Do words mean anything?
July 24, 2007Gerald No Comments »Of course they do. They have more power than any weapon.
Listen to what former Lib Dem leader David Steel’s father, who was a church minister in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau risings in the mid-1950s, had to say in a live radio broadcast in January 1955 about the British use of concentration camps:
“Of course we don’t kill babies: we only put their fathers out of employment and reduce them to starvation. There are 60,000 detainees detained in camps. Detained for what? It will be said that the church should not interfere with politics. That is a heresy. The church dare not and will not stand aside when Christian principles are abrogated and when our great traditions of Government based on those principles are being violated. Whatever the way to end this emergency may be, these are not the ways, because they are unjust ways and unjust and indiscriminate action never achieved anything but a disaster and a grief both for those who practise it and for those on whom it is practised.”
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