- Dignity as a Constitutional Value: A South African Perspective
Arthur Chaskalson
Constitutional Court of South Africa

There is a profound moral difference between public and private
action to help those in need and public and private action to hurt them. It is the difference between good and evil.

Detention without trial was introduced, the police were empowered to hold detainees incommunicado, and to deny them access to their lawyers or own medical advisors. 9 Initially detention was for 90 days, then for 180 days, and then indefinitely.

The white voters were warned that the state was facing a total onslaught. They were told that the legislation was not directed against law abiding citizens and would not affect them. The targets were communists and terrorists.

The African National Congress and other anti-apartheid
organizations, which until then had been at the forefront of nonviolent opposition to apartheid, were banned, and it became an offence to belong to such organizations or to further their objects.

In 1960, the Unlawful Organizations Act was passed to empower the government to declare organizations other than the so-called "communist organizations" to be unlawful, and to extend the criminal sanctions of the Suppression of Communism Act to such groups.

To counter passive resistance, a law was later passed making it a special offence to contravene a law by protesting against it or any other law, punishable by harsh penalties including flogging.

The law was written to mean that any political action the
white legislature had decided, or might in the future decide, to be unlawful would amount to communism.

According to the definition, communism included any
scheme which aimed at bringing about any political, industrial, social or economic change within South Africa by unlawful acts or omissions.

The first step towards what was to become a police state in South Africa was taken in 1950 with the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act. 🧵

freedom
is growing rusty
on the pavements
of oppression

Draw me like one of your French girls~

The best part of working from home is not making daily small talk about the nytimes games.

It's like they want to live in a dystopian hellscape.

Watashi kininarimasu~~^^

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A bonfire?

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The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.
Ta-Nehisi Coates

He is someone Trump can manipulate. He is a loyalist but even better there is a lot of dirt on Gaetz. Trump has learned a lot from his last administration. Who better to blackmail than someone under active investigation for pedophilia.

Matt Gaetz nominated for AG is not surprising. He has active pedophilia investigations which means there is dirt that Trump and co can use to blackmail him. Trump has learned lessons from his last admin. The next time he wants to do a Jan 6 he would have filled his cabinet with loyalists. Disturbing

Democracy died in darkness.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.
Eckhart Tolle.