JULES BONNOT
Anarchist bank robber, inventor of the getaway car
1789 - Fletcher Christian led a group of mutineers against
Captain William Bligh aboard HMS Bounty in history's most
famous mutiny. Recounted by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman
Hall in a trilogy; the first book being Mutiny on the Bounty
(1932).
1898 - Italy: In Anctne, a trial of the anarchists accused of
criminal conspiracy against "the public safety of people &
property" has been going on since the 21st. It follows the
failure of a General Strike in mid-January against price
increases for bread. The defendants are represented by the
anarchist lawyers Francisco Saviero Merlino, Pietro Gori &
Errico Ferri. Errico Malatesta will be sent to prison for seven
months.
1919 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Seattle mayor
Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. He declares the government
should "buck up & hand or incarcerate for life all the
anarchists." This was one of 36 bombs which turn up in the
mails across the nation.
1953 - Iran: After engineering the overthrow of the democratically
elected government, the CIA installs the Shah of Iran, beginning a
25-year dictatorship & reign of terrorism in that part of the
"Free World".
1967 - US: Muhammad Ali refuses induction, during the Vietnam
War, into the army & is stripped of his boxing title:
"No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."
1987 - Benjamin Linder, an American volunteer engineer from
Seattle, Washington is murdered by U.S.-sponsored Contras
(characterized by then-Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
Pres. Reagan as "the moral equivalent of our founding
fathers") while working on a hydroelectric project in rural
Nicaragua.
The most violent element in society is ignorance."
Emma Goldman
from the daily bleed with sweat and tears.
