tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post2687876723487975810..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Hooray for evil!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-41122059658589626832018-04-16T02:56:00.887+01:002018-04-16T02:56:00.887+01:00@James - my eldest son and I have discussed this,...@James - my eldest son and I have discussed this, and consider the solution to be robotic police and blinded juries, who can't see the defendant. Let's actually have blind justice, which treats all people as equally as possible, ignoring race, gender, and wealth.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-34303255634330509882018-04-15T19:44:06.017+01:002018-04-15T19:44:06.017+01:00"It would never do for a powerful man to face..."It would never do for a powerful man to face justice like an ordinary citizen. Where should we be then?"<br /><br />Yes indeed.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-45787155133442523752018-04-14T17:49:27.868+01:002018-04-14T17:49:27.868+01:00Sadly, there are still many conservatives here who...Sadly, there are still many conservatives here who argue that there were WMD in Iraq, simply because they cannot accept that they were lied to.<br /><br />Many of those people are the ardent Trump supporters. The more he lies, the deeper down the rabbit hole they go.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-82313786143279356522018-04-14T10:08:03.401+01:002018-04-14T10:08:03.401+01:00JD replies:
Seeing that clip of John Cleese trigg...JD replies:<br /><br />Seeing that clip of John Cleese triggered an instant response in my synapses. I read that somewhere last week!! It was in this book - <br />https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28627910-disobliging-reality<br />... but whereas Cleese is crushed by his clinging to hope the message in the book was liberation comes from giving up hope. That is counterintuitive and rather difficult to explain but it is exactly in line with Christian teaching - trust in God: by giving up everything you will gain everything (somewhere in Matthew's gospel. I need to go and look it up)<br /><br />As for Verres and Blair 'getting away with it', they do but only for a while. It will come back to haunt them in their post mortem state.<br /><br />Anyway in the light of last night's madness - <br />“I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” -President Theodore Roosevelt<br /> = Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p.297<br />https://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/11/teddy-roosevelts-bloodlust/<br /><br />John Lennon speaking on 6th June 1968 - 50 years ago!<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaRRHRV-DPkSackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com