As a hippy, back in the sixties, I had my awakening to the awareness of war, nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction (MAD), the horrors of the Vietnam war, and I became a self declared (ignorant) pacifist – a peacenik. I faced a, then, common question to pacifists, “What would you do if someone was […]
Tag: the presumption of innocence
We must reclaim what is being stolen from us
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,137 Saturday 04 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, We are being stolen from every day, our rights to life, sustenance and shelter, liberty, self determination, the presumption of innocence, habeas corpus, freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from unwarranted, unnecessary and intrusive state intervention, access to […]