NEWS FLASH:
www.amazon.com now has the exclusive right to sale my first e-book in its Kindle Store.
The title of the e-book is The Black Sword: The Secret U.S. Army in Vietnam
A paperback and hardcover version of the book was available since 2007. I believe it was since 2007. I do not know for sure. It was copyrighted in 2007. That edition had one comment and that comment was very negative receiving a one star rating.
The direct link to the e-book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KCWVHIK
Here is that comment in its entirety and without change from the site:
“A poorly self aggrandizing working of ficition. November 8, 2012
By Robert M. Stanford
Format: Hardcover
I should prefix this by saying that I know the author of this book. To start regardless of how this book this being marketed by the author, it is a piece of fiction, the author never served in the military in capacity. Where to start with this review, the book is very poorly written and the author clearly did not do much in the way of historical research on military tactics in general or the Vietnam war in particular. The book reads much like a bad war movie mixed with some kind of cheesy martial arts film, the battle scenes are ridiculously unrealistic. Including laughably bad claims like how the author was trained in hand to hand combat techniques where he would be able to kill some one with one punch in less than one second, he selected for the group because he was genius with Forest Gump like running ability, doing three hours of weight training for 6 straight days a week for months, claims of gun with finger printer readers that only let the owner fire them, ect. Save yourself some money and avoid this book”
Robert does indeed know me. However, it goes a little deeper. Robert is my nephew—the first born of my younger sister. She is four years younger than I am. I was working for a living teaching school when she graduated from Illinois State University. She didn’t meet her future husband until she was working as a teacher. Therefore, Robert wasn’t even born during the time period of most of the book. Robert also never served in the military. Neither did his father or mother.
I do state that I have a tested I.Q. of 130 or above. Both of my children have tested I.Q.s of 130 or above. Does that prove that I do? Of course not. Therefore, before I wrote the book, I went to the public school district that I attended from first grade through high school. I asked for and received a copy of my school records including the results of an I.Q. test. I have written proof that I have a tested I.Q. of 130 or above. If I didn’t, I would not have put it in the book. However, I never said, anywhere in the book, that I am a genius.
As far as his statement that “the book is very poorly written.” That is, at best, an opinion. Read again what he wrote. How well written are his comments? I was a high school American government/economics teacher for ten years. Having been a teacher, I am use to negative comments from students. Most of those comments were from people who did not do well in my class. I expected the students to earn their grade through work and meeting my standards. If they did not, they suffered the consequences. Most did not like the consequences.
If you read the dedication page, I paid an English teacher to edit the work. We did each of the six chapters the same way. At the time, I lived in Tucson and she lived in Arkansas where she taught high school English. I mailed a chapter to her, she ripped it to shreds. I corrected and rewrote the chapter based upon her suggestions and sent the rewritten chapter back to her. She found more items to criticize and gave more suggested corrections. I corrected a second time and sent them back once again. She approved the chapter and mailed it back. When Robert states that “the book is very poorly written,” he criticizes her. I do not believe those criticisms are justified.
Concerning the publication of the book itself, I did not want to go through a regular publishing house because I did not want the book to be edited by the publisher. Since I did not know how to publish a book, I hired a publishing company to do the actual printing of the book and the creation of the front and back book covers. When the company rejected my print copy because the margins were wrong several times including after I went to a Peoria printer to have the margins done correctly by a professional, I wrote the CEO of the company saying I was cancelling the contract because the company was not fulfilling its obligation to print the book. Without my knowledge, the book was printed and offered to the public including on Amazon in paperback and hardcover editions. My guess is that a company lawyer told the CEO that he had better fulfill the contract. I did not know the book was in distribution until I received a royalty check from the company. The copyright date on this published version of the book is 2007.
In the mean time, after borrowing money from my mother, I went to the Peoria printer and paid that company to print my book under my Arizona established publishing company. I had established the company in Arizona before moving back to Illinois in 2004. I never planned to live in Illinois—the land of Barack Hussein Obama—permanently. Until this book was published, I had not actually published anything through the company. My book through my publishing company was published in 2008.
Here is a strange occurrence. Robert’s mother—my younger sister—purchased four books in 2008. There are four people in her family—mother, father, brother, sister. I would have thought that Robert would have first read the book in 2008. He certainly did not have to purchase it from Amazon.
It was family squabble time. In 2004, I moved back to Illinois to care for my mother after my father had died. My two sisters and I had a verbal agreement that I would stay in Illinois until mom dies, caring for her in her home. She would not be put into a nursing home. After a series of minor strokes over a period of about a year, my sisters broke the agreement and put her in a home. Conflict resulted over my staying or leaving the house and the State. Discussion was done by e-mail. I stated in one e-mail that I was going to write more Black Sword books—five in total—and the next one would include the current dispute.
In early January of 2012, I received an eviction notice. The process continued through the year until a court date was set for November 30, 2012. (I believe that is the correct date. I did not bother to check to make sure.) On October 15, 2012, my oldest sister died after a brief illness. On November 8, 2012, Robert posted his criticism of the book. Coincidence? On November 30, 2012, I was court ordered to leave the house by midnight on December 31, 2012. On December 31, 2012, I moved out of the house.
If Robert meant to hurt sales of the book, I hope he did. I want the other company to stop selling my book. And the company did send me notice that I am being dropped. Good! I had told them not to publish.
If you read this blog regularly, you may know that I actually write five blogs, six days a week. Not on Sunday.
http://christiangunslinger.blogspot.com—pro-life
http://christiangunslinger1.blogspot.com—politically conservative
http://christiangunslinger3.blogspot.com—politically conservative
http://christiangunslinger5.blogspot.com—pro-traditional family
http://christiangunslinger7.blogspot.com—politically conservative concentrating on the primaries and the upcoming general election
By the very nature of my blogs, I expect the radical Left, pro-abortion/unborn baby MURDERERS, and pro-homosexual behavior advocates to attack my e-book as well as anything else I wrote and publish. Robert may be the first but I do not expect him to be the last.
The e-book costs only $3.00. The only cheaper price is $2.99 and I do not price my books that way. Everyone should know that $2.99 is actually $3.00. What a sad marketing ploy! Spend the $3.00 to determine whether or not Robert is correct. If a member of Amazon prime, the book is a free selection. You just might be pleasantly surprised. I have received very positive comments from readers including people who have actually been in the military unlike Robert and a student at the United States Naval Academy located in Annapolis, Maryland who is the grandson of a friend.
And finally, I would like nothing better than being reconciled with my sister and the rest of my earthly family. The theme of the second book is family. Planned publication date 2015. The theme of the third book is politics with the planned publication date being 2017. The fourth about education in 2019. And the last and final book in the series, on the church of JESUS, the CHRIST in 2021.
The direct link to my e-book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KCWVHIK
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From: http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/13/shes-just-child-9-year-old-taken-away-cuffs-fight-boys-girls-club/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_term=readthis&utm_content=140517&utm_campaign=saturday
“‘She’s Just a Child’: 9-Year-Old Taken Away in Cuffs After Fight at Boys & Girls Club
Evan Bernick
May 13, 2014
When the officers came to her home, the 9-year-old girl was still wet from running through the neighborhood sprinkler. She wore flip flops, a pink towel (The crime was using a pink towel! Who uses pink?—my addition) and a swimsuit. The officers took her away wearing handcuffs.
Her mother’s response said it all: ‘She’s just a child (A dangerous child?—my addition).’
Yes, you read that correctly: Police officers in Portland, Oregon, handcuffed a 9-year-old-girl (She’ll have something to talk about in school!—my addition) and took her to the station in a police car. They photographed and fingerprinted her and detained her for nearly an hour before her mother arrived.
Her ‘crime’? Getting in a fight with another kid—a fight that took place nearly a week beforehand and ended with apologies on all sides (Somebody pressed it further?—my addition).
According to The Oregonian newspaper, this all started with a scuffle on a basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club on North Trenton Street in Portland’s New Columbia neighborhood. Witnesses told police the 9-year-old got in the middle of a dispute between two other girls who had been arguing because one tattled on the other for drawing on a desk (In other words, she was trying to stop an argument?—my addition). The 9-year-old later ended up in a fistfight with one of the other girls outside the club. Both girls apologized to each other. The 9-year-old was sent home and suspended from the club for one week (Why wasn’t the other girl?—my addition).
Done and done, right? Wrong. After receiving a call from the mother of the other girl involved in the fight (Why did she call the police?—my addition), police arrived at the 9-year-old’s home to investigate. Finding the 9-year-old’s statements ‘inconsistent’ with witness reports (She’s 9. All testimony in an altercation are not always consistent. Even adult eyewitnesses are inconsistent! Green car. Yellow convertible. Speeding. Not speeding—my addition), the officers took her into custody, accusing her of fourth-degree assault (Was she told her rights BEFORE they started to question her?—my addition).
What were these officers thinking? Departmental policy mandates that juveniles taken into custody for any Class A misdemeanor ‘shall’ be fingerprinted and photographed at the forensics division. Police consider those under age 18 to be juveniles and fourth-degree assault is a Class A misdemeanor.
Assault is a serious crime. But the fact of the matter is that kids fight (Yes, they do!—my addition), even though they shouldn’t. Usually, no one gets hurt and no lasting harm is done. According to reports, this wasn’t an exception. Staff members found no obvious injuries on any of the girls.
Indeed, the experience of the arrest seems to have caused more lasting harm than anything else. One year later, the 9-year-old has transferred to another school because of teasing about the incident and has been in counseling since last June (You means she was bullied in school! In Leftist Portland, Oregon! Leftists, you know. The “We care” crowd! NOT! —my addition). ‘She is a different child,’ said her mother, LaToya Harris (Was there a racist element in this? Racism is everywhere you know! Even in Leftist Portland, Oregon! What happened to her case?—my addition).
Harris is determined to ensure nothing similar happens again in Portland. When she filed a complaint with the police department, the Independent Police Review Division found the officers violated no departmental policies. Undeterred, she told her story to the Citizen Review Committee, which hears complaints of alleged officer misconduct against Portland police. Now, concerned citizens are demanding changes in departmental policy.
Kids shouldn’t be cuffed and taken to the station every time little fists fly. Years ago, handcuffing a 9-year old after an incident like this would have been unthinkable—everyone would have forgotten about it in a week. We look forward to seeing changes in departmental policy that give officers more discretion to treat squabbles between kids with the gentle touch they require.”
Have we collectively lost our minds as a society? A grown adult is punished for objecting to a televised kiss between two homosexuals and a 9-year-old girl is handcuffed and booked for a fight a week before. Students are disciplined for using their finger as a play gun! A pop tart in a forbidden shape can get a child expelled from school. Meanwhile, 12-year-old girls are given abortion pills without the knowledge of their parents! An old man is about to lose his business because of a recorded private conversation! Oh yes, and the United States Senate wants to change the name of a professional football team because it has nothing more important to do!
