Daily Archives: 20th September 2005

Happy Birthday, Gillian

By tom | September 20, 2005

Gillian Rose would have celebrated her 58th birthday today.
Politics begins not when you organise to defend an individual or particular or local interest, but when you organise to further the ‘general’ interest within which your particular interest may be represented - Mourning Becomes the Law p 16

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Hang him?

By tom | September 20, 2005

The International Herald Tribune reports on the death sentence passed on Iwan Darmawan for his part in the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004. So pleased was he that Darmawan told reporters:
I am thankful for being sentenced to death. I am happy because I will die a martyr
Now let’s get this straight. [...]

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