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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
July 15, 2018

What’s under attack at the moment isn’t individual facts… although they are under attack…it’s the very notion of truth that’s under attack. When a politician lies in the morning and then contradicts his lie with another lie in the afternoon, what they’re saying to you, finally, is that no truth matters, and truth itself is unimportant. And if truth doesn’t matter, all we are left with is opinion. And if all we’re left with is opinion, the opinion that will prevail is the opinion of the most powerful and the most wealthy. And then we have gone to a very dark place.

Richard Flanagan
July 10, 2018

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, we are being ruled by criminals.

Susan Munday
July 10, 2018

I’m not critical of our democratic system; I’m critical of the people who are the incumbents, and their failure to manifest any sense of responsibility towards this society. It is they who don’t believe in democracy, it is they who are not assuming their responsibility as leaders. It is they who are not finding ways of either addressing our problems, or looking at the problems that are coming….and they are coming very rapidly at us.

Richard Flanagan
July 4, 2018