Louis Lingg, May Day posted:

I do not recognize your law, jumbled together as it is by the nobodies of bygone centuries, and I do not recognize the decision of the court.
My own counsel have conclusively proven from the decisions of equally high courts that a new trial must be granted us.
The State's attorney quotes three times as many decisions from perhaps still higher courts to prove the opposite, and I am convinced that if, in another trial, these decisions should be supported by twenty-five volumes, they will adduce one hundred in support of the contrary, if it is Anarchists who are to be tried.
And not even under such a law, a law that a schoolboy must despise, not even by such methods have they been able to 'legally' convict us. They have suborned perjury to boot.
I repeat that I am the enemy of the 'order' of today, and I repeat that, with all my powers, so long as breath remains in me, I shall combat it.
I declare again, frankly and openly, that I am in favor of using force. I have told Captain Schaack, and I stand by it, "If you cannonade us, we shall dynamite you."
You laugh! Perhaps you think, "You'll throw no more bombs"; but let me assure you that I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then, mark my words, they will do the bomb throwing!
In this hope I say to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!

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I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land.

Bexleyheath and Crayford - Rolled Cabbage
Bristol East - Luxury Tent Carpet
Bristol West - mfcrocker, Barry Foster, Pistol_Pete, Rarity
Broxtowe - MikeCrotch
Cotswolds (yes, we do have one) - Yvonmukluk
Cunninghame North/South - mehall ('s partner)
Dulwich and West Norwood - maugrim
Edinburgh Central (s?) - Autonomous Monster
Edinburgh Central, Ipswich - Lord of the Llamas
Enfield Southgate - spiderbot
Glasgow Southside/Central - Niric
Havant - Last Emperor
Hertford and Stortford - Brovine
Hyndburn - Kegluneq
Leeds East - mrpwase
Leeds North East - Irving Washington
Manchester Central - Jakabite
Northampton - superLINUS
North-East Somerset (the long-shot campaign to unseat Jacob Rees-Mogg) - Darth Walrus
Rochford and Southend East - DesperateDan
Salisbury (and Salisbury Momentum, which is now a thing that actually exists) - Wolfsbane
Sheffield south east - Cast_no_shadow
South Cambridgeshire - feedmegin
South East Cambridgeshire - Stoic Fnord
Southampton (Test) - waffle, Nova88
St Austell & Newquay - Oh dear me
Stockport Central - Taear
Swansea West - Borrovan
Tatton - Bundy
Watford - SpaceCommie

Lightning Knight posted:

Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation.

Pissflaps is still banned from the thread tho because lol he bad.

learnincurve posted:

Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this.

If you get sanctioned then to prevent your housing and council tax benefits falling like a house of cards, and in some case get access to a utility bill fund, call your local council for a "Nil Income Form".

Abahlali baseMjondolo posted:

Abahlali¹ have noted the attacks on people born in other countries during these past few days with great sadness. The attacks started in the Springfield Park area in Durban last week and have resulted in numerous people being displaced from their homes and communities. Two people have died.

We believe that umuntu ungumuntu ngabantu². We believe that unyawo alunampumulo³.

We believe that we are people because of others. We believe that our humanity is defined in relation to others and how we treat others. We believe that how we treat others should have no relation to where they were born. We believe that none of us knows what the future holds and that any of us may find ourselves having to seek the shelter of strangers in the future.

From the onset our movement's philosophy of ubuhlalism⁴ started from the principle that every human being has an inherent dignity as a human being and should be treated in a way that respects their dignity. This is the foundation of our politic and it is where we draw the strength to rebel against injustice, even when the struggle is long and its cost is very high.

We are committed to the struggle to build a society, and a world, in which every person's dignity is respected, a world of equality and justice in which land, wealth and power are shared fairly.

We believe that there is only one human race and that the borders created by colonial rule should be irrelevant to our project to build solidarity among the oppressed and to ensure that South Africa belongs to all who live in it.

In all Abahlali meeting spaces we affirm that this is what we stand for. We affirm that a neighbour is a neighbour and a comrade is a comrade without regard for where they were born, what language they speak or what religion they practice. This is what we stand for and where we engage from before we even begin to engage our engineered impoverishment and landlessness, the repression that we face and the misery that we are subjected to.

We have always welcomed people born in other countries into our occupations, our communities and into our movement, and at all levels. We have worked closely with migrant organisations for many years. When there have been times of xenophobic violence, like in 2008 and 2015, we have always taken a position that it is our duty to shelter and defend everyone who is under attack.

We note that in Durban the ruling party has shamefully exploited race, ethnicity and xenophobia to divide and weaken the oppressed. We note also that in the lead up to the coming election both the ANC and the DA have made campaigning statements that are deeply xenophobic, grossly irresponsible and that pose a real and urgent threat to our democracy.

The politicians are deliberately building hate to divide us. They know that if neighbours are turned against neighbours their power will be secure.

We call on all political parties to respect the lives and dignity of impoverished people. Violence, discrimination and xenophobia have no place in our society.

As always we are committed to doing all that we can to oppose xenophobia. We call on all progressive forces to work with us in building solidarity between the oppressed in all communities affected by xenophobia.

Umuntu ungumuntu ngabantu. A person is a person by persons.

Bundy posted:

Add me to the Tatton CLP OP.

Pilchenstein posted:

Why is there no poll option for "IN THE TEDIOUS DARKNESS OF THE 41ST MILLENIUM THERE IS ONLY MEANINGFUL VOTES".

Josef Bugman posted:

Okay, Ronya I don't like being rude to folks so I am going to phrase this politely.

I don't think you understand how human beings work and, ultimately, that renders every bit of advice you offer the exact same as if you had dry heaved directly into someone's mouth.

These things may well be true, but give no-one a means to affect change. Can you think of other things that are possible?

Guavanaut posted:

In The (Non-Brexit) News
• The UK's National Living Wage rises from £7.83 to £8.21 (conditions apply).

communism bitch posted:

Who's loving off work for May Day?

Julio Cruz posted:

Spec Ops: the Line

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I am since it's a national holiday

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I am since it's a national holiday

Bundy posted:

*fubpee tears*

Ms Adequate posted:

Bundy's progression from getting dogpiled for asking about Rachel Riley and Stephen Fry and assorted other centrist melts to Radical Firebrand has to be one of the most effective conversions this thread's ever managed.

Julio Cruz posted:

loving lol that Labour agreeing to a second vote if nothing better can be achieved is immediately spun as them being pro-Brexit

Bundy posted:

Julio Cruz posted:

loving lol that Labour agreeing to a second vote if nothing better can be achieved is immediately spun as them being pro-Brexit

Bundy posted:

Bobby Deluxe posted:

What are people's opinions on Norcott? When he was first on the Mash Report he seemed like he was a leftie doing a bit mocking the right, but I've heard other stuff that would imply he's either genuinely right leaning or has gone full kayfabe.

Although I'm pretty sure he's loving with them over "Britain's first openly conservative comedian" like Jim Davidson never happened (and I think I can safely say we all wish he hadn't).

Pesky Splinter posted:

He's either an unfunny Cameronite poo poo, or angling as an unfunny Cameronite poo poo. Either way, the result is still the same.

Gammonpedia posted:

Geoff Norcott is an English comedian, writer and political commentator[1] who has been performing since 2001, and has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Question Time, and written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Spiked. He claims to be the only outwardly Conservative Party voter on the British comedy circuit,[2] and in 2017, was listed as one of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right'

communism bitch posted:

Who's loving off work for May Day?

Bundy posted:

I believe my only "hey how's this person"s was James "fence embedded up his arse" O'Brien and Jonathan Pie, but otherwise yes. I can't remember if I asked about RR but I only discovered YESTERDAY that Fry is a massive bellend when he signed a thing refuting the boycott of the Eurovision in Israel.

This thread has plenty to take credit for however and I am grateful. The key thing being don't loving believe anything. So there'll be more dumb naive questions I am sure. You are however doing me a little disservice...I've always been left, but erred to centre on poo poo I didn't understand or consider. There hasn't been a single Tory vote in my entire voting age and the only time I voted Lib Dem was when our local candidate was a decent bloke and New Labour was my only other option (because Tory is never an option). That was 2010 and boy was that a waste.

Ms Adequate posted:

Sorry, I may be remembering the response on your James O'Brain and Jonathan Paedophile Information Exchange questions more than the questions themselves! (I voted LD in 2010 as well, being a student who wanted a change from FPTP, so gently caress me raw I guess )

Bundy posted:

Yeah, he's a twat. Either pretending to be a twat for lulz, or believes in the smell of his own farts and is literally a twat but in the end, he's a twat. Everything I've seen him do outside of one amusing Mash Report appearance suggests he's a twat. In his latest Mash Report appearance he did some joke I don't even care to remember but it had the finish of "AM I RIGHT LADIES?" complete with fist up in the air and it fell absolutely stone cold dead on the audience. He's a grade A bellend.

e: I'd even go as far as to say he's a thinly veiled gammon.

e2: I was right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Norcott


He's your average wishes he was a Tory voter (wishes he was rich) prick that happened to be found funny by enough people that he's wormed onto some panels and what not. Without that he's your usual down the pub "fuckin Poles and their comin over ere" dickhead.

Bundy posted:

Indeed comrade. It was an uncomfortable dog pile at the time but one I am grateful for.

Bundy posted:

He's your average wishes he was a Tory voter (wishes he was rich) prick that happened to be found funny by enough people that he's wormed onto some panels and what not. Without that he's your usual down the pub "fuckin Poles and their comin over ere" dickhead.

Julio Cruz posted:

Right-wing "comedy" is nothing but punching down so it's only funny if you're an incredible oval office.