Thailand's military rulers are trying to crush logic and consistency as well as democracy, human rights and environmental protection.

The terrorist attack on the Bardo museum was meant to crush Tunisia's tourism-based economy.

Africa shows little political will to stop the slaughter of rhinos and elephants. The northern white rhino is now extinct in the wild.

France plans to abolish privacy rights by allowing an executive body to authorize the most intrusive kinds of surveillance, even planting cameras, microphones and keyloggers in people's homes, without a court order.

Among the permitted excuses for unrestrained surveillance are "the protection of France's economic interests" (such as spying on those who would denounce a company's wrongdoing) and "the prevention of collective violence that could seriously disrupt the public peace (i.e., sabotaging protests).

This is a grab for tyrannical power.

It is a mistake to prejudge men that adore girls age 8 to 12 as "predators".