On the ten commandments, briefly: If you are not indigenous to land, you would have had to (‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’) kill to stake your claim of private property; (‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’), steal and then lie covering it up; (‘Thou shalt not give false testimony’), lie.
With these tenets torn asunder in the building of empires from the Hellenic to the Roman Empire, to modern imperialist empires, how much is systematically taken for granted when, for example, the Indigenous, or the African Americans and their history of slavery in the Americas, or the Palestinians in Palestine in the institutions (government, policing, and education) of modern-day colonies and their various forms of ongoing oppression, which can only exist while the same systems turn a wilful blind eye to the brutality and corruption of courts, institutions, politicians and peoples that is required to hide its own past, but the living history in terms of generational trauma, dispossession and enslavement carried in personages? A horrific future portends if the colonisers fail to account for their hand in this history. An apology is only the beginning of reconciliation. The New Testament is particularly misogynistic.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
