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I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and is my brothers and sisters and my mother not to be pitied also who has no alternative only to put up with the brutal and cowardly conduct of a parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Bailiffs or english landlords which is better known as Officers of Justice or Victorian Police who some calls honest gentlemen but I would like to know what business an honest man would have in the Police as it is an old saying It takes a rogue to catch a rogue and a man that knows nothing about roguery would never enter the force an take an oath to arrest brother sister father or mother if required and to have a case and conviction if possible Any man knows it is possible to swear a lie and if a policeman looses a conviction for the sake of swearing a lie he has broke his oath therefore he is a perjurer either ways. A Policeman is a disgrace to his country, not alone to the mother that suckled him, in the first place he is a rogue in his heart but too cowardly to follow it up without having the force to disguise it. next he is traitor to his country ancestors and religion as they were all catholics before the Saxons and Cranmore yoke held sway since then they were persecuted massacreed thrown into martrydom and tortured beyond the ideas of the present generation What would people say if they saw a strapping big lump of an Irishman shepherding sheep for fifteen bob a week or tailing turkeys in Tallarook ranges for a smile from Julia or even begging his tucker, they would say he ought to be ashamed of himself and tar-and--feather him |
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I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown...let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered. I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may now have a bright side. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.
Ned Kelly, at his final trial, 1880
Such is life.
Last words of Ned Kelly, executed on November 11, 1880
As game as Ned Kelly.
Australian colloquialism: 'brave', 'audacious'
Man is born free, and
everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you
find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Provided a man is not mad, he can be
cured of every folly but vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remorse sleeps during
a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My movies rise below vulgarity.
Mel Brooks, American producer,
director and comic actor, born on June 28, 1926
Critics can't even
make music by rubbing their back legs together.
Mel Brooks
Oh, I'm not a true
genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather
be tall and normal than a short genius.
Mel Brooks
Hollywood's a great place to live
... if you're a grapefruit.
Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone TV show ideas man, June 28,
1975
It is difficult to produce a
television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is
interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Rod Serling
June
28
is the 179th
day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (180th
in leap years),
with 186 days remaining.
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Eve of St Peter, Britain
Tomorrow in the English Christian tradition is known as the Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul, but it is often referred to as St Peter's Day, and today is commonly known as St Peter's Eve. It's another night of Midsummer revelry.
In olden times, bonfires were burnt on this night, composed of contributions called 'boons', echoing the old pre-Christian, pagan custom of putting bones on the 'bone-fire'. People danced with almost frantic pleasure on this night, with the men and boys jumping through the fire, not to show their prowess as much as to observe the ancient custom.
People would go walking about the towns much of the night. "Every citizen either went himself, or sent a substitute; and an oath for the preservation of peace was duly administered to the company at their first meeting at sunset. They paraded the town in parties during the night, every person wearing a garland of flowers upon his head, additionally embellished in some instances with ribbons and jewels." Robert Chambers, (Ed.), The Book of Days: A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar, etc, W & R Chambers, London, 1881 (1879 Edition is online and 1869 edition here with CD-ROM available; See also The English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers's Book of Days)
In the middle ages, about two thousand men would parade through London's streets tonight, garlanded with flowers and bedecked with jewels. The 'watchmen' as they were known, were provided with 'cressets', or ceremonial torches carried in barred pots on long poles, and there were bonfires in the streets.
A poet, looking back from 1616,
wrote:
The goodly buildings that till then did hide
Their rich array, open'd their windows wide,
Where kings, great
peers, and many a noble dame,
Whose bright
pearl-glittering robes did mock the flame
Of the night's burning
lights, did sit to see
How every senator in
his degree,
Adorn'd with shining
gold and purple weeds,
And stately mounted on
rich-trapped steeds,
Their guard attending,
through the streets did ride,
Before their
foot-bands, graced with glittering pride
Of rich-gilt arms,
whose glory did present
A sunshine to the eye,
as if it meant,
Among the creset
lights shot up on high,
To chase dark nights
forever from the sky;
While in the streets
the sticklers to and fro,
To keep decorum,
still did come and go,
Where tables set were
plentifully spread,
And at each door
neighbour with neighbour fed.
In 1510, England's King Henry VIII came to watch the St John's Eve procession (June 23); a few nights after he came with his wife Catherine to see the procession on St Peter's Eve (this custom was also carried out on St Paul's Eve, January 24, and St Peter's Eve, June 28). However, later in his reign he banned it, probably in fear of such a large assembly of armed citizens. Patrick Collinson notes:
"'Those days' were already distant when this was remembered, in 1567. When, in 1568, a cleric of Birchington in Thanet 'brought a faggot out of his chamber' on St Peter's Eve and lit the traditional bonfire this was a punishable offence."
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