It is most likely written in stone somewhere that at a given point in any adult’s life, he or she will complain bitterly about “big business”, the faceless corporations and the way that said corporations control their life and abuse their service. Now I for one am not about to buck that trend. I read a book quite some time ago now, “Unequal Protection” written by Thom Hartman. The reason I mention this is that I read an article tonight which reminded me of it and it raised so
Many years ago, while living in the US, I wrote for a local newspaper in Northern Ireland. I had little editorial oversight, which allowed me to speak plainly. What follows is one of those articles, written around 2004. I knew its subject, Harold Lieb, he was my wife's grandfather, my son's great-grandfather. His story, and the system it reveals, is a signpost we continue to fail to heed. “They were the greatest generation.”. This phrase is so very often used here in the Unit