Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

"...People who lived through fascism understand that when governments talk about terrorism and extremism, you have to be on guard, because these are always the words you hear before your rights are taken away from you." - Tim Snyder vox.com/conversations/2017/3/9/14838088/donald-trump-fascism-europe-history-totalitarianism-post-truth

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Jan 2021

1/ A meditation on the use of the word 'terrorist', by Robert Fisk.

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Quoted by@DanielPinchbeck Yup.Quoted byThe first time I ever identified as "Xian peacemaker"? A 1999 Eugene, OR, City Council meeting. The prompt? A fundamentally secular review of a city 'martial law ordinance': I was called to interject 'prophetically', naming it 'an obscenity against God.' https://facebook.com/nick.routledge.39/posts/3419420348141931