[Redbook4:192-193][19871202:0005]{Spiritual
Darkness}[2nd
December 1987]
19871202:0005
Watching
an ‘Everyman’ programme on the divisions within the British Sikh
community, I was struck by the darkness
of one speaker – the most extreme supporter of Khalistan
interviewed. As he described the conspiracy between the Indian and
British governments which had resulted in imprisonment of British
Sikhs for (?)homicide-related charges, and denied their guilt – not
because they had not done what they were charged with but because he
did not recognise the British courts – the darkness was very much
apparent. I do not recall that he was darker in skin than others; I
think he was wearing a dark suit. But the darkness was most
definitely in his eyes, supported by and/or colouring his expression.
It
was a frightening thing: I have seen it occasionally in the eyes of
the Provisional Irish Republican Army's spokesmen (although not
recently).
If
you are a follower of what I have just labelled 'tactical
relativism',* you will say that this reflects my own politics. I do
not think so: I have also seen it elsewhere, although never in quite
such an intense form: in a convicted criminal (forgery or fraud, I
think) whom I knew casually for three years before I learnt of his
conviction; perhaps in a local ne'er-do-well who once shot up the bar
at the [local pub] (I later discovered); possibly, more faintly, in
the odd businessman, although I can't think who; most definitely and
quite intensely on occasion in part-time and full-time [special
forces] men {with} whom I worked on exercises from time to time.
*'Tactical
Relativism' consists in throwing accusations, made against you, back
at the accuser: in the hope of undermining his position, irrespective
of truth.
[An
example of this was reported within the last few days at the United
Nations, were the Russian representative apparently countered
challenges from the U.K. representative on the Russian annexation of
Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine, by identifying the Falklands,
Gibraltar, and Diego Garcia as matters were it not for which the UK
would be in a better position to criticise Russia. <20170219>]
[continues]
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