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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

so as long as the ID card isn't what it is and the government isn't what it is, then the public will support it @Genieus

Thu, 02/10/2025 - 9:57am — Carol

Fighting fascism: why I have joined a new political party of the Left | George Orwell | published: The New Leader 24 June 1938

Mon, 28/07/2025 - 1:09pm — Carol

 

Fighting fascism: why I have joined a new political party of the Left


By George Orwell

Perhaps it will be frankest to approach it first of all from the personal angle.

I am a writer. The impulse of every writer is to “keep out of politics.”

What he wants is to be left alone so that he can go on writing books in peace.

But unfortunately it is becoming obvious that this ideal is no more practicable than that of the petty shop-keeper who hopes to preserve his independence in the teeth of the chain-stores.

To begin with, the era of free speech is closing down.

"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 — Carol

The steady decline of our right to protest is just one more indicator of a backsliding democracy.

“We are losing our civil liberties.”

This past Saturday, 29 protestors were arrested in Parliament Square, right beside the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. Their crime was written on their signs: support for Palestine Action, now branded a terrorist organisation by the UK government, carries a jail sentence.

In Remembrance - Rifaat Radwan one of 15 members of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance killed in Israel

Sat, 12/04/2025 - 11:50am — Carol

In 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 — Carol

In 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 — Carol

Found 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 — Carol

 


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