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 The lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors mined, spirited away, killed. Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history.

 

 They’re still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, Israel  wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.

 

 

 I don’t believe we can do anything at all without side effects — also known as unintended consequences. Those consequences may be beneficial or harmful.

 

 

All that you touch/You Change

All that you Change/Changes you

The only lasting truth/Is Change

God/Is Change

 

“A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” by Octavia E. Butler – Seven Good Things

 

 

Here’s are Prince’s exact words:

 

If so many of these countries around the world are incapable of governing themselves, it’s time for us to just put the imperial hat back on, to say, we’re going to govern those countries … ’cause enough is enough, we’re done being invaded. …

You can say that about pretty much all of Africa, they’re incapable of governing themselves.

 

Prince’s co-host Mark Serrano then warned him that listeners might hear his words and believe he means them: “People on the left are going to watch this,” said Serrano, “and they’re going to say, wait a minute, Erik Prince is talking about being a colonialist again.”

Prince responded: “Absolutely, yes.” He then added that he thought this was a great concept not just for Africa but also for Latin America.

 

Prince and Serrano either do not know or do not care that previous bouts of the European flavor of colonialism led to the  deaths of tens of millions of people around the world. Then in the 20th century, the ideology of colonialism gave birth to Nazism.

 

<https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/all-wars-memorial-to-colored-soldiers-and-sailors/>

 

In Jamaica, Victory honors Civil War heroes

 

by Ron Marzlock, Chronicle Contributor

 

On May 18, 1894 the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Association of Jamaica was chartered, its purpose to build a monument to perpetuate the memory of those who served in the Union Army in the Civil War — defeating the Confederacy and ending slavery in the United States.

The resulting statue was unveiled and dedicated on Memorial Day 1896 in the middle of Hillside Avenue and Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica. It was a bronze figure of the winged Victory by Fredrick Wellington Ruckstull (1853-1942).

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