tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post1747875748865902061..comments2023-09-23T15:05:48.320+00:00Comments on FaithInSociety: Simon Barrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05366440538616508935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-60521919934742725552008-11-27T10:52:00.000+00:002008-11-27T10:52:00.000+00:00Your quotation is well taken, Chris... though the ...Your quotation is well taken, Chris... though the Simon Barrow in your head is a curious concoction, often at variance with the one writing here. ;)<BR/><BR/>The judiciary has a measurable degree of independence in this country. When it acts to defend the weak, while the government pursues policies that scapegoat them, its politics are to be welcomed.Simon Barrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05366440538616508935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-26111995443469654062008-11-25T09:51:00.000+00:002008-11-25T09:51:00.000+00:00Quite agree, Jeremiah. But I think there was a tim...Quite agree, Jeremiah. But I think there was a time, not too long ago in fact, when they shared different and more worthy 'objects of love'.<BR/>Actually, my point was not the relationship of Augustine of Hippo to Phil Woolas but the relationship of Augustine of Hippo to Simon Barrow. I think the main point is before pontificating on the rights owned by and owed to 'the outsider' there has to be a firm grasp of what it means to be 'an insider' and furthermore to share in an honest way in that.<BR/>By the way, one man's 'independent judiciary' is very often another man's politicised judiciary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5820278.post-47868417178113836552008-11-21T09:22:00.000+00:002008-11-21T09:22:00.000+00:00'But if we discard this definition of a people, an...'But if we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love. Yet whatever it loves, if only it is an assemblage of reasonable beings and not of beasts, and is bound together by an agreement as to the objects of love, it is reasonably called a people; and it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.'<BR/>City of God Book XIX Chapter 24Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com