I mean the cops only kidnapped this helpless 6 year old girl for a couple of days. The jail guards probably didn’t rape her. And we know they didn’t just shoot her in the head and yell, “Furtive!” “Waistband!” for their two-weeks paid vacation. So I guess this family should consider themselves very lucky.
Bertolt Brecht’s “A Worker Reads and Asks”
In 1935 while in exile Brecht wrote his poem challenging the aristocracy of history. The belief that events and the entire of human existence occurs because of a great man, the dear leader. In contemporary moments, politicians and influential people are looked at with...