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All Three Parties Are So Racist That Their Conferences Ought To Be Cancelled
David Lindsay
You do not have to like Jack Letts to be extremely concerned when politicians start revoking people's citizenship. If you would merely qualify for another nationality, whether or not you held it or wanted it, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen.
50 per cent of people in Britain with an Afro-Caribbean parent also have a white parent. If you are in that position, even if your other ancestors have been Anglo-Saxon for as long as there have been any Anglo-Saxons, or even if Julius Caesar heard them speaking the language that was now Welsh, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen.
If you are one of the huge proportion of the population of Great Britain with an ancestral connection to Ireland, or if you are almost any of the current inhabitants of Northern Ireland including all 10 DUP MPs, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen. And if you would qualify under Israel's Law of Return, then your British citizenship could now be revoked at a stroke of the Home Secretary's pen. How about that for anti-Semitism?
All this, and the return of the sus law, too. But then, look at the other side. Never mind the sus law. When Labour was last in, then it tried to introduce the pass laws.
Look at Margaret Hodge, who recently called Shraga Stern "a second-class Jew". Look at Nick Cohen, who has demanded that Stern be banished from public life on account of his Yiddish accent. Look at Jess Phillips, who has accused British Pakistanis of importing wives for their disabled sons, and who became famous by claiming to have been rude and abusive towards Britain's most prominent black politician, Diane Abbott.
Look at John Mann, who writes racist material against Gypsy, Romany and Traveller people, and who then distributes it to his constituents.
Look at Ruth Smeeth, who organised a lynch mob of dozens of Labour MPs and Peers to march through London and demand, successfully, the expulsion of Marc Wadsworth from the Labour Party, not for having lied about Smeeth, but for having been so uppity a Coloured as to have told the truth about her.
Look at all of the Black And Minority Ethnic Labour MPs, not one of whom has defended either Wadsworth, or Jackie Walker, or Tony Greenstein, or Chris Williamson. Look at Claire Kober, who sought to emulate apartheid South Africa by bulldozing Tottenham and building an all-white luxury gated community over its rubble.
Look at David Miliband, who created the "Chagos Marine Protected Area" in order to prevent the Chagossians from returning to their homeland. Look at Tony Blair, who with George Bush has killed more brown people than any other white man alive.
Look at Hilary Armstrong, who at the same time as she was Chief Whip on the Iraq War was banning me from becoming a Labour District Council candidate in her constituency because I was mixed-race. Look at Laura Pidcock, whose election literature in 2017 featured Armstrong's name, face, and words of endorsement.
And look at Simon Henig, the George Wallace of our time, whose attack on Durham County Council's Teaching Assistants is racist at least in effect, the Teaching Assistants having been brought to their sorry pass by the treacherous political advice of Pidcock's Political Advisor, Ben Sellout.
The Conservative Party is the party of the Windrush scandal and the party that, assisted by the Liberal Democrats, relegalised caste-based discrimination. Theresa May's Chief of Staff was Gavin Barwell, who as Housing Minister had caused the deaths at Grenfell Tower, itself a property of a flagship Conservative Council.
In 2011, under the Coalition, teenage black boys were convicted of rioting based on CCTV footage of entirely different teenage black boys. "They all look the same," you see, both to the Conservatives and to the Liberal Democrats.
Boris Johnson calls black people "piccaninnies", Muslim women "letterboxes", and gay men "bumboys". His Home Secretary, who has denaturalised Letts, is a close ally both of Narendra Modi and of Benjamin Netanyahu. Modi's Education Minister has slashed scholarships for Dalits (so-called "Untouchables"), while Netanyahu's Education Minister has described marriage between Jews and non-Jews as "a second Holocaust".
Meanwhile, the Labour Party has adopted the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism, a silencing of BAME, refugee and migrant voices redolent of Windrush and of Grenfell Tower.
Labour submits to the "Equality" and Human Rights Commission, which has no concern for the economic equality without which there can be no other, which sacks its black and disabled staff first, which exonerated the Government in relation to Windrush, and members of which profited from Windrush and from blacklisting.
A Labour Government evicted the Palestinians. A Labour Government evicted the people of the Chagos Islands, at the same time as it was repressing demonstrations in Hong Kong far more brutally than is happening at the moment. As has been mentioned, a Labour Government sought to banish the Chagossians permanently by creating the "Chagos Marine Protected Area". Like the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, Labour supports gender-self-identification.
A Conservative Party Conference would pose a threat to the physical safety of BAME people, of Dalits, of Muslim women and their children, of Jews with non-Jewish partners, of those partners and their children, of gay and bisexual men, and of lesbians and bisexual women.
A Liberal Democrat Conference would pose a threat to the physical safety of BAME people, especially Dalits and teenage black boys, and a threat to the physical safety of lesbians and bisexual women.
And a Labour Party Conference would pose a threat to the physical safety of BAME people, of refugees and migrants, of Palestinians, of Chagossians, of disabled people, of working-class people, of trade unionists, and of lesbians and bisexual women. Accordingly, all three of the Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and Labour Party Conferences ought to be cancelled, by court order if necessary.
Filed under: latest, UK, UK domestic politics
Tagged with: Boris Johnson, Chagos Islands, Conservatives, Grenfell, Israel, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Modi, UK domestic politics, Windrush
TobyK
Sep 2, 2019 11:51 PM
> [political party] conference would pose a threat to the physical safety of [approved oppressed group]
Oh look, another authoritarian multiculturalist who dishonestly equates free speech to physical violence.
> ought to be cancelled, by court order if necessary
Fascists don't change, but their (weak) excuses do.
Dungroanin
Surely these current Labour MP's who stood under the manifesto without supporting it ought to consider defecting to another party like the 'funny tingers' lot did.
They obviously won't be supporting the next Labour manifesto either, so should be honest about it , resign their membership and proudly go and be free and independent.
They could set up their own ex-whatevers club with all the dispossesed tory and libdems – and be on TV all the time whinging about the good old days – pre 2016 when they had bright and guaranteed futures. All turned to ashes.
Some might even have to to … i can't bring my self to say it – give up politics!
Chris Rogers
Reply to Dungroanin
The Rightist plan, that is from the Labour First Brigade is now to try and 'wait' Corbyn out, undermine him at every opportunity and replace him with a David Miliband like leader who does the bidding of the Ruling Elite – which is why i was dismayed 12 months ago when the NEC opted not to support Open Selection and gave us a stitch-up instead, one that has resulted in not one 'Trigger Ballot' against the leading Traitors thus far.
Reply to Chris Rogers
There is no room in the Zionist controlled Labour Party for Ken Livingstone, Chris Williamson, Marc Wadsworth, Jackie Walker, and so many other decent people.
So what is the point in persisting with Labour any more? Really?
Isn't it better simply to accept the reality that Labour is now a lost cause, a dead end, a waste of time and energy?
Maybe it's time to create something completely new, possibly based on Momentum.
Jezza is a decent bloke but he can't achieve anything. His supporters and allies have been picked off one by one by Board of Deputies and MSM orchestrated smear campaigns.
Vote Labour and you're not getting Jezza.
You're getting Watson, Benn, Bryant, Bradshaw, Phillips, Ellman, Smee, and all their ilk.
I'd prefer Farage or the Tories to that crew.
Reply to mark
Lol – 'nice' attempt at gas-lighting.
Sorry, you're quite right and I'm entirely wrong.
Watson, Phillips, Smee and Co. will shortly disappear in a big puff of smoke.
As will their boots from under the table.
As will our friends in the Board of Deputies.
Haltonbrat
Surely not Momentum with the Zionist Lansman in charge.
Something like momentum? What a tranny infested Trotskyist twat fest? No thanks we've had enough of fake socialists let's have some actual socialists for a change
They can wait until the mountains crumble – they will never get their neolib boots back under the Labour table.
Dungroanin there boots will be back under the table a bit sooner than you think and weirdly everyone except people who take politics seriously will vote labour again
Capricornia Man
Agree with much of this article, but what is meant by saying a Labour government expelled the Palestinians? If that means the 1945 government, my belief is that it abstained when the UN voted on partition in November 1947. The expulsions were begun in December by zionist militias and continued when the British mandate formally ended in May 1948. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was extremely critical of the British high command for not doing enough to stop the ethnic cleansing, but that is not the same as saying that the Labour government carried it out.
Reply to Capricornia Man
If you read pages 71-76 in David Cronin's book "Balfour's Shadow" you will see that it was more complicated than that and Ernest Bevin did not do any favours for the Palestinians.
The Jew terror groups had plans to murder both Attlee and Bevin in the UK.
These were very credible plans. They did murder Milner, the High Commissioner, and the Swedish peace envoy Count Bernadotte.
And they carried out a terrorist letter bomb campaign in Britain.
Reply to Editor
Thomas Suarez's recent book "STATE OF TERROR – How terrorism created modern Israel" makes for horrific reading. It includes 680 very detailed references to documents on the terrorist incidents revealed. Most people have no idea of the extent and horror of Zionist terrorism.
I have a copy of the book, bought at a presentation by Suarez, and will provide references.
The historical record. The graves of Milner and Bernadotte. The newspaper reports of the letter bomb campaign.
That is not providing a source. Provide a source in the form of a URL or citation to written work.
Try our very own Guardian of 22/5/03, Report on Threatened Jewish Activity in UK and Elsewhere. Lord Moyne, not Milner, was murdered by Jew terrorists in Cairo in November 1944. The Jew terror group Stern Gang carried out a letter bomb campaign against politicians in the UK in 1947. A bomb was placed in the Colonial Office. Several people were killed. Of course Jew terror in Palestine itself was on an incomparably greater scale.
A link to the Guardian piece would be helpful, and you still have not sourced any of the rest of your claims. Why the reluctance to post URLs in this age of instant verification?
Because I don't know what an url is.
A hyperlink. The web address of the source material you are alleging. Try googling the term.
Tom Suarez
Hello Mark, and thanks. Just to add that I don't know of anyone being killed in the Colonial Office bombing. I assume you refer to 7 March 1947, in which several people were injured. The only other was the failed attempt on 11 April by Gilberte Elizabeth Lazarus. I'd be grateful if there is information about any of the 7 March victims dying of their wounds.
The assassination list in the UK can be summarised by who the Zionists mailed letter bombs to. Among the UK recipients were Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin, Philip Noel-Baker, Oliver Stanley, Admiral Lord Fraser, Anthony Eden, Harold MacMichael, Arthur Greenwood, Roy Farran, and the Postmaster General. Very few were successful – the one for Roy Farran was successful (except that it killed his brother Rex instead). Harold MacMichael's would have been were it not for a savvy wife and maid.
DeportNormal
Deportation is now fashionable. Look at the new deportation program in India to remove about 2 million individuals whith no documentation as of 1971.
By applying the same logic, Palestine can adopt similar laws and deport all those with no proper documentation, let's say from the 1940s. Documentation need to prove the residents' family ties to the country and direct connection to the land in Palestine.
Logically, the World must stand by the Palestinians and facilitate a return of Israelis with no proper documentation proving their family ties in Palestine.
In India, there is a big risk, many of those to be deported will be rendered stateless. This is not the case with the Israelis. Almost certainly, those Israelis at the risk of deportation possess valid documentation proving their ties to lands in, for example, Ukraine, Germany and Russia.
Look at Hilary Armstrong, who at the same time as she was Chief Whip on the Iraq War was banning me from becoming a Labour District Council candidate in her constituency because I was mixed-race.
https://twitter.com/davidaslindsay/status/736661046811824129
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here.
The only "non-racist" in the UK is coming to your door step…
Yes, this is such an irredeemably racist and terribly anti semitic country that all immigrants, refugees, Jews etc., and anyone who is a bit suntanned, needs to be rounded up immediately and deported or repatriated to anywhere at all they can be sent or anywhere that will take them. Anywhere is better than Britain. Anywhere is safer for them than here. Any ISIS infested hellhole is a paradise by comparison.
Even now, the notorious anti semite Corbyn is building a gas chamber on his allotment with his henchmen and women, Ken Livingstone, Chris Williamson, Marc Wadsworth and Jackie Walker. Their evil plans are nearing fruition.
Repatriate and deport them all now for their own safety!
We must act before it's too late!!
There's no time to lose!!!
Gezzah Potts
Are you sure you're not CJ Hopkins masquerading as Mark!? Excellent btw.
pablomillerunit
Reply to Gezzah Potts
Actually Gezzah, to set the record striaght, I made the joke about Corbin' gas chamber last night on the " Israel has attacked Lebanon and Syria – so what? " thread, marks just borrowing it but you know how it is in real life – when someone borrows something and they don't return it, after awhile, I usually just say myself "let them keep – they must need it more than I do. Cheers!
Reply to pablomillerunit
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa Pablo. I didn't see your original comment over at Andre's article, hadn't looked at that story for nearly 2 days. Okay, here we go…. your comment was just as excellent as Mark's comment. On an offside, slightly surprised Hezbollah havn't answered Israel's aggression yet. Have been checking South Front for news.
Sorry, P, I hadn't seen that. I acknowledge your patent though.
mark I read that the gas chambers ( there is more than one ) are actually being built under Corbin's allotment, which highlights Corbin's " furtive and moral degraded nature. Ha!
The hidden entrance is believed to be underneath the aubergines and next to the runner beans.
nice one mark
Why does the author think that the current Labour party would put the Palestinans at risk. Corbyn is the first Labour leader to support Palestine. Blair, Brown and Milliband are all Zionists.
Emily Durron
Reply to Haltonbrat
Quite right.
Corbyn is pro-Hamas, just like Turkey, Russia and China, (before anyone swallows the western anti-Palestinian narrative).
Whilst I agree with the author that all three parties are racist – it's one of the reasons I don't understand BAME folk blindly clinging to Labour – I question why he has laid the blame for certain things such as Grenfell and Windrush solely at the Tories door. Labour also played a part in these things.
OK; I'll bite.
Since the article doesn't explain, tell me why we should be extremely concerned about Jihadi Jack Letts or Shamima Begum or any of the rest of them losing their UK nationality.
Plus you can fill me in on why they are all so keen to keep their UK passports. Wouldn't they all be happier as Saudi nationals?
If as you say the UK is just a toilet full of bigots and racists, there do seem to be astonishing numbers of migrants risking their own lives and those of their family members to try to move there. And Jack and Shamima and all the rest are ranting and raving about the injustice of not being allowed back. Why?
And, lastly, probably the most important point, if you want to find some really filthily disgusting bigots, throwing-gays-from-tall-buildings bigots, hating-with-venom-all-others bigots, look no further than these Islamist extremists.
Reply to Emily Durron
The most evil terrorists are to be found in Israel and I do not mean the Israeli Palestinians. The British started the war in Syria on behalf of Israel to bring down Assad which mirrors what happened in Libya. ISIS fights for UK/US/Israel; so Jihadi Jack et al have been fighting for the UK.
Indeed, Jihadi Jack and the ISIS brides have been proxies for the UK government. Therefore, following the logic of UK foreign policy, these people are patriots. Of course we all know the UK government use these people as scapegoats and useful distractions. And of course there are the White Helmet terrorists settled in the UK. Spirited away in a panic presumably to prevent the embarrassing and awful truth that the UK taxpayer funds mass murder and escalating tensions in the world.
People see racism as an issue on the streets and football matches but the problem goes right to the very top. It underpins the UK view and behaviour in the world. As always when you look at problem such as racism or Brazilian rainforests you have to think critically, look at the big picture and discard the narrow narratives in the media.
You are right in what you say but that does not allow us to overlook the kind of people jihadis are and too often the left turn a blind eye to the kind of trash they make common cause with. It is because they are all terrified of being accused of being racist. Well, let me ask you, what would the white western left think of jihadis, Islamists and Islam itself if its practitioners were all white westerners. Like the Mormons, or Jehovahs, for example.
You see, you are all blindsided by the skin colour of the people involved. Ergo, you are all racists, but here I digress from the main point.
Where do you get your knowledge of Jihadis from? The Media?
The Right have always been happy to make common cause with this "kind of trash" cf. Reagan's Mujahideen "freedom fighters".
As far as I am concerned, since the right wing coup of Brexit, all the nasty vermin who typically crawled under the floorboards feel emboldened to emerge into the daylight. So much so that they're now in charge of the agenda.
As far as you're concerned, black is white.
I would go as far as saying that at least one of those mentioned is a traitor.
It is so unlikely that Labour can win an election under Corbyn that I hope people use the next election as payback wherever it's strategically possible, to remove some of the many careerist centrists blighting the party….an action they have made clear they were willing to do themselves because Corbyn wasn't a fanatical remain supporter.
Its the lack of ruthlessness in JC that will probably be his undoing, however, as it stands, I see no alternative leader within the ranks of the PLP, so, he's all we've got if we desire meaningful change – like many others I'm disappointed that the Party fell for the IHRA crap and was stunned that we had a stitch up on Open Selection this time last year – the Party needs root and branch change urgently and should not be home for many of the factions that inhabit its structure – the membership in its expanded scope is not at fault here, we've tried and many of us have been booted out for our efforts, me being one of them.
Let's not forget that "ruthlessness" is not generally considered a human virtue.
It may be a Darwinian one, but Darwinism only goes so far.
I am not ready yet to assign the future of my species to such sub-human considerations at any rate.
Yet the future of the Labour party would I think, have been different with a leader like Nye Bevan had there been someone of that calibre alive now. Imagine him tearing Johnson a new one.
I was just thinking of Bevan yesterday.
What calls itself "leader" these days is just a wannabe with an inferiority complex.
You obviously know nothing about leadership. There are many different styles. The fact that he has achieved backing to grow the party to be one of the biggest in Europe and that they are very well organised to fight an election shows leadership qualities. He has done this despite an organised campaign against him by the government (Integrity Initiative), the media, Zionists and right wingers in the Labour party.
What an ignorant thing to say.
You have no idea what I know or don't know about leadership.
When did we last even discuss it?
As you say, of course there are different styles, and I am personally an admirer of Corbyn's.
All my comment was meant to convey was admiration for Bevan.
If you can read decades of ignorance into that comment, you're a pretty clever guy.
You appeared to be supporting Lundiel on the unsatisfactory leadership of Labour. Then your last sentence heavily criticises current leadership, so one would assume that we are debating leadership.
Excuse me! Don't assume I'm dissatisfied with Corbyn's leadership, I'm not, he's the best of what's currently available. I'm disappointed in the party that has clearly worked against him, I'm also disappointed in McDonnell who should have been protecting Corbyn, doing for him what Bevan did for Attlee…..it never happened and every day when journalists door-stepped Corbyn as he got on his bike it reinforced the media generated view he should go tend his allotment.
Too many Corbyn supporters won't tolerate any criticism which is stupid and self-defeating.
You did not mention Corbyn's deputy Tom Watson who has has constantly worked against him. Given the pressure Corbyn has had from all sides, including Linesman of Momentum, he has my congratulations. He has had particularly strong pressure from the Zionist organisations as the Israelis seek to control country leaders or potential leaders. Corbyn said that the first thing he would do on becoming PM would be to recognise Palestine.
I had never voted Labour until Corbyn came along; I stood in the recent elections. If Corbyn goes then so do I and thousands of others.
I am happy to deal with any genuine criticism of Corbyn.
My concern centres on the political choices available to me. I expect my choice of candidate will have the same foreign policy as I. I don't choose a candidate because of his/her foreign policy. I expect them to persue Socialist policies. Voting/support for a particular party shouldn't be governed by foreign policy alone.
I also think you expect too much of him. He is a parliamentary social democrat and though he might wish otherwise, is tied to NATO.
" ….tend his allotment " Lundiel we all know what he is 'doing' down at his 'allotment'.
I was supporting Lundiel inasfar as he mentioned Bevan's strength.
That does not mean I consider Corbyn to be hopelessly weak, and I agree with you that he has done remarkably well in the face of merciless media propaganda and falsehood against him.
I think Lundiel's original comment implied that Corbyn will not be "tearing Johnson a new one" as Bevan would probably have done, and if that was Lundiel's intent, I cannot disagree with him.
I would prefer to have such monstrosities as Johnson stopped suddenly in their tracks, rather than having us linger on eternally waiting for him and his "elite" backers to see the error of his loutish ways.
I also share Lundiel's view that Corbyn is by far the best we've got, and I wish him every success.
So effectively, JC and the Left should just ignore the continued treachery of Jess Philipps and her ilk within the PLP, many of whom preferring perpetual Tory Rule than an actual Left-of-Centre Labour administration. Just remember, the most transformative government our nation has ever had, namely that of Clement Attlee has Ernest Bevin as his enforcer – nothing got past Bevin and he'd have eviscerated the like of Philipps – by not dealing with these Red Tories JC exhibits weakness and strengthens their hand – had we had Open Selection many of these wasters would be out the door, alas, we had a NEC stitch-up instead, which, and if likely, we have a GE prior to Christmas, will come back to haunt the Party big time.
DomesticExtremi
Simply put, if the Labour Party will not deselect them, then the electorate surely will. Sadly that will mean no Labour majority next time but a hung Parliament as all of these duplicitous, undemocratic dogs-in -the-manger MPs are flushed out of the Commons.
Ditto on the Tory side – our only hope is that a second election swiftly follows.
I don't think the opposite of being ruthless is to ignore.
It is to find a better alternative and to show why it is better, as well as showing the gaping holes in your opponent's argument.
Ruthlessness is just establishing a new version of the ancient basis of our current royal family:
"I hit my opponent over the head with a bigger rock than the one he was carrying, so I got to be king"…
Obsolete, sub-human and sociopathic.
We COULD go that way, but let's not.
wardropper,
I think it safe to say I've had Corbyn's back since he came onto the scene in July 2015, although, and given his desire, thought it hard to swallow that he wanted a 'nicer, gentler' form of politics, when the reality was his enemies would use every tool at their disposal to depose him – given said facts, many of us engaged in the very practices that Corbyn was opposed too, had we not engaged with vigour he'd not be leader now.
For this individuals thought crimes against sinister Rightist forces within the Party I was expelled in the Great Purge of August 2016, about 5K peers were expelled, Auto-expelled or suspended as McNicol, Johanna Baxter and Margaret Beckett tried to gerrymander the second leadership election during the Chicken Coup – these antics continue unabated under the guise of the AS Witch Hunts.
Whilst, in a perfect scenario, its nice to follow yours and Corbyn's lead, the fact remains these Rightists cannot be defeated unless we too get our hands dirty, indeed, one look at the antics of Luke Akehurst should drum this message home – and don't call him a 'gammon', he don't like it.
Thank you Chris.
Actually I agree with everything you say in that comment, and "getting our hands dirty" is probably an inevitable part of trying to defeat the rot in our midst.
The problem is just where to draw the line:
Nobody wants the Reign of Terror which late 18th Cent. France endured, but on the other hand the rot is terminal enough to warrant drastic surgery.
I can see that Corbyn has to walk quite a tricky tightrope here, and I don't envy him the task. I, too, have supported him from the beginning, but I don't feel I have the wisdom to offer him advice in the dreadful political situation facing the world today.
I mean, when I look at the Trump/Johnson/EU abomination guiding western foreign policy today, words simply fail me.
I'm fully onboard JC is in an awkward spot, and know he does not have full control of the PLP, whilst Constitutionally, he's only head of the Party, but does not manager the Party machinery, which is beyond his purview, that being the General Secretary's job and that of the NEC, and of course his grasp on the NEC is not that strong, as the presence of l Lansman attests too – he who gifted us the full monty IHRA. Thus, I'll only critique when necessary, in a nice way I hope.
That said, mistakes have been made, and our duty is to recognise them and try and mitigate against them – the Brexit fuddle be one of these as messages do seem to be mixed, and not in tune with Conference Resolutions, which causes me alarm.
Anyhow, and actually commenting on your Reign of Terror quote, the strangest thing is the anti-democrat and anti-reformists of the Right actually do equate Open selection and greater Party democracy as a Reign of Terror, whilst themselves inflicting Terror on many of the actual members, the favoured one being faux charges of Antisemitism, which are most difficult to fight once levelled by usually un-named parties.
I could wince on about the actual Reign of Terror itself, which funnily enough, I determined was a rational course of action that got a little out of control shall we say.
You surely realise who is attacking the Labour party and Corbyn. It is organised by Israel and their zionist supporters in the UK as was proven by the Al Jazeera under cover reporter's video "The Lobby". Israel are ruthless in getting what they want and will use serious threats and actions. They have supporters in the Labour party who also do not want Corbyn. Didn't the BBC accuse Corbyn of being ruthless? Of course he is not ruthless, and that is why he has attracted lots of new party members who will leave the party if Corbyn goes. We can go only to the Greens which is essentially a socialist party, but they also are not ruthless.
You are a bit obsessed with Jews, if I may say so.
Corbyn is under sustained assault from the British deep state. That is a fact like the sun rises daily in the east. They are afraid like never before of a genuinely left-wing government. The stuff from Israel comes from his support for Hamas, and it is there, but it is teeny-tiny minor compared to the relentless anti-Corbyn filth spewed by the British state via the Guardian, Telegraph, BBC etc.
If you think that Jews are the source of all evil then you are part of the scum tide of history, sometimes ebbing, sometimes flowing, but always there, never leaving.
All the Middle East wars have been fought on the orders of Israel including Syria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeyRwFHR8WY
Now Israel want the USA to make war on Iran.
Therefore Israel and zionism is very relevant to this article. Israel has been genociding the Palestinians for several decades now. Of course to you any criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
Read Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and Thomas Suarez's "State of Terror – How terrorism created modern Israel" which has 680 detailed documented references.
The "Australian" Broadcasting Corporation has, for at least a year, promoted the 'antisemitic' canard against the UK Labour left and Corbyn. No speakers in defence of Labour, no readily available information which would disprove the smears, is permitted to be broadcast. This breaches the ABC's code of practice which stipulates a right of reply must be given. But the ABC will tell you there has been no breach of the code. An insult to honest journalism.
Here is some proof that the whole antisemitic Labour party story is nothing more than a dirty witch hunt, driven by ulterior motives. ABC = BBC, yet another criminal establishment institution masquerading as a friend of the public, when the truth is that it is the enemy of the public. Inversion. They love a bit of inversion
https://evolvepolitics.com/yougov-polls-show-anti-semitism-in-labour-has-actually-reduced-dramatically-since-jeremy-corbyn-became-leader/
ZigZag Wanderer
Haltonbrat hasn't mentioned Jews . Not once.
However you suggest that Haltonbrat is " a bit obsessed with Jews" and "think that Jews are the source of all evil".
Top class distortion though …. well done.
Reply to ZigZag Wanderer
Top class distortion my arse. Don't make me laugh.
"You surely realise who is attacking the Labour party and Corbyn. It is organised by Israel and their zionist supporters in the UK".
It is not even innuendo. It is not even implication. It is out-and-out stating that attacks on Corbyn's Labour are organised by Israel and zionists and would not exist otherwise. He says nobody opposes Corbyn, not the Daily Telegraph or anyone, unless they get the nod from Tel Aviv.
So do please keep quiet until you learn to read. Dufus, once you get into seeing everyone as Zionist agents, you have a serious problem.
You are putting words into my mouth with your penultimate sentence, so learn how to read. The campaign against Corbyn and Labour was openly planned on Twitter. How did all three Jewish newspapers have the same headline attacking Labour and Corbyn on the same day. Of course it is open for them to do that, but it should be discusable. You are trying to shut down discussion.
The Zionists, not the Jews are the source of a great deal of evil right up to this present day. The Zionists stated that the Palestinians are the scum of the earth, but as usual the Zionists stand history on it's head. If you read Suarez's book on Zionist and Israeli terrorism you will be totally shocked.
It is so unlikely that Labour can win an election under Corbyn
That's what they all said last time. And you too, probably. He had no chance, it was going to be an embarrassing result, massive Tory triumph, the MSM hammered the message home, Teresa lapped it up, thought she would increase her majority…
Well, Corbyn went out there around the cities, spoke to 250,000 people in George Square in Liverpool, the next day he had 200,000 to hear him in Newcastle, all well known facts if you look but there was a total news blackout in the MSM, since it went against the narrative; to watch the news during the campaign, they never mentioned Corbyn except in negative terms. What I remember of the campaign was everyone up and down the land singing "Ooooh, Jememy Corbyn" to the tune of Seven Nation Army while Teresa screwed everything up.
So do not underestimate the man or the power of what he says to people. By the way, he had no chance during the Labour leadership campaign either, as the MSM informed us. It was either one Blairite prick or another Blairite prick, if I remember correctly.
So, let's see.
I was one of those canvassing for Corbyn. I have since left the party due to policy, but I still support Corbyn personally.
In my very limited canvassing of friends, neighbours, acquaintances, etc. It appears that there really has been a shift of centrist Labour supporters (who also happen to be remain voters) to the LibDems. None of them mentions the referendum as influencing their move to the Liberals, they all quote antisemitism. The other factor at work is Johnson. His election as leader of the Tories along with supporting leave has seen the reset of the Tories in the eyes of many of my fellow working-class voters, they are willing to give him a chance.
I would like to think I am underestimating the power of Corbyn but much has happened in the last 3 years, not the least of which, the true extent of internal plotting within Labour, is quite astounding, about three-quarters of his MPs are against him and probably half would, as Chris Rogers rightly said, rather have an eternal Conservative government than one led by Corbyn.
I hope that DomesticExtremi above is correct and we can have a clearout of the worst of them giving Johnson a win without a majority with another election shortly after, giving Labour a chance to bring forward some new candidates.
KarenEliot
Many OffG articles are so thick with links that it is hard to know where to start. This looks like a very telling indictment, and I don't doubt the writers credibility, but some links to evidence (especially the allegation made re the EHRC) would be really appreciated. That British politics is endemically racist I don't doubt for a second. Thank you David.
Reply to KarenEliot
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/05/equalities-body-accused-of-targeting-bame-staff-for-redundancies-letter-ehrc-black-asian-communities
I don't think that Labour under Corbyn is racist. Perhaps you believe the false media accusations of antisemitism?
It's true that many Labour MPs loyal to the party are not racist. But the whole phoney anti- semitism row has been promoted also by many Labour members. The party has become infiltrated by a large group, some under the pay of Israel. This whole promotion of anti semitism in the party is racist -:as was Russiagate towards Russia. In promoting fake narratives they are responsible for ill feeling towards life long campaigners against racism and Palestinians and have distracted away from Israel's crimes against other races.
John Mann was mentioned in the article. A clear racist. What's he doing in the Labour party? It sounds to me there are some in the Labour Party who are prepared to exploit race to further their own careers or line their pockets.


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Feast Day of St. Apronian the Executioner
Add comment February 2nd, 2020 Headsman
This gentleman is far from antiquity's most distinguished Christian martyr, but a site such as Executed Today can scarcely omit the sacrifice of one Saint Apronian the Executioner, who we learn was
Executioner for imperial Rome. He was a witness at the trial of Saint Sisinnius who was charged with Christianity in the persecutions of Diocletian. Sisinnius' statement of his faith converted Apronian. He was martyred soon after.
Many other translations make him not executioner but notary; the Roman Martyrology from which these versions derive marks him as Commentariensis — a prison-keeper.
So there's a good chance that "executioner" here is a bit of dramatic exaggeration. That said, while ancient Rome had plenty of executions, they wouldn't necessarily be conducted by a single executioner as we imagine the office from subsequent European history. Depending on the rank of the accused (notably citizen vs. not), the location of the proceedings (Rome vs. provinces), and the prevailing climate, capital punishments might be handled by various civic entities or bodies of armed men.
The office of carnifex, literally "flesh-render" or "butcher", had the brief to torture and execute slaves and foreigners; evidently, there are hints that this dishonorable position might also be held by a prison warden. Perhaps this is the basis for linking Saint Apronian to the gig.
Despite the distinctive (albeit not unique) professional attribution, Apronian is not the patron saint of executioners. In fact, there is no such sacred patronage, although searches for same turn up this jam:
1610: Pierre Canal, Geneva sodomite - 2019
1715: Ann Wright, branded - 2018
1637: Tabaniyassi Mehmed Pasha, former Grand Vizier - 2017
1940: Mikhail Koltsov, Soviet journalist - 2016
1905: Elisabeth Wiese, the angel-maker of St. Pauli - 2015
1989: Vladimir Lulek, the last Czech executed - 2014
1708: Indian Sam and his female accomplice - 2013
1951: The first four of the Martinsville seven - 2012
1945: Carl Goerdeler, as penance for the German people - 2011
Daily Double: 1945, and the legacy of Valkyrie - 2011
1461: Owen Tudor, sire of sires - 2010
1940: Vsevolod Meyerhold - 2009
1512: Hatuey, defied Spanish colonization - 2008
Feast Day of Boethius
Feast Day of St. Cecilia, patron of music
Feast Day of St. Agatha
250: Pope St. Fabian
Feast Day of Saint Agnes
Feast Day of Pope Pontian and Antipope Hippolytus
Entry Filed under: Ancient,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,God,Italy,Martyrs,Religious Figures,Roman Empire,Uncertain Dates
Tags: ancona, february 2, st. apronian
1964: Nguyen Van Nhung, Diem executioner
Add comment January 31st, 2020 Headsman
Vietnamese General Nguyen Van Nhung was (apparently) executed on this date in 1964.
He was the victim of a South Vietnamese coup, after having been a key operative in the previous one. Back on 2 November 1963, he'd piled into the back of an armored personnel carrier with the fresh-deposed President Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem's brother Ngô Dình Nhu. When the APC arrived at its destination, Diem and Nhu were both dead.
According to the other putchist in the vehicle with him,
As we rode back to the Joint General Staff headquarters, Diem sat silently, but Nhu and the captain [Nhung] began to insult each other. I don't know who started it. The name-calling grew passionate. The captain had hated Nhu before. Now he was charged with emotion … [and] lunged at Nhu with a bayonet and stabbed him again and again, maybe fifteen or twenty times. Still in a rage, he turned to Diem, took out his revolver and shot him in the head. Then he looked back at Nhu, who was lying on the floor, twitching. He put a bullet into his head too. Neither Diem nor Nhu ever defended themselves. Their hands were tied. (Source)
Nhung's turn as executioner — no unfamiliar role; the guy was notorious for tallying his career kills in notches on his gun barrel — made his boss Duong Van Minh the new President … for all of three months. By all accounts he was a useless executive:
the ruling generals were paralyzed by ineptitude. They had formed a military revolutionary council, composed of twelve members who bickered endlessly. Their normal chairman, General Minh, boasted that the collegial arrangement would guarantee against the autocratic excesses of the old regime. In reality, Minh had contrived the committee in order to bolster his prestige without increasing his responsibility. He was a model of lethargy, lacking both the skill and the inclination to govern. As he confided to me one morning as we chatted in his headquarters, he preferred to play tennis and tend to his orchids and exotic birds than to preside over tedious meetings and unravel bureaucratic tangles … In a cable to Washington, [U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge] described Minh as a "good, well-intentioned man," but added a prophetic note: "Will he be strong enough to get on top of things?"
On 30 January 1964, Minh was overthrown by another general, Nguyen Khánh, in a bloodless dawn coup. Well, virtually bloodless. The sole casualty was Nguyen Van Nhung, who paid for the assassination of Diem the next day via a pistol shot to the head at a Saigon villa. The official story promulgated by the new regime described him instead committing suicide in shame for the Diem murder.
1821: Henry Tobin, extortionist - 2019
1851: Ruben Dunbar, Destructiveness and Combativeness - 2018
1731: Alejo Calatayud, Mestizo - 2017
1550: Four Anabaptist martyrs at Lier - 2016
1679: Robert Foulkes, adulterous minister - 2015
1902: A day in the death penalty around the Pacific Northwest - 2014
1923: Eligiusz Niewiadomski, assassin-artist - 2013
1632: Aris Kindt, Rembrandt subject - 2012
1879: Takahashi Oden, dokufu and she-demon - 2011
1955: Moshe Marzouk and Shmuel Azar - 2010
1945: Private Eddie Slovik, the last American shot for desertion - 2009
1606: Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators - 2008
1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
1941: Arndt Pekurinen, conscientious objector
1941: Twenty Red Army officers
1943: Amos Pampaloni, Captain Corelli's Mandolin inspiration
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Borderline "Executions",Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,History,No Formal Charge,Shot,Soldiers,Summary Executions,Vietnam,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1960s, 1964, coup d'etat, duong van minh, january 31, ngo dinh diem, ngo dinh nhu, nguyen khanh, nguyen van nhung, vietnam war
1521: The rebel Ribbings
3 comments December 23rd, 2019 Headsman
On this date in 1521, the Swedish rebel brothers Lindorm and Peder Ribbing were beheaded in Jönköping.
This event fell during the brief reign of the Danish king Christian II over Sweden, notably distinguished by the previous year's Stockholm Bloodbath. Christian held Sweden only by force of arms and his continual bloody exertions to put down resistance have blackened his name in Swedish annals as "Christian the Tyrant".
While the Ribbings were merely minor rebels in a country teeming with umbrage, their executions contributed a particularly atrocious (albeit perhaps folklorish) episode to that tyrannous reputation.
Not only the brothers themselves but their children also were put to death … and the story has it that after Lindorm Ribbing's eldest son lost his head, his five-year-old brother pitiably implored the headsman, "My good man. Please do not stain my shirt as you did my brother's or my mother will spank me." Moved to tears, the executioner then discarded his sword and exclaimed, "Never! Sooner shall my own shirt be stained then I would stain yours." Both he and the little boy then got the chop from a less sentimental swordsman.
1572: Johann Sylvan, Antitrinitarian - 2018
1856: Three Italian seamen in Hampshire - 2017
1569: Orthodox Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow - 2016
1736: Ana de Castro and two Jesuit effigies in a Lima auto de fe - 2015
1679: "A number of poor people for the crime of witchcraft" - 2014
1605: Niklaus von Gulchen, Nuremberg privy councillor - 2013
1926: Petrus Stephanus Hauptfleisch, mother-murderer - 2012
1799: Isaac Yeshurun Sasportas, anti-slavery insurrectionist - 2011
1942: Sasha Filippov, during the Battle of Stalingrad - 2010
1953: Lavrenty Beria, Stalin henchman - 2009
1948: Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war criminals - 2008
1559: Anne du Bourg - 2007
1520: Hemming Gadh
1803: Robert Emmet, "let no man write my epitaph"
1548: Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Carvajal
1521: The Comuneros of Castile
1723: Major Jean Abram Davel
1536: Skipper Clement, rebel
1492: Jan van Coppenolle
Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Children,Death Penalty,Denmark,Execution,Executioners,History,Occupation and Colonialism,Power,Public Executions,Separatists,Sweden,Treason
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1503: A banderaio and an executioner
Add comment May 29th, 2018 Headsman
Courtesy of Emotions in the Heart of the City (14th-16th century), we travel to Florence during its between-Medicis republican interim* for a very emotional execution:
On the morning of 29 May 1503, outside the city's great Gate of Justice,** a young flag-maker (banderaio) was put to death for having murdered another banderaio. In a scene that struck the throng of spectators as an outrage, the executioner had failed to cut off his head even after three blows of his sword. The sight must have been grisly, for the attending mounted captain was next forced to move in and club the flag-maker to death. The compassion of the crowd now pivoted into incandescent rage. A tumult broke out, as men and boys directed a cannonade of rocks at the executioner. There was, in addition, something oddly religious about the event, because rocks were also thrown at the men hooded in black, the members of the religious confraternity who were there to offer comfort to the unfortunate banderaio. They had to flee for their lives. The executioner was killed, and children then lugged his corpse around, worked their way back into the city, and dragged the body all the way up to the Franciscan Church of Santa Croce. Were they sending a message to Savonarola's great local enemies, the Franciscans? There was a possible religious subtext to this episode : some contemporaries claimed that the hangman had been punished — he was the very same man — for having first insulted and then hanged Savonarola five years previously. It goes without saying that he had died without last rites, and the dragging about of his body again touched on something religious in being subject to a 'ceremony' of desecration.
Although I cannot locate an online version of this document, it appears to me that a primary source for this incident is the chronicle of Simone Filipepi. This historian is a bit less famous than his little brother Alessandro Filipepi … who is inscribed in the annals of art's history by his nickname (meaning "Little Barrel") as Sandro Botticelli.
Tangentially, readers might also enjoy this 1625 instance of a clumsy executioner being lynched: in that case, his proposed prey actually survived the scaffold. A similar fate nearly befell notorious English hangman Jack Ketch, after his maladroit butchering of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.
* This period prior to the restoration of the Medici was also Machiavelli's political heyday. (He wrote his classics of statecraft after Giuliano de' Medici subsequently recaptured Florence from the pie-eyed republicans and retired Machiavelli to countryside exile.)
** This public domain English translation of Guido Carocci's classic Firenze Scomparsa (Bygone Florence) illuminates some of the relevant topography.
A tower which now only consists of four stone walls, plain and undecorated, but which some day must have been much higher and surmounted by battlements, rises at the end of the Lungarno apposite the viale Carlo Alberto.
It is the sole remnant, the only souvenir of a number of ancient buildings which were situated in this position, and were known as the old mint (Zecca Vecchia).
Previous to the demolition of the walls the tower reared its massive proportions on the river bank in the midst of the ramparts of a dismantled fortress, near a mill race and buildings next the walls which at this point showed traces of a walled up gate.
The buildings next to the tower seemed a mixture of old and modern construction with large arched rooms, long corridors and balconies overhanging the canal from the Arno — which gave motive power to the wheels of various cloth mills.
These houses, which grouped en masse were of singular picturesqueness, completed the view of green banks and vine covered hills lining the river and were full of interesting historical associations.
A postern gate was situated here, flanked by a tower on the river bank to defend the city from a water attack; this was called the Gate of Justice, and its name calls up painful and melancholy memories. Outside the walls at the end of a meadow beyond the moat was a small low church whose facade was frescoed with sad subjects. In this meadow was placed the gallows and executionary scaffold. The Gate of Justice was generally closed for the better security of the city and was only thrown open for the passage of religious companies accompanying condemned criminals to the place of execution.
The street through which they passed to the gate was very appropriately known as Via Malcontenti, (Street of the Discontented).
Via dei Malcontenti, Florence (c. 1880) by Telemaco Signorini.
In 1346 criminals condemned to death were brought to a chapel, still in existence, next to the church of San Giuseppe in Via Malcontenti were tied to an iron ring which may still be seen in the pavement, but afterwards the little church outside the walls was built for this last grim service. [If this artifact still exists, I would be indebted to anyone who can supply a picture of it. -ed.]
The church was used as a resting place where the penitent might offer his short and final prayer before being handed over to the executioner.
The victims' bodies remained suspended on the gallows for days in order to act as a wholesome warning to all evil disposed persons, but the Florentines, who must have their little joke even on the most solemn subjects, called these meadows which formerly belonged to the Nemi family, the paretaio of the Nemi (bird-catching place of the Nemi).
The gate of Justice was walled up during the great siege, and after that the lugubrious procession passed through the Porta alla Croce. In our times traces of this gate, partly buried in the raised soil, could still be seen previous to the destruction of the old walls and above it the hole through which every defensive missile might be hurled on attacking parties below.
1798: The Gibbet Rath massacre - 2020
1895: Lafayette Prince - 2019
1728: John Audouin, "happy is the Man whom God correcteth" - 2017
2013: Elmer Carroll, boogie man - 2016
1899: Adrian Braun, who murdered his wife in Sing Sing - 2015
1879: Troy Dye and Ed Anderson, estate salesmen - 2014
1818: Abraham Casler, marital woes - 2013
1985: Marvin Francois, back to Africa - 2012
1606: Caravaggio murders Ranuccio Tomassoni - 2011
1529: Jacob Kaiser, launching the First War of Kappel - 2010
1962: Gheorghe Arsenescu, Romanian partisan - 2009
1593: John Penry, Shakespeare's midwife? - 2008
1599: Beatrice Cenci and her family, for parricide
1909: Will James, "the Froggie", lynched in Cairo
1852: "Brown", lynched in California
1862: Not Finnigan, miner's court survivee
1722: Cartouche's brother, hanged by the armpits
1934: Georges-Alexandre Sarrejani, vitriolic
1562: Michael Lindener, poet laureate
Entry Filed under: 16th Century,Beheaded,Bludgeoned,Borderline "Executions",Botched Executions,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,Florence,History,Italy,Lynching,Public Executions
Tags: 1500s, 1503, may 29
1686: Paskah Rose, Jack Ketch interregnum
2 comments May 28th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1686, the English executioner Paskah (or Pascha) Rose was hanged at Tyburn for burglary — by his predecessor and his successor, the famed hangman Jack Ketch.
(c) image from Peter Herring, used with permission. Also see this illustration
The "Jack Ketch" character from a Punch and Judy puppet show: traditionally, Punch gets the better of their meeting and hangs Jack Ketch.
The Irish immigrant Ketch is the first name in English executioners. Indeed, you can call any of his successors right down to Pierrepoint a "Jack Ketch" and be perfectly understood.
The immediate successor, however, was Ketch's own assistant — who inherited top billing after Ketch went to jail for "affronting" a sheriff.
Jack Ketch had been trodding the scaffold-boards, hanging, beheading, and drawing-and-quartering for two-plus decades at that point: he's thought to have been appointed in 1663, and he'd inserted himself into those performances rather more prominently than an executioner ought by botching some of Restoration England's most high-profile executions.
There's little reliable information about these early executioners, but it seems Ketch's reputation for clumsiness had forced him to issue an "Apologie" justifying himself.
But the man unquestionably had longevity in his favor, which is more than Paskah Rose could say.
Within months of becoming the chief London executioner, Rose and another man were chased down in the act of burgling clothes from a house, "the Goods found in Rose's Breeches."
Rose and his co-defendant Edward Smith accordingly hanged along with three others at Tyburn this date — by Jack Ketch, now returned from his carceral retirement for one last tour.
Ketch died late that same year of 1686, but has lived on in any number of ballads, doggerels and broadsides immortalizing the name. He was surely aided in this by the less impressive caliber of many who succeeded him: it wasn't long after Ketch dispatched Pascha Rose that another "Jack Ketch" — an ignoble profession that wouldn't until centuries hence be drawn from the country's respectable classes — also met Pascha Rose's same fate.
There's a now-public-domain Autobiography of Jack Ketch by 19th century English writer Charles Whitehead.
1754: Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, the first Washington atrocity - 2020
1345: Arnaud Foucaud, jobbing trooper - 2019
1753: George Robertson, prick - 2018
1794: The neighbors of Susan Sorel, the female atheist - 2017
2015: A day in the death penalty around the world - 2016
1879: Alexander Soloviev, bad shot - 2015
1213: Peter of Pontefract, oracle - 2014
1829: George Chapman, besotted - 2013
Themed Set: Old New York - 2013
1872: Franks survives Fiji's first hanging - 2011
2002: Napoleon Beazley, who threw it all away - 2010
1871: The Paris Commune falls - 2009
1987: Valery Martynov, betrayed by Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen - 2008
1741: Jenny Diver, a Bobby Darin lyric?
1718: John "Jack Ketch" Price, former hangman
1803: George Foster, and thence to the reanimator
1777: William Dodd, mind wonderfully concentrated
1670: Claude Duval, gentleman highwayman
1673: Mary Carleton, "German princess"
Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Execution,Executioners,Hanged,History,Language,Mass Executions,Notable Participants,Popular Culture,Public Executions,Theft
Tags: 1680s, 1686, edward smith, famous executioners, jack ketch, london, may 28, pascha rose, paskah rose, punch and judy, Tyburn
1938: Yakov Peters, Siege of Sidney Street survivor
1 comment April 25th, 2011 Headsman
On this date in 1938, a Soviet purge claimed (among others*) Yakov (Jacob) Peters, former Cheka executioner and once the subject of a headline-grabbing trial in England.
Peters was a trusted (and ruthless) operator in the Soviet internal police from the start of the Revolution: he helped interrogate Lenin's would-be assassin Fanya Kaplan in 1918.
And he was the guy Trotsky had on speed-dial when Cheka founder Felix Dzerzhinsky was arrested by the Left SRs during their abortive 1918 uprising against their erstwhile revolutionary allies, the Bolsheviks.**
Dzerzhinsky was disarmed and locked in a room. his assistant, M.I. Latsis, was captured in the Cheka Lubianka headquarters. "No point in taking him anywhere, put this scum against the wall!" shouted a sailor, but one of the leaders, Alexandrovich, intervened, saying, "There is no need to kill, comrades; arrest him, but do not kill." Dzerzhinsky's assistant Yakov Peters was urgently summoned by Trotsky, who ordered him to crush the uprising by attacking the Left Eser headquarters. Alexandrovich was caught at a railway station, and Latsis, whom he had saved from execution, personally shot him. Mass executions in Cheka prisons followed. (Source)
Like a lot of old Bolsheviks, Peters's early service to the cause didn't age too well. He ran afoul of some bureaucratic intrigue or point of party discipline or other and caught a bullet in 1938. (Khrushchev rehabilitated him.)
For anyone in England watching the fate of this distant apparatchik, the proximity to bloodbaths would have had a familiar hue.
Peters was one of a gang of Latvian revolutionaries who came to cinematic public attention in London when, in the course of being rounded up for a December 1910 murder, they engaged the police in a stupendous East End firefight on January 2, 1911 — the Siege of Sidney Street. (It's also known as the Battle of Stepney.)
Armed like soldiery, the Latvians easily outgunned the bobbies who had them hemmed into a cul-de-sac, and they fired on John Law with ruthless effect. This necessitated a call to the Scots Guard — whose deployment was okayed by Home Secretary Winston Churchill, the latter captured on film that day awkwardly milling about the scene of the urban combat.
(Translated directly to the city's cinemas as soon as that same evening, Churchill's image came in for public catcalls owing to his support for a relatively open immigration policy for eastern Europeans.)
This incident was a landmark in crime, policing, media — recognizably modern in its trappings of nefarious immigrant terrorists, politicized state funerals for policemen, and of course, the live-on-the-scenes camera work.
Since Britain was a ready hand with the noose at this time, one might think an execution would have been just the denouement.
However, responsibility for the policememen slain in the affray had been officially assigned to a different gang member, George Gardstein — who was killed when the besieged house burned down — and there was little usable evidence against those who were finally put on trial for the gang's various crimes. Most of the witnesses were dead, fled, or completely unreliable, so the surviving Latvians all walked.
(Since the identity of one of the first guys to start shooting when the police rang always remained murky, there are some theories — such as in this out-of-print book — that Peters himself had been one of the gunmen on-site, and/or that he could be identified with the absconded and never-captured gang leader "Peter the Painter".)
Whatever the exact measure of blood on Yakov Peters's hands from Sidney Street, there would be a lot more where it came from.
While Peters went off to his different fate in revolutionary Russia, the dramatic scene he left behind has naturally attracted continuing retrospective attention in England. The testimony of witnesses, who also recollect the shootout's anti-immigrant fallout, is preserved in this BBC Witness radio program:
[audio:http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/witness/witness_20110127-0950a.mp3]
And, on this BBC Four television special:
* e.g., Russian Civil War officer Nikolay Gikalo and Romanian Jewish revolutionary Leon Lichtblau.
** And in favor of resuming Russia's ruinous involvement in World War I!
1328: Pierre de Remi, royal treasurer - 2020
1804: Hans Jakob Willi, Bockenkrieger - 2019
1827: Blue Jimmy - 2018
1859: Oscar Jackson lynched, precipitating the Wright County War - 2017
1952: Lloyd Edison Sampsell, the Yacht Bandit - 2016
1864: Thomas Dawson, manhood sealed - 2015
1683: Yaoya Oshichi, fire horse - 2014
1900: Bill Brown, Sonnie Crain and John Watson - 2013
1945: Ewald Ehlers lynched - 2012
1644: Looters in conquered Beijing - 2010
1649: John Poyer, the lucky winner - 2009
1792: Nicolas Pelletier, Madame Guillotine's first kiss - 2008
1952: Night of the Murdered Poets
1925: Sidney Reilly
1958: Imre Nagy, former Prime Minister of Hungary
1946: The Nuremberg Trial War Criminals
1950: The Leningrad Affair "culprits"
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Crime,Death Penalty,England,Espionage,Execution,Executioners,History,Lithuania,Politicians,Posthumous Exonerations,Power,Revolutionaries,Russia,Shot,The Worm Turns
Tags: 1930, 1930s, april 25, bolshevik revolution, bolsheviks, cheka, communism, communists, felix dzerzhinsky, immigrants, immigration, jacob peters, joseph stalin, left srs, lenin, leon lichtblau, leon trotsky, london, media, moscow, nikolay gikalo, peter the painter, purge, russian revolution, siege of sidney street, yakov peters
1977: Girma Kebede in the Ethiopian Red Terror
Add comment April 2nd, 2011 Headsman
There's a reason why "may you live in interesting times" is a curse.
The eras we call a "Terror" — Stalin's Russia, Robespierre's France, Pol Pot's Cambodia — are pretty interesting.
Ethiopia in the mid-1970's was one of the most interesting places in the world.
After the Derg, a shadowy committee of leftist officers, toppled the monarchy in 1974, factional violence between Ethiopia's two main Marxist parties soon came to the fore.
Long story short, All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement (MEISON) backed the Derg — while its rival the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) denounced it as fascistic.
And when Mengistu assumed dictatorial power in February 1977, it was Red Terror on.
It was as dirty as it sounds, "one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by the state ever witnessed in Africa" according to Human Rights Watch. This was the context of Mengistu's most notorious public appearance, at an Addis Ababa rally later this same month of April 1977 when he theatrically smashed bottles of (apparently) blood while inciting his supporters against "enemies."
Now that is red terror.
The Derg-MEISON alliance* built up Kebeles, small neighborhood militias — "essentially a matter of arming the lumpenproletariat against members of the urban intelligentsia," writes Christopher Clapham.
But even these MEISON-allied goon squads were liable to run afoul of revolutionary justice if their indiscriminate mayhem failed to discriminate at the most essential moment.
On two occasions, March and again in May 1977, house-to-house searches were carried out in Addis Ababa, and suspected EPRP members rounded up for execution. Attempts by the EPRP to launch a school strike were likewise countered by the execution of students who failed to attend classes. The press regularly reported the execution of 'anarchists' and 'paid assassins'. Along with the conflict between the rival political factions went the settling of personal scores, and gratuitous killings by psychotics on either side. The most notorious of these, Girma Kebede, was a Meison kebelle chairman in the Arat Kilo area of Addis Ababa, and the well-educated son of a former high official; he overreached himself by taking away for execution a group of 'reactionaries' from the Ministry of Education who included Mengistu's uncle, and was then shot on the charge of seeking 'to alienate the people from the Government and incite the broad masses against the revolution'.
On this date in 1977, Girma Kebede paid the forfeit. His, er, strategy of killing scores of humans to alienate the people from the government would take many more years and bodies to succeed.
* Later that year, the Derg-MEISON alliance also fell apart, Mengistu cemented his power, and MEISON got the same treatment it had once meted out to its EPRP enemies.
1759: Mary Edmondson - 2020
1942: Ewald Schlitt, performative cruelty - 2019
1590: George Schweiger, tough love - 2018
1828: William Dyon and John Dyon, all in the family - 2017
1954: Henry Frank Decaillet - 2016
1756: Veronika Zeritschin, the last witch executed in Germany - 2015
1880: James Madison Wyatt Stone, landing on his feet - 2014
1897: Ernest and Alexis Blanc, brothers in blood - 2013
1674: Benjamin Gourd, the last bestiality execution - 2012
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews - 2010
1781: John Donellan, Esq. - 2009
1582: John Payne, snitched out - 2008
1944: Col. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, for the plot to kill Hitler
1942: Bishop Gorazd of Prague
1909: Leonard Groce and Lee Roy Cannon, American mercenaries in Nicaragua
1945: Friedrich Fromm, Claus von Stauffenberg's executioner
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Cycle of Violence,Death Penalty,Ethiopia,Execution,Executioners,History,Political Expedience,Power,Shot,Terrorists,Wartime Executions
Tags: 1970s, 1977, addis ababa, april 2, civil war, communism, derg, dergue, girma kebede, mengistu haile mariam, red terror, terrorism
1968: Lin Zhao, martyr poet
On this date in 1968, a "rightist" student whose critique of the Cultural Revolution was not blunted by the rigors of imprisonment was informed that her jail sentence had been changed to execution — which was immediately imposed at Shanghai's Longhua Airport.
Utterly obscure at her death, Lin Zhao's memory was tended by those closest to her, passed down like samizdat to latterly emerge out of Mao's shadow.
An impassioned young intellectual at Peking University and a dedicated Communist with an irrepressible sense of justice, Lin Zhao once called Mao the "red star in my heart" and actually supervised the execution of a landlord during the country's land reform push in the early 1950s.
But she also refused to temper or retract her criticisms of China's path when the government abruptly reversed its brief flirtation with pluralism.
In 1960, after circulating a petition for fallen Communist (but not orthodox Maoist) Marshal Peng Dehuai, Lin was arrested, and eventually sentenced to a 20-year term.
It is here that the judicious person discovers the error of her ways, and accepts such terms as she can make for herself.
Not Lin Zhao.
Lin kept writing. Poetry, political manifestos, letters to the newspaper — hundreds of thousands of "reactionary" words. When they took away her ink, she opened her veins and wrote in blood.
By the end, official maltreatment and Lin's own hunger strikes had wasted her away to less than 70 pounds. She was literally plucked from her prison hospital bed on this date by soldiers who drug her (gagged) to a show trial and execution. But like Marshal Peng, she never bent.
"Better to be destroyed," she told her doctor, "than give up one's principles." (He's quoted in Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China.)
Somehow, many of her hematic scribblings (saved by the prison, for possible use against her down the road) were smuggled out to her loved ones.* Somehow, they made their way to filmmaker Hu Jie, who put Lin Zhao back on the cultural map with the banned but well-received 2004 documentary Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul (or In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul).
This movie can actually be seen in its entirety in 10-minute installments on YouTube as of this writing.
Lin Zhao was posthumously exonerated by a Shanghai court in 1981. Despite Hu Jie's efforts, she is still little known in her country, or abroad.
Phosphorescent green light never goes out
And lighting up souls every night
Preserving the soul
Letting go the crippled body
Burning into ashes in misfortune
Someday with a red flower on the head
Recognizing the blood stains
Just as copying a bright red flower
Impossible to paint the real color
–One of Lin Zhao's poems, inscribed on her tomb
* Stanford's Hoover Institution also holds a collection of Lin Zhao papers.
1972: King Ntare V of Burundi - 2020
1966: Sayyid Qutb
1922: Robert Erskine Childers, for carrying the gun of Michael Collins
1937: Masao Sudo, since rehabilitated
1940: Vsevolod Meyerhold
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Artists,Capital Punishment,China,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,History,Intellectuals,Martyrs,Posthumous Exonerations,Power,Shot,Women,Wrongful Executions
Tags: 1960s, 1968, april 29, communism, communists, cultural revolution, lin zhao, peng dehuai, red terror, shanghai, writers
1682: Alexander Cockburn, hangman, condemned
Add comment January 16th, 2010 Headsman
Domestic annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution (reporting an item initially recorded by Lord Fountainhall):
1682. Jan. 16. Alexander Cockburn,* the hangman of Edinburgh, was tried before the magistrates as sheriffs, for the murder, in his own house, of one Adamson or Mackenzie, a blue-gown beggar. The proof was slender, and chiefly of the nature of presumption — as, that he had denied Adamson's being in his house on the alleged day, the contrary being proved, groans having been heard, and bloody clothes found in the house; and this evidence, too, was chiefly from women. Yet he was condemned to be hanged within three suns. One Mackenzie, whom Cockburn had caused to lose his place of hangman at Stirling, performed the office.
Condemned by the evidence of women. How much worse can it get?
There is no report I have been able to locate of Cockburn's actual hanging date; the "within three suns" sentence was standard for the time.
In days of yore, (says Aubrey) lords and gentlemen lived in the country like petty kings, had jura regalia belonging to the seignories, had castles and boroughs, had gallows within their liberties, where they would try, condemn, and execute; never went to London but in parliament time, or once a year to do homage to the king. Justice was administered with great expedition, and too often with vindictive severity. Pennant informs us that "originally the time of trial and execution was to be within three suns!" About the latter end of the seventeenth century** the period was extended to nine days after sentence; but since a rapid and unjust execution in a petty Scottish town, 1720,† the execution has been ordered to be deferred for forty days on the south, and sixty on the north side of the Tay, that time may be allowed for an application to the king for mercy.
* Not to be confused with barrister Alexander Cockburn (we've already met him) … nor, of course, with the late acerbic journalist.
** Specifically, 1695 — well after our day's hangman had turned hanged man.
† This picturesque over-hasty execution detail appears to me to be folklorish and of questionable reliability. The bottom footnote here attributes the legal change to a cracking yarn about a dancing-master and an officer (here's the broadside). This source puts it down to a man who committed murder while drunk and was caught, tried, and hanged before he so much as sobered up.
1891: Slumach - 2020
1985: Doyle Skillern, under the law of parties - 2019
1772: Bryan Sheehen, cuck - 2018
2014: Dennis McGuire, Ohio botch - 2017
1630: Christina Plum, at the stake, in Cologne - 2016
1942: Senitsa Vershovsky, Mayor of Kremenchuk - 2014
1813: 14 Luddites at York - 2013
2003: Daniel Juan Revilla - 2012
1400: John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon - 2011
1980: Four Iraqi Turkmen - 2009
1936: Albert Fish - 2008
Unspecified Year: Justine Moritz, Frankenstein family servant
1724: Half-Hangit Maggie Dickson
1638: Three (of four) English colonists for murdering a Native American
1638: The melancholy Dorothy Talby
1697: Godfrey McCulloch, on the maiden
1630: John Billington, signer of the Mayflower Compact
Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,Hanged,Murder,Public Executions,Scotland,Uncertain Dates
Tags: 1680s, 1682, alexander cockburn, edinburgh, grassmarket, january 16, john lauder, lord fountainhall, river tay
1947: Shigematsu Sakaibara, "I obey with pleasure"
42 comments June 18th, 2009 Headsman
In the evening of June 18, 1947,* six convicted Japanese war criminals were hanged** by the U.S. Navy War Crimes Commission on Guam.
An unidentified Japanese prisoner ascends the gallows on Guam.
The most lastingly notable of the six was Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara, who was hanged for ordering (and perhaps in one instance, personally conducting) an infamous mass execution on Wake Island that has already appeared in these pages.
According to Judgment at Tokyo:
For some, the hanging of one of these six men had been a horrible tragedy and perhaps even a mistake. Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara had enjoyed the reputation of "gentleman soldier" and protector of the common man. Hailing from a wealthy family near Misawa in Tohokhu province, some 450 miles north of Tokyo, Sakaibara never forgot his roots. Forever poking fun at the fast-paced Tokyo lifestyle, the rear admiral touted the value of rural living, the integrity and honesty of those who lived in Japan's rugged north country, and Tokyo's need to recognize their great contributions to the war effort. Contemplating a postwar political future, he would be following in the footsteps of his politically influential family in northern Japan. That future was linked to championing the rights of returning veterans and other have-nots. Misawa had indeed had a heroic reputation as an important navy town and base for years. Sakaibara had assisted in the training exercises held there for the Pearl Harbor attack plan in late 1941. His future seemed golden no matter who won the war. But what some in his command called "The 1943 Incident" changed all that.
Shigematsu Sakaibara (right foreground) surrendering Wake Island on September 4, 1945.
These events, Sakaibara admitted in his trial, had taken place in an atmosphere of near starvation and impending doom. The defense counsel especially emphasized that point, asking the commission to understand and respect the pressures and strains on Sakaibara at the time of the incident. But the commission was not in a forgiving mood. In the chaos of retreat or not, innocent civilians had been murdered.
… Unfortunately for Sakaibara, several members of his former command expressed surprise on the witness stand when asked about the desperate situation on Wake in 1943. These men insisted that Sakaibara and his defense team's description of a starving, chaotic Wake was an exaggerated one. There had been no unexpected miseries, confusion, or sense of peril, they said. Sakaibara's fate was sealed.
True to form, defendant Sakaibara offered a very literate final statement to the commission. In contrast to so many of his colleagues on trial in Tokyo, on Guam, or elsewhere, Sakaibara, albeit with carefully picked words, admitted he was guilty of rash and unfortunate actions. He appeared especially convincing when he noted that he wished he had never heard of Wake Island. But his most memorable comments involved his own view of morality in war. A nation that drops atom bombs on major cities, the rear admiral explained, did not have the moral authority to try so many of his countrymen. With Hiroshima and Nagasaki in mind, Sakaibara claimed there was little difference between himself and the victors over Japan. With that statement a legend grew, particularly in his home town, of Sakaibara, the victim of American revenge.
… As late as the 1990s, some people there, not necessarily of the World War II generation, still bowed in reverence to Sakaibara family members out of respect for the "sacrificed" gentleman soldier.
His last words:
I think my trial was entirely unfair and the proceeding unfair, and the sentence too harsh, but I obey with pleasure.
* Some sources places the executions on June 19; the U.P. wire story, dated June 19th, referred to the hangings occurring "last night," and the preponderance of evidence I have been able to locate appears to me to support the 18th rather than the 19th.
** An interesting bit of interservice-rivalry color on proceedings in Guam, courtesy of Prisoners of the Japanese:
The United States Navy had hanged fewer than a handful of men in more than a hundred years … Now on Guam they had all kinds of Japanese to try and sentence to death … They had to requisition an Army executioner to show them how to hang. He was a lieutenant with silver-rimmed glasses, a leading-man moustache, and a paunch. He used the traditional British drop formula, but he was an innovator as well: He invented a method of lowering the dead body to the stretcher without having to cut the rope.
1485: William de La Marck, the Wild Boar of the Ardennes - 2020
2013: The Hawalli monster - 2019
Daily Double: Child Rape - 2019
2011: Ruyati binti Sapubi, migrant worker beheaded on film - 2018
1943: Maria Kislyak, honeytrapper - 2017
1759: Catharine Knowland, the last to hang on the Tyburn Tree - 2016
1862: James Andrews's raiders, for the Great Locomotive Chase - 2015
1950: Chen Yi, 228 Massacre author - 2014
1827: Isaac Desha pardoned by Gov. Joseph Desha - 2013
1953: 32 merciful Soviet soldiers - 2012
1800: Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover - 2011
2010: Ronnie Lee Gardner, by musketry - 2010
1975: Prince Faisal ibn Musa'id, royal assassin - 2008
1948: Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war criminals
1862: 38 Sioux
1945: The Belsen war criminals
1962: Adolf Eichmann
1983: Simon Thelle Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi and Marcus Motaung, anti-apartheid soldiers
1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp
Entry Filed under: 20th Century,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,Executioners,Famous Last Words,Guam,Hanged,History,Japan,Mass Executions,Occupation and Colonialism,Soldiers,USA,War Crimes,Wrongful Executions
Tags: 1940s, 1947, june 18, june 19, shigematsu sakaibara, world war ii

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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