blessed britons

In 1993, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Australian Parliament reported that “at least 200,000” had died under Indonesia’s occupation: almost a third of the population...
For three decades, the Australian, US and British governments worked tirelessly to minimise the crimes of Suharto’s gestapo, known as Kopassus, who were trained by the Australian SAS and the British army and who gunned down people with British-supplied Heckler and Koch machine guns from British-supplied Tactica “riot control” vehicles.
In one year, the British Department of Trade provided almost a billion pounds worth of so-called soft loans, which allowed Suharto buy Hawk fighter-bombers. The British taxpayer paid the bill for aircraft that dive-bombed East Timorese villages, and the arms industry reaped the profits.

— John Pilger

Suharto, the model killer, and his friends in high places (January 2008)

mad world

A woman was threatened with arrest for wearing a T shirt which had pictures of Brian Haw’s banners on it, calling for an end to war. According to the police wearing the T Shirt near Downing St was an unauthorised protest. When she pointed out that the T Shirt advertised the Mark Wallinger exhibition of Brian’s placards in Tate Britain the police kindly deemed her T shirt legal.

— Mark Thomas

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Submitted by antarchi on April 28, 2007 - 16:56.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowres for his own nose, is lyke a foole.
Stephen Gosson
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole; How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.
Alexander Pope
He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's graces By plucking bon-mots from their places.
Hannah More
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
George A. Moore
Away, ye imitators, servile herd!
Horace
The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one.
Heinrich Heine
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
Guy Debord
Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket.
Horace Smith

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