@AB5448672987633@TRobinsonNewEra Surely speculation gives the police multiple avenues of inquiry. What it seems you’re saying is the the public shouldn’t think and try to piece things together.
@EwanBen European peoples lived in what is now the US for almost 200 years before it became a country. My longest line on this land goes back over 400 years.
This is the "Consuming Father" in its most visceral form. Denethor embodies the Tyrannical King archetype: instead of protecting his lineage, he stays home and devours his meal while sending his son to be devoured by the "beast" of war. He literally feeds his ego with his children’s lives.
The system is so enamored with groups that they no longer apply the law to individuals. Deporting a criminal is not an attack on a population. Prosecuting criminals is likewise neither pro nor anti immigrant. Equal protection under the law is being stifled by fear of offense and attempted perception management.
“Almost a hundred years earlier, to the day, Samuel Smiles had written the final pages of his book Self-Help. It included this moving tale of heroism as an example for the Victorian Englishman to follow. For the fate of my great-grandfather, Walter, it was poignant in the extreme.
The vessel was steaming along the African coast with 472 men and 166 women and children on board.
The men consisted principally of recruits who had been only a short time in the service.
At two o’clock in the morning, while all were asleep below, the ship struck with violence upon a hidden rock, which penetrated her bottom; and it was at once felt that she would go down.
The roll of the drums called the soldiers to arms on the upper deck, and the men mustered as if on parade.
The word was passed to “save the women and children”; and the helpless creatures were brought from below, mostly undressed, and handed silently into the boats.
When they had all left the ship’s side, the commander of the vessel thoughtlessly called out, “All those that can swim, jump overboard and make for the boats.”
But Captain Wright, of the 91st Highlanders, said, “No! If you do that, the boats with the women will be swamped.” So the brave men stood motionless. Not a heart quailed; no one flinched from his duty.
“There was not a murmur, nor a cry among them,” said Captain Wright, a survivor, “until the vessel made her final plunge.”
Down went the ship, and down went the heroic band, firing a volley shot of joy as they sank beneath the waves.
Glory and honor to the gentle and the brave!
The examples of such men never die, but, like their memories, they are immortal.
As a young man, Walter undoubtedly would have read and known those words from his grandfather’s book.
Poignant in the extreme.
Indeed, the examples of such men never die, but, like their memories, they are immortal.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears
@daveheardt@OunkaOnX When you say "their laws", who is they? With everything going on in Iran, this is what you believe is significant? "They" are getting killed, and they have no voice.
@newstart_2024 It will require more education, not less. We cannot decide that real intelligence and understanding is beyond comprehension. This is an opportunity to understand more. Intelligence needs to be managed, not obscured into mystery.
@SpeechUnion@BenBarryJones@Emma_A_Webb@GBNEWS Does he believe there are no other multi-ethnic societies? Why the emphasis on “Culture”? This appears to be appeasement of who they believe to be the most dangerous.
@TheChiefNerd Finding a niche in a complex environment and responding to it in a successful creative way serves everyone. For this to be seen as a problem exposes a fundamental misunderstanding.