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The Enemy Within

The enemy within There has been a war up North but after some times the occupying forces surrendered and took the train back where they came from. Newspapers and magazines were (for a while) free of censors and horrific stories and pictures emerged which the boy didn’t grasp and soon forgot. 75 years later, the boy, now an old man laid up in a hospital ward gazing at a white wall remembered the horrific photos he had seen. Pictures of sexual deviations, torture and murder not committed by the foreign occupier but by opportunists who thrive in the shadow of wars Sociopaths for whom other lives do not matter to enrich themselves and indulge in obscene sex that cumulate in strangling their unlucky victims. Sociopathy is not an illness, is for them normal as they are not humans and therefore lack humanity love is for them, feelings of scant importance. They, the sociopaths, are well-educated people found in politics, the clerics, armed forces and business, where they can exercise power over others The war in Ukraine is a good example they are pumping in weapons and refusing any peace negotiation to the extent of risking a nuclear Armageddon.

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