XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.parliament, uk.local.london   
   From: gazter@msn.com   
      
   Stephen Glynn wrote:   
   > banana wrote:   
   >> 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:   
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   >> See also:   
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   >   
   > Forgive my confusion, but isn't Mrs Pankhurst best known for wanting   
   > women to be able to vote for MPs rather then to machine gun them?   
   >   
   > Steve   
      
   Banana is a bit of nut job though. I seem to remember he might be some   
   insane Professer from a dodgy former polytechnic...   
      
   Gaz   
      
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