an Obscure quote

what does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not?  all the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.  that excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

- Thomas Hardy

(in "Jude the Obscure")

homecoming

Alfonso and i are ened to note the homecoming of citizen informant Daniel Hale

("treasonous" "enemy" of domination's state) whose crimes include pointing out that,

for example, during a five-month period of "Operation Haymaker" (an acutely

contemptuous entitling within the brutal unprovoked invasion of Afghanistan)

nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were NOT the intended targets.

welcome home, brave Daniel,

(champion of illumining compassion);

thank you for so courageously
placing your bit of our
universal soul

directly in the
line of ire's

honesty punishing fire

in order to selflessly
(soulfully) tap into

the mockery of democracy's
relentless
and
resolute

mislaying of humanity.