Crimes of Suffragettes by Category

it doesn't matter if we agree with protesters or not (personally i think OWS is a bit overzealous). BUT they have the right to protest and it is the very attempts to withold that right which most threatens civillized society.

efforts to tar all members of an extremely disparate movement with the same brush indicates a dangerously oversimplistic approach at best and intentional deception at worst.

as an extension of logic perhaps you should think your mothers, sisters, gfs & wives should not be permitted to vote because of the crimes listed below?

About those “peaceful” suffragettes

1914

Attacks on Works of Art

March 11 – National Gallery, ‘Rokeby’ Velasquez damaged.

March 16 – Birmingham Cathedral, Burne-Jones window defaced

April 10 – British Museum: Porcelain exhibits smashed

May 5 – Royal Academy: Mr. Sargent’s portray of Mr. Henry James damaged

May 13 – Royal Academy: Sir Hubert von Herkomer’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington damaged

May 18 – Royal Academy: Mr. Calusen’s ‘Primavera’ damaged

May 23 – National Gallery: Five Italian pictures damaged

May 25 – Royal Scottish Academy: Mr. Lavery’s portray of the King mutilated

May – 25 British Museum – Attack on an exhibit

Bomb Explosions

January 26 – Glasgow Kibble Palace (winter garden) partially destroyed by bomb

March 1 – Bomb explosion at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, SW

April 5 – Bobm explosion in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields

May 11 – Bomb explosion at the Metropolitan Tabernacle

May 24 – Attempt to wreck Glasgow aqueduct

Incendiary Outrages

February 5 – Three country houses in Perthshire burned – namely, Aberuchill Castle (partial), House of Roses and St. Fillans House – both completely destroyed.

February 24 – Whitekirk, Haddington, ancient parish church destroyed.

March 13 – Robertland House, Ayrshire, destroyed by fire.

March 28 – General McCalmont’shouse, Abbeylands, near Belfast, completely destroyed

April 10 – Orlands House, near Carrickfergus, burned down

April 18 – Yarmouth Pier destroyed

April 29 – Felixstowe: Bath Hotel burned down (damage, £23,000)

May 18 – Birmingham Pacecourse grand stand burned

June 2- Wargrave Parish Church destroyed by fire

An official of a leading insurance company recently stated that the damage caused by suffragist outrages last year amounted to a quarter of a million sterling.

Source: owenjones.org...



"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The Life of Reason - George Santayana

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Dear naghammadi,

Excellent post and great article. I might add that the NYPD has it's own crime. 17 indicted for fixing tickets and the union supports them, charges of gun running and it wasn't all that long ago that a prisoner was sodomized with a baton while in police custody. If we use the logic of shutting down an organization because some of it's members broke the law then how come the same people are not calling for the elimination of the NYPD. Peace.

And these are just a few of the ones dumb enough to get caught. Imagine how many crimes are actually perpetrated by the police. After all... the blue wall of silence and they all have eachothers back is the reason so many get away with criminal acts. There's a very fine line between cop and criminal. Only reason they're not called criminals is because they're on the side of the criminals making the laws.

Unfortunately for the cops, modern technology is starting to catch and document more and more criminals everyday. LOVIN IT !!!!!!!

indeed.

there are two sides, but they aren't merely the ones divided by the visible line in the street

those who bring violence & destruction (whether protesters or police) are in fact on the same true side, regardless of their exterior branding/affiliations.

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The Suffragettes, was purely an American phenomenon. In the UK it was British Feminist's responsible for that(the same group that was also behind the white feather campaign, the actual reason why women got the vote in the UK was because they helped trick several million men into throwing their lives away).

You should see some of the things American Suffragettes said about American* & British Feminist's.



*After Women got the right to vote the Women's Klu Klux Klan merged with feminism to form the foundation of Second Wave American Feminism. The WKKK had more political power in the US then Feminism(even controlled the KKK), which just arrived in America from Europe. A lot of what the WKKK said about black men in the early 1900's was regurgitated by Second wave feminist's and aimed at all men.

Originally posted by korathin
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The Suffragettes, was purely an American phenomenon.

^ This seems to be an incorrect assertion.

"female supporter of the cause of women's voting rights," 1906, from suffrage, with Fr. fem. ending in vogue at the time. Earlier (without reference to sex) suffragist (1822) "advocate of extension of the political franchise in Britain," or, in the U.S., of voting rights for free blacks. Especially with ref. to women after c.1885.

(www.etymonline.com...)

"Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union. However, after former and then active members of the movement began to reclaim the word, the term became a label without negative connotations. It derives from the term "suffragist," which proponents of women's "suffrage," or right to vote, originally adopted

(en.wikipedia.org...)

Generally suffragette appears to be accepted as a universal term & is applied here as such.

Interesting details on WKKK but what is your point exactly? That women should not vote because femininism has lead to women forming some of the same destructive associations as men????

My point is you cannot accurately generalise & cast all members of a loose movement, who have come together from MANY different walks of life, into the same lot.