THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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History will show who are the criminals, who the freedom fighters

History will show who are the criminals, who the freedom fighters

Re: “Sunlight the best disinfectant for poisonous bigotry”, Have Your Say, yesterday.

May I be permitted to “snivel in the sunlight” for a moment? In referring to Tommy Robinson as a “known criminal”, perhaps Dr Frank might reflect on countless “known criminals” littering history who have been persecuted, silenced, prosecuted, convicted, jailed or executed, for exposing state injustice. For starters, how about Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, Socrates and Jesus Christ?
And again, like a worn-out vinyl LP with a lump of fly excrement in the groove, Dr Frank trots out his mantra of “democracy-averse bigotry” at my blameless self. To repeat, I once – just once – said I was “not enamoured” with democracy, and this obituary notice in the Times of London last week helps to explain why: “It was with sad regret that Democracy died quietly in her sleep at 11pm, on the 29th March 2019. The cause of death was by foul play and the culprits have yet to be brought to justice ... [continues].” 
This is the date, enshrined in law, that UK voted to leave the EU. Except that it didn’t. Snivel over that, Dr Frank.
Nigel Pike
Phang Nga

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