#political murders

[scotianostra]

Leaders of the “Radical Rising”, John Baird and Andrew Hardie were put to death on September 8th 1820 at Stirling.

I last covered the Rising just over a week ago when I posted about the execution of James Purilie Wilson on Glasgow Green.

By 1820, living and working conditions for Scottish weavers, spinners, colliers and manual labourers were often brutal. Many had no work; the labour market flooded with demobbed soldiers from Wellington’s army.

Radicals wanted wide-sweeping change: reform of the corrupt Westminster parliament, universal adult suffrage (not necessarily excluding women), annually elected parliaments and the repeal of the hated Corn Laws, which kept the price of bread artificially high, protecting the interests of landowners and grain merchants at the expense of the poor.

A strike of some 60,000 workers was called in April 1820 and a so-called ‘provisional government’ was even called in Glasgow. A group of Scottish Radicals, mainly weavers armed with pikes, prepared to break into the Carron Ironworks to seize armaments. They were easily overcome by the Yeomanry at Bonnymuir and 47 were arrested on charges of treason. After their trial, three of the ringleaders, Andrew Hardie, James Wilson and John Baird, were executed and nineteen others sentenced to penal transportation to Australia.

What may have looked to the governing authorities of the time as dangerous insurrection, can with hindsight be regarded as part of the 19th century struggle for social justice and democratic human rights. The Scottish Radicals are now regarded as courageous campaigners for justice who fought for the democratisation of Scotland. One of them, John Baird, has a local primary school named after him.

Shortly before he died, standing on a scaffold erected in Broad Street, Andrew Hardie declared: ‘I die a martyr to the cause of truth and justice.’ John Baird said the same. The two men were buried in pauper’s graves in the graveyard of Stirling’s Church of the Holy Rude.

Decades later, their bodies were exhumed and brought to Glasgow, where they were re-interred at Sighthill Cemetery in the north of the city. The monument above their last resting place also honours James Wilson.

The pics include a Broadside reporting the trial, you can find a transcript of here

https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=14665...

[humanfreedomextremist]

WHITE MURDERERS

Just like the White Murdering officials in Flint, these White Murderers will never be seen in a perp walk. So they should be…

[good-old-gossip]

Important Update!!!

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[the-lady-maddy]

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[defleftist]

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

[qqueenofhades]

Kamala’s taking absolutely no prisoners tonight!!!! Came right out swinging with how he handled 2020 and didn’t stop dragging him with aaaaaaaaall the receipts!

Look. I have so many better things to do with my limited and finite time on this beautiful planet than to listen to Donald Trump talk about anything, so I did not watch the debate. However, I did peep on twitter and the unanimous consensus is that she is absolutely killing, KILLING HIM:

And like. I knew she would do well, but I didn't think it would be an absolute clean clock KTFO, not least because the media will be desperate to help him clean it up in the next few days. But when the legacy media is desperately trying to figure out how to make "Here's how Kamala's crushing debate win is actually bad for her!!!" work, I'd say that's a very good position to be in.

[noonesgaylikegatson]

Some messages left by queer Palestinians who face annihilation by the Israeli government in their retaliation against Hamas. The Israeli government has dropped thousand of bombs, leveled streets, cut off water, gas, and electricity, bombed hospitals, ambulances, mandated evacuation and then bomb evacuees. Innocent people are dying in the mass.

There is no need for this government to employ these acts of collective punishment. The same logic that is used to condemn the acts of Hamas, should be used to condemn the actions of the Israeli government. No one deserves to slaughtered and dehumanized.

And keep in mind, that this terror is not unusual for the Palestinian people, and this is another horrific event in a decades long oppression and apartheid.

[my-midlife-crisis]

[politijohn]

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[a-multifandom-mess12]

Will Graham: *Sweating shaking and covered in dog hair* Fuck off, don’t talk to me, you can literally go die

Hannibal: You are the sexiest person I have ever laid eyes on.

[ayeforscotland]

I’m really loathe to criticise a grieving mother here, but Brianna was not murdered because of her own vulnerability.

The hostile environment created by the British media, hate groups and politicians led to her murder.

Brianna shouldn’t be made out to be a phone-addicted teen. Social media was a place where she had a community of online friends who supported her.

[weirdlookindog]

Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956) - 'The harvest is ripe´, 1916

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