by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
The very heart of the darkness is the Soviet Union and from that heart comes a different sound. It is the whirring sound of machinery and the whisper of the computer technology we ourselves have sold them. —Ronald Reagan. Speech to the Fourth Annual Conservative...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
Executions The tyrant who started the war should be tried and executed. His henchmen who committed murder should be dealt with likewise. This precedent, set by the Nuremburg trials, should be followed whenever a tyranny is defeated in war. National punishment In 1982...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
The Geneva Conventions are contracts between sovereign peoples stipulating how they will treat each other’s people during war. They accord with natural justice because they are entirely reciprocal. Accordingly any attempt to convert them from a contract between...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
Collective responsibility The person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and … is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
Tyrants are responsible for wars and should be the foremost target for lethal attack. The story of Wellington prohibiting his artillery from targeting Bonaparte at Waterloo, if true, demonstrates misguided chivalry. Indeed, had Bonaparte been executed in 1814 instead...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
The barracks occupy the top and brow of a very high hill. They are free from bog, have four springs which seem to be plentiful, one within twenty yards of the picket, two within fifty yards, and another within two hundred and fifty, and they propose to sink wells...
