the death penalty have had their sentences commuted. There are allegations flying around. One allegation is that the sentencing judges asked for a bribe. Another is that the Australian Federal Police should have waited for the return of the drug dealers before arresting them so as to use Australian law, not Indonesian law. While the behaviour of the judge, were it true, reprehensible, it would be hard to uphold a malpractice case where the judge was not paid any money. But if the judge were paid money, then it would mean that others not assigned a death penalty would have to have their cases examined. The allegation involving the Australian Federal police would lead nowhere too. Police are apolitical and expected to fight crime by direct opposition, not by temporising. The allegation was raised by friends of the ALP who were seeking to make a name for themselves without helping the Bali Nine, and they achieved that end. They have worked to oppose practical steps that might have helped the two who will die tonight. The ALP could have had their lawyers advising the two to help investigators early on. It has been ignored recently, as media try to blame the Liberal Party for the coming executions, but when the Andrew and Myuran could have helped themselves by coming clean to the investigators when they were caught, they stonewalled and threatened others, claiming their colleagues who had not been captured had a long reach. That long reach won't help them. It doesn't help them now, as it is old news. They have no bargaining chip, except a claim they have rehabilitated. But rehabilitation is never a mitigating factor in a death penalty offence. They committed their crimes when they were young, too young to judge the consequences, but old enough to know them. I know people who know them. I don't want them to die. I am angry at the ALP Government for politicising and not helping them when they could have. I hear celebrities outrageously campaigning against those who have worked hardest to save Andrew and Myuran. I note the campaign against Mr Abbott has over reached, and some celebrities have apologised. Too late for two to be executed. Send any flowers to the ABC who have campaigned against the Australian Government against the interests of Andrew and Myuran. Andrew, take courage. You are going home.
The executions in Indonesia involve more than the two Australians. Indonesian law is firm on the issue for a reason. After the Tiananmen Square massacre, then Australian PM Bob Hawk speaking with a senior Chinese official pointed out Australia had room, and perhaps she could accommodate some of those pushing for political reform in China. The Chinese official asked "How many millions do you want?" Indonesia is not rich and struggles to pay their public service enough to be impartial. Their solutions are cheap and nasty. Kudos to any who can find a better way.
On this day in 1192, dope fiend assassins killed the recently elected king of Jerusalem. In 1253, a Japanese monk named Nichiren simplified Buddhism. In 1503, the Spanish fought the French with firearms on both sides, a first in history regarding fire arms. Apparently they were effective, but they took out all the sport. In 1789, Captain Bligh faced Mutiny on the Bounty, and lost. In 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad, laid ten miles of track in a single day, a record never again achieved. In 1887, war with France was avoided when Kaiser Wilhelm I ordered the release of Guillaume Schnaebelé by Prussian secret police. In 1932, a vaccine for Yellow Fever was announced. In 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. The execution of Clara seemed harsh. She was 33 years old. Her brother was captured at the same time. He wasn't executed, however. Marcello Petacci was shot trying to escape.
2014
Reading is a joy and it is important to challenge yourself to get the most joy. one such challenge is the Douglas Hofstadter work "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" which I was given as a textbook in Pure Mathematics in 3rd year university. Gödel, was a mathematician whose contribution rivals any of the greats. His two theorems of incompleteness have been used by idiots to claim God does not exist, and by logicians to show that the consistency of axioms can not be proven within an infinite system. He was born on this day in 1906. As for the book, I have bought it four times and never once finished it or completed many of the exercises, but it is awesome.
Love and hatred are primal emotions and are often involved in times of war. In the US, the civil war was divisive, and people made choices on conscience with profound consequence. Robert E Lee was head of the US military at the beginning of the schism, and from the south. He chose to fight for the south and so many millions of Americans died in four years of bloody fighting. Brothers were pitted against brother. What value the ethics that had Lee make his choice? And when it was done, an unhappy victor turned Lee's backyard into a cemetery, now called Arlington. Any soldier of the US who dies may be buried there. Powerful is vengeance, yet the West is different to the East. When, in China, a dynasty fell, all the bureaucracy that supported it was burned. When Mohammed died, his entire family was eliminated to the last child by his followers. But in the US, a mourning, angry US allowed Lee and his family to live. On this day in 1926, Harper Lee was born, great grandchild to General Lee. She is 88 years old, and has been given the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work To Kill a Mocking Bird, and for her mentoring, including Truman Capote with his work "In Cold Blood." Love has not raised from the dead those who perished in the Civil War, and yet love heals, tends to the wounded and grows to support those who survive. Love is the only answer to hate that addresses the wounds of survivors.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 357, emperor Constantius II entered Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius. 1192, assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne was confirmed by election. The killing was carried out by Hashshashin. 1253, Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounded Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. 1503, the Battle of Cerignola was fought. It was noted as the first battle in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder. 1611, Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
In 1788, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1789, Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors were set adrift and the rebel crew returned to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. 1792, France invaded the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War. 1796, the Armistice of Cherasco was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast. 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad laid 10 miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched. 1881, Billy the Kid escaped from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. 1887, a week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
In 1910, frenchman Louis Paulhan won the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. 1920, Azerbaijan was added to the Soviet Union. 1930, the first night game in organised baseball history took place in Independence, Kansas. 1932, a vaccine for yellow fever was announced for use on humans. 1944, World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946. 1945, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. 1948, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premier of his American ballet, Orpheus, in New York City at New York City Centre. 1949, former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, was assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and ten others were also killed.
In 1950, Bhumibol Adulyadej married Queen Sirikit after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949. 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. Also 1952, Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ended as the Treaty of San Francisco, ratified September 8, 1951, came into force. Also 1952, the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) was signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1965, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops landed in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops. 1969, Charles de Gaulle resigned as President of France. 1970, Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorised American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. 1975, General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departed for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory. 1977, the Red Army Faction trial ended, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder. Also 1977, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure was signed. 1978, President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, was overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
In 1986, the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USS Coral Sea. Also 1986, High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster were detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident. 1987, American engineer Ben Linder was killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. In 1988, near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane's fuselage ripped open in mid-flight. 1994, former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pled guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996, Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gave a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defence. Also 1996, Port Arthur Massacre (Australia): Gunman Martin Bryant opened fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Killing 35 people and wounding 23 others. 2001, Dennis Tito became the world's first space tourist.
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.