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Knighthood of Duke of Edinburgh.
Two knighthoods were given this Australia Day. One to Sir Hurley, who has given life service to Australia's defence forces, and then gone on to coordinate important things, like the search for MH370, the collection of body parts for MH17 and the stopping of illegal boat arrivals. More confusing and controversial was the appointment of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, husband to the Queen. Left wing media are aware of his philanthropy and his awards which train the best kids Australia offers in woodcraft and philanthropy. Those Duke of Edinburgh awards aside, and his gifts to hospitals and care services aside, Shorten has a point .. "What has Prince Phillip ever done for Australia which another Australian has not?" To Prince Phillip's credit he has never embezzled money, drowned desperate people subjected to piracy, dumped a Prime Minister or raped a friend.
Nameless people on social media have leaped to defend Shorten's position. They call themselves conservative and proceed to say why they aren't. They say they don't like the government's activity because it does not control the senate. Then they say they would do things favourable to the ALP for no other reason than 'just because.' Laurie Oakes says he can't find a Liberal supporter who supports Mr Abbott's appointment of Prince Phillip, but then it would be surprising if he could find a Liberal supporter at all. Laurie Oakes has never reported in a balanced fashion, except when criticising the Liberals. Clearly Mr Abbott's excellent appointment has upset the left, and that is a good thing.
Long time ALP stalwart Tom Uren died on Australia Day, 2015. He had been a gifted athlete. He offered far more to the ALP than he did for Australia. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement. Were he to have been fair, he would have praised the knighthood given to Prince Phillip.
Australia Day, India National Day
Australia day is related to the 11 ships of Arthur Phillip's first fleet sailing into Port Jackson and beginning Sydney colony. It was chosen as a good place to park the ships. Initially, there were problems. The cattle transported had somehow managed to kill the european flies which made the cow pats biodegradable. Native Australian flies did not lay their eggs in the cow pats and so the manure wasn't useful for farming until the second fleet arrived, with flies, in 1790. The early colony struggled. Twenty years later, on this day, 1808, the colony rebelled with what was to be called the Rum Rebellion, the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history. Then Governor Bligh was hiding from mutineers who were protecting their right to trade in Rum. Bligh had been appointed with instructions to restrict the trade. The regiment had gone 'native' and the solution was to replace it under a new governor in 1810. Bligh returned to England and became rear admiral, but without a command and all of his recommendations were ignored.
India celebrates her independence from the UK on this day too, in 1930, the Indian National Congress party declared the day for Indian self rule. They achieved it 17 years later.
Misreading American Sniper
It is a movie in which patriots can line up behind it and cheer. It handles difficult subject matter intelligently and is real. Naturally it is despised and wilfully misunderstood by industry insiders. It attracts criticism that another film wouldn't were it not for the cheap shots possible for those who hate America and hate GOP type conservatives. It won't get a lot of awards.
2014
Australia Day and people ask "What does it mean?"
Channel 9's Australia Day cricket match in Adelaide began with journalist Mark Nicholas asking the English skipper if he was 'aware of the enormity of the day.' Some do not know it, feeling that 'enormity' is to do with size, but it in fact means 'monstrous wrong.' So the enormity of Julia Gillard as PM is not referring to her bottom or nose, but to the fact she should not have been PM and was unsuited temperamentally to the task, as have been any ALP PM in living memory. One might refer to the enormity of the debt the ALP left office in September '13. Or the enormity of drowning desperate people who are exploited by pirates and leaving refugees in limbo. Or the enormity of ABC reporting on Indonesian relations with Australia. I want a correction and retraction from Nicholas, and an apology.
ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre) posted on Facebook that they felt today was an invasion day. A little off putting for me, as I have ancestors on both sides of their invasion. With respect, half of present Australia did not exist fifty years ago. Building has gathered pace and Australia is set to double in another forty years, or less. My point is that Australia I love is not for me, but for those who follow. They may be migrants or born here. It isn't my will or place to deny those who come. And very shortly after I'm gone, this land will not be the land I know. But she will still be Australia and I love her. Those racists making noise about 'invasion' have no love for those they hurt with their faux dreams of a land that never was and never will be. They may graffiti a cottage of a great man, but that won't make their worthless assertions right. It is wrong to give such assertions the currency media give it. If the pathetic race hate laws are still valid, I would like to see ASRC prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and any public funds given retracted.
I have mixed emotions about the great lady Australia. I love her, and wish her to be prosperous. I want her peoples to be diverse, and united in bonds of fellowship. I have been hurt terribly by Australia and her justice system, having my citizenship denied by administrative error, and having been persecuted by a political lobby covering up a bungled pedophile investigation and the death of a school child. So that my career is over as a Mathematics teacher and yet I've done no wrong. But Australia has taught me about life. When I breathe my last, I will no longer be American as I was born in NYC, but my home will be in Australia. My adulthood and contributions will be for Australians. Some of my ancestors came to Australia from China, Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Russia, Poland, Hungary .. and .. and from places I know not. But they came here and they named her not as a possession for some empire, but for the place they live. They called her home.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1500, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón became the first European to set foot on Brazil. 1531, Lisbon, Portugal was hit by an earthquake—thousands die. 1564, the Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. 1564, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War. 1565, Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, led to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent. 1589, Job was elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. 1699, Treaty of Karlowitz was signed. 1700, the magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. 1736, Stanislaus I of Poland abdicated his throne. 1788, the British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sailed into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
In 1808, Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. 1837, Michigan was admitted as the 26th U.S. state. 1838, Tennessee enacted the first prohibition law in the United States 1841, the United Kingdom formally occupied Hong Kong, which China later formally ceded. 1855, Point No Point Treaty was signed in Washington Territory. 1856, first Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drove off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Louisiana seceded from the Union. 1863, American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside was relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He was replaced by Joseph Hooker. Also 1863, American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew received permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organisation for men of African descent. 1870, American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union. 1885, troops loyal to The Mahdi conquered Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
In 1905, the world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), was found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. 1907, the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III was officially introduced into British Military Service, and remained the second oldest military rifle still in official use. 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful American seaplane. Also 1911, Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier received its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. 1915, the Rocky Mountain National Park was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. 1918, Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hanged a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
In 1920, former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launched the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer. 1924, Saint Petersburg, Russia, was renamed Leningrad. 1930, the Indian National Congress declared 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later. 1934, the Apollo Theater reopened in Harlem, New York City. Also 1934, German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact was signed. 1939, Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy took Barcelona. 1942, World War II: The first United States forces arrived in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. 1945, World War II: The Red Army began encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which would end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later. Also 1945, World War II: Audie Murphy in action that would later win him the Medal of Honor. 1949, the Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 was built in 1976).
In 1950, the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad was sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India. 1952, Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burned Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. 1958, Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed. 1960, Danny Heater set a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) 1961, John F. Kennedy appointed Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman held the appointment of Physician to the President. 1962, Ranger program: Ranger 3 was launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). 1965, Hindi became the official language of India. 1966, the Beaumont Children went missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. 1978, the Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US until October 2010, struck the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
In 1980, Israel and Egypt established diplomatic relations. 1986, the Ugandan government of Tito Okello was overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni. 1991, Mohamed Siad Barre was removed from power in Somalia, ending centralised government, and was succeeded by Ali Mahdi. 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. 1998, Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denied having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 2001, an earthquake hit Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. 2004, President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan. Also 2004, a whale exploded in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale was suspected of causing the explosion. 2005, Glendale train crash: Two trains derailed killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. 2009, rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that would result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
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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, 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.
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Knighthood of Duke of Edinburgh.
Two knighthoods were given this Australia Day. One to Sir Hurley, who has given life service to Australia's defence forces, and then gone on to coordinate important things, like the search for MH370, the collection of body parts for MH17 and the stopping of illegal boat arrivals. More confusing and controversial was the appointment of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, husband to the Queen. Left wing media are aware of his philanthropy and his awards which train the best kids Australia offers in woodcraft and philanthropy. Those Duke of Edinburgh awards aside, and his gifts to hospitals and care services aside, Shorten has a point .. "What has Prince Phillip ever done for Australia which another Australian has not?" To Prince Phillip's credit he has never embezzled money, drowned desperate people subjected to piracy, dumped a Prime Minister or raped a friend.
Nameless people on social media have leaped to defend Shorten's position. They call themselves conservative and proceed to say why they aren't. They say they don't like the government's activity because it does not control the senate. Then they say they would do things favourable to the ALP for no other reason than 'just because.' Laurie Oakes says he can't find a Liberal supporter who supports Mr Abbott's appointment of Prince Phillip, but then it would be surprising if he could find a Liberal supporter at all. Laurie Oakes has never reported in a balanced fashion, except when criticising the Liberals. Clearly Mr Abbott's excellent appointment has upset the left, and that is a good thing.
Long time ALP stalwart Tom Uren died on Australia Day, 2015. He had been a gifted athlete. He offered far more to the ALP than he did for Australia. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement. Were he to have been fair, he would have praised the knighthood given to Prince Phillip.
Australia Day, India National Day
Australia day is related to the 11 ships of Arthur Phillip's first fleet sailing into Port Jackson and beginning Sydney colony. It was chosen as a good place to park the ships. Initially, there were problems. The cattle transported had somehow managed to kill the european flies which made the cow pats biodegradable. Native Australian flies did not lay their eggs in the cow pats and so the manure wasn't useful for farming until the second fleet arrived, with flies, in 1790. The early colony struggled. Twenty years later, on this day, 1808, the colony rebelled with what was to be called the Rum Rebellion, the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history. Then Governor Bligh was hiding from mutineers who were protecting their right to trade in Rum. Bligh had been appointed with instructions to restrict the trade. The regiment had gone 'native' and the solution was to replace it under a new governor in 1810. Bligh returned to England and became rear admiral, but without a command and all of his recommendations were ignored.
India celebrates her independence from the UK on this day too, in 1930, the Indian National Congress party declared the day for Indian self rule. They achieved it 17 years later.
Misreading American Sniper
It is a movie in which patriots can line up behind it and cheer. It handles difficult subject matter intelligently and is real. Naturally it is despised and wilfully misunderstood by industry insiders. It attracts criticism that another film wouldn't were it not for the cheap shots possible for those who hate America and hate GOP type conservatives. It won't get a lot of awards.
2014
Australia Day and people ask "What does it mean?"
Channel 9's Australia Day cricket match in Adelaide began with journalist Mark Nicholas asking the English skipper if he was 'aware of the enormity of the day.' Some do not know it, feeling that 'enormity' is to do with size, but it in fact means 'monstrous wrong.' So the enormity of Julia Gillard as PM is not referring to her bottom or nose, but to the fact she should not have been PM and was unsuited temperamentally to the task, as have been any ALP PM in living memory. One might refer to the enormity of the debt the ALP left office in September '13. Or the enormity of drowning desperate people who are exploited by pirates and leaving refugees in limbo. Or the enormity of ABC reporting on Indonesian relations with Australia. I want a correction and retraction from Nicholas, and an apology.
ASRC (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre) posted on Facebook that they felt today was an invasion day. A little off putting for me, as I have ancestors on both sides of their invasion. With respect, half of present Australia did not exist fifty years ago. Building has gathered pace and Australia is set to double in another forty years, or less. My point is that Australia I love is not for me, but for those who follow. They may be migrants or born here. It isn't my will or place to deny those who come. And very shortly after I'm gone, this land will not be the land I know. But she will still be Australia and I love her. Those racists making noise about 'invasion' have no love for those they hurt with their faux dreams of a land that never was and never will be. They may graffiti a cottage of a great man, but that won't make their worthless assertions right. It is wrong to give such assertions the currency media give it. If the pathetic race hate laws are still valid, I would like to see ASRC prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and any public funds given retracted.
I have mixed emotions about the great lady Australia. I love her, and wish her to be prosperous. I want her peoples to be diverse, and united in bonds of fellowship. I have been hurt terribly by Australia and her justice system, having my citizenship denied by administrative error, and having been persecuted by a political lobby covering up a bungled pedophile investigation and the death of a school child. So that my career is over as a Mathematics teacher and yet I've done no wrong. But Australia has taught me about life. When I breathe my last, I will no longer be American as I was born in NYC, but my home will be in Australia. My adulthood and contributions will be for Australians. Some of my ancestors came to Australia from China, Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Russia, Poland, Hungary .. and .. and from places I know not. But they came here and they named her not as a possession for some empire, but for the place they live. They called her home.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1500, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón became the first European to set foot on Brazil. 1531, Lisbon, Portugal was hit by an earthquake—thousands die. 1564, the Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. 1564, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War. 1565, Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, led to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent. 1589, Job was elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. 1699, Treaty of Karlowitz was signed. 1700, the magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. 1736, Stanislaus I of Poland abdicated his throne. 1788, the British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sailed into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
In 1808, Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia. 1837, Michigan was admitted as the 26th U.S. state. 1838, Tennessee enacted the first prohibition law in the United States 1841, the United Kingdom formally occupied Hong Kong, which China later formally ceded. 1855, Point No Point Treaty was signed in Washington Territory. 1856, first Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drove off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers. 1861, American Civil War: The state of Louisiana seceded from the Union. 1863, American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside was relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He was replaced by Joseph Hooker. Also 1863, American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew received permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organisation for men of African descent. 1870, American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union. 1885, troops loyal to The Mahdi conquered Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
In 1905, the world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), was found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. 1907, the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III was officially introduced into British Military Service, and remained the second oldest military rifle still in official use. 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss flew the first successful American seaplane. Also 1911, Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier received its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. 1915, the Rocky Mountain National Park was established by an act of the U.S. Congress. 1918, Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hanged a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
In 1920, former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launched the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer. 1924, Saint Petersburg, Russia, was renamed Leningrad. 1930, the Indian National Congress declared 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later. 1934, the Apollo Theater reopened in Harlem, New York City. Also 1934, German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact was signed. 1939, Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy took Barcelona. 1942, World War II: The first United States forces arrived in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. 1945, World War II: The Red Army began encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which would end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later. Also 1945, World War II: Audie Murphy in action that would later win him the Medal of Honor. 1949, the Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 was built in 1976).
In 1950, the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad was sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India. 1952, Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burned Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. 1958, Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed. 1960, Danny Heater set a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) 1961, John F. Kennedy appointed Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman held the appointment of Physician to the President. 1962, Ranger program: Ranger 3 was launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). 1965, Hindi became the official language of India. 1966, the Beaumont Children went missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. 1978, the Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US until October 2010, struck the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
In 1980, Israel and Egypt established diplomatic relations. 1986, the Ugandan government of Tito Okello was overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni. 1991, Mohamed Siad Barre was removed from power in Somalia, ending centralised government, and was succeeded by Ali Mahdi. 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. 1998, Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denied having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. 2001, an earthquake hit Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths. 2004, President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan. Also 2004, a whale exploded in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale was suspected of causing the explosion. 2005, Glendale train crash: Two trains derailed killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. 2009, rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that would result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
===
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, 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.