14 Dec
2013
14 Dec
'13
4:33 a.m.
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Fortunately no-one here has said anything like that. What has been claimed is that the practice of deliberate ignorance of government inhumanity is a commonality.
That's the clearest statement I've read so far in this thread of what has been claimed. Although I think such comparisons run the risk of distracting discussion from the very real legal and policy issues in play, it's also valuable to be reminded that human rights violations can and sometimes do escalate, even in a democracy, and especially when public scrutiny is ineffective.