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Such comprehensive knowledge such as yours and Martin's deserve a deal of respect. I am well left behind in these areas...almost thankfully if you understand my meaning. A lot of us are simply compassionate enough to lend our emotional voices, now, at present. In my case I had distanced myself from all politics and as much "news" as possible..no TV...an inability to listen to radio that increased with deafness, plus a lifelong resentment of authority. I used sit in my modest school staring at the shiny, near threadbare trousers of my teachers...who I now pity in retrospect, poor sods...wondering WHY they could send me into detention(rare) or scold me whatsoever...in fact I was a "stealth" rebel giving everyone little or no excuse to be in a position to "punish" me. Still am. But I always stood up against bullies. Still do! But what I wanted to relate in response to your long enlightenment, which I wholeheartedly accept, is that in the past conflicts which you have delineated so eloquently, there wasn't the social media...the means via mobile phone to reveal the atrocities etc; but saying that I appreciate that such "news" from the main players would be heavily censored or erased as happens now...except for the texting or filming that can't be totally controlled...yet! Perhaps these days more people with their hearts in the right place can be reached. Hope so. By the by..I don't have a mobile phone as it is like an ID card...I like to live as privately as possible in this modern era...I like to sit naked in a stream on the heath and THEY and nobody else knows that I am there! All the best.

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