In Spain, police are leaving hundreds of Catalonian citizens
injured in an attempt to stop them voting in an independence referendum. How often
have I said that it doesn’t take much to strip the veneer of civilisation from the
denizens of so-called democratic countries? Beating people for trying to vote
is something we’re supposed to look down on.
And Austria
has finally banned the full face veil. Well, I’m surprised it took them so long.
Didn’t a certain Mr Hitler come from Austria? And what’s their excuse for
this little piece of mean-mindedness? They say it’s to ‘preserve Austrian values.’
So where have we heard that before? It isn’t even honest enough to justify the
term ‘sophistry.’ If I could spell ‘disingenuous’ with three upper case Ds
without being thought a stammerer, I would. It’s the classic, effectively
meaningless phrase used by oppressive regimes and the rabid right everywhere to
justify the ‘die Ausländer’ principle.
I suspect there’s something going on the ‘free west.’ In
addition to the above, we’re also seeing the rise of the right in Germany and other European countries, and Trump
is in charge of America.
I think the real Third World War might have nothing to do with North Korea. I
suspect it’s a war about establishing true values instead of nasty, narrow, nationalistic ones.
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