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HEAR HEAR !
05.05.2001 11:29
human
WTO Slavery
05.05.2001 12:05
Cad Bury
big man
05.05.2001 12:07
I don't think it would have mattered whose statue you attacked, because to you it was just an opportunity to deface a symbol of the establishment. The fact, it was Churchill just showed exactly what kind of low, spineless, sad characters people like you really are.
30 days you should have got 30 years.
just a normal Brit
Churchill
05.05.2001 12:30
Britsh Government aren't great but many vetrans see these staues as respect for what they did and for there fellow dead not just as symbols of British imperialism. Although your action can be seen as a symbolic act. It just won't be perceived as that by many people for whatever reason. I think this year's Mayday has shown that if you are non-violent, towards both people and peoperty then you gain the moral high ground and therefore more sympathy. Such as you wiping blood on the Policemans visor, I saw the photo in the paper and it didn't make the police look good. We have even got some sympathetic coverage in the mainstream press this year and in a few cases have come out looking much better than the police. Unlike last year.
Dan
e-mail: Danautomatic@hotmail.com
Debunking the myth of Churchill
05.05.2001 15:54
In daubing Churchill's statue an attempt was made to debunk the Chuchill myth. Churchill enjoys an heroic status that his patchy career as a politician hardly merits. It was his blunders as Minister of War that sent thousands of allied troops to their deaths at Gallipoli. As Home Secretary he oversaw the massacre of the Sidney St "anarchists." He was a boorish drunk, an inverterate sexist and snob, a social reactionary and for all that, in his third reincarnation, a great war leader and orator. But then so was Stalin! Above someone suggested that the dauber should have got 30 years in jail for his lese-majeste. You might have thought he had pulled the statue down and smashed it to bits, as the velvet revolutionaries did with the icons of Bolshevism. Instead, Churchill got an affectionate make-over and was quickly restored to his ambiguous place in the pantheon of British Heroes. 30 days for the dauber was too much flak for an act that cut such little ice. Hysteria about "desecration" reveals that a dangerous puritanical fervour is running just beneath the surface in British public life. It feeds of secular myths - the Churchill-cult, the Thatcher-cult, the Diana-cult, now the Blair-cult. When such idiocies overwhelm reason and set the political agenda all our liberties are threatened and puffed-up Malvolios take centre stage.
Feste
e-mail: duchinea2001@yahoo.co.uk
God save the queen
05.05.2001 21:39
And I don't mean that I have any faith in the possibility of such a state of affairs coming to exist, but you should at least be aware that we don't live in an ok world with problems, we live IN a problem.
peace,
Jethro
jethro
e-mail: jeth_b@hotmail.com
Get a job
06.05.2001 14:28
Get a job
e-mail: Get a job@timeonyourhands.net
P.s. here's proof
06.05.2001 15:16
Jim Matthews
e-mail: jimbomatthews@hotmail.com
RE: Get a job
09.05.2001 17:48
What good is having a "one of the least repressive regimes" when the planet is about to be choked by it's own pollution.
Hasta la victoria siempre! [until victory always]
dot
e-mail: dot dot dot
bloody faces
10.05.2001 09:44
ranter
e-mail: ranterdean@hotmail.com
VANDAL POETICS
14.05.2001 13:09
Hakim Bey