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WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/7846/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Adlai Stevenson</b></a></p><blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a natural characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. Knowing his rule rests upon compulsion rather than consent, the dictator must always assume the disloyalty, not for a few but of many, and guard against it by continual inquisition and liquidation of the unreliable. The history of Soviet Russia is a modern example of this ancient practice.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The democratic state, on the other hand, is based on the consent of its members. The vast majority of our people are intensely loyal, as they have amply demonstrated. To question, even by implication, the loyalty and devotion of a large group of citizens is to create an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust which is neither justified, healthy, nor consistent with our traditions. […] I must, in good conscience, protest against any unnecessary suppression of our ancient rights of free men. Moreover, we will win the contest of ideas that afflicts the world not by suppressing those rights, but by their triumph. We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.</blockquote><p><b>Adlai Stevenson</b> (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman<br>Message (1951-06-26), Veto of Illinois State Senate Bill 102</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewing/7846/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disloyalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disloyalty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inquisition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=loyalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loyalty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=loyaltyoath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loyaltyoath</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=subversion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subversion</span></a></p>
RedAlert (Michael)<p>Ich meine OK das war schon scheiße damals. Aber <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Kl%C3%B6cknerCDU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KlöcknerCDU</span></a> wäre schon ein Fall für die <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inquisition</span></a> oder? 🤡</p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>ON A SERIOUS NOTE<br>“christian” zionists hate anybody semitic and Arab so much, they support the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/jerusalem-christians-easter-israeli-crackdown-church-holy-sepulchre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/18/jerusalem-christians-easter-israeli-crackdown-church-holy-sepulchre</span></a></p><p>and to our Jewish kin:<br>today many xian zionist cults celebrate the Jewish <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deicide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libel</span></a> that is at the heart of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquisition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/expulsiones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expulsiones</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pogroms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pogroms</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a>.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_d</span><span class="invisible">eicide</span></a></p><p>and i say celebrate: the RCC officially repudiated the libel that many genocidal xians (including catholics) won’t cosign<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_aetate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_a</span><span class="invisible">etate</span></a></p>
The Secret Life Of Plants🌱<p>Über eine <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Verbandsklage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verbandsklage</span></a> dürfen anerkannte Umwelt- und <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Tierschutzorganisationen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tierschutzorganisationen</span></a> gegen Behördenentscheidungen vorgehen, auch wenn die Rechte der Verbände selbst nicht verletzt worden sind. So sollen die Belange der <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Umwelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Umwelt</span></a> leichter durchgesetzt werden. Die <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquisition</span></a> war laut Duden ein als Einrichtung der katholischen Kirche wirkendes Gericht, das vom 12. bis 18. Jahrhundert „mit großer Härte und grausamen Untersuchungsmethoden“ gegen Abtrünnige und Ketzer vorging. Auch die Untersuchungen dieses Gerichts werden dem Wörterbuch zufolge als Inquisition bezeichnet.<br>„Das Verbandsklagerecht ist nicht <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Willk%C3%BCr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Willkür</span></a>, sondern fest verankert im Rechtssystem“, sagte Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Bundesgeschäftsführer der <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/DeutschenUmwelthilfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeutschenUmwelthilfe</span></a>. Es sei gesetzlich geregelt und üblich „in europäischen und internationalen Demokratien“. „Insofern zeigt Herr <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/SalmSalm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SalmSalm</span></a>, dass er ein <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/vordemokratisches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vordemokratisches</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Rechtsverst%C3%A4ndnis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rechtsverständnis</span></a> hat, vielleicht aus der Zeit, wo <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Adlige" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adlige</span></a> wie er das Sagen hatten in unserem Land.“<br><a href="https://taz.de/Umstrittene-Rede-bei-Freie-Bauern-Demo/!6078605/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taz.de/Umstrittene-Rede-bei-Fr</span><span class="invisible">eie-Bauern-Demo/!6078605/</span></a><br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/ngo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngo</span></a></p>
WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inquisition</span></a> : the finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry</p><p>- French: inquisition</p><p>- German: die Inquisition</p><p>- Italian: inquisizione</p><p>- Portuguese: inquisição</p><p>- Spanish: inquisición</p><p>------------</p><p>Report an incorrect translation @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordofthehour.org/r/translatio</span><span class="invisible">ns</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 26, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church formally banned Galileo Galilei from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. In 1633, they tried and convicted him of heresy, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. Bertolt Brecht wrote the play “Galileo” in 1938, which first played in Zurich, in 1943. Brecht fled Nazi Germany in 1933.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/galileo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>galileo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertoltBrecht</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/inquisition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inquisition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drama</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catholic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>