And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Also the only time in recorded history anyone ever cheered for a journalist escaping from prison.
ReplyDeleteFuck the British and the war crimes they perpetrated in South Africa against the Boers.
ReplyDeleteEmpire is never pretty.
DeleteBut most war is a crime.
Breaker Morant underlined this in letters 5 feet high.