Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really....

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.