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THE FIRST CASUALTY IN WAR

2/24/2022

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​The first casualty comes before the first shot is fired.  The dying continues long after peace is declared.  You can recognize war is coming by monitoring these casualties. They are in plain sight, “independence,” “genocide,” “neo-Nazis,” “peace-keeping,” “freedom.” 
War Lords, thugs really, love to watch language choke and gasp.  They make it grovel, submit and, at the end, call it “peace.”
Nothing is too brutal for them.  They will not settle for silence; they force Language to close her eyes, bite her tongue. whine loudly enough to block what all could otherwise hear and despise.
This is the quintessential war crime.  If language is what makes us human, then this is the true  crime against humanity, a crime for which there can be neither reparation, nor forgiveness. 
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