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World War II ended in Europe on this day in 1945. A war that began as WWI was finished, with a victory that was ruined by compromise and self interest. An incompetent US administration that cared as little for the outcome as it did the loss of US lives in achieving it. Churchill was absent, rehabilitating his career after Gallipoli. Churchill was not doing little, he was instrumental in supporting Poland and stabilising the economies of Europe under the "Ten Year" rule, in which the premise was, war would not be fought in Europe for ten years following WWI. It meant that Herbert Hoover could be contracted as a civil engineer to feed Germany. But angry xenophobes like Hitler flourished in a culture which had become morally loose. But it wasn't loose morals that caused WWII. Britain was entrusted with Palestine, and failed in her duty, for which the world teeters today, because Israel should have it all. As a bloodied and broken Europe welcomed peace again, in 1945, war weary sailors in Halifax began looting. During the war, Halifax's population had doubled, but her services had not. Soon, the UK would elect a Labor Government which would badly run the union. But today, in 2015, it looks like a sensible conservative government will lead, following election. Left wing Scottish Nationals have eaten the heart of British Labor in Scotland, but offer nothing which wasn't already covered by a Labor administration which had said, on leaving government at the last election "There is nothing left in treasury."
In 1946, Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. In 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diemopen fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. In 1972, Four Black September terrorists hijacked Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recaptured the plane the following day. In 1987, the Loughgall ambush: The SAS killed eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
In 453 BC, Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeated the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. In 1516, Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended. In 1886, Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
2014
For the Bolt Report Supporter's Group. I like to foster debate, not abuse. It matters nothing to me if you dislike someone. But if you have something to contribute, that is wonderful. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with me on anything. I am a Christian, conservative and I despise extremism that devalues human dignity. I'm not generally a social conservative. I generally embrace libertarian values and favour secular administration. What I choose to do I choose to do, not because it's the law, but because I try to model my attitudes. Some new members do not know what is expected of them. Recently, my admin team were begged to list rules and codes of behaviour. That is not going to happen. There are rules, but like laws, you have a choice to make and that means what you say and do is more important. You are responsible for your own behaviour. It is too hard to fish people out of the block list, so don't go there. I will block people who are being abusive or bullying. Maybe you find someone who doesn't belong? You can block them, or you can go .. One thing I learned working in one of the world's most successful multi cultural high schools is that a culture of learning is fostered, not enforced. Play to your strengths. I apologise I don't have the time to devote to every thread or individual. But, you are welcome to participate in any and all. The admin team try to find things worthwhile, make yourself known to them. They are busy too, but enjoy fostering the fandom of Andrew Bolt. Phil Box, John Tran, Mandy McLean and Stephanie Carroll are the champions who contribute to making the site great, just like you.
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a polymath genius. Born 1743, he was rich and well schooled. He became a lawyer, but never practiced. Today, he is remembered as the father of modern chemistry. He was one of the committee of writers who created SI units. And when one is successful, others become jealous. One very bad man was Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a left wing journalist who denounced Lavoisier as selling adulterated tobacco. Marat was executed soon after by someone who did not sympathise with his rhetoric on human rights, but the smear remained for over a year. On one day, today, in 1794, Lavoisier was branded a traitor, tried, convicted and guillotined. He was guilty of being a genius.
Another injustice was the Jack Cade rebellion of 1450 against Henry VI. Henry was a weak king and wealthy people got upset at being highly taxed, and losing French Normandy. We don't know much about Jack, who died in the rebellion. The upset rebels went to London and began looting there, just as Occupy protestors do today. The civil war that ensued with Yorkists vying for power with Lancastrians was related to the unrest of such Occupy protests.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 453 BC, Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeated the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. 413, Emperor Honorius signed an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. 589, Reccared I summoned the Third Council of Toledo.
In 1450, Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolted against King Henry VI. 1516, Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended. 1541, Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River and named it Río de Espíritu Santo. 1788, the French Parliament was suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts. 1794, branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
In 1821, Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeated the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn. 1842, a train derailed and caught fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people. 1846, Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeated a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war. 1861, American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia was named the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1877, At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opened. 1886, Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. 1898, the first games of the Italian football league system were played. 1899, the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
In 1901, the Australian Labour Party was established. 1902, in Martinique, Mount Pelée erupted, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survived the blast. 1912, Paramount Pictures was founded. 1919, Edward George Honey proposed the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I. 1924, the Klaipėda Convention was signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. 1927, attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. 1933, Mohandas Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
In 1941, the German Luftwaffe launched a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marked the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fought without visual contact between warring ships. Also 1942, World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. 1945, Hundreds of Algerian civilians were killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. Also 1945, World War II: V-E Day, combat ended in Europe. German forces agreed in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender. Also 1945, end of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. Also 1945, The Halifax Riot started when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampaged through Halifax. 1946, Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. 1962, the Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded. 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. 1966, a plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania killed Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials. 1967, the Philippine province of Davao was split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
In 1970, the Hard Hat Riot occurred in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clashed with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War. 1972, Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. Also 1972, Four Black September terrorists hijacked Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recaptured the plane the following day. 1973, a 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ended with the surrender of the militants. 1976, the rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain. 1978, the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
In 1980, the World Health Organization confirmed the eradication of smallpox. 1984, the Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Also 1984, corporal Denis Lortie entered the Quebec National Assembly and opened fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeded in calming him, for which he would later receive the Cross of Valour. Also 1984, the Thames Barrier was officially opened. 1987, the Loughgall ambush: The SAS killed eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. 1988, a fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history". 1997, a China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashed on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
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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.
===
World War II ended in Europe on this day in 1945. A war that began as WWI was finished, with a victory that was ruined by compromise and self interest. An incompetent US administration that cared as little for the outcome as it did the loss of US lives in achieving it. Churchill was absent, rehabilitating his career after Gallipoli. Churchill was not doing little, he was instrumental in supporting Poland and stabilising the economies of Europe under the "Ten Year" rule, in which the premise was, war would not be fought in Europe for ten years following WWI. It meant that Herbert Hoover could be contracted as a civil engineer to feed Germany. But angry xenophobes like Hitler flourished in a culture which had become morally loose. But it wasn't loose morals that caused WWII. Britain was entrusted with Palestine, and failed in her duty, for which the world teeters today, because Israel should have it all. As a bloodied and broken Europe welcomed peace again, in 1945, war weary sailors in Halifax began looting. During the war, Halifax's population had doubled, but her services had not. Soon, the UK would elect a Labor Government which would badly run the union. But today, in 2015, it looks like a sensible conservative government will lead, following election. Left wing Scottish Nationals have eaten the heart of British Labor in Scotland, but offer nothing which wasn't already covered by a Labor administration which had said, on leaving government at the last election "There is nothing left in treasury."
In 1946, Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. In 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diemopen fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. In 1972, Four Black September terrorists hijacked Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recaptured the plane the following day. In 1987, the Loughgall ambush: The SAS killed eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
In 453 BC, Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeated the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. In 1516, Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended. In 1886, Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
2014
For the Bolt Report Supporter's Group. I like to foster debate, not abuse. It matters nothing to me if you dislike someone. But if you have something to contribute, that is wonderful. It doesn't matter if you don't agree with me on anything. I am a Christian, conservative and I despise extremism that devalues human dignity. I'm not generally a social conservative. I generally embrace libertarian values and favour secular administration. What I choose to do I choose to do, not because it's the law, but because I try to model my attitudes. Some new members do not know what is expected of them. Recently, my admin team were begged to list rules and codes of behaviour. That is not going to happen. There are rules, but like laws, you have a choice to make and that means what you say and do is more important. You are responsible for your own behaviour. It is too hard to fish people out of the block list, so don't go there. I will block people who are being abusive or bullying. Maybe you find someone who doesn't belong? You can block them, or you can go .. One thing I learned working in one of the world's most successful multi cultural high schools is that a culture of learning is fostered, not enforced. Play to your strengths. I apologise I don't have the time to devote to every thread or individual. But, you are welcome to participate in any and all. The admin team try to find things worthwhile, make yourself known to them. They are busy too, but enjoy fostering the fandom of Andrew Bolt. Phil Box, John Tran, Mandy McLean and Stephanie Carroll are the champions who contribute to making the site great, just like you.
===
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a polymath genius. Born 1743, he was rich and well schooled. He became a lawyer, but never practiced. Today, he is remembered as the father of modern chemistry. He was one of the committee of writers who created SI units. And when one is successful, others become jealous. One very bad man was Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a left wing journalist who denounced Lavoisier as selling adulterated tobacco. Marat was executed soon after by someone who did not sympathise with his rhetoric on human rights, but the smear remained for over a year. On one day, today, in 1794, Lavoisier was branded a traitor, tried, convicted and guillotined. He was guilty of being a genius.
Another injustice was the Jack Cade rebellion of 1450 against Henry VI. Henry was a weak king and wealthy people got upset at being highly taxed, and losing French Normandy. We don't know much about Jack, who died in the rebellion. The upset rebels went to London and began looting there, just as Occupy protestors do today. The civil war that ensued with Yorkists vying for power with Lancastrians was related to the unrest of such Occupy protests.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 453 BC, Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeated the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. 413, Emperor Honorius signed an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths. 589, Reccared I summoned the Third Council of Toledo.
In 1450, Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolted against King Henry VI. 1516, Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended. 1541, Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River and named it Río de Espíritu Santo. 1788, the French Parliament was suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts. 1794, branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, was tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
In 1821, Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeated the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn. 1842, a train derailed and caught fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people. 1846, Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeated a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war. 1861, American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia was named the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1877, At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opened. 1886, Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. 1898, the first games of the Italian football league system were played. 1899, the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
In 1901, the Australian Labour Party was established. 1902, in Martinique, Mount Pelée erupted, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survived the blast. 1912, Paramount Pictures was founded. 1919, Edward George Honey proposed the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I. 1924, the Klaipėda Convention was signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. 1927, attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. 1933, Mohandas Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
In 1941, the German Luftwaffe launched a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marked the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fought without visual contact between warring ships. Also 1942, World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebelled in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny was crushed and three of them were executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. 1945, Hundreds of Algerian civilians were killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre. Also 1945, World War II: V-E Day, combat ended in Europe. German forces agreed in Reims, France, to an unconditional surrender. Also 1945, end of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. Also 1945, The Halifax Riot started when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampaged through Halifax. 1946, Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blew up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. 1962, the Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded. 1963, South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. 1966, a plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania killed Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials. 1967, the Philippine province of Davao was split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
In 1970, the Hard Hat Riot occurred in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clashed with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War. 1972, Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. Also 1972, Four Black September terrorists hijacked Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recaptured the plane the following day. 1973, a 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ended with the surrender of the militants. 1976, the rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain. 1978, the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
In 1980, the World Health Organization confirmed the eradication of smallpox. 1984, the Soviet Union announced that it would boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Also 1984, corporal Denis Lortie entered the Quebec National Assembly and opened fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the assembly, succeeded in calming him, for which he would later receive the Cross of Valour. Also 1984, the Thames Barrier was officially opened. 1987, the Loughgall ambush: The SAS killed eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. 1988, a fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history". 1997, a China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashed on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
===
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.