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Day 8 August, 2009

The worst terrorist attack in history

Photo of mushroom cloud of nuclear terrorist attack on HiroshimaThis week marks the 64th anniversary of one of the largest and most hein­ous acts of ter­ror­ism ever per­pet­rated: the nuc­lear bomb­ing of Hiroshima and Naga­saki by the United States of Amer­ica, the only coun­try to have ever used nuc­lear bombs to mas­sacre civil­ians. The largest attack, also per­pet­rated by the U.S., was the fire­bomb­ing of Tokyo five months earlier, killing 80 000 to 120 000 civil­ians in one day.

What I find par­tic­u­larly hard to con­tem­plate is not that these events took place but that most Amer­ic­ans ever since have viewed these incred­ibly hein­ous crimes as neces­sary, effect­ive and other than crim­inal and immoral, or at best neces­sary evils. This is to effect­ively believe that any­thing can be legit­im­ate means, as long as it’s car­ried out by the Americans.

I doubt this kind belief and the sur­vival of the human spe­cies are mutu­ally inclusive.

What happens when the hang ‘em high brigade call the shots

The Eco­nom­ist has an inter­est­ing story this week illus­trat­ing how sex offender laws in the U.S. have run amok and are not only mak­ing mat­ters worse but are des­troy­ing the lives of many inno­cent people in the process.

Plonkers with bal­lots + self-serving polticians = per­ver­sion of justice.