tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6201207866891064896.post3444493245100098614..comments2023-04-26T16:14:38.493+01:00Comments on Stories From The Diogenes Club: A Case Of ‘Bloggins’Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6201207866891064896.post-10451075692730068892008-09-28T10:21:00.000+01:002008-09-28T10:21:00.000+01:00These days I think we all know somebody like thatThese days I think we all know somebody like thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6201207866891064896.post-29006742743234743712008-09-28T09:33:00.000+01:002008-09-28T09:33:00.000+01:00Wow, that was my Great Uncle. Only on the 10th of ...Wow, that was my Great Uncle. <BR/><BR/>Only on the 10th of September a local historian i know lwt me know this: (lifted from her email)<BR/><BR/>"Henry Thomas Baber was in the Knowle Asylum in 1927. If he's one of yours I will let you know the details."<BR/><BR/>Knowle Asylum is in Southampton!<BR/><BR/>The story is identical, but I have been told he was "before his time" in championing human rights only to be tortured throughout his lifetime by " foreign devils" he encountered. Sadly my family source knows no more and nothing seems to remain in the family "memory".<BR/><BR/>So he wasn't ahead of his time, that was a gloss put on him although he was said to be a "black sheep" .<BR/>The story was always shrouded in misinformation, hearsay and we seem to have assumed the mantle of a "legend" for him. It seems the Diogenes Club have a firm handle on the truth, which is even more endearing. Why?<BR/><BR/>Because, Sir, you are not just a champion of the truth, a revisionist historian, or a welcome antidote to the gloss others have put on the past. <BR/><BR/>The thousands of such persecuted otherwise forgotten lost souls salute you. <BR/><BR/>But as a relative I at least should also salute the thousands of travellers, writers, trade unionists and, yes, women in every country actually persecuted or killed for noticing those realities that do actually exist and motivated him in the last 80 years. <BR/><BR/>For them it is more Kafka than Quixote. <BR/><BR/>He was lucky he got away with it. Sadly he chose silence as a result of his misapprehensions. Many others with valid apprehensions are silenced, today, in every community, but not I am happy to see, in your club.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com