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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In Sylvia Pankhurst's most radical period she was anti-parliamentary.   
      
   Anti-parliamentarism was presented as 'beyond the pale' by the bourgeois   
   media, and it still is now.   
      
   What an insult to Pankhurst it is, to speak of putting a statue of her   
   outside parliament, in SUPPORT of   
      
   - that shitty institution whose role it is to legitimise the   
   'government' (for many MPs in return for cheap cigarettes and relatively   
   small amounts of money in Channel Islands bank accounts.)   
      
   - to legitimise that 'government', whose role it is to administer   
   certain bureaucratic and public-relations jobs on behalf of the real   
   government, the government of mass-murdering billionaire-bracket private   
   business interests.   
      
   It is disgusting to think of a statue of her, supporting the foul   
   institution of parliament and presenting it as so responsive to radical   
   popular criticism   
      
   Parliament is nothing of the kind. It is a part of the executive of the   
   State, just as the judiciary is. A State that is wholly owned by private   
   interests, being their weapon.   
      
   For a time, Sylvia Pankhurst knew the above and said it.   
      
   If there is going to be a statue of her, it would be better if it showed   
   her firing a machine gun towards the houses of parliament.   
      
   For some of her most radical writings, see:   
      
      
      
   See also:   
      
      
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)