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An armed siege? A terrorist munitions factory? No, just the Police breaking into our studio building in Haggerston on Friday 25th June because there is a sculpture on the roof that Priti Patel doesn’t like.
You get 10 years in prison for protest of historical statues, but someone erects something subversive and the full muscle of the state comes knocking.
The building was ransacked and three people were arrested, but released without charge the following day.
WTF is happening?
The building was ransacked and three people were arrested, but released without charge the following day.
WTF is happening?
The roof sculpture is a construction made of bamboo and cables as used by Extinction Rebellion in their protest and blockading of the printing plants of Murdoch’s media last Autumn.
Images of anonymously uniformed federal agents arresting protestors in Portland feels like fascism. We are witnessing the ground level of something terrible.
It reminds me of a deeply disturbing book called Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning.
#Portland
#NeverForget
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It reminds me of a deeply disturbing book called Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning.
#Portland
#NeverForget
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Ordinary Men describes the descent of average German citizens to murderers who would say things like, "It was supposed to be...soothing to my conscience to release children unable to live without their mothers," describing how they rationalized murdering children.
#Holocaust
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#Holocaust
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"...it was desirable at the time that platoon leaders were also party members, I entered the party shortly before the outbreak of the war." - Nazi Lt. Drucker, reflecting on his time in a mobile killing squad.
It certainly didn't start that way.
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It certainly didn't start that way.
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