"The way we persecute companies at the moment in the UK is madness," he says.
And I love the film's often brutal messages: love doesn't conquer all; we are, for all our finery, a savage species; we persecute outsiders to feel part of the pack; and there's no baddie like a toff.
We keep adherents by accentuating the differences between us and outsiders, and this tendency may become even more accentuated if we are persecuted or if we try to spread and grow.
"We cannot," Moss asserts, "use the mere fact that we feel persecuted as evidence that our cause is just or as the grounds for rhetorical or actual war" (p. 256).
When we were persecuted, she was very brave.
Every time we are persecuted by the central propaganda department, the circulation goes up.
"First we were persecuted by Saddam Hussein, and now by the Americans".
We are persecuted, subjected to repression or worse, death, like what happened to Berta Cáceres".
We have persecuted dissenters, interned the innocent, suspended habeas corpus, invaded reasonable expectations of privacy.
"We are persecuted and killed here by Muslims," said Bishoi Edmund, 24, who was among the protesters outside the TV building.
