Gregory Murray

University Student (took me 39 years but I got there), History Buff , Geek, Gamer, RCN Veteran.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty, but woke and found that life is duty

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@CDNPolicyHawk To be fare it would make no sense for the Turkish have large submarines given where they operate. For Canada, given they are divided between two coats and the rule of thirds/quarters 12 is reasonable. 8 is likely the minimum.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@billy5698567448 @CDNPolicyHawk Except the Poles just purchased Swedish Submarines. Where a submarines is designed to operate is important and was likely a factor in Choosing the 212 over the KSS. https://t.co/GK3Y4Tfa48

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

From the post & comments on Canada's purchase of 12 Type 212CD boats it is clear that most people don't understand the role of modern submarines. To improve your understanding of how submarines have evolved since WW2 this is a good place to start. https://t.co/y8wvs22DlR

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@ronmortgageguy You should read up on what the western submarines accomplished during the Cold war. Anti-Surface is only a small part of a submarines role. They are outstanding ASW, Intelligence and Special forces platforms. The primary target of today's submarines are other submarines

[Fortissax @FortySacks]

Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe founded Toronto. He introduced trial by jury and civil government in Ontario, tried to outlaw slavery, and built up the province’s infrastructure along military lines.

He also established armouries in towns and cities across Ontario, ensuring that Loyalists could drill and defend themselves for the day the Americans came.And they did.

During the unprovoked American invasion of 1812, his colleague Major General Isaac Brock gave his life at Queenston Heights, dying on the battlefield close to Niagara, while leading the charge against Yankee invaders burning towns, villages, farms and livestock preaching “liberty” and “emancipation” that nobody had asked for.

Just as in Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, British soldiers, Canadians, and Loyalists are depicted as villainous psychopaths rather than as people defending their homes, laws, and nation.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@EnglerYves Anit-Asian...tell your controllers to feed you better talking points. Both are good boats, but the TKMS boats designed to work in the North Atlantic / Arctic and we can train on Norwegian/German boats. So overall they just integrate better.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@EnglerYves You really don't know what your talking about. The life span is ~ 50 years. Most of the money will be spent in Canada and generate Jobs. As far as Russia goes if they stopped invading people then people would stop looking at them as a threat.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@mattgurney It was a win win choice both are good boats. I'm happy with the German boats. I noted they've offered to build the torpedoes in Canada. Equally important that RCN Submariners can start sailing with both countries so our sailors can gain the experience and training they need

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

I didn't realize that is what Halal and Kosher involved. Sorry the humane treatment of animals is more important. Both methods should be banned.

[Onge @Onge1213907]

@JohnCleese No never place this on the canteen wall instead

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@DrChrisParry And better.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

Finally.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@EnglerYves It is easy to criticize when you have nothing on the line and no lives rest with you getting the choice right. An honest humble person will understand his position and be eternally grateful that they didn't have to make that decision.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@EnglerYves That is the World Truman inherited three month. He has 3 months to decide what to do. Faced with no good choice he made the least bad.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@rickmcull @EnglerYves Not really. Russia already knew about the bomb. Stalin didn't give a rats ass about either his people or his soldiers. Lastly Curtis LeMay and his B-29s where more than capable of flattening Russia with out the bomb.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@NavyLookout @transportgovuk Sell it. Give the cash to Ukraine, as down payment on Russia's war debt.

[Gregory Murray @gregoryjmurray]

@GuyCybershy @EnglerYves Primarily Belgian Congo (60%), and Colorado. Canadian sources contributed later.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

My latest article was fun to research & write. Military history offers few case studies as informative as they are absurd. In 1932, the Australian Army deployed against an emu population in the Western Australian wheatbelt. It failed comprehensively. Big brained, well-armed soldiers were beaten by flightless birds with brains the size of a walnut. https://t.co/hGkrC9aPXR