Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Virgil: Reparations for Everyone -- What Do We Do If We’re All Victims and Victimizers?

Virgil: Reparations for Everyone -- What Do We Do If We’re All Victims and Victimizers?
"Who Should Pay? 
Who Should Get?
As we all know, talk of reparations for injustice is everywhere.
But here’s a headline, appearing in the British Spectator magazine...: “Italy owes Wales reparations for the wrongs of the Roman Empire.” 
The author, one Lloyd Evans—an impeccable Welsh name, that—declared:
Let me add my voice to the clamour on behalf of this island’s indigenous Celtic people. My family are from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire and I believe that my compatriots have an excellent case to make against the Roman Empire.
Yes, Evans said he wants reparations for the Roman invasion of Great Britain, launched by Julius Caesar in 55 BC; it was a bloody business, leading to the subjugation of the island’s Celtic inhabitants, including those in Wales...Read all.

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