Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2015 9:42:42 GMT
It is remarkable how history is reflected in the current day. On this day in 1697, twenty year old Thomas Aikenhead, from Edinborough, was hanged for blasphemy. What he said, according to the indictment was
"That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra's fables, in profane allusion to Esop's Fables; That he railed on Christ, saying, he had learned magick in Egypt, which enabled him to perform those pranks which were called miracles: That he called the New Testament the history of the imposter Christ; That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ."
Many would consider the words mild and salient. Of interest is the take on Islam. Had he been executed eighty five years earlier, he'd have been burned at the stake, as the previous convicted blasphemer had been. Thomas Babington Macaulay said of Aikenhead's death that "the preachers who were the poor boy's murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and... insulted heaven with prayers more blasphemous than anything he had uttered."
We live in different times, Thomas' hero prophet has apparently approved the use of terrorism to address alleged blasphemy of newspaper Charlie Hebdo. In England, Thomas' execution was the last state sanctioned one for blaspheme, although there are recent attempts by one death cult to bring them back.
Todays atrocities were committed by three who claimed to be aligned with Al Qaeda. The youngest, 18 years old, turned himself in. Two brothers, one 32 years old and the other 34 are said to be holed up in a siege. Twelve were killed at Charlie Hebdo as the three came in with assault rifles and a grenade launcher. On exiting, they killed a police officer who also happened to be Muslim. One likes to think that the Islamic world will line up in support of the policeman against the death cult. One might not agree with what Charlie Hebdo wrote, but yet defends to the death their right to write it. #illwrite4u
Another thing worthy of noting on this day in 1835 was the US national debt was zero for the last time. Pax Obama has resulted in a lot of death and debt.
2014
One can almost hear Shirley Bassey belting out in tribute to Al Gore "Mr Cold Finger" .. his heart is cold. For him to profit, the poorest die miserable deaths of deprivation when their basic needs are not met. Important resources, some $trillion internationally, is spent trying to reduce production world wide. This skews wealth away from the poorest .. which is the exact opposite of what socialists claim they want, but then their understanding of economics is weak. Economics is not a zero sum game where wealth can be redistributed from the rich and the economic pie is static in size. Wealth redistribution from rich to poor weakens investment and does not help the poor. Paradoxically, for socialists, secure wealth for the rich makes poor people better off. But in those circumstances, socialists find it hard to exploit the poor for political power. So it is in the interests of socialists to keep poor people poor.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 307, Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi. 387, Siyaj K'ak' conquers Waka. 871, Alfred the Great led a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. 1297, François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. 1455, the Romanus Pontifex was written. 1499, Louis XII of France married Anne of Brittany. 1697, last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh. 1734, premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1746, Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied Stirling. 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
In 1806, Cape Colony became a British colony. 1811, An unsuccessful slave revolt was led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. 1815, War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson led American forces in victory over the British. 1835, the United States national debt was zero for the only time. 1863, American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield 1867, African American men were granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877, Crazy Horse and his warriors fought their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. 1889, Herman Hollerith was issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
In 1904, the Blackstone Library was dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. 1906, a landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, killed 20 people. 1912, the African National Congress was founded. 1918, President Woodrow Wilson announced his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1920, the steel strike of 1919 ended in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union. 1940, World War II: Britain introduced food rationing. 1945, World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units entered the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attacked Japanese Imperial forces. 1956, Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries were killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1961, in France a referendum supported Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. 1962, the Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. 1963, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
In 1971, bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. 1973, Soviet space mission Luna 21 was launched. Also 1973, Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate began. 1975, Ella T. Grasso became Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. 1977, Three bombs exploded in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings were attributed to an Armenian separatist group. 1979, the tanker Betelgeuse exploded in Bantry Bay, Ireland. 1981, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 1982, the break up of AT&T: AT&T agreed to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1989, Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. 1989, beginning of Japanese Heisei period. 1994, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 left for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. 1996, an Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of 6 survived the crash.
In 2002, president George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act. 2003, Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers. Also 2003, US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashed at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. 2004, the RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. 2005, the nuclear sub USS San Francisco collided at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man was killed, but the sub surfaced and was repaired. 2009, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica killed 15 people and injured 32. 2010, Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three. 2011, the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizonaat a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.===
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 or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4
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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.
"That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra's fables, in profane allusion to Esop's Fables; That he railed on Christ, saying, he had learned magick in Egypt, which enabled him to perform those pranks which were called miracles: That he called the New Testament the history of the imposter Christ; That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ."
Many would consider the words mild and salient. Of interest is the take on Islam. Had he been executed eighty five years earlier, he'd have been burned at the stake, as the previous convicted blasphemer had been. Thomas Babington Macaulay said of Aikenhead's death that "the preachers who were the poor boy's murderers crowded round him at the gallows, and... insulted heaven with prayers more blasphemous than anything he had uttered."
We live in different times, Thomas' hero prophet has apparently approved the use of terrorism to address alleged blasphemy of newspaper Charlie Hebdo. In England, Thomas' execution was the last state sanctioned one for blaspheme, although there are recent attempts by one death cult to bring them back.
Todays atrocities were committed by three who claimed to be aligned with Al Qaeda. The youngest, 18 years old, turned himself in. Two brothers, one 32 years old and the other 34 are said to be holed up in a siege. Twelve were killed at Charlie Hebdo as the three came in with assault rifles and a grenade launcher. On exiting, they killed a police officer who also happened to be Muslim. One likes to think that the Islamic world will line up in support of the policeman against the death cult. One might not agree with what Charlie Hebdo wrote, but yet defends to the death their right to write it. #illwrite4u
Another thing worthy of noting on this day in 1835 was the US national debt was zero for the last time. Pax Obama has resulted in a lot of death and debt.
2014
One can almost hear Shirley Bassey belting out in tribute to Al Gore "Mr Cold Finger" .. his heart is cold. For him to profit, the poorest die miserable deaths of deprivation when their basic needs are not met. Important resources, some $trillion internationally, is spent trying to reduce production world wide. This skews wealth away from the poorest .. which is the exact opposite of what socialists claim they want, but then their understanding of economics is weak. Economics is not a zero sum game where wealth can be redistributed from the rich and the economic pie is static in size. Wealth redistribution from rich to poor weakens investment and does not help the poor. Paradoxically, for socialists, secure wealth for the rich makes poor people better off. But in those circumstances, socialists find it hard to exploit the poor for political power. So it is in the interests of socialists to keep poor people poor.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 307, Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, was poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi. 387, Siyaj K'ak' conquers Waka. 871, Alfred the Great led a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings. 1297, François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. 1455, the Romanus Pontifex was written. 1499, Louis XII of France married Anne of Brittany. 1697, last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh. 1734, premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. 1746, Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied Stirling. 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
In 1806, Cape Colony became a British colony. 1811, An unsuccessful slave revolt was led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana. 1815, War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson led American forces in victory over the British. 1835, the United States national debt was zero for the only time. 1863, American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield 1867, African American men were granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. 1877, Crazy Horse and his warriors fought their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. 1889, Herman Hollerith was issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
In 1904, the Blackstone Library was dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. 1906, a landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, killed 20 people. 1912, the African National Congress was founded. 1918, President Woodrow Wilson announced his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. 1920, the steel strike of 1919 ended in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union. 1940, World War II: Britain introduced food rationing. 1945, World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units entered the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attacked Japanese Imperial forces. 1956, Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries were killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. 1961, in France a referendum supported Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria. 1962, the Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. 1963, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
In 1971, bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh. 1973, Soviet space mission Luna 21 was launched. Also 1973, Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate began. 1975, Ella T. Grasso became Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband. 1977, Three bombs exploded in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings were attributed to an Armenian separatist group. 1979, the tanker Betelgeuse exploded in Bantry Bay, Ireland. 1981, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 1982, the break up of AT&T: AT&T agreed to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1989, Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashed into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. 1989, beginning of Japanese Heisei period. 1994, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 left for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. 1996, an Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 237 on the ground; the aircraft's crew of 6 survived the crash.
In 2002, president George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act. 2003, Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers. Also 2003, US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashed at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board. 2004, the RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. 2005, the nuclear sub USS San Francisco collided at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man was killed, but the sub surfaced and was repaired. 2009, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica killed 15 people and injured 32. 2010, Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three. 2011, the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizonaat a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.===
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 or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4
===
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.