#what’s the knife equivalent of a molotov?

[eretzyisrael]

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police arrested a Palestinian man near Ramallah over the weekend suspected of brutally murdering Ori Ansbacher, 19, in Jerusalem’s Ein Yael forest on Thursday. The grisly murder of the smiling young woman from Tekoa, who was a national service volunteer in the Ye’elim youth center in Emek Refaim forest, sparked national outrage, which was fed by social media posts that provided gory details on her killing. Right-wing activists tried to block the road at Jerusalem’s northwestern entrance on Saturday night, Right-wing activists tried to block the road at Jerusalem’s northwestern entrance on Saturday night, chanting, “The nation demands revenge.”According to the Shin Bet, the suspect, Arafat al-Rifaiyeh, 29, “left his home in Hebron with a knife and made his way to the village of Beit Jala,” just south of Jerusalem. From the village, he “walked to the forest, where he saw Ori, attacked and murdered her.” Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said the main direction of the investigation is that it was a terrorist attack. The Shin Bet and Israel Police’s counterterrorism unit are running the probe, he said. But even before the investigation has come to a close, right-wing politicians and activists decried the murder as a terrorist attack, calling for the death penalty and for Rifaiyeh’s relatives to be deported. Activists on Saturday night held a number of small demonstrations in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take stiff action against terrorists. This included a demand that the government withhold taxes and tariffs Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority. The Deduction Law, which the Knesset passed last year, allows Netanyahu to withhold a sum equivalent to what the PA pays to terrorist and their families. On Friday night, in a Shin Bet and Israel Police joint operation, security services entered El-Bireh, adjoining Ramallah, and arrested Rifaiyeh in a building near a mosque. Residents threw stones, pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails at the Border Police and IDF jeeps that secured the area, so that the Shin Bet and the police’s counterterrorism unit could operate. The Shin Bet has interrogated Rifaiyeh, and there is a gag order on the investigation.

[angrybell]

The thing that bothers me the most about people like crazycook11 is when you look at what they were doing.

Yes, it was a riot. The protest got out of control.

Yes, there was a trespass. But that happens at government buildings all the time where people are trying to stop a government function. And you know what kind of crime they get charged with? Usually a misdemeanor trespass or equivalent.

Did the rioters show up there with weapons? Not according to the charges levied against the ones that were arrested.

There have been 893 people charged with crimes connected with the January 6 riot. Only 49 of the people have charges mentioning weapons. When you actually get to the actual weapons charges they break down to 7 pepper/bear spray devices, 4 flagpoles used as clubs, 5 batons, 3 fire extinguishers, 2 sticks, 2 guns, 1 knife, 1 pipe bomb, 1 Molotov, 1 knife, 1 set of brass knuckles and - my favorite - 1 crutch.

The pipe bomb, Molotov, one of the guns, and the brass knuckles were were not at the Capitol when the riot occurred. The pipe bomb and Molotov were in a car away from the rally then riot. The pistol was found on a guy who didn’t disperse quickly enough when the curfew was announced. The brass knuckles were found on a guy who was arrested for stepping outside for a smoke after the curfew went into effect.

So the other firearm was carried by its owner, who was licensed in another state. In the melee at the Capitol, he was grabbed by someone and the gun was dislodged from his holster and found on the ground later. There no evidence it was ever displayed and no charges were laid on the owner for that.

And yet, these freaks believe that the protesters were going to overthrow the government basically unarmed? When the police had firearms they, demonstrably, were ready to use to lethal effect even when there was no weapon threatening them or a member of Congress.

Yes, there was that Telegraph group of III%ers who talked about starting a revolution, toppling the government, etc. But also, according to the indictments I’ve read, they also talked about using weapons to do that. Even though some of them were at the riot, they weren’t carrying weapons by and large (I think a couple of them had pepper/bear spray and one of the had the crutch. I may be wrong). They certainly weren’t carrying firearms and bombs.

The only truly terrifying thing about Jan 6 is that it showed just how angry a segment of the American people are because they perceive the Left as having stolen an election. And to say that it’s been prove that it didn’t happen is ridiculous because most of the “investigations” were performed by the people who would have been involved in the steal.

Because of the use of ballot harvesting and mail in ballots that have about as much a safeguard as a politician’s virtue, it’s probably impossible to ever know. But the Left’s attitude towards the objections of the people on the Right (simplification I realize) doesn’t instill confidence in the system.

If this keeps up, one of these days there will be an actual act of sedition. But as it is, this is just an excuse by Biden and his handlers to persecute their political enemies.

Saying it’s the equivalent of 9/11 is absurd. The only thing that the 2 events can be likened is how after each, the government attempted to give itself more power to persecute its enemies. Bush with the PATRIOT ACT and Biden with his use of the FBI and, soon, the IRS to harass and scourge his opposition.

Fuck you if you compare January 6 to 9/11

[nofomoartworld]

Presumed Guilty: stereotypes of female criminals

Robert Capa, Just after the liberation of the town, a French woman who had a baby with a German soldier was punished by having her head shaved, Chartres, France, 18 August 1944

Carl Mydans, A tondue, 1944

I’ll never forget the stories my grandmother used to tell me about the ‘shaved women of the Libération. After the Second World War, women accused of having worked with the nazi invader, spied for them, denounced their neighbours, and participated to nazi operations were paraded in the street, insulted, spat on, beaten, etc. The apotheosis of this public humiliation was the moment when men (they were usually men) would shave the head of the women as a punishment for being a ‘traitress’. Roughly 20 000 women were shaved in France in 1944-1945.

However, the only crime committed by some of these women was horizontal collaboration. They had slept with a German out of love, conviction, necessity, under duress or simply because they were prostitutes. All of them lost their hair, symbol of seduction and perdition. Of course, men were punished for colluding with the German invader as well but only women were stigmatized and punished for ‘sleeping with the enemy’.

Album-souvenir d’Isabelle H. (Paris, trips in Normandy and on the French Riviera in the company of a German officer), 1944. Arch. nat. Z/6/1236

Album-souvenir d’Isabelle Hyer. Paris, trips in Normandy and on the French Riviera, 1944. (© Archives nationales)

Young woman and German soldier in Paris, investigation file of Marguerite P. Arch. nat., Z/6/123/1176

Women shaved and paraded on a truck in Cherbourg, 1945

Presumed Guilty, an exhibition at the Archives Nationales in Paris, explores how women have been judged according to different sets of values -and often with less impartiality- than men. From the XIVth Century to the end of the Second World War, French women were ‘presumed guilty’. They were judged for their crimes (or what was perceived as such) but also simply for being women. Something pertaining to their gender made them more likely to commit certain types of crimes. Until 1946, these women were interrogated by men, judged by men and condemned by them.

The exhibition examines this position through five archetypes of female felons: the witch, the poisoner, the child-killer, the rebel arsonist, and the traitor.

Between the XVth and the XVIIIth Century, 110 000 trials for witchcraft were held throughout France. 80 % of the accused were women. Women were regarded as weaker than men and thus more susceptible to be seduced and perverted by the devil.

It was believed that the devil would touch the woman and leave a mark on her body when they made their pact. The mark was supposed to be insensitive to pain. The investigators would thus meticulously examine the naked body of the accused woman and then prick their body with a blade. If the woman did not flinch nor bleed, it was a proof that they were a witch. Women were also asked questions about their sexuality, in particular the details of their copulation with the devil.

Violette Nozière who poisoned her parents

Violette Nozière during her trial in Paris in 1934. Photo credit: Rene Dazy, Rue des Archives, Paris, France

In the modern era, the figure of the witch with her potions and knowledge of herbs was replaced by the one of the female poisoner. Poison was seen as the woman’s weapon of choice. “Brave” men kill with a knife. Cowardly women with drugs. Poisoning someone was adjudged to be more shocking than homicide: it suggested premeditation, ruse and hypocrisy and therefore merited greater punishment. Furthermore, the crime indicated a woman who had chosen to depart from her traditional role of a ‘nurturer’.

Berthe V., arrested for child killing. Archives départementales de Loire-Atlantique

Encore un carreau d’cassé (young pregnant maid and her boss), published in Le Rire, 12th year, 1905-1906. Arch. nat., AE/II/3734

A fourth figure of criminal is the child-killer. These were often girls who had only a vague understanding of what their body was going through and were afraid of losing their ‘reputation’ and thus any chance of ever finding a good husband. Some had been raped, victims of incest or just naive. During the trials, the judges often interrogated them about the seduction and intercourse that led to an undesired childbearing.

Justice was harsh to these women. At least until the XIXth century when society finally recognized that men had to bear some responsibility for the shame, misery and despair of these women.

The anarchist Germaine Berton, 1921

Then came the pétroleuses, the women accused to have used bottles full of petroleum or paraffin (similar to modern-day Molotov cocktails) to set on fire key buildings in Paris during the radical socialist and revolutionary government that briefly ruled the French capital in 1871. Many government buildings were indeed set afire by the soldiers of the Commune but it was only only the rumour that attributed the arson to women. Hundreds of pétroleuses (a word that has no equivalent for men) were brought before a court, none were recognized guilty of intentional firing. But the myth perdured and the term was applied to rebellious women who didn’t conform to the rules that govern their gender and whose beliefs and gestures couldn’t be controlled by men.

Germaine Berton, for example, was born long after the Commune but she was seen as a marginal, a kind of pétroleuse. Berton was a young anarchist activist who shot one of the leaders of the French Far Right organization known as Action française. She was arrested and claimed responsibility for the crime. Everything about her belied the ideal of a woman: she had political opinions, she acted alone, was single and wore short hair. On 24th December 1923, the tribunal found her not guilty of the crime. The judges didn’t want to turn her into a martyr so they claimed she couldn’t be held responsible for her act.

Unfortunately, Presumed Guilty closes today. It is a fascinating exhibition. 320 interrogation records and previously unseen documents give their voice back to these women.

The exhibition closes at the end of the Second World War but as we all know (glass ceiling and all that), the fight for equality, dignity and recognition is not over for many women across the world.

On a side note, i was very surprised to see how few men were visiting the exhibition on the day i was there. There were dozens of women of all ages but only one ‘husband’.

Workers monitored by a nun, drawing by Aristide Delannoy, L’Assiette au beurre, 1901. Arch. nat. AE/11/2940

Gustave Jamet, Women’s government, 1848. Arch. nat., AE/II/3513

Police report about Léonie Bathiat, better known as Arletty, Paris, 3 October 1945. Arch. nat., Z/6SN/105, dossier 40863

Letter of remission from 1457 for the execution in Marmande of several women accused of witchcraft. Arch. nat., JJ//187, fol. 22 v°

Presumed guilty 14th-20th century is at the Hôtel de Soubise, Archives Nationales in Paris unil 27 March 2017.

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