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I'm proud of my words last year in tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day. I've kept them under 2014.
Prince Philip is a worthy appointment as knighthood on Australia Day. The howls of outrage by left wing commentators saying they don't understand and expressing outrage is a little satisfying. Channel 9 News has commentators discussing their feelings about it, all saying they don't understand. Ditto ABC (probably Channel 10 and 7 too, but one can't watch all the bad news services all the time). Here are facts regarding Prince Philip and Mr Abbott's award. At age 12, Philip was at a german school founded by a Jewish man in '33. With the rise of Nazism, after two terms, the school founder fled to England and set up a school called Gordonstoun. Philip went to that school, leaving Germany. He completed his schooling there, and joined the navy in '39. He served with distinction and was promoted on merit at age 21 to lieutenant. He kept serving after he was married.
In 1956, with Kurt Hahn (the Jewish school founder of his youth) the now Duke founded the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. Philip is patron of some 800 organisations, particularly focused on the environment, industry, sport, and education. He served as UK President of the World Wildlife Fund from 1961 to 1982, International President from 1981, and President Emeritus from 1996. He is patron of The Work Foundation, was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1964 to 1986, and has served as Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Salford, and Wales. The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards recognise adolescents and young adults for completing a series of self-improvement exercises modelled on Kurt Hahn's solution to the "Six Declines of Modern Youth." Mr Abbott, as PM is allowed to bestow the award and he has done so well. It is not a Liberal Party thing, or a conservative issue. Philip will likely die soon. It is appropriate he is awarded this in his lifetime. The Duke of Edinburgh Awards alone would make the recipient worthy.
Tennis brat Nick Kyrgios is set to face Andy Murray. Andy Murray is an athlete and a gentleman, and one hopes he blasts Nick off the court. Tennis does not need the petulance or the swearing. It would be as undesirable as Yasser Arafat playing in an elite sporting event in Australia. It is Holocaust Memorial Day, but today is not the only day to respect survivors. The PLO leader was an acolyte of the Nazi partisan Mufti.
Bali execution is the buzz, with two of the Bali nine set to receive 72 hour notice at any time. Myuran Sukamaran and Andrew Chan are receiving their families. The Australian Government is working hard for clemency, but the ABC sank those hopes last year with a political attack on the Federal Government. It isn't the role of the ABC to nail coffin lids. The authorities have declared the executions won't take place on Bali for morale reasons. So the families can see them incarcerated now, and after the execution they will be free. The tragedy was before they were caught. Maybe their deaths will serve a purpose of stopping others from the drugs trade? No need to wait for the executions, send flowers to the ABC now.
Campbell Newman accused of blackmail. The truth is if the LNP is not voted in, with Campbell Newman as leader, then Queensland will lose a lot. That is not a policy, but a realistic appraisal of bad ALP policy. Only a vote for LNP will deliver good government.
2014
Today is holocaust memorial day. A crime that divided the world, placing apathetic in the same circles with terrorists. And one can only guess what the apathetic knew. In modern terms, a US comedian describes it as 'truthiness,' where one only sees what they look for. Some of those guilty of truthiness in the face of the holocaust are startling to see decades later. They escape justice, just as actual war criminals do who claim to be too old and addled to be tried. But today is not about them, but their victims. Only, their victims are dead. Today isn't really about them either. Today is about survivors. And the adamantine promise of those survivors that it will never happen again. For the survivors have family and loved ones, and they will keep the dream that will not be denied. They will prosper. And never forget.
They will not forget the isolation, shaming and casual butchery. They will not forget asking for help from their neighbours, and often being denied onto death. They will not forget calling for justice and having none. Calling for mercy and finding none. Calling for Grace .. and some survived. One does not call for grace, one finds it. Being scheduled for extermination, but surviving because the gaolers fled. Faced with the enormity of what had happened, some female survivors prayed for their gaolers to find God, and not be punished. What had happened to them was not something people should do to one another. After all, how does one rehabilitate those who did that?
At war's end, Jews asked for their promised land. But Democrat US administrations, and Labour UK administrations, sought to deny them. It wasn't politically expedient with the cold war. Remarkably, many survivors were socialist in outlook, but they didn't have the contacts that their like minded socialist buddies demanded. The apathetic began their own process of exoneration .. claiming they had not known. And so we have the world as it is today. A determined Bibi doing the best of a hard job against those hand washers who don't want to be shamed for their choices. We must never forget the cost. Blood cries out.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 98, Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent. 661, the Rashidun Caliphate ended with the death of Ali. 1142, Song Dynasty General Yue Fei was executed. 1186, Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, married Constance of Sicily. 1302, Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician was exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city. 1343, Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. 1593, the Vatican opened the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. 1606, Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators began, ending with their execution on January 31. 1695, Mustafa II became the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa ruled until his abdication in 1703.
In 1776, American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1785, the University of Georgia was founded, the first public university in the United States. 1825, the U.S. Congress approved Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears". 1868, Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions began, which would end in defeat for the shogunate, and was a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration. 1869, Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō. 1870, the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity was founded at DePauw University. 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C.
In 1909, the Young Left was founded in Norway. 1927, Ibn Saud took the title of King of Nejd. 1939, first flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. 1943, World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war. 1944, World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad was lifted. 1945, World War II: The Red Army liberated the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland. 1951, Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. 1961, Soviet submarine S-80 sank with all hands lost. 1967, Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Also 1967, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. 1973, the Paris Peace Accords officially ended the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde was killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. 1974, the Brisbane River breached its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
In 1980,through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escaped hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper. 1983, the pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, broke through. 1984, Pop singer Michael Jackson suffered second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. 1993, American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō became the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. 1996, in a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposed the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. Also 1996, Germany first observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 2002, An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, killed at least 1,100 people and displaced over 20,000 others. 2003, the first selections for the National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress. 2006, Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. 2010, the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ended when Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new President of Honduras. 2011, Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as over 16,000 protestors demonstrated in Sana'a. 2013, 242 people died in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
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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.
===
I'm proud of my words last year in tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day. I've kept them under 2014.
Prince Philip is a worthy appointment as knighthood on Australia Day. The howls of outrage by left wing commentators saying they don't understand and expressing outrage is a little satisfying. Channel 9 News has commentators discussing their feelings about it, all saying they don't understand. Ditto ABC (probably Channel 10 and 7 too, but one can't watch all the bad news services all the time). Here are facts regarding Prince Philip and Mr Abbott's award. At age 12, Philip was at a german school founded by a Jewish man in '33. With the rise of Nazism, after two terms, the school founder fled to England and set up a school called Gordonstoun. Philip went to that school, leaving Germany. He completed his schooling there, and joined the navy in '39. He served with distinction and was promoted on merit at age 21 to lieutenant. He kept serving after he was married.
In 1956, with Kurt Hahn (the Jewish school founder of his youth) the now Duke founded the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. Philip is patron of some 800 organisations, particularly focused on the environment, industry, sport, and education. He served as UK President of the World Wildlife Fund from 1961 to 1982, International President from 1981, and President Emeritus from 1996. He is patron of The Work Foundation, was President of the International Equestrian Federation from 1964 to 1986, and has served as Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Salford, and Wales. The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards recognise adolescents and young adults for completing a series of self-improvement exercises modelled on Kurt Hahn's solution to the "Six Declines of Modern Youth." Mr Abbott, as PM is allowed to bestow the award and he has done so well. It is not a Liberal Party thing, or a conservative issue. Philip will likely die soon. It is appropriate he is awarded this in his lifetime. The Duke of Edinburgh Awards alone would make the recipient worthy.
Tennis brat Nick Kyrgios is set to face Andy Murray. Andy Murray is an athlete and a gentleman, and one hopes he blasts Nick off the court. Tennis does not need the petulance or the swearing. It would be as undesirable as Yasser Arafat playing in an elite sporting event in Australia. It is Holocaust Memorial Day, but today is not the only day to respect survivors. The PLO leader was an acolyte of the Nazi partisan Mufti.
Bali execution is the buzz, with two of the Bali nine set to receive 72 hour notice at any time. Myuran Sukamaran and Andrew Chan are receiving their families. The Australian Government is working hard for clemency, but the ABC sank those hopes last year with a political attack on the Federal Government. It isn't the role of the ABC to nail coffin lids. The authorities have declared the executions won't take place on Bali for morale reasons. So the families can see them incarcerated now, and after the execution they will be free. The tragedy was before they were caught. Maybe their deaths will serve a purpose of stopping others from the drugs trade? No need to wait for the executions, send flowers to the ABC now.
Campbell Newman accused of blackmail. The truth is if the LNP is not voted in, with Campbell Newman as leader, then Queensland will lose a lot. That is not a policy, but a realistic appraisal of bad ALP policy. Only a vote for LNP will deliver good government.
2014
Today is holocaust memorial day. A crime that divided the world, placing apathetic in the same circles with terrorists. And one can only guess what the apathetic knew. In modern terms, a US comedian describes it as 'truthiness,' where one only sees what they look for. Some of those guilty of truthiness in the face of the holocaust are startling to see decades later. They escape justice, just as actual war criminals do who claim to be too old and addled to be tried. But today is not about them, but their victims. Only, their victims are dead. Today isn't really about them either. Today is about survivors. And the adamantine promise of those survivors that it will never happen again. For the survivors have family and loved ones, and they will keep the dream that will not be denied. They will prosper. And never forget.
They will not forget the isolation, shaming and casual butchery. They will not forget asking for help from their neighbours, and often being denied onto death. They will not forget calling for justice and having none. Calling for mercy and finding none. Calling for Grace .. and some survived. One does not call for grace, one finds it. Being scheduled for extermination, but surviving because the gaolers fled. Faced with the enormity of what had happened, some female survivors prayed for their gaolers to find God, and not be punished. What had happened to them was not something people should do to one another. After all, how does one rehabilitate those who did that?
At war's end, Jews asked for their promised land. But Democrat US administrations, and Labour UK administrations, sought to deny them. It wasn't politically expedient with the cold war. Remarkably, many survivors were socialist in outlook, but they didn't have the contacts that their like minded socialist buddies demanded. The apathetic began their own process of exoneration .. claiming they had not known. And so we have the world as it is today. A determined Bibi doing the best of a hard job against those hand washers who don't want to be shamed for their choices. We must never forget the cost. Blood cries out.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 98, Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent. 661, the Rashidun Caliphate ended with the death of Ali. 1142, Song Dynasty General Yue Fei was executed. 1186, Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, married Constance of Sicily. 1302, Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician was exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city. 1343, Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. 1593, the Vatican opened the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. 1606, Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators began, ending with their execution on January 31. 1695, Mustafa II became the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa ruled until his abdication in 1703.
In 1776, American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1785, the University of Georgia was founded, the first public university in the United States. 1825, the U.S. Congress approved Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears". 1868, Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions began, which would end in defeat for the shogunate, and was a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration. 1869, Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō. 1870, the Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity was founded at DePauw University. 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C.
In 1909, the Young Left was founded in Norway. 1927, Ibn Saud took the title of King of Nejd. 1939, first flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. 1943, World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany of the war. 1944, World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad was lifted. 1945, World War II: The Red Army liberated the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland. 1951, Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. 1961, Soviet submarine S-80 sank with all hands lost. 1967, Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Also 1967, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. 1973, the Paris Peace Accords officially ended the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde was killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. 1974, the Brisbane River breached its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
In 1980,through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escaped hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper. 1983, the pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, broke through. 1984, Pop singer Michael Jackson suffered second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. 1993, American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō became the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. 1996, in a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposed the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. Also 1996, Germany first observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 2002, An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, killed at least 1,100 people and displaced over 20,000 others. 2003, the first selections for the National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress. 2006, Western Union discontinued its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. 2010, the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ended when Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new President of Honduras. 2011, Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as over 16,000 protestors demonstrated in Sana'a. 2013, 242 people died in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
===
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.