Police Law Enforcement Professionals Fellowship of Rotarians (Polepfor)

22/09/2024

If I'm arrested for posting this, someone please bail me out.

22/09/2024

11/09/2024

In case you missed it! 🚨

We're delighted to have Rotary International General Secretary, John Hewko joining us for the Rotary Action Summit in Newcastle!

Hear John as part of our packed programme of speakers, sessions and entertainment for the Rotary GB&I event of the year!

🗓️ 8th - 10th November
📍 Newcastle
🎟️ www.rotarygbi.org/newcastle24

21/08/2024

21/08/2024

In 1964, the then Soviet Union, and more specifically the KGB, (together with the Muslim Brotherhood) invented the 'Palestinian People' and created the 'Palestine Liberation Organisation' with an Egyptian, Yasser Arafat, as its head. The skill in marketing and selling this fictitious enterprise, however, lay not with the Russians, but with the North Vietnamese.
Arafat was a great admirer of Ho Chi Min's success in mobilising left-wing sympathisers in the West, where activists on University campuses enthusiastically followed his propaganda line in reframing a Communist assault on the south into a struggle for liberation. Arafat sat down with Ho's chief strategist, General Giap, who told him that in order to succeed, he needed to conceal his real goals, and give the appearance of moderation. "Stop talking about annihilating Israel and start talking about your struggle for human rights - then you will have the American people eating out of your hand." Arafat then took advice from Muhammad Yazid, the Algerian Information Minister, who told him that he needed to wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab states, and to present the 'Palestinian struggle' as a struggle for liberation. Turn the Jews from the victims into the aggressors and present the 'Palestinians' as the victims who had had their country 'stolen'. It worked - and how it worked. By the time he died, Arafat had the blood of thousands of innocent Jews on his hands and billions of dollars stashed in his personal bank accounts. Most significantly, 60 years on, there are still countless useful idiots pitching tents on campuses across the US, with chants of 'Free Palestine' ringing in the air.

21/08/2024

21/08/2024

The media are trying to paint a picture of this shyster drek as a 'moderate' Hamas leader. What exactly does that mean - he wanted to kill most but not all of the Jews? Like his compatriots,
he was a liar, a thief (on a grand scale) and a murderer. May he rot.

21/08/2024

Luton Rotarian Paul Denton reveals how he discussed The Rotary Foundation to Prince William during his investiture for an OBE at Windsor Castle.

25/07/2024

The Fromelles Missing: ‘bones, badges, and scraps of uniform’.

The Battle of Fromelles occurred in France precisely 108 years ago this week.

This photograph of a priest from Fromelles kneeling in front of the remains of a British or Australian soldier was likely taken in early 1919.

Australian official historian Charles Bean had stood at this exact location months earlier.

Back on the morning the Great War ended, Bean awoke to hear a few hoarse cheers and the bleating of a tin trumpet. ‘I guessed what it meant. The armistice must have been signed. No more gun flashes, no more flares.’

That morning, Bean travelled to Fromelles to take some photographs before the place changed. He wandered the old battlefield, where almost 2,500 soldiers had been slaughtered in a hellish attack in July 1916.

‘We found the old no man’s land simply full of our dead,’ Bean recorded, ‘the skulls and bones and torn uniforms were lying about everywhere.’

Bean explored Sugar Loaf salient, which was pitted by shellfire and bombs. He found leather equipment, water bottles, and rusted German wire strewn about in the ditches and water channels.

As Bean surveyed the battlefield, he must have realised that the muddle of bones and torn uniforms that lay about would be impossible to identify. Tangled in their equipment, the remains were no longer much of anything.

As drizzle fell across the fields, Bean took some photographs. These stark images, which symbolise forlorn hope and thwarted lives, are still held at the Australian War Memorial.

When Bean published his third volume of the official history in 1929, which covered Fromelles, bereaved families would have eagerly read it, searching for vital clues about their loved one’s fate.

Yet, beyond sketchy maps, official narratives, and annotated footnotes, there were no answers to be gleaned.

Those answers eventually came, 93 years later, with the discovery of 250 bodies at Pheasant Wood.

Excerpt from ‘The Nameless Names: recovering the missing Anzacs’

Author signed copies available through my website.

https://scottbennettwriter.com/shop/

publications

Photograph credit: Martial Delebarre

25/07/2024

A short, sharp round up of some of our favourite Rotary stories that have appeared in the media and local press.