When the Government of Uganda was not able to beat the LRA militarily, it started to drive the Acholi civilian population into so-called ‘protected camps’ in 1999. Civilians that did not comply were subjected to beatings or random shelling of their villages. In these camps people lived in grievous conditions around UPDF barracks. The army largely failed to protect the civilian population against LRA attacks on the camps. At the same time, diseases like Cholera, Ebola and Aids spread due to lacking hygiene and crowded conditions in the camps. At the height of the conflict 1.8 million people lived in such camps and roughly 1,000 of them were dying each week. Many northern Ugandans – from political and religious leaders to ordinary citizens – have claimed that this UPDF policy amounts to genocide.

Given that Kony has exercised strong psychological control over many of these fighters from a very young age and the violent nature of many LRA actions against the civilian population, it will require a herculean effort to bring about a settled and peaceful community within northern Uganda

he quasi-religious aspects of Kony’s internal cosmology take this sense of victimhood and expand it, through a magpie-like propensity to adopt elements from other belief systems into which he has come into contact. The result is a hotch-potch of beliefs that are used to reinforce the idea that the Acholi are victims and Kony the mystic who can stop protect them.

your own child is living as a rebel.

This left the majority of the population stranded between the LRA on the one hand and a hostile army on the other, a further marginalization that feeds into current demands for justice and rehabilitation

There were significant splits, with several LRA troops and senior leaders giving themselves up. These splits led to conflicts within the LRA, culminating with the reported killing of Kony’s deputy Otti in November 2007 (Lewis, 2007). Since this period the LRA has effectively split between a group inside Equatoria province of Southern Sudan and a group,

between the army on the one hand and the LRA on the other.

The real key to the conflict is a massive failure of governance, which has contributed to a worsening cycle of social exclusion that has manifested itself as violent rejection of the status quo and a desire to return to a previous situation in which the Acholi had a better position.

LRA has an ideology, it is anti-modern, anti-developmental and anti-state.

sense of victimhood that has been reinforced by the continual recruitment of child soldiers

However over time, those involved with the initial drivers have become fewer, as the ranks of the LRA have become filled with younger fighters, frequently abducted and then initiated.

"casualties"

U.S. officials shunned the term "genocide," for fear of being obliged to act.

political changes

against the swindle, widespread amongthe Germans there, of wanting to form the German workers in France intoarmed legions in order to carry the revolution and the republic into Germany

Against Violent Extremism (AVE)

“preventing violent extremism” (PVE) and “countering violent extremism” (CVE)

terrorists seek.

magnanimity

it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing

inertia

that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into.

so that at last all desire in me to struggle against this depravity passed

consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—

It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.

but I would not let them, would not let them

I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, give me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I should be appeased

I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else

To become conscious of their gains from slavery, segregation, and voter suppression would shatter that Dream.

He contrasts these experiences with neat suburban life, which he calls "the Dream" because it is an exclusionary fantasy for White people who are enabled by, yet largely ignorant of, their history of privilege and suppression

Coates's position is that absent the religious rhetoric of "hope and dreams and faith and progress," only systems of White supremacy remain along with no real evidence that those systems are bound to change.[

Since a political-philosopher-king is an impossibility, Plato praised the coming age of the rule of law, the second best rule

But force against his native land he should not use in order to bring about a change of constitution, when it is not possible for the best constitution to be introduced without driving men into exile or putting them to death; he should keep quiet and offer up prayers for his own welfare and for that of his country.”

Plato was forced to say that there would be no end to the political evils of man unless a philosopher is given sovereign power, or a sovereign is educated in true philosophy (the “philosopher king” in The Republic).

n his youth,

the benefit to the public from a disclosure must outweigh the government’s need for secrecy.

All the players on a given team strive to be the star, in the various ways stars might shine, but they arestill a team, and their striving for stardom is both constrained and made possible by that teammembership. All the teams in a league strive for the topmost place, as well, but they are themselvescompeting within an overarching framework of higher-order cooperation. Even the league itself, whenoptimally functional, operates according to the dictates of sportsmanship itself, the principle ofvoluntary association, direction of attention, and action.

Such an endpoint is inevitably, even though somewhat surprisingly, allied with the endpoint of statecontrol, for only state-like institutions can defend all our idiosyncrasies from each other. In the finalanalysis, of course, the state-imposed defence of all our idiosyncrasies and exceptions is impossible, nomatter how comprehensive the state becomes, particularly as those identities multiply indefinitely, andthe existence of one contradicts the flourishing of another.

St. Isaac envisions the individual not as a unityopposed to or in competition with or even regulated, socialised, or constrained by the larger order, butas a mirror, reflecting that higher order, and organised in the same manne

theindividual is understood as the active embodiment of and participant in the patterns of the cosmos

particularly if the statesimultaneously claims that those very rights are something merely granted to the individual, by thecollective, and possessed of no intrinsic “metaphysical” reality

if the entirety of existence properly found its place, served what is highest, and integrateditself into a transcendent whole

The punk rocker or the furrywith his loud and pathological impulsive idiosyncrasy and anti-authority individualism could not existfor a moment in the Amazonian jungle. He is the eternal child of the atomised techno -society, thebeneficiary and infant of the state as Great Mother and Father—devouring parents, enabling, howevertemporarily, his narrowly self-serving desires

Our individualistic and hypothetically free societies re-organisedthemselves in a heartbeat into a rigid and comprehensive totalitarianism, with all those who objecteddemonised, punished, castigated, and excluded. The majority participated with enthusiasm, offered asthey were the tantalising opportunity to inform oh-so-moralistically on a neighbour

: the ultimate state, promisingthe freedom to pursue every conceivable whim, accrues to itself all the power that remains on the tableas responsible conduct is abandoned, using that power not to free, but to enslave

Paradoxically, therefore, a too-extremeinsistence on the independence and self-contained autonomy of the individual, freeing himself fromreligion, family, nation, and other forms of social unity, means that the totalitarian state becomes more,rather than less, likely, as the state expands to occupy all the intermediary roles and responsibilitiesabandoned by the too-self-concerned individua

first, that anarchy is freedom; second, that the desirefor anarchical freedom is something separate from the desperate and self-defeating wish to sacrificeall responsibility for an impulsive, hedonistic, and immature irresponsibility

There is simply no possibility of finally eradicating social being, in consequence of the triumphof an extreme individualism, Ayn Rand notwithstanding. Likewise, there is no reduction of the fact ofthe individual to a homogenous, idealised state. What transpires instead in consequence of theirconflict is not the conquest of one, but the exacerbation of the worst tendencies of both

Our current metaphysical battles are drawn along similar lines: we are either stalwart, sovereign liberalheroes, sufficient unto ourselves, or hapless victims, parented by the totalising state, aiming for utopia,justifying all means in pursuit of that ultimately glorious end

ohn Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, fleshing out the opposite pole, portraythe individual as rational, autonomous self-governing actor (Locke)—all good, except insofar as he iscorrupted by the state (Rousseau)

Thomas Hobbes portrays the individual as a war of competing andfundamentally antisocial and narrowly self-serving drives and desires, made necessarily subordinate torepressive state control.

The guardians of the city in Book V of Plato’s Republic are, for example, made subordinate to the cityfrom the time of their birth, bred first from the best parents, but handed thereafter to the state. Allintermediary allegiances, from private ownership to family ties, are abolished, in the service of thesingular collective

leading those who favour self to view all social bonds as contrary to thecall of freedom or even indistinguishable from oppression, while those who favour society viewindividual existence itself as naught but impediment to the establishment of the utopian collective

We are adri� in chaos and longing, in the absence of a firm iden�ty, no founda�on underfoot, nothingto strive toward, prone in our lacking conscious and unconscious to decomposi�on and strife

habeas corpus

hat whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.

hat God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing

him.

Korean society as a whole, including the patriarchal state, seeks to exploit ‘women’, their female body, as a means of its own reproduction.

In 2016, the 3rd Plan for Ageing Society and Population (hereafter, the ‘3rd Plan’) was announced by the Korean government. The 3rd Plan is characterized by its obvious concern about the deferral of marriage, which might reduce the number of children being born due to the decline in (female) fertility. Policies to encourage early marriage, such as special housing support schemes for newly married couples, were instituted (Government of Republic of Korea, Citation2016). While the female reproductive body has always been a political matter since the 1970s, it was particularly conspicuous at this time with the government addressing late marriage and the decline in female fertility as the crux of the problem.

young generation, spouseless and childless, as a victim of the neoliberal restructuring of society,

Digital feminists addressed this failure by calling attention to their everyday experiences of fear and frustration as evidence of the structural exploitation of and violence against women in Korea that still remain despite all the legislative reforms.

Their right to independence will be the natural right of self-government belonging to any community strong enough to maintain it

tyranny may retain a military dominion, which is no government in the, legitimate sense of the term.

limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence

God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the transition to democracy.

But we invite you to allow us tobe friends of yours and enemies to neither side, to make a treaty which shall be agreeable to both youand us, and so to leave our country.

You will see that there is nothing disgraceful in giving way tothe greatest city in Hellas when she is offering you such reasonable terms — alliance on a tribute-paying basis and liberty to enjoy your own property.

You seem to forget that if one follows one’s self-interest one wants to be safe, whereasthe path of justice and honour involves one in danger.

what we lack inpower, we trust that it will be made up for by our alliance with the Spartans

Is itnot certain that you will make enemies of all states who are at present neutral, when they see what ishappening here and naturally conclude that in course of time you will attack them too?

So you would not agree to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies ofneither side?Athenians : No, because it is not so much your hostility that injures us; it is rather the case that,if we were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness in us,whereas your hatred is evidence of our power

And how could it be just as good for us to be the slaves as for you to be the masters?Athenians : You, by giving in, would save yourselves from disaster; we, by not destroying you,would be able to profit from you

What we shall do now is to show you thatit is for the good of our own empire that we are here and that it is for the preservation of your citythat we shall say what we are going to say. We do not want any trouble in bringing you into ourempire, and we want you to be spared for the good both of yourselves and of ourselves

speak

Melians are a colony from Sparta

suspected of being pro-Spartan.

Uncle Sam's hands are dripping with blood, dripping with the blood of the black man in this country.

Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him,

Which means segregation is against the law. Which means a segregationist is breaking the law. A segregationist is a criminal. You can't label him as anything other than that. And when you demonstrate against segregation, the law is on your side. The Supreme Court is on your side.

In a press release distributed Saturday afternoon, Portland police said its officers did not intervene to stop the fighting because those involved “willingly” engaged, its forces were stretched too thin from policing 80+ nights of protests, and the bureau didn’t feel the clashes would last that long.

“Anyone who is involved in criminal behavior is subject to arrest and/or citation. Criminal conduct may also subject you to the use of force, including, but not limited to, crowd control agents and impact weapons. Stop participating in criminal behavior,” Portland police officials tweeted.

philosophy struggles only with theghost of the substance which it wishes to de-mystify.

in their acts of vengeance they went to even greater lengths, not stopping at what justice or the good of the state demanded

Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting, a justifiable means of self-defence. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected.

but war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes.

and although the crime imputed was that of attempting to put down the democracy, some were slain also for private hatred, others by their debtors because of the moneys owed to them.

Peloponnesians, however, although victorious in the sea-fight, did not venture to attack the town, but took the thirteen Corcyraean vessels which they had captured, and with them sailed back to the continent from whence they had put out.

Upon their vessels coming up to the enemy in this straggling fashion, two immediately deserted: in others the crews were fighting among themselves, and there was no order in anything that was done; so that the Peloponnesians, seeing their confusion, placed twenty ships to oppose the Corcyraeans, and ranged the rest against the twelve Athenian ships, amongst which were the two vessels Salaminia and Paralus.

the commons armed upon this pretext, alleging the refusal of their adversaries to sail with them as a proof of the hollowness of their intentions, and took their arms out of their houses, and would have dispatched some whom they fell in with, if Nicostratus had not prevented it.

Athenian general, Nicostratus, son of Diitrephes, came up from Naupactus with twelve ships and five hundred Messenian heavy infantry. He at once endeavoured to bring about a settlement, and persuaded the two parties to agree together to bring to trial ten of the ringleaders, who presently fled, while the rest were to live in peace, making terms with each other, and entering into a defensive and offensive alliance with the Athenians.

transform the economy into a free market capitalist system.

dismantled the Japanese Army and banned former military officers from taking roles of political leadership in the new government.

punished Japan for its past militarism and expansion by convening war crimes trials in Tokyo.

occupation of Japan can be divided into three phases: the initial effort to punish and reform Japan, the work to revive the Japanese economy, and the conclusion of a formal peace treaty and alliance.

how to disarm Japan, deal with its colonies (especially Korea and Taiwan), stabilize the Japanese economy, and prevent the remilitarization of the state in the future.

United States, Great Britain, and China released the “Potsdam Declaration,” which threatened Japan with “prompt and utter destruction” if it did not immediately surrender

German educational and judicial systems were to be purged of any authoritarian influences, and democratic political parties would be encouraged

demilitarized and disarmed Germany under four zones of Allied occupation.

Many experts agreed that the harsh reparations imposed by the Versailles Treaty had handicapped the German economy and fueled the rise of the Nazis.

avoid a repetition of the situation created by the Treaty of Versailles

Truman and his Secretary of State, James Byrnes, were determined to mitigate the treatment of Germany by allowing the occupying nations to exact reparations only from their own zone of occupation.

Soviets had pressed for heavy postwar reparations from Germany, half of which would go to the Soviet Union.

satisfying

That this technological order also involves a politicaland intellectual coordination may be a regrettable and yetpromising development.

Such were the events that took place at Lesbos.

I consider it far more useful for the preservation of our empire voluntarily to put up with injustice, than to put to death, however justly, those whom it is our interest to keep alive.

same punishment for those who are guilty and for those who are not

because surrender is out of the question

if a city that has already revolted perceive that it cannot succeed, it will come to terms while it is still able to refund expenses, and pay tribute afterwards.

impossible to prevent, and only great simplicity can hope to prevent, human nature

Either then some means of terror more terrible than this must be discovered, or it must be owned that this restraint is useless; and that as long as poverty gives men the courage of necessity, or plenty fills them with the ambition which belongs to insolence and pride, and the other conditions of life remain each under the thraldom of some fatal and master passion, so long will the impulse never be wanting to drive men into danger

And I require you not to reject my useful considerations for his specious ones: his speech may have the attraction of seeming the more just in your present temper against Mitylene; but we are not in a court of justice, but in a political assembly; and the question is not justice, but how to make the Mitylenians useful to Athens.

question before us as sensible men is not their guilt, but our interests

three failings most fatal to empire—pity, sentiment, and indulgence

when the reward of success is freedom, and the penalty of failure nothing so very terrible?

this is not revolt—revolt implies oppression; it is deliberate and wanton aggression;

very slaves to the pleasure of the ear, and more like the audience of a rhetorician than the council of a city.

being fair judges rather than rival athletes,

mistakes into which you may be led by listening to their appeals, or by giving way to your own compassion, are full of danger to yourselves, and bring you no thanks for your weakness from your allies

long meditated rebellion

to put to death not only the prisoners at Athens, but the whole adult male population of Mitylene, and to make slaves of the women and children.

do not give in to pity do not give in to your delight in good speeches do not give in to your sense of fairness

humans generally look with contempt on those who serve them and look up to those who never give in to them

guilty not of rebellion but of betrayal

allayed

common people govern better than the more intelligent

we are going to watch our nation die"

ion only abstinence and hetero-sexual marital fidelity as ways to guard against the disea

ctive, homosexualsex is defined as unhealthy - an abuse of the natural purpose of sexuality and thehuman body

When someone sins, someone pays.... None of u

As Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majoritynotes: "AIDS is a lethal judgment of God on the sin of homosexuality and it is alsothe judgment of God on America for endorsing this vulgar, perverted and reprobatelifestyle

PWAs in ways that suit particular moral and thperspectives and then moves to influence social policy recommendations based onthese definition

aming the victim by defining AIDS as a punishment for sin and asa divine legitimation for proscriptions against homosexu

ups. While individuals and groupsperceived to be guilty of moral failing are stigmatized, sick persons receive succor andcare

Nor was this the only form of lawless extravagance which owed its origin to the plague.

four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it.  Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

He was a role model

senseless violence.  None.  The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war.