..the title of this document comes from the work of The Joyce Project, Chapter [3], Proteus. I really wanted ‘Crackajolking away like a hearse on fire,’ which until this constituted a thumping 3.7 per cent of all I ever read of Ulysses. Ahm, the A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Stephen Dedalus – was a story I did read read right through as a youngster but. Year 9 I think.

” This book is partly a homage to those who in the past hundred years have paved the way for extraordinary change against all odds. It is a tribute, too, to survivors and activists who work, often at risk to their own lives, to ensure justice can be achieved today and in the years to come.

” I am privileged to have met and worked with some of those I have written about. I met many more inspiring people while writing this book. But the challenges they face are huge. [During the past few years, the dangers of a pick-and-choose approach to justice, which some governments STILL SEEM DETERMINED TO MAINTAIN, HAVE BECOME MORE GLARING THAN EVER.]

” Prosecutions of the powerful are not a cure-all. They do not end the pain of the crimes committed. They do not wave a magic wand and create world peace. Justice can, however, provide at least the beginnings of a framework for stability. Conversely, lack of justice, and the festering resentments that result from that sense of injustice, provide fertile soil for insecurity and the renewed cycles of violence.

” With the right leadership, [national/ country-based] and international courts can help achieve an acknowledgement of truth which otherwise may remain missing. With the wrong leadership, denial and instability continue to thrive. Zoran Djindjić, the Serbian prime minister who delivered Slobodan Milošević to The Hague in 2001, understood the importance of a country confronting its own history. After Milošević’s indictment but while he was still in power, Djindjić told me of his fears of a “flight into a historic world” [and the dangers of the belief that Serbs ‘have been victims for six hundred years, and we can do what we want’ ]. Djindjić was assassinated in 2003 by those who did not want such uncomfortable truths to be spoken; a few weeks earlier, he had told Hague prosecutor Carla Del Ponte that he knew he would be killed. Serbian and Bosnian Serb leaders in the years since have often been less willing to confront history and responsibility. “

Chapter 10 Balancing the Scales excerpt //

To conclude today, it now becomes axiomatic that every man and woman drawing a fat or a thin salary in public life in his or her country immediately familiarise themselves with the new and indeed old-era epoch-making terms of Steve Crawshaw’s Prosecuting the Powerful : War Crimes and the Battle for Justice, The Bridge Street Press (Little Brown http://www.littlebrown.co.uk London Hachette http://www.hachette.co.uk Dublin) 2025 or get the bloody hell out of public life.

John Blundell

Australia

University and Internet Reform Worldwide

Neurocognitive Heath in Child Youth Adult Aged Persons’ Learning

The Authentic 2 – 5 set Series Post Socratic Quantum Relations in Human Interpersonal Transactions LOGIC

Post 1944 & Post-neokeynesian Economics

Life, Love, & Everything with a bit less Living, Loving, & Party-going even with those absurd if not preposterous athematical neoclassical (?) commas preceding the logic & maths conjunctor And

Laughs

Shitloads of those