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(h/t to Black Sun Journal)
It all sounds so noble doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteIt also sounds like a wonderfully safe anonymous vehicle do a hatchet job on someone.
Frought with dangers I shouldn't wonder.
Dangerous perhaps. But who wants to be safe? You're just as much opposed to the Nanny State as I am.
ReplyDeleteI had more in mind the little man living in a less enlightened country or society where rumour alone might prove harmful if not fatal.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible I am seeing pitfalls where there are non but it is still within living memory where denunciation by a neighbour resulted in a trip to the concentration camp or the gulag.
Are we not witnessing internees at gitmo standing accused by "unknowns" on secret uncorroborated "evidence." and the same unknown accusers never having to face the scrutiny of a courtroom.
A different scenario I will grant you but the principle is the same.