Jan Bryxí







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  • Communists have been torturing back then. What about now?

    Contrary to the common population’s opinion I am the biggest enemy of torture. Speaking of 2021 it is still prevalent at a colossal scale (notably in developing countries). In Czechoslovakia in the 1950s state-organized torture was extremely prevalent. Around 100 thousand people were imprisoned. Then the trend has started to reverse. In the 1980s two…

  • The US debacle: The majority of the world population lives in countries with robust systemic torture in prisons

    The USA always says they do things only to improve human rights all around the whole world. But it is business as usual. There isn’t a prison system that wouldn’t be abusing human rights anywhere in the world. However, there are systems where torture and wrongdoings are much more prevalent. Denailing, bone-breaking, waterboarding, tooth extraction,…

  • Communists have been destroying lives. What about capitalism?

    Since the Czechoslovak communists have taken over the power in the late 1940’s huge repression occurred. Around 250 000 people were interned, 248 executed and 8 000 died in prisons. All because of the Stalinist repressions. Most of the people executed were communists sentenced in fabricated trials (some of them, of course, were spies). Klement…

  • Global government

    We have global inter-connected economy, yet no global government. There are thousands of global issues needed to be addressed globally but we don’t have any global government. I am for current countries to be preserved while their law-making bodies would be voted in global elections. There is what I am imagining when writing about global…