Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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Nairobi, Kenya – The British colonial officers ordered the Kenyans off the crowded bus, hunting for insurgents who had brazenly challenged the empire’s rule.
It was just before Christmas in 1957. Mbithuka Kimweli was travelling with his wife Naomi and their three young children. The officers demanded to know his involvement with the “Mau Mau” anti-colonial movement.
They separated Naomi from the children, blindfolded and beat her, then raped her with a glass bottle. Nearby, they castrated her husband with a pair of pliers. …………………………
Senior clergymen from across the Catholic world gathered in Rome yesterday for what is being billed by the church as a crucial attempt to roll back the “tsunami of secularisation” in Western Europe and North America.
Turkish troops return fire after cross-border shelling from Syria
08 October 2012 04:51 PM
Turkish troops have returned fire after cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row.
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