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I propose an open issue arrangement anything that might had occurred that has set you to thinking, For example I got done for 80 in a 40 zone at 8am at the bottom of Barrengarry, Kangaroo Valley. It's an 80 zone but there's a Roadworks ahead sign somewhere and there's no Roadworks happening. Nasty Copper too, quota boy.
Anyway my main interest is our disgraced VC winner. A thug, bully and callous murderer no doubt about that. But senior command are seriously at fault here. The records that the Media put together must, for the most part, have existed before they recommended the medal. Jeez, what a culture? His sergeant, Captain, C.O., all the way up. What an embarrassment? Mark Latham said that he'd never met one who wasn't a meathead. But I think that level of Wolf Warrior has become a deeply embedded tradition in the Institution.
VCs? let winner without sin cast the first stone at this guy, awful though he may be. He should have been identified long before.
Random murder was commonplace in the Middle East and on the Western Front during WW1, perhaps not a few had taken part in blackfella hunts? There have been some pretty despicable awardees, too, like Albert Jacka who had a Killer reputation but still won two in an age when little regarding ethical conduct was questioned in media coverage such as it was at the time. Australians were infamous re battle war crimes in the Great War. In his book "Goodbye to All That" Robert Grave mentions it and very few Japanese were taken prisoner in PNG.
There is usually a flood of them, too, after a serious military defeat like the disaster at Isandlwana which led to the dozen or so VCs won at Rorke's Drift a few days after. Hopefully, after the disgrace of Roberts-Smith the sacred VC is now rated a bit lower in Australian regard.
Anyway my main interest is our disgraced VC winner. A thug, bully and callous murderer no doubt about that. But senior command are seriously at fault here. The records that the Media put together must, for the most part, have existed before they recommended the medal. Jeez, what a culture? His sergeant, Captain, C.O., all the way up. What an embarrassment? Mark Latham said that he'd never met one who wasn't a meathead. But I think that level of Wolf Warrior has become a deeply embedded tradition in the Institution.
VCs? let winner without sin cast the first stone at this guy, awful though he may be. He should have been identified long before.
Random murder was commonplace in the Middle East and on the Western Front during WW1, perhaps not a few had taken part in blackfella hunts? There have been some pretty despicable awardees, too, like Albert Jacka who had a Killer reputation but still won two in an age when little regarding ethical conduct was questioned in media coverage such as it was at the time. Australians were infamous re battle war crimes in the Great War. In his book "Goodbye to All That" Robert Grave mentions it and very few Japanese were taken prisoner in PNG.
There is usually a flood of them, too, after a serious military defeat like the disaster at Isandlwana which led to the dozen or so VCs won at Rorke's Drift a few days after. Hopefully, after the disgrace of Roberts-Smith the sacred VC is now rated a bit lower in Australian regard.
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