The question and our efforts to answer it reveal something unsettling; that civilisation and culture provide only the most fragile layer of defence against the encroachment of terrible darkness. This thin veil of security and freedom and rights is held in place by the flimsiest of pegs — intellectual and political freedom, respect and civility, and tolerance and the rule of law. When any one or a number of these pegs are compromised, weakened, or removed the structural integrity of the whole system that guarantees our safety and security is damaged...
There is no Statute of Limitations on Murder
Follow @UrFhasaidh Nazi Germany’s genocidal crimes against the Jews of Europe bother me. They bother me because, taken in isolation from the countless other atrocities and genocidal crimes of the Holocaust, they have been used in recent decades to legitimise the State of Israel’s genocidal crimes against the people of Palestine. Still, the fact remains … Continue reading There is no Statute of Limitations on Murder