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Quote - You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting
Mon, 18/03/2019 - 6:42pm — Carol
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how
to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse
than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the
next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others,
when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You
don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of
your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of
doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that
restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
"Terrorism" Paint - Even Telegraph’s editorial team, certainly not sympathisers with PA’s cause, called it a “misuse of the law”
Wed, 09/07/2025 - 9:28am — CarolThe steady decline of our right to protest is just one more indicator of a backsliding democracy.
“We are losing our civil liberties.”
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In Remembrance - Rifaat Radwan one of 15 members of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance killed in Israel
Sat, 12/04/2025 - 11:50am — CarolIn remembrance of 15 Palestinian paramedic emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza 23 March 2025
11 April 2025"My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed," says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza last month.
Rifaat Radwan, 23, was travelling in a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance in a convoy of emergency vehicles when it came under fire on the outskirts of Rafah on 23 March.
"I never expected him to be killed, especially since the area was classified as 'green', meaning safe and open to ambulances," she adds.
Protect ALL of the people from the will of SOME of the people. Democracy not electoral dictatorship, majority rule within framew
Sat, 31/08/2019 - 1:51pm — CarolIn 1997, when I tutored on the Constitutional Law course at Liverpool Uni and was only ever a chapter of the book ahead of my students, the chapter on “Conventions” floored me. Coming from Germany, this way of securing democracy seemed positively insane.
Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US
Mon, 08/04/2019 - 12:29pm — CarolFound on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/slave-redoshi-sally-smith-...
Her name was Redoshi. They took her from Africa, and probably forced her to become a child bride so she would fetch a higher price in the US as one half of a “breeding couple”.
The overseers beat her if she failed to understand English. She passed on the language of her African homeland to her children and grandchildren anyway.
Even as an old woman, she kept the memory of home alive, decorating her Alabama yard as they did in west Africa, keeping the old spiritual beliefs beneath her Christianity.
Shoaib M Khan on Twitter: "Lord Bingham: "Which of these rights would we wish to discard? Are any of them trivial or unnecessary
Sun, 04/10/2015 - 9:41pm — CarolLord Bingham: "Which of these rights would we wish to discard? Are any of them trivial or unnecessary?".
#HRA15 pic.twitter.com/QIh9d9tHfg
— Shoaib M Khan (@ShoaibMKhan) October 2, 2015
Naomi Fowler on Twitter: "2) wow, what a map! Graphically shows the problem with secrecy jurisdictions http://t.co/u37lU3bWWH ht
Wed, 30/09/2015 - 12:00am — Carol2) wow, what a map! Graphically shows the problem with secrecy jurisdictions http://t.co/u37lU3bWWH pic.twitter.com/1iPxYbjlec
— Naomi Fowler (@Naomi_Fowler) September 30, 2015
So how long has Canada had reading of rights?
Sun, 18/01/2015 - 7:09pm — Carol
Looking up history of Kojak on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kojak#Cultural_impact came across ...
In Canada, some Canadians were concerned that the show left an impression in Canadian youth that they had rights, such as to be informed of an offense, and that it depicted American police reading people their rights in accordance with the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona]Miranda ruling[/url]. In his 1980 book [i]Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada[/i], American sociologist Edgar Fredenberg who came to Canada in the early 1970s to avoid the draft was concerned that Canadians were more upset over depictions of Americans practising their civil rights on a TV show dealing with civil rights issues than that they did not have those rights.
Cameron: Government and I specifically promised was that there should be no closures or reorganisations unless they had support
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 11:25am — CarolSo the Judiciary have noticed that the current government doesn't follow the law and doesn't keep its promises
