"fasgnadh" wrote in message
news:482bfa89$0$13946$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
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> Over the last few years we have grown accustomed to
> tory Governments acting more like Soviet apparatchiks,
> detaining and even deporting Australian citizens on entirely
> spurious grounds, but those human rights abuses pall into
> insignificance compared to the conspiracy to assassinate Normie
> Row by falsely drafting him and sending him into a war zone
> where he faced death.
>
> The last time I can recall someone attempting this was in the
> biblical story of King David, who, coveting the wife of
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> "HE was Australia's most famous Vietnam conscript
> but it can now be revealed that pop idol Normie
> Rowe was falsely drafted into the army.
>
> And he should never have been sent to war."
> - Herald Sun 15/5/2008
>
> "The Department of Veterans' Affairs has this week
> confirmed that Rowe's birth date - February 1, 1947
> - was never raised in the controversial ballot of
> dates that selected which 20-year-old men would be
> called up to serve.
>
> Mystery surrounds how the nation's most high-profile
> pop singer could have been singled out for conscription.
>
> But the "ballot" that drafted Rowe was one of the last
> conducted behind closed doors."
>
An interesting contradiction.
The premise of the story is that Rowe's birthday was not one of the ones
selected by the ballot.
Why then would it be significant that the ballot was conducted behind closed
doors, if the ballot didn't actually select Rowe's birthday?
Which raises another contradiction in this story - why bother taking the
very risky course of calling up Rowe if his birthday was not selected by
ballot, when it would have been far simpler and much less risky to ensure
his birthday was one of the ones selected by the ballot? (It wasn't).
It turns out, according to the guy interviewed on the ABC, that
non-residents of Australia (which is what Rowe was at the time) used
different birthday sequences in the ballot.
Boring and unexciting though this explanation is, it does avoid the
contradictions of the "conspiracy theory" of the usual loony crowd.
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