tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7964051098919472476.post4999276955458660382..comments2024-03-11T16:31:14.472+01:00Comments on Notes & Quotes: AcceptableUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7964051098919472476.post-77030297736827353762010-03-03T11:28:09.884+01:002010-03-03T11:28:09.884+01:00I read these words like a surrealistic seeming fla...I read these words like a surrealistic seeming flash of starteling insight into the practice of specialized warriors acting on other specialized warriors, sided by civil institutions providing expertise.<br><br>In 1991 I wrote into my diary a considering on what I called the "paradise of the west and especially Europe" stating in how lucky a time we were living, comparing to all the other parts of the world and arguing that the democracies eventually might not be able to avoid one day to use torture in order to prevent major averages, and that in such a situation the distinction between use, misuse and abuse could be traced only arbitrarily in theory and would in practice drop. When I mentioned my thaught publicly I earned only worried disconcert and consternation.<br><br>But I wanted only to say how lucky we were then and I wanted to be reassured myself that correct, legal, civil rights respecting proceedings would never be abbandoned and were strong enough in any case to hold!<br><br>Now we have to recuperate and to restore them with increased decision and we have to proove that intelligent determination can and will make them hold.<br><br>The first step is working well: huge publicity has been obtained and will never be forgot again.<br><br>Who remembers today yet that in Germany Ulrike Meinhof has been confined into total social and acustic isolation for 273 days, and that this was an application of Mr. Edgar Schein's teachings?<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_H._Scheinepitimaioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946130178480522700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7964051098919472476.post-70549561841020757512010-03-03T17:32:55.663+01:002010-03-03T17:32:55.663+01:00Isn´t it embarrassing how far from us the U.S. is?...Isn´t it embarrassing how far from us the U.S. is? There it is allowed to use weapons and to practise torture, in western Europe both is – with some restraint and after WW II - unimaginable. It is a tragedy, fighting for human rights since 100 years, all over the world, and simultaneously forgetting the content of these rights. Remember the brutalisation of a war which only lasted for 30 years.csnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7964051098919472476.post-10723291921631869082010-03-03T19:23:44.023+01:002010-03-03T19:23:44.023+01:00@csYou are obviously right.What would happen yet, ...@cs<br><br>You are obviously right.<br><br>What would happen yet, if Europe became the leading country? (after becoming a political unit and country)<br><br>It is so good to stand in the second row. I hope, we will keep staying there.epitimaioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946130178480522700noreply@blogger.com