π΄ π - AOC: βI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.β
Given what's happening in the #US at the moment, we need to be really aware as to how Scotland is being used to further that agenda in other places
We can see what #Trump's got at the moment around #Greenland. We don't want to be complicit in that.
βIf we're not asking the questions about what they're doing when they come through #Wick, we should be asking the questions.
In the space of a week, the US administration has #kidnapped the Venezuelan president, suggested it could take Greenland next by force, and seized an oil tanker in Scottish waters.
As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are βonly doing their dutyβ, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Essay (1941-02-19), βThe Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,β Part 1 βEngland Your England,β sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]