tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503354282666507938.post7014544518089745584..comments2023-05-31T13:14:55.847+01:00Comments on voiceforjersey: “OUR NATION” and whose “HISTORY”?voiceforchildrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16825129148579102037noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503354282666507938.post-55233576618322807122009-05-17T16:07:00.000+01:002009-05-17T16:07:00.000+01:00This is from Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon -Sum...This is from Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon -Summarises the whole thing rather neatly I think<br />Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,—Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin.... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not Chronology, for that is left to lawyers,— nor is Remembrance, for Remembrance belongs to the People. History can as little pretend to the Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other,—her Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy and Taproom Wit,— that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a Past we risk, each day, losing our forbears in forever,— not a Chain of single Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,— rather, a great disorderly Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and strong, vanishing into the Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common." (p.349)mike freemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503354282666507938.post-52206243698826980892009-05-16T14:39:00.000+01:002009-05-16T14:39:00.000+01:00Surely, people stopped listening to these "because...Surely, people stopped listening to these "because I say so" speeches given by men in silly hats a long time ago?<br /><br />We have far more reliable sources for knowledge in 2009, and are smart enough to work things out for ourselves.<br /><br />These archaic public officials are well beyond redundancy. About time our local laws, and government were updated to reflect reality!Dan Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06892072282063775477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503354282666507938.post-20991750987100424292009-05-11T09:31:00.000+01:002009-05-11T09:31:00.000+01:00“the tide of misinformation about the occupation”
...“the tide of misinformation about the occupation”<br /><br />That doesn't include Clifford Orange (aliens Officer and Jersey Civil Servant) cheefully and dutifully compiling lists of resident aliens including Jews for the Germans, or the honorary police and Attorney-General being complicit in sending information about a man with a wireless set they discovered on to the Germans "for the greater good"; both you will find detailed in Paul Sander's book on the Occupation. The authorities do not come out that well in Saunder's book; locals like Bob Le Sueur and Norman Le Brocq - and those who perished for keeping the flame of freedom alight - come out much, much better.TonyTheProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486414706261508994noreply@blogger.com