From: wthyde1953@gmail.com
Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 10/13/2025 1:30 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Amongst Our Weapons "by Ben Aaronvitch
>>>>> Hard cover 294 pages from DAW Books $27 US.
>>>>> Well I may have read this before but it was a romp.
>>>>> Ben Aaronvitch with his Rivers of London series seldom
>>>>> disappoints
>>>>> Amongst Our Weapons is another tale of Peter Grant in the Folly
>>>>> and out to Manchester where he releases, but no that would be
>>>>> telling. He is a very busy sort with magic rings and heart
>>>>> ripping
>>>>> murders. Lesley is on the scene but still being criminal in her
>>>>> behavior. Even our Tank-breaking wizard Nightengale is not
>>>>> able to handle the Spanish Inquisition's Angel of Death but
>>>>> Peter does and releases the Spanish woman enslaved to be
>>>>> the Angel.
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
>>>>
>>>> ...though with that title, maybe I should have.
>>>
>>> The Gaza genocide guy's father, Polish Jew Benzion Mileikowsky, alias
>>> Benzion Netanyahu, wrote a book on the Spanish Inquisition entitled THE
>>> ORIGINS OF THE INQUISITION IN FIFTEENTH CENTURY SPAIN:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Long story short, Sicut Judaeis prohibits Catholics from mistreating
>>> Jews
>>
>> And the USSR had a wonderful constitution, full of respect for human
>> rights.
> ...
>
> Wasn't it Stalin who said, "Show me the man, I will tell you the crime."?
Could be, though it has been attributed to Beria and others. And the
idea wasn't new. Richelieu said:
"Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will
find something in them which will hang him")
And I'm sure the inquisition had a similar saying.
Tyrants are very busy people. Why waste time looking for actual
criminals when you can just blame people you don't like anyway?
William Hyde
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