Thus oppression justifies itself through oppression: the oppressors produce and maintain by force the evils that render the oppressed, in their eyes, more and more like what they would have to be like to deserve their fate… Terror and exploitation dehumanise, and the exploiter authorises himself with that dehumanisation to carry his exploitation further.
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1957 : in his Introduction to The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
Senior police officer resigns, 11 foreign nationals and 1 UK national arrested. Why would anyone want to bomb the country that gave us the industrial revolution, the first capital based global economy, the greatest empire the world has ever seen and, in the East India Company, the first corporation to fully realise the dazzling potential of monopoly control as a means of accumulating territory, power and wealth? There were some natives involved as well, and one or two of the poor; both of whom, unfortunately, are still with us. Damn him for resigning. We were so close to solving the problem of terrorism and leading the world into a new era of global peace.