fahrenheit451:005

Lutheran-Christian Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was/is and shall remain as my kind of Christian.While others fled ,he remained inside the German Third Reich and helped organise resistance cells against the Nazi Tyranny.He was quoted as stating , " Silence in the face of evil is itself evil " A bit harsh and way too rigorous for many of us ;but that's the exacting standard Bonhoeffer and those like him apply firstly to themselves -they do not ask,or rather challenge others to attempt a feat they themselves do not do . The Pastor's fate was to be executed by means of hanging by the Nazis two weeks before the liberation of Flossenburg concentration camp in April 1945 ,one month before  Germany's Surrender. What  might then constitute verifiable proof of the existence and practice of  "evil " ?  Socio-economic injustices instigated by Corporate Global Ruling Elites and imposed by Governments whose policies have as their most immediate and visceral expression and impact :- mass unemployment ,empirically verifiable and continuing levels of poverty and structural disadvantage, economic marginalisation , effective social exclusion and increasing isolation of the most vulnerable in Society. Capitalism is the bacillus ,it is the existential threat infesting,infecting and inexorably debilitating and annihilating all Human Society.It's name is LEGION for it adopts many shape-shifting forms whilst always remaining essentially the same. It's current nom-de-geurre is AUSTERITY. Ba'al or Mammon would just about fit the same deceptive mask.It is THE purest and most effective ideologically totalitarian oppression and imprisonment that has the temerity to espouse such deluded and vacuous notions as " freedom " and " liberalism " and a whole myriad of stupefyingly audacious nonsense and non-sequiters that the desperate seek out and cling to like addicts to crack cocaine. And the Corporate Media exalt and propagandise this with relish ,as with the Daily Mail of 18 January 2016 :-

Duncan Smith bid to get 2million on sick benefits back to work: Work and Pensions secretary to call for shake-up of 'fundamentally flawed' system 

• Duncan Smith keen to slash the numbers off work with anxiety and depression
• The 2.3million claimants on ESA will be tested for what they are able to do - not what they cannot
• They will then be found work for around ten hours a week, or whatever is possible, to get them back into the workplace .

Slick and full of bullshit ,flawed in grammar and logic-that's journalism for you. I for one am speaking out against this  " evil " and will continue to so do.What anybody else is actually going to do about it is entirely their challenge. Y'all know the verdict already .