Not exact matches
If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated
over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the
toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end
because all the heroes would have
gone off to insane asylums.
If you can not make the protests you can
go to the just giving crowd funding Chris butler website and donate to the organisers.They are doing a great job and for every pound donated one Gooner is matching it.As for yesterday Wenger playing Gibbs and keeping Ozil's and Giroud on for as long as he did was the same as playing Ramsey as a left winger with a damaged
toe at old Trafford as far as bad decisions
go and shows the man has to
go.When is something
going to be done about those spud fans who attack our lot before and after the game.If it had been Millwall the media would be all
over it but
because they are the media darlings it is not given the publicity it deserves.Spuds fans are the worst in the country.
We need to make sure that we are in control
over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame
goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself
because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People
because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it
toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused
because what can we expect from him?nothing.