{"id":2192,"date":"2005-07-27T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2005-07-27T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T03:22:00","slug":"more-enemies-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/07\/27\/23\/22\/more-enemies-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"More Enemies of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such are our ways with dynamiters. These men were not Britishers, but aliens who came over in time of peace to perpetrate outrages, which if committed by soldiers in time of war, would ensure them short shrift after trial by drumhead court-martial … This case further illustrates what I have said about dynamiters and their crimes. In war the guns of an enemy would no doubt spare an astronomical Observatory, for none but savages would wish to injure an institution of that kind ; but these fiends are the enemies of humanity. And this Bourdin was an alien anarchist who was living here only by the courtesy of our law, or, I should be rather disposed to say, by the criminal apathy with which our law is administered.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Top Cop Sir Robert Anderson<\/a> writing in 1910 about North American and French “dynamite outrage<\/a>” cells committing terror acts in the UK during the Late Victorian era.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Such are our ways with dynamiters. These men were not Britishers, but aliens who came over in time of peace to perpetrate outrages, which if committed by soldiers in time of war, would ensure...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t