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08/18/2004:

"Marcus Garvey and the age of terror"

Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first National Hero, made an observation in the early 20th century as relevant today as it was then, about the terror that accompanied the colonial process.

Garvey wrote in poetic form:

"They (the colonialists), have stolen, murdered, on their way here,
Leaving desolation and waste everywhere;
Now they boastingly tell what they have done,
Seeing not the bloody crown they have won."

The "they" that Marcus Garvey spoke of were the "great men" of colonial exploits regaled by venal historians, but such was Garvey's insight that it may well apply to the modern-day crusaders and their bloody adversaries on the world stage as well as our own home-grown terrorists, engulfed in an orgy of murderous mayhem.

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