With regard to the Murder of Jo Cox, British Labour Politician, I have just heard it said that she may have died when she intervened in a fight that was going on outside her surgery. That is to say that she intervened, but it was not about her or her politics and that her death is therefore being used for political gain. Such a story sounds plausible. It may also offer a crumb of comfort that the world is not as evil as the initial indication.
Elsewhere, it is being said that a man wrestled with the perpetrator, to prevent him from attacking Jo Cox because of her politics. A Chicken and Egg scenario.
I don’t know the truth yet. I was not there. What I do know however, is that the events appear to have unleashed an outpouring of the most vile hatred. People in the UK and accross the world in the US have been celebrating the murder, for her supposed crime of supporting refugees, just as fundamentalist christians have cheered the massacre in Orlando and the Gun Lobby in the US have portrayed Orlando simply as a conspiracy geared to engineering Gun Control. Whatever the truth, actually this commentry alone indicates that we have a huge problem. One very sick world. Where is our humanity when we celebrate the murder of countless innocent individuals, revelling in this loss of life? At the same time as saying that those who express sympathy are politically motivated?
Now I am seeing a rash of people sharing posts to the effect that they are Deleting those “Friends” on their page who have “Liked” Britain First. For a long time, our Muslim friends have been criticised for allegedly not standing against terror, when terrorist events have taken place, however, I have questioned elsewhere why the vast majority of non fundamentalist Christians and the rest of “Jo Public” are not criticised for not standing against the Orlando Massacre, the fundamentalists cheers, or events such as the murder of Jo Cox, or even the existance of groups such as Britain First or Nigel Farage and his ilk. It is good that people are deleting Britain First supporters. One step up perhaps from simply changing a facebook status to the colour of a flag at which I guess some may have unfreinded themselves. However, perhaps we need to give more thought to and do something about the general apathy in our societies that allows these things to grow in the first place. Why did you friend them? Two sayings come to mind. The old – First they came for the Jews . . . . . and one of my favourites – You are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem. Time perhaps for us all to wake up and work to ensure that we are all part of the solution.
UPDATE in court, the “Alleged” perpetrator was asked – What is your name?
His response – “Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.”
This may contradict somewhat the argument of Britain First . . . . .
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