Murder of UK MP Jo Cox

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...fwiw....goes without saying this was a deeply disturbed individual....




https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4oe57n/mp_jo_cox_dead_after_shooting_attack/

[Nordic]

Imagine that, a country where people recognize mental illness and bemoan the lack of care for the mentally ill. In the US McCain would be saying Obama was directly responsible for this or some such bullshit.

When will we realize that McCain is seriously mentally ill and untreated?

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Source for that photo:



http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/local/ ... -1-2976712

Jo Cox death: Suspect Tommy Mair linked to far-right group that campaigned against the EU
The link between Thomas Mair and the Springbok Club goes back ten years
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 86426.html

[Belligerent Savant]

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Jeff posted a link to it on FB and I immediately assumed it was Canadian news.  I am grown up and fucked up the title that's it that's all.  I just envisioned it happening close to the US border.  I didn't mean to do it.  It was my mistake and it was Wombaticus Rex who renamed the thread.  I absolutely was not being insensitive or flippant.  If one wagered a bet with just about anyone here that they could find any one thread or comment in which I was insensitive or unconcerned with something hateful, violent I don't think you'd find a one.  About the "2 or more latest event threads" I start.  It's because I am up at night and see breaking news when most people are asleep.  I really don't see why you have to take that tone with me.  I wouldn't do it it to you.  I simply shared a link because it hadn't been brought up here yet.  It feels like you are insinuating I have some stupid agenda or something.  Don't worry you're wrong.  No agenda other than I hate this shit -- anything like it.

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I'll keep this brief as I don't want to distract further from the OP:

I was fueled by (more than a bit) of alcohol in the bloodstream after a night out, which played a small part in my 'outburst', and also anger directed towards the growing pervasiveness of  these tragic events.

That said: JRiddler -- noted and agreed. Appreciate the context.‎

82_28: ‎i'm confident all who peruse this board view you as a gentle soul, the lifeblood keeping this forum chugging along in its anachronistic -- yet vital for many of us -- layout/format.

You just keep doing you, and simply realize I may be a bit of a curmudgeon at times. ‎
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[82_28]

No problem at all Mr. Savant. No problem whatsoever. All's clear on the western front.

[American Dream]

Racist hatred behind murder of Jo Cox

Jo Cox had spoken out in favour of immigration and in defence of refugees. Witnesses say that her suspected attacker, Thomas Mair, shouted “Britain First” during the attack.

Britain First is a Nazi party founded by ex-members of the fascist British National Party.

Records show that Mair supported the National Alliance (NA), which was once a prominent neo-Nazi organisation in the US, for decades.

Mair bought a manual from the NA in 1999 that included instructions on how to build a pistol. A Thomas Mair with an address in the area also subscribed to a white supremacist publication called SA Patriot.

Mair is also linked to the hard right pro-apartheid Springbok Club. Its online magazine, the Springbok Cyber Newsletter in 2006, inquired about “Thomas Mair, from Batley in Yorkshire [who] was one of the earliest subscribers and supporters of “S.A. Patriot”.”

The Springbok Club held meetings with speakers including the man who is now Ukip deputy leader Neil Hamilton.

It isn’t yet completely clear why Jo Cox was killed. But it is clear that Mair had connections with Nazi organisations. And it is clear that the killing took place in the context of vile, relentless racism against migrants and refugees.

[82_28]

No problem at all Mr. Savant. No problem whatsoever. All's clear on the western front.

Except not as to the topic, nothing is all clear at all.

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Cox Witness Says No One Shouted Britain First Friday 17th June 2016 LBC radio

A sign in a shop by the spot Jo Cox was killed states the claims that the gunman shouted "Britain First" are untrue.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/jo-cox-witness-says-no-one-shouted-britain-first-132375

[American Dream]

Not just a 'loner': the Jo Cox murder and fascist terrorism



Labour MP Jo Cox's murder was the act of a fascist terrorist inspired by relentless nationalist, anti-immigrant campaigning from mainstream politicians and the media; not, as he's portrayed, merely a 'loner' with 'mental health issues'.

A man reportedly shouting 'Britain first' has shot and stabbed a Labour MP to death. Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in Yorkshire, was shot with a home-made pistol and stabbed multiple times by Tommy Mair, a 52-year-old with a history of far-right sympathies.

In a statement, the Southern Poverty Law Centre say

Mair was a dedicated supporter of the National Alliance (NA), the once premier neo-Nazi organization in the United States, for decades. Mair purchased a manual from the NA in 1999 that included instructions on how to build a pistol.

Mair, who resides in what is described as a semi-detached house on the Fieldhead Estate in Birstall, sent just over $620 to the NA, according to invoices for goods purchased from National Vanguard Books, the NA’s printing imprint. Mair purchased subscriptions for periodicals published by the imprint and he bought works that instruct readers on the “Chemistry of Powder & Explosives,” “Incendiaries,” and a work called “Improvised Munitions Handbook." Under “Section III, No. 9” (page 125) of that handbook, there are detailed instructions for constructing a “Pipe Pistol For .38 Caliber Ammunition” from components that can be purchased from nearly any hardware store.

Mair’s attack comes against a backdrop of increased militancy from the far-right. Hundreds of neo-nazis engaged in running battles with anti-fascists at the end of January this year (though more recent demonstrations have seen their numbers dwindle down to as low as 30) while fascist group Britain First recently held a training camp, which involved knife-fighting, and have previously threatened to target elected officials. Indeed, Britain First are not the first far-right group to have held combat training recently, with about 80-100 individuals related to various neo-nazi groups thought to have undergone similar training in 2015.

The response among fascists has been varied: some are claiming it to be a set up by the state while others are openly gloating about it.

Continues at: http://libcom.org/blog/not-just-loner-j ... m-17062016

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I think he's been getting death threats on social media ...another of the witnesses - Clarke Rothwell is supposedly on that BNP membership list that was leaked a few years back which is a bit odd..although they were quite big up in that part of the word back in their heyday....

[American Dream]

clockworkpipedreams:

He bought gun making instructions from NA

And she (Jo Cox) was strongly advocating allowing Syrian refugees into the UK.

This was a racist fascist attack on someone who wanted to pull down a tiny peice of our borders,

Yep, it was a political assassination, inspired and enabled by the propaganda and know-how of an openly nazi organisation.

Of course if you read a newspaper it was just the work of some ethereal force called “intolerance”, or maybe at a push “extremism” but definitely attributable to being a “loner with a history of mental illness”

http://class-struggle-anarchism.tumblr. ... a-longtime

[Wombaticus Rex]

"Okay, so maybe there's no evidence that he shouted 'Britain First,' but you can't convince me he didn't mean it."

[FourthBase]

Cox Witness Says No One Shouted Britain First Friday 17th June 2016 LBC radio

A sign in a shop by the spot Jo Cox was killed states the claims that the gunman shouted "Britain First" are untrue.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/jo-cox-witness-says-no-one-shouted-britain-first-132375

He might as well have. Perhaps if he had an extra moment more to gather his disease-ridden thoughts, he would have. But as far as the world is concerned now, he did. Thankfully we don't have to question the official story since it's a right wing racist attack so it confirms our paradigm.

[American Dream]

Nigel Farage Predicts ‘Violence The Next Step’ If Immigration Is Not Controlled

17/05/2016

Nigel Farage has said violence on the streets could be the “next step” if immigration is not controlled.

The Ukip leader told the BBC said it was “difficult to contemplate” it happening in Britain, but added “nothing is impossible”.

“It’s legitimate to say that if people feel they’ve lost control completely, and we have lost control of our borders completely as members of the EU, and if people feel voting doesn’t change anything, then violence is the next step,” he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/n ... 8a838b8c9c

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When you conjure the spectre of fascism incessantly, it has a greater chance of appearing.