“These decades, generations and centuries of comic perversion of law and God, these self-serving acts of coercion, these instant laws that flip-flop or are enacted on a moment’s notice according to your need of the day, these farcical unions imposed on unwilling people have always been carried out with total contempt for the savage … I stand here in a world filled with rising and angry voices which will no longer tolerate their lives being manipulated by the perverse whims of greedy men.”

–Leon Uris, “Trinity”</i

Go read Steve’s posts of late on colonial warfare.