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A woman called Jo Cox is dead.
She was a mother of two and died at the age of 41.Jo Cox was an opposition politician in Britain, representing the Labour Party.
Her death was politically motivated, for as we speak, Britain is in the middle of campaigns ahead of a referendum to determine whether Britain should stay or pull out of the European Union, a polarising issue that has divided Britain with influential figures on both sides.
The debate has been heated and intense, which the mere fact of a referendum being held is enough testament of.
Parties and politicians have been campaigning for this or the next position and Cox happened to be routing for Britain staying in the EU.
We are told that she had been receiving threats through phone messages and at first it didn’t worry her and she only got to report the matter just recently when the frequency of the threats increased.
There are reports that police authorities there were in the process of boosting security around her poor person.
They were too late.
Enter a madman
According to reports, Cox was shot three times and stabbed several times with a knife, resulting in her death.
Her assailant is a guy called Thomas Mair.
The Guardian tells us that the 52-year-old Mair lived “locally and was known to have had mental health problems”.
Adding: “There are reports that he had links to far-right groups. Eyewitnesses said he shouted ‘Britain first’ as he attacked Cox, with witnesses described as a hunting knife and a ‘home-made’ gun.”
He is said to have “bought books from a US-based neo-Nazi group, including guides on how to build home-made guns and explosives, according an anti-hate campaign group in the US” and is also said to have been a fan of apartheid South Africa.
A further streak in him includes having purchased, among other books, a manual on how to make a home-made pistol from the National Alliance, a group “which advocates the creation of an all-white homeland and the eradication of Jewish people”.
It is said also that Mair was a subscriber to SA Patriot, a South African magazine published by White Rhino Club, a pro-apartheid group.
Quite reminds one of that kid called Dylan Roof who almost exactly a year to this day last year shot and killed black congregants in a church in Charleston, in the US.
He is said to have been an avid admirer of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia.
Seeing this egregious crime having been committed, a typical “mental health” card was quickly shoved upfront.
This is how the Washington Post noted then with dismay: “Instead, the go-to explanation for his alleged actions will be mental illness. He will be humanised and called sick, a victim of mistreatment or inadequate mental health resources.
“That narrative has formed quickly for Roof. Soon after his arrest Thursday, former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam appeared on CNN, saying that Roof probably ‘has some mental issues’ and didn’t know he had done anything wrong. That is the power of whiteness in America.”
Helpfully the article further notes that white assailants of Roof and Mair’s kind are never referred to as terrorists.
“While white suspects are lone wolves — Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley has emphasised that this shooting was an act of just ‘one hateful person’ — violence by black and Muslim people is systemic, demanding response and action from all who share their race or religion.”
It is clear that madmen are conjured up to lessen the weight of the crime and outrage – and even these madmen in the US were responsible for the assassination of presidents.
Or so we were told.
Sanitising the bad
There are two issues here: the race and terror issue which we have just illustrated in the last few lines.
The second, and the larger premise of this piece is that of political violence being sanitised in the West.
Just imagine if Jo Cox was a Zimbabwean opposition politician and gets killed in the cold- blooded manner that she succumbed to.
There would be cries of blue murder would have engulfed the whole world and the very Western countries such as Britain and America would be crying more than the bereaved.
Sanctions would be renewed on the next instance solely on account of such event – even, in any real case, if the same would have been shot by a genuine mental patient.
It wouldn’t matter.
They would be crying democracy and human rights and fair election.
We are not hearing such noises in the case of poor Jo Cox, even when her murder is clearly a politically motivated case of someone who had long been intimidated and threatened.
There are different sets of rules, it appears!.
And, meanwhile, election year America has been experiencing political violence on a scale that we all never imagined.
People fight and rallies are disrupted and cancelled.
It makes no big deal, apparently.
And when things happen that are hard to be brushed aside and sweep under the carpet, there has to be a scapegoat – a madman, preferably!
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