Political Corruption

About the Book

A Book Writing Style That

Probably Was Never Tried Before?

Once reading this book someone may allow that a much-noted writer of history (and there were a number of them) or the equivalent, known for wit and humor, is back. But we wouldn’t go that far, feeling any such judgment would be up to the reading public as a whole. Yet and as is obvious….with the mere opening of this book the observer is greeted by humor, just to begin with. The content of the book is not just for its humor; however….there is much, much, much more than that. For most of all it is a book of enlightenment and as Bob Moss, a well-seasoned newsman and a self-made historian, takes the reader, on what could be described as an unprecedented ‘critique’ tour of history and current world affairs and while using a book writing style that was probably never tried before. The book is in a newspaper format and with all of the controversial thrills that can go with making up a paper, saying nothing of the aspects of tragedy which can bring on more uniqueness ironically and in that sometimes it is coped with through humor. Also the content can be so close to home that it can be likened to being introduced to oneself and in that it is like looking in a mirror and seeing oneself through history. Every adult American, Canadian, Brit as well as other people should have a copy of this book. Out of curiosity alone.

Explaining the Cover

Rogue In Robe

Within the ‘evil English evolution,’ so coined, the much noted robe historically, whether it be through the image of religion or through the image of royalty, could serve for much more than just a cover for the human body. It could serve as a cover for practices of gross deceit as well. How vulnerable people, better known as the pious poor or the simple minded, were exploited gave evidence of that.

About the Author

About the Writer and his Writing

Robert (Bob) Moss was born in Keels, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland which became a province of Canada in 1949. But he would move to another outport or coastal village nearby and named Summerville, where he would obtain much of his schooling. Following high school he attended Memorial College at St. John’s, Newfoundland, briefly (it would become a university) where he received a diploma as a school teacher. Rather than teach, however, he went to Toronto where he would attend the school of graphic arts at the Ryerson Institute of Technology. He took a course in general newspaper work with a special interest in journalism and retired officially in 1995 after being a member of the Newfoundland news media for just more than 40 years.

For that matter much of his career or rather much of his life and times are reflected within the content of this book. That is to suggest that even though most of that which is written is written in a fictitious form it is still representative of reality, regardless. That’s like seeing it as ‘A newsman’s note book’ for the information was gathered or experienced over some 70 years and as it marks his period of being a kid to a senior citizen. Mostly it involves ‘takeoffs’ on people he knew closely or knew of closely and how he imagined them to be. But, of course, and in lieu of researching history there are, without saying, many people he did not know personally but even at that he was left with imagination in trying to figure out what they were like.

Or this is the story of a fellow growing up in a Newfoundland coastal village where it was implied in essence, to describe society that way, that if his flesh was subjected to injury it would turn red and blue instead of the usual black and blue and as the color of the skin would give it another color so as to make it red, white and blue. How miraculous it all was, it being the same color as the national flag, the Union Jack!

Such was the effect church and state had on him. British Empire blood was like that, he thought, especially when it came to white people and as members of the Church of England, in particular.

But then and once grown he went abroad and became a news reporter. And what an eye-opener this would turn out to be, when measured against his background, it being one of simple mindedness and obedience that boiled down really to society taking advantage of poor innocent people not knowing the difference of things. For Mother England had her most loyal subjects so brainwashed it seemed as to make her subjects incapable of defining just what true democracy should be all about.

Or as a reporter coming face to face with politicians he soon discovered that the advice his loving mother had given him but at no fault of her own, was badly flawed in that it was all part of marketing an evil social/political system and for the benefit of the rich mostly. So too often the word ‘democracy’ merely served as a synonym for deceit. Thus the truth as it appeared onto him but impacted through political corruption was so shattering as to break his heart really, once he knew what the real truth was.

Something else…this is not just folklore or a bush league yarn – it is much, much, much more than that. And the credit for that must go to the strategic geographical position Newfoundland held within world affairs, being the nearest land in North America to Europe. For with the advent of aviation Newfoundland became a prime refueling service station area for the whole world. So much so in fact that one hardly knew who one would meet up with next, within the transiting realm, especially at a place called Gander where one of the world’s first international airports existed. For there and as a kind of a rub-shoulder center or a mecca for international news contacts one could easily meet up with a famous American comedian, a controversial Communist Leader or the Archbishop of Canterbury, for instance, saying nothing of meeting up with other people and of less noted importance but nonetheless interesting.

And something else – still further…Americans, no doubt, in learning their history know quite well of the 13 colonies that would go to form a nucleus for establishing America. But do they know or were they told for that matter that England had more than 13 colonies in North America, for there was one more than that. So, guess what? Anyhow, its identity is revealed at the very beginning in the story and also revealed (as the story unfolds) is the effect this colony would have on the other 13.

Now and in a nutshell to present the content of this book in the form of a novel….from folklore to world affairs while the writer challenges ‘the system’ as government is referred to – that’s what this story is all about. Or as it represents emergence of particular world history it is all about England to begin with, then about Newfoundland and then further – it is about that other part of North America which would go to make up the United States and Canada.

And because of it the story begins with a lowly Newfoundland family but tracing the history of this family also means tracing the history of England and how it would relate to North America, beginning with the John Cabot voyage.

It’s a story that extends culturally from a coastal village to British royalty, to the Papacy; also to the United States presidency, to cite highlights. It extends to unprecedented critical limits, probably; in a freedom-of-speech kind of a way. Surely, it is much to take on but here goes……… (And as illustrations offer a peep to the story)