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News Highlights: January 29 2018 - February 4 2018

In case you didn’t see, hear, or do it yourself these are some events that took place or were reported during the last week.

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Zurich, Switzerland: Arson Attack Against the Turkish Consulate

“We set fire to a car on the grounds of the Turkish consulate on Weinberg street in Zurich. We are in solidarity with Rojava and the canton of Afrin, which is currently being attacked by the NATO state of Turkey and allied Islamist militias.”

Paris, France: Incendiary Attack Against a Diplomatic Vehicle in Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners

“We were walking through the rich neighbourhoods on Monday night looking for a way to ruin their sleep. We do not wait patiently for a hypothetical revolution to come when we really don’t know when, and we don’t really know how, as if it is going to fall down from the sky. A revolution that will probably not happen if we just wait for it patiently. We decided we wanted to attack now and destroy a small part of what destroys our lives little by little by imprisoning our desires. Consumed by these thoughts we came across a big BMW with Diplomatic Corp plates at the start of Cardinet street. Needless to say, the luxury vehicle was on fire within minutes!”

Berlin, Germany – Six Securitas cars covered in paint |

“On Sunday night unknown people covered six Securitas cars with red paint. For years Securitas has been responsible for the siege at GHS (ex-school occupied by refugees since 2012) and ID control at the gate.“

Solidarity Actions for Hambi 9 in Germany | Earth First! Newswire

Banner Drop “In solidarity with the imprisoned activists and all people facing repression by the state a banner was dropped in Tübingen, southern Germany, saying “freedom for Hambach prisoners, war against everyone who destroys the earth and confines our comrades”

Railway Sabotaged “The behaviour of RWE and government is disgusting, so we decided to come to NRW and switch off the coal-railway. The burning short circuit that we caused on the electricity-cables should teach them one thing: For every action, a reaction.The principle is easy: From the top of a bridge let down nylon strings with weights on them on the left and right side of the cables down to the rails. Throw down the metal wire that is connected to the nylon strings and allow the short circuit to happen! Remember to close your eyes!“

Pumping Station Burnt “In the night of the 26.1.2018, we sabotaged a pumping station of RWE with several incendiary devices. With that, we sent first smoke signals to the 9 fighting prisoners of the Hambacher forest movement.“

Shooting Towers Burnt “We discovered that the sand and stone exploitation by the forest is allowing hunters to create meadows for shooting stands, attracting wildlife to the area to then murder animals without compassion. We destroyed dozens before deciding to send a clearer message, so overnight and with only one security guard in the area we set multiple shooting huts and towers on fire, making sure that all were standing in the clear ground without risks of creating an uncontrollable fire.They burnt rapidly and our anger calmed, but only shortly. We then decided to send a letter to the mine, allowing them to know our intentions. If the shooting towers aren’t destroyed by them, it won’t just be the hunting equipment that will burn, but their entire machinery will be a ball of fire. We believe to have been successful as all stands have been either demolished or taken away.“

Cancún, Mexico: Explosive Attack Against the PRI Municipal Management Committee by ‘Attack Cells Against Devastation’

“An explosive device was left at the gates of the Municipal Management Committee (CDM) of the PRI* in Cancún. There was no news coverage about it or any reports as during this time it does not suit them to have any kind of bad reputation, but the attempts continue; against them and against all those who participate in the destruction of the earth. With this attack we send a fraternal gesture of solidarity to those who remain in clandestinity and are on the run from the jaws of the prison system, to let them know that they are not alone, we are also in solidarity with all actions for total liberation.”

Banner Drop

Banners Dropped at Super Bowl Media Day - UNICORN RIOT

“Two banners were dropped inside the Xcel Energy Center on Monday, January 29, 2018 during Super Bowl LII’s Media Day. The banners read #SBLIIBlackout and #WeReadyWeComing. They were deployed while thousands of press attempted to ask questions of the New England Patriots football team during the NFL’s “massive primetime TV spectacle“, which also featured the Philadelphia Eagles. No arrests were made.“

Melbourne, Australia: Banner Action in Solidarity with the Hunger Strikers in Sofia Prison, Bulgaria

“A small group of anarchists and antifascists gathered in Narrm / Melbourne, so-called Australia to express their solidarity with the ongoing hunger strike by the prisoners in Sofia Prison, Bulgaria. 30 prisoners have been on hunger strike since January 27th in response to the policies of the corrupt prison director Peter Krestev who is trying to stamp out symbolic protests for basic human rights.

Indigenous Liberation

Hundreds Turn Out To Back Hawaiian Occupiers Of Famed Coco Palms Site

“Five days after a judge ordered a pair of Native Hawaiians out of a 2,000-tree coconut grove that is the namesake of the famed Coco Palms resort, a Sunday night eviction deadline sparked the opposite of the intended effect. Several hundred supporters joined Coco Palms occupiers in a ceremony Sunday during the hour at which a judge’s order to evict a pair of Native Hawaiian activists from the property took effect. In a show of solidarity, about 200 people joined dozens of men, women and children who have occupied the property sporadically over the last 10 months, with about 20 of them routinely sleeping there in makeshift housing.”

Earth Liberation

B.C. Creates More Uncertainty for Trans Mountain Pipeline with Bitumen Restriction | Earth First! Newswire

“The British Columbia government is creating more uncertainty around Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project with a proposal to restrict any increase in diluted bitumen shipments until it conducts more spill response studies.”

Young Colombians File Lawsuit Against Government Over Deforestation | Earth First! Newswire

“A group of young Colombians, one as young as seven, filed a lawsuit against the Colombian government on Monday demanding it protect their right to a healthy environment in what campaigners said was the first such action in Latin America.”

Hong Kong Votes to Ban Domestic Ivory Sales | Earth First! Newswire

“The amendment will phase out the trade in three stages, a time period some conservationists say could be exploited as a loophole and too late for African elephants which continue to be killed in huge numbers.“

Antifa

Patriot Prayer Tried to Rally at Planned Parenthood in Olympia; Leaves Humiliated and in Tears - It's Going Down

“Triggered by someone shining a flashlight in his eyes, he reacted by lunging toward the crowd and was quickly covered in glitter and a light dusting of pepper spray. Melting like the Alt-Right bro-flake that he is, Joey stumbled back to his car and took his shirt off with tears streaming down his face. He quickly called on the Daddy State for help, which arrived in the form of cops and paramedics to hold his hand and soothe his bruised ego and tear-filled eyes.”

Toronto: Report Back for January 27th Action Against Anti-Muslim Far-Right Groups - It's Going Down

“The opposition’s turn-out was pathetic, at their peak having maybe 20-30 people, while anti-fascists outnumbered them 3 to 1. At one point, annoyed at those handing out anti-fascist information behind their group, they decided to turn and attempt to march down the side-walk, only to be preceded by comrades who took the opportunity to pamphlet and warn every passer-by what the group was attempting to do. Their small attempt at a march was embarrassing and quickly halted by other groups of anti-fascists. Between the attempted march and the end of the demonstration some conflict broke out between overzealous police and anti-fascists, over, for example, the use of chalk on a public sidewalk or the obstruction of traffic for crossing the road during the fascists’ attempt to march. Several arrests were attempted but all were prevented. At the end, amid humorous mocking and public disgrace the remaining racists slinked away while the anti-fascists cheered and celebrated their victory.”

Hundreds in Portland Come out to Rock Against Fascism - It's Going Down

“R.A.S.H. NW (Red an Anarchist Skinheads) with Red and Black Subculture Club held our first Rock Against Fascism event in Portland Oregon. This event had some very amazing performers. Estimations are that nearly 300 or more people attended the show in this small cider brewery. We anticipated disruption from local fascists and Alt-Right groups but none showed and the night was a blast.”

Workplace Organizing

6,000 Uber Drivers Have Joined Anarchist Union in Indonesia - It's Going Down

“Kommunitas Uber Mainstream, abbreviated KUMAN which means ‘bacteria,’was formed by three Uber motorcycle drivers in the Spring of 2017. They have since crafted a list of 14 demands, led four one-day strikes and have grown to a membership of 6,000 drivers.”

Foodora and Deliveroo Riders protest in Berlin

“The drivers dumped a big pile of used bike parts in front of the Delivery Hero office in Mitte to protest against this fact: “Some of you could throw your whole bicycle onto this pile: They are so worn down.”

Fast Food Workers in Portland Launch Strike at Burgerville - It's Going Down

“We are on strike today because every worker deserves a voice. We have the right to organize, but Burgerville has waged an intense union busting campaign. They have fired us, intimidated us, and threatened us, even resorting to physical aggression. This cannot stand. We are on strike today because Burgerville needs to stop ignoring us. They need to recognize the poverty its wages have forced workers into. They need to acknowledge that health care, consistent scheduling, and basic dignity on the job are all necessary parts of living a full, human life. They need to realize there’s nothing it can do to bust this union.”

Burgerville Strike Spreads Into Second Store, Pickets Continue - It's Going Down

“Yesterday, fast food workers and members of the Burgerville Workers Union (BVWU), a part of the revolutionary anti-capitalist union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), launched a strike at the Burgerville USA chain in Portland, Oregon. Today, they announced that the strike had spread to yet another store.”

Super Bowl Protest: Tackle Corporate Greed - UNICORN RIOT

“An action at the Home Depot called on corporations to stop supporting oppressive immigration policies and create better wages and benefits for janitors.“

Other Actions

Police Divestment Activists Blockade Minneapolis Mayor's Residence During Super Bowl Week - UNICORN RIOT

“With Super Bowl LII three days away, dozens of community members blockaded the streets around Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s condo to implore the mayor to divest resources from the police and invest into communities. Protesters dropped a banner that read “Frey, Cops ≠ Safety” and left signs encouraging police divestment in front of Frey’s residence.“

Transparency Activists Sue Chicago Over Refusal To Release Amazon HQ2 Bid - UNICORN RIOT

“transparency organization Lucy Parson Labs filed a lawsuitagainst Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City of Chicago over their refusal to publicly release offers made to entice Amazon to build their second corporate headquarters (‘HQ2’) in the ‘Windy City’.“

Repression & Prisoner Activity

Raleigh-Durham IWOC and Friends March on Abusive Residential Reentry Center - It's Going Down

“Given this situation, and the ongoing oppression of DeMarcus’s comrades inside the RRC, Raleigh-Durham IWOC traveled to Winston-Salem to demand to speak to the program director, Melissa Burgess. After not letting us inside the building, we were met by a public relations rep for the Salvation Army, someone who doesn’t even work for the halfway house. We told him we weren’t leaving until we spoke with Melissa Burgess. After it became clear to him we weren’t going to leave from outside the front door – and despite, by the way, him saying he ‘supported what we were doing’ – he called the cops. We had previously judged our capacity not able to provide adequate jail support outside our Raleigh-Durham base, so when the cops came we moved to a moving picket strategy on the sidewalk outside of the RRC.”

Murder at the Ramsey Unit, Texas: Prison Administration's Repression of Whistle-blowers - It's Going Down

“Jason Renard Walker is Deputy Minister of Labor for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and one of the contributors to the Fire Inside zine. He writes here about a recent murder of a fellow inmate at the Ramsey Unit, the negligence that contributed to the death, and how the administration has sought to take control of the situation and punish him for his attempts to expose the situation.”

Bologna supporters fined for anti-police brutality protest

“Supporters of Bologna football club have been fined for their protest during an away game at Napoli on Sunday to commemorate the violent murder of a teenager by police officers in Ferrara, Northern Italy.”

Fighting Back Against Police Raids in New Orleans Strip Clubs - It's Going Down

“On Friday evening, January 19th, agents from the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, the 8th District New Orleans Police Department, and the Louisiana State Police raided four strip clubs in New Orleans’ French Quarter, suspending the clubs’ liquor licenses, shuttering their doors, and confiscating internal surveillance footage. The raids appear in tandem with the City Council and City Planning Commission’s (CPC) recent production and upcoming review of an “Adult Live Performance Venues Study,” (ALPV) which recommends both separating and limiting the number of strip clubs in the Vieux Carre Entertainment District, the pedestrian mall section of Bourbon Street.“

Minneapolis Unrolls Corporate Red Carpet & Largest Security Op for Super Bowl LII - UNICORN RIOT

“Super Bowl LII and its corporate partners have begun their 10 days of events in and around Minneapolis. The National Guard, federal agencies, and law enforcement from across the country are patrolling festivities in the Twin Cities from January 26th until February 5th. Super Bowl LII (SB52) has been labeled a National Special Security Event (NSSE) SEAR-I by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “

Chile: Urgent! Anarchist Prisoner Tamara Sol Transferred to the Maximum Security Section in Santiago |

“Tamara Sol was transferred once again, this time from the prison colony of Rancagua to the Maximum Security Section in Santiago. The reason for the transfer is due to her attempted escape from Valpraiso Prison.The maximum security section is inside the High Security Unit (CAS) a punishment division inside a prison for men, with a strict disciplinary regime. This section began receiving women prisoners with the imprisonment of Marcela Mardones in June of 2017. “

Support anarchist and antifa prisoners in St.Petersburg and Penza!

“Fundraising for lawyers working on cases about police raids and arrests of anarchists and antifascists in St. Petersburg ans Penza, Russia has begun. At the moment two persons in St. Petersburg and five in Penza have been arrested, more are connected to the case as witnesses. Raids and repressions are likely to continue. Arrested are charged with part 2 of article 205.4 of russian Criminal Code (participation in terrorist organisation) at the request of court from Penza.”

Chile: Lies, Dam Lies and a Mapuche Activist Murdered

“It has taken nearly a year-and-a-half of fighting the authorities, and a second autopsy, to confirm what the family of Macarena Valdés Muñoz already knew – she was hanged after her death. There was no suicide.”

Time on Ice: Florida Officials Torture Prisoners With Freezing Strip Cells - It's Going Down

“In only three months—October 2017 to January 2018—I witnessed and documented so many instances of this abuse that it would be unfeasible to list them all here. Therefore I will give just a random sampling.”

Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction Start OK'd in West Virginia | Earth First! Newswire

“The federal government gave its go-ahead Monday for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline to start in West Virginia.“

“Bio Warfare”: How Prisons Help the Spread of Hepatitis C Behind Bars - It's Going Down

“Here of late, my work has been primarily about the Hepatitis C epidemic (HCV). Hard to leave that subject well enough alone due to the fact that it appears to be the number one threat to the life and longevity to all those who find themselves behind the wall. It also appears intentional, if not deliberately disregarded.”

Argentina: Freedom to the Anarchist Prisoners in Buenos Aires!

“Artistic intervention and anarchist protest at the door of the naval prefecture building in Argentina in the city of Zarate for the two months of the murder of Rafael Nahuel, the disappearance on the part of the state of Santiago Maldonado, the murder of Luciano Arruga and the political prisoners of December 14 in protest against the labor reform.”

Court Overturns Decision to Deny Endangered Species Protection to Bison | Earth First! Newswire

“In a fantastic victory, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service illegally denied Endangered Species Act protections for the Yellowstone National Park bison population. The ruling overturns the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s negative 90-day finding, which concluded that there was not substantial information supporting the need to protect the bison under the Endangered Species Act.”

Ramsey Orta, Imprisoned for Filming Eric Garner's Murder, Placed in SHU for 60 Days - It's Going Down

“Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the brutal murder of Eric Garner, has been placed in the SHU (Secruity Housing Units, essentially prisons within prisons) for 60 days, the latest in a pattern of targeted harassment and abuse. Orta is currently serving a disgusting four year prison sentence after he was targeted by the NYPD for filming the death of Garner at the hands of the NYPD back in 2014, sparking riots, protests, and uprisings across the US. Garner himself was harassed over selling loose cigarettes, a murderous example of broken windows policing”

Almost Four Environmental Defenders a Week Killed in 2017 | Earth First! Newswire

“The toll of 197 in 2017 – which has risen fourfold since it was first compiled in 2002 – underscores the violence on the frontiers of a global economy driven by expansion and consumption.“

Round Ups

VANDALISMS: New Year - It's Going Down

“We called this an irregular column so that it’s not a big deal if one doesn’t get published for over nearly two months. In this time a lot has happened so let’s not waste any time with words.”

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Two killed in north-east firing as citizens protest citizenship law - india news

At least two people were killed on Thursday as violence spread to more regions within India’s north-eastern states against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, or CAB, with police and paramilitary reinforcements struggling to control massive crowds of protesters who defied curfews in some areas. The state worst-hit by the violence, and the subsequent lockdown, was Assam where military reinforcements have been sent and a near-total ban on internet services clamped in some regions on Thursday, triggering comparisons with Kashmir by some opposition political parties who have criticised the new law as “discriminatory” and “unconstitutional”. CAB, cleared by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, paves the way for immigrants of faiths others than Islam from three neighbouring countries to gain Indian citizenship. The move has reopened ethnic fault lines in regions such as Assam, which have a history of anti-immigration movements, especially against people from Bangladesh. Ramen Talukdar, superintendent of Gauhati Medical College Hospital, said two people died from gunshot wounds and 11 others were injured, also with bullet wounds, news agency Reuters reported.Guwahati, the principal city of the state, was put under curfew shortly after the bill was cleared, and authorities cut off mobile internet services in some areas to stop rumours and limit the ability of people to organise after mobs began going on a rampage. On Thursday, the curfew was extended to Dibrugarh and Jorhat, and a disconnection of mobile internet services -- suspended since Wednesday evening in 10 districts – was extended to include broadband services and will now stay in force till Saturday. Locals reported widespread arson and vandalism, particularly of public property such as road dividers and bus stops. Unidentified suspects set fire to three train stations, Chabua and Khowang in Dibrugarh district and Panitola in Tinsukia district on Wednesday night. The railways cancelled all passengers trains in Tripura and Assam, and short-terminated long distance trains to Guwahati.Mobile internet and messaging services were also suspended in neighbouring Meghalaya for 48 hours since 5pm on Thursday after incidents in which vehicles were vandalised. Areas under two police stations in state capital Shillong were placed under curfew.In Kolkata, an army spokesperson said a mob had surrounded the Silchar-Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Express at Naharkatia and were in the process of setting it on fire, when security forces intervened. “Responding immediately, Army and Assam Rifles columns which were on standby rushed to the spot. They immediately took charge of the situation, drove out the mob, managed to rescue the passengers to safety and provided urgent medical attention,” he said, according to PTI.In a series of tweets, in both Assamese and English, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for calm and sought to assuage the concerns of protesters, insisting his government was committed to safeguarding their rights. “The central government and I are totally committed to constitutionally safeguard the political, linguistic, cultural, and land rights of the Assamese people as per the spirit of Clause 6,” the Prime Minister said, referring to a provision of the Assam Accord, which was struck 34 years ago, after a six-year-long anti-immigrant agitation led by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU). Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heads the state government in Assam.The current wave of protests in Assam follows calls for an agitation by AASU. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal have betrayed the people of Assam by ensuring passage of the Bill,” AASU adviser Samujjal Bhattacharya told a gathering in Guwahati.CM Sonowal, too, appealed to protesters to shun violence and invited all groups to sit down for talks to address their concerns. “Peaceful democratic protests are integral part of democracy. But when somebody resorts to violence and destruction not only kills the peaceful environment but also sets a dangerous precedent,” he said while interacting with journalists in Guwahati. The state government removed Guwahati police commissioner Deepak Kumar, replacing him with Munna Prasad Gupta. The additional director general of police (law and order) was also replaced. The situation was also discussed on Thursday in Parliament, where the Congress’s leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, said Assam fast resembled Kashmir, which has been under a tight security cover following the nullification of Article 370 of the Constitution that gave it a special status. “The situation in Kashmir is not normal because of the government. Now, the North-east is becoming like Kashmir. Both regions are of strategic importance,” he added.The backlash against the bill in Assam was also targeted against BJP politicians, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and BJP ally Asom Gana Parishad In Dibrugarh’s Chabua, the hometown of chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, local MLA Binod Hazarika’s residence was set on fire. Vehicles parked in the building that also houses his office were torched by protesters, news agency PTI quoted an official as saying.The circle office in the town was also burned down by them, the unnamed official added. Five columns of the army, comprising around 70 personnel each, have been deployed in the state and are conducting flag marches in important cities like Guwahati, Tinsukia, Jorhat and Dibrugarh, the agency said.Student organisations, civil society groups and opposition parties in Assam have been at the forefront of the protests against the citizenship amendment bill, saying it would lead to an influx of religious minorities from Bangladesh and hurt the interests of indigenous communities. A large section opposing the bill, which proposes a cutoff date of December 31, 2014, also says it will nullify the Assam Accord, which fixed March 24, 1971, as the cut-off date for deportation of all illegal immigrants in the state irrespective of religion.In Tripura, regional-based indigenous political parties withdrew their indefinite strike against CAB on Wednesday night after chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb, during a meeting with them at Civil Secretariat, assured of arranging them a discussion with Union home minister Amit Shah. Shah met these parties on Thursday, following which he said: “...Modi government will try to solve their issues in a positive way. I thank them for their appeal to maintain peace and call off the strike”.He also held a separate meeting with Kirit Pradyot Deb Barman, head of Manikya Dynasty, the royal family of Tripura . Pradyot told HT that he will challenge the CAB at the Supreme Court citing the Instrument of Accession that was signed between his grandmother, Tripura Maharani Kanchan Prabha Devi, and Governor General Lord Mountbatten in 1947 before India’s Independence. “Tripura was a sovereign that joined India, the Bill violates the Instrument. I conveyed that to the home minister,” he said. He added that senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal will represent his case. Read the full article

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Great Britain, Sessional Papers: Featherstone Inquiry, 1893

Page 3: Mr. Clay had no copy of the Riot Act. The Deputy Chief Constable thereupon went into the stationmaster’s office and wrote out the proclamation from the Riot Act on half a sheet of foolscap paper for Mr. Clay’s use. Conflicting accounts were given to us on the part of the Deputy Chief Constable on the one side, and of Mr. Clay and Mr. Fernandez on the other, as to the instructions given to Mr. Clay by the Deputy Chief Constable. The Deputy Chief Constable believes that h asked Mr. Clay if he would proceed to Charleston, and that Mr. Clay undertook to go and to be the at the time of the arrival of the soldiers. The deputy Chief Constable, according to his own recollection, added that, if all should be quiet at Sharleston, Mr. Clay was then to proceed to Featherstone, and believes that Mr. Clay agreed to do so.

Page 6: Meanwhile the multitude were hooting, and stones were thrown. Mr. Hartley and Captain Barker walked up to the crowd and called upon them to disperse, and then turn back towards the soldiers. As Captain Barker and the magistrate retraced their steps stones were flung at them of all sizes. One soldier had his cheek cut on, another was struck on the mouth and had his lip cut, another was struck on the ankle and badly bruised. During the time that the soldiers were facing the crowd considerable damage was from time to time done to their helmets and rifles by missiles. Captain Barker was hit by half a brick, and Mr. Hartley was also struck. Mr. Hartley made five or six further appeals to the crowd, which produced no effect. At last, about 20 minutes to 9 a.m., Mr. Hartley read the proclamation from the Riot Act, by the light of a lantern. The troops meanwhile had been marched up behind Mr. Hartley with fixed bayonets, close to his colliery entrance in Green Lane. For a moment after the reading of the Riot Act there was silence, but the hooting and shouting immediately recommenced, and the stone throwing, which had previously been severe, became still more formidable. The military were withdrawn to the position they had before occupied, but the stone throwing did not cease. Mr. Harltey and Captain Barker came to the conclusion that it was desirable to clear the ground. The soldiers fixed bayonets and advanced. The crowd fell back through the entrance to Green Lane, and the troops, on entering Green Lane itself, turn first to the left and then to the right, driving the crowd before them. Meanwhile the stone-throwing was very violent, the soldiers being stoned from behind as the passed and reposed. One private was knocked down by a stone. It was impossible for Captain Barker to leave unprotected the entrance into the colliery premises in Green Lane, and the troops were brought back into the colliery yard and faced against towards the crowd, in their old position.

Page 10: The taking of life can only be justified by the necessity for protecting persons or property against various forms of violent crime, of by the necessity of dispersing a riotous crowd which is dangerous unless dispersed, or in the case of persons whose conduct has become felonious though disobedience to the provision of the Riot Act, and who resist the attempt to disperse or apprehend them. The riotous crowd at the Ackton Hall Colliery was on whose danger consisted in its manifest design violently to set fire and do serious damage to the colliery property, and in pursuit of that object to assault those upon the colliery premises. It was a crowd accordingly which threatened serious outrage, amounting to felony, to property and persons, and it became the duty of all peaceable subjects to assist in preventing this. The necessary prevention of such outrage on person and property justifies the guardians of the peace in the employment against a riotous crowd of even deadly weapons. …… With the above doctrines of English law the Riot Act does not interfere. Its effect is only to make the failure of a crowd to disperse for a whole hour after the proclamation has ben read a felony; and on this ground to afford a statutory justification for dispersing a felonious assemblage, even at the risk of taking life. In the case of the Ackton Hall Colliery, an hour had not elapsed after what is popularly called the reading of the Riot Act, before the military fired. No justification for their firing can therefore be rested on the provisions of the Riot Act itself, the further consideration of which may indeed be here dismissed from the case. But the fact that an hour had not expired since its reading did not incapacitate the troops from acting when outrage had to be prevented. All their common law duty as citizens and soldiers remained in full force. The justification of Captain Barker and his men must stand or fall entirely by the common law. Was that they did necessary, and no more than was necessary, to put a stop to or prevent felonious crime? In doing it did they exercise all ordinary skill and caution, so as to do no more harm than could be reasonably avoided?

Page 11: In measuring with the aid of subsequent evident the exact necessities of the case as they existed at the time at Ackton Hall Colliery, we have formed a clear view that the troops were in a position of great embarrassment. The withdrawal of half their original force to Nostell Colliery had reduced them to so small number as to render it difficult for them to defend the colliery premises effectively at night time. Th crowd for some hours had been familiarized with their presence, and had grown defiant. All efforts at conciliation had failed. Darkness had meanwhile supervened, and it was difficult for Captain Barker to stigmata the exact number of his assailants, or to what extent he was being surrounded and outflanked. Six or seven appears and been made by the magistrates to the crowd. The Riot Act had been read without result. A charge had been made without avail. Much valuable colliery property was already blazing, and the troops were with difficulty keeping at bay a mob arms with sticks and bludgeons, which was refusing to disperse, pressing where it could into the colliery premises, stoning the fire engine on its arrival, and keeping up volleys of missiles. To prevent the colliery from being overrun and themselves surrounded, it was essential fro them to remain as close as possible to the Green Lane entrance. Otherwise, the rioters would, under cover of the darkness, have been able to enter in force. To withdraw from their position was, as we have already intimated, to abandon the colliery offices in the rear to arson and violence. To hold the position was not possible, except at the risk of the men being seriously hurt and their force crippled. Captain Barker and his troops had no alternative left but to fire, and it seems to us that Mr. Hartley was bound to require them to do so.

Page 2: (Mr. West.) My Lord, I am instructed, with my learned friend, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, to appear on behalf of the Standing Joint Committee of the West Riding County Council; the West Riding magistrates (and particularly Mr. Bernard Hartley, the magistrate who read the Riot Act); for the military forces; and for the constabulary; and I have to ask your Lordship if it will be convenient for you to state the scope which you propose this inquiry should take. Your Lordship may be aware that the West Riding is divided into several police districts, in many of which disturbances have occurred; and if it is your desire to have before you witnesses with regard to those disturbances, it will be highly desirable that the authorities should know it. There were disturbances at Morley in the month of August, and in many other places, and there are magistrates who can be called from each one of the divisions, who can, of course, render important assistance by giving evidence as to the state the county was in.

Page 7: 221. Did anything pass as to the reading of the Riot Act? — Mr. Clay said he expected he should want to see a copy of the Riot Act, or something to that effect. I had a copy in my pocket, and I went into the station master’s office, obtained half a sheet of foolscap, and wrote him out a copy of the Riot Act, and gave it to Mr. Clay. 222. And was that substantially all that pass between you and Mr. Clay at that time? — It was.

Page 8: 263. What was the next news? — I received another telegram from the inspector that riots were expected at a Featherstone. 264. Will you read it? — “Riot expected at Featherstone.” 265. Read the hour at which it was sent? — It was sent at 8:15. 266. From Pontfract? — Sent off at 7:14; received at 8:15 — “Riot expected at Featherstone. Great crowds; about 30 soldiers arrived. Hemsworth, Castleford, Fryston, Pontefract, and Glasshoughton quiet. Magistrate gone to read Riot Act.” That is the purport of the telegram from the inspector who had then gone from Pontefract to Castleford. 267. Did you do anything on receiving this telegram? — I did not.

Page 9: We remained on the platform and saw that the crowd had set fire to several portions of the colliery premises. at 8:50 p.m. the trap truanted from Pontefract with B. Hartley, and military to march back into the colliery yard. The magistrate went with us. On arriving there I saw that the whole of the wooden workshops and a number of large piles of deals, new railways wagons, and other inflammable materials, including a large wooden tank, had been set on fire. I sent to I sent to Pontefract for fire engines. The mob were then piling wood and other materials onto the fire, and setting fire to other portions of the premises. I and the sergeant than accompanied the magistrate to the crowd. On arrival there the magistrate spoke to the crowd, and cautioned them that unless they at once desisted he would be compelled to read the Riot Act, and that thy must take the consequences. Several voices from the crowd shouted: ‘Read it you old b—, and don’t talk so much about it. The magistrate turned to walk towards where the military were stained. I and the sergeant follow him, and immediately volleys of stones are thrown at us from all sides. We remained with the military for about 10 minutes and the crowd continue their work of destruction. ….. On Thursday, 7th September, at 7:45 p.m., a police constable came to me at Pontefract and said there was a riot at Featherstone, and he had been sent for a magistrate, and I sent him to Mr. Hartley, J.P. At this time I had only one police constable at the station, but I searched about and found three more and took them to Featherstone by train, and reached there just after nine. There was an immense fire in the yard. I saw Mr. Hartley and learned that the Riot Act had been read and two shots fired as a caution. At this time the were some 4,000 persons in Green Lane and near the brickyard throwing stones at those in the colliery yard. There was also a large number of people around the colliery offices and the trucks on the sidings. They appeared to be orderly. Mr. Holiday asked me to clear them away. I called some police constables and did so. At first this crowd went willingly, but when w had got them down towards the southeast corner of the yard towards Railway Lane, and they were in the dark, they turn and stoned me and drove us back. I was struck four times. While thus engaged I heard shots.

Page 14: 394. I want you to continue your attention to the period which preceded the 7th of September, when the disturbance broke out at Featherstone. At the time of the disturbance at Featherstone upon the 7th had any provision been made in the Wakefield district or Featherstone district or any magistrate to be in attendance at any particular place in case disorder should occur? — No. 395. At my central place? — There was no special arrangement made, because a riot might occur at any point, and it was incumbent upon the superintendent, if a riot broke out, to find out the nearest magistrate. It would be impossible, with riots expected in every part of the Riding, to indicate a particular magistrate who could read the Riot Act. It must be left to the superintendent to see that there is a magistrate. 396. That is rather going beyond the length of my questions. What I meant to ask was, whether any provision was made for any magistrate to be in permanent attendance at the center, to whom the deputy chief constable or chief constable might go in case of apprehended disturbance in order to consult him? — Not any particular magistrate.

Page 20: 634. What past as soon as the troops halted? — We four went in front of the troops and walked right up to the front of the crowd to within almost arm’s length of them. Mr. Hartley then took off his hat, and in a very distinct voice, silence being maintained for the moment, all remaining expectant to see what was going to happen — in a very distinct voice he told the crowd he was a magistrate; that he exceedingly regretted to see what had taken place; that he had been sent for because of the necessity of quelling the disturbance, and that he now requested them all to go peaceably home at once, and not necessitate any further measure being taken. He was only answered by derisive shouts, and he went on to say that if they would not go away as they were told he would be compelled to read the Riot Act, and that then the matter would be in the hands of the military, and any consequences that would ensue would be upon the heads of those who refused to be obedient to the law. 635. Was there any response to that? — There were many offensive expressions, such as “Read the Riot Act,” “Shoot us down,” and so on. 636. At the time he was talking, are we to understand there was no stone-throwing? — There was no stone-throwing while he was speaking.

Page 21: 672. What took place upon that after the arrival of the fire brigade? — The next thing was the firemen tried to get the engine to work to get water, and I was occupied with them when I heard that thy were going to read the Riot Act. I left them and walked towards the soldiers again. I should point out, the firemen took up their petition here. They first went to see if they could connect with our reservoir, but they were too far off, the pipe would not avail. Then they took position in front of our boiler house, and most of our boilers being out of use and cold at the time, they tried to connect some of the boilers to get water out of them. It was at that moment I heard someone say they were going to read the Riot Act. I walked back towards where the soldiers were and saw Mr. Hartley and Captain Barker and Inspector Corden and another constable with lanterns walking down towards the front. 673. Thy walked towards the front? — Yes. 674. How near did they get to the crowd? — Very near. 675. Was stone throwing going on? — It stopped as they walked down. 676. What happened? — Mr. Hartley read the Riot Act. 677. He took off his hat, I suppose? — He took off his hat and read the Riot Act. 678. Were the crowd silent at the time? — Just for the moment of his reading, but derisive shouts broke out again the moment he finished, and the stones followed them all the way as they went. 679. Were you with them at the time as they read the Riot Act? — No, I did not keep up to them. I was walking down towards them. 680. As they came back again stones followed? — All the way. 681. Were they struck? Do not tell us unless you know. — I saw Captain Barker hit then. 682. Did thy get back to the soldiers? — They came back to the soldiers. 683. What happened when they got back? — Captain Barker wrote on a piece of paper some words authorizing him to fire, and asked Mr. Hartley to sign the paper. Mr. Hartley said, “Shall you fire blank cartridge to begin with,” and Captain Barker said, “No, the regulations do not permit of it.” 684. This was before the troops advanced at all? — I beg your pardon. Before that was done, as soon as they returned after reading the Riot Act, Captain Barker ordered his men to fix bayonets and try and clear the crowd out of the yard.

Page 27: 904. What was the first you heard of the occurrences on Thursday? — Two messengers came to my house on the evening of the Thursday, arriving about 20 minutes after 7 in the evening. I was informed that rioting was proceeding at the Featherstone Colliery, and that my presence was required to act as a magistrate. 905. Did you take any steps upon that information reaching you? — I immediately accompanied the messengers; two of them had arrived in a trap, the driver and a policeman. I was getting my dinner at the time, and I immediately went out and accompanied them in the trap to Featherstone. 906. And I believe one of the messengers gave you a copy of the Riot Act? — A police constable had come up with the two messengers from the Pontefract headquarters of police, and he it was who gave me the Riot Act. 907. At what time did you get to the spot — Featherstone? — About 8. I think it was a few minutes before 8 o’clock. 908. Which way did you arrive? — I arrived by this entrance — the Station Road entrance.

Page 28: 930. Tell us exactly in your own words what you said to the crowd? — I took off my hat and then commanded silence, and I told them I was a magistrate, and I called upon them in the nam of the Queen to disperse peaceably and quietly. I said that if thy did not do so it would be my duty to read the Riot Act, and I hoped they would not put me under the necessity of doing so, and that I should be very sorry to do so. I said other things to them, all much of the same character. My appeals to them were received with jeers and shouts of derision, and cries of “Take away the soldiers,” and other such remarks. 931. And was there any overt act on the part of the crowd as soon as you had finished? — Well, when I had finished we withdrew to the troops again, and as we return to the troops stones were thrown at us. 932. Stones were thrown at you? — Well, stones were thrown; and at us, I presume. 933. When you want back to the troops what happened then? — I made five or six other appeals to them subsequently, extending over something under half an hour I suppose, certainly under the quarter hour, but they were all received in a similar manner with jeers and derision. It had no effect upon them. 934. Did the crowd call out anything about the Riot Act? — They did, but not so much as subsequently. They did make some remarks about it. I made a final appeal to them about a quarter to 9 o’clock, I think it was, and they then as usual were very jeering and were shouting and hooting. They used very bad language and dared me to read the Riot Act. Some said I dared not. Some called upon me to do it; others said I dared not do it. I told them, as I had previously told them, that if I once read the Riot Act the troops would be empowered to act, and I warned them of the consequences; I entreated everybody to take the opportunity of departing, and I warned them what otherwise would be the consequence. 935. Were you yourself at all struck by any stone? — I was struck at that time on the chest by a stone. The first tim I was struck. 936. That was about a quarter to 9, do you say? — A few minutes prior to that I was struck. I saw the man who threw the son. 937. What sort of man was it? — I did not se the stone, I felt it. 938. Could you compute the number of the crowd in then about? — I could not. It was very large. I could not see the extent of it. 939. Did you form any opinion, right or wrong, for what it is worth, as to the danger to be attributed from that crowd? — I found it was a highly dangerous crowd. 940. Were the crowd carrying anything in their hands? — There were many of them with bludgeons — many of them had large sticks and bludgeons and many carried sticks in their hands. 941. Did they appear to increase or diminish in their number? — I can scarcely answer as to that. 942. Were they stationary or moving? — They were turbulent in a surging mass, and those in front were pushed back, moving from the pressure from behind. They were waving their sticks, and hats, and shouting. 943. Did you at last read the Riot Act? — I did at last. I said I have done everything I can to induce you to go away peaceably, I can do nothing more, and I read the Riot Act. 944. Will you kindly give us your recollection carefully. At the time you read the Riot Act had the stones crossed? — Thy had not, only at short intervals, when we were addressing them. The stone-throwing may be taken as continuous. 945. Do you mean that it was occasional stone-throwing, or what has been described by the last witness as volleys? — It was mostly volleys at that time, occasional throwing, frequent throwing. 946 You read the Riot Act in silence? — I did. I took off my hat, commanded silence, and the constable stood by me and held a lamp by the light of which I read. I then read the Act in a loud and distinct voice. 947. And as soon as you had finished it what took place? — For the moment there was silence, and we withdrew towards the troops hoping it would have a good effect upon the mob, but immediately the hooting and shouting recommenced, and the stones were thrown in larger numbers than before.

Page 30: 1017. What time elapsed between the reading of the Riot Act and the first firing? — About half an hour, I should think. 1018. Or a quarter of an hour? — Half an hour. 1019. I thought you told us at the inquest it was a quarter of an hour, in answer to my question there. Which was it; do you remember? — I believe I read the Riot Act at a quarter to nine, as nearly as I can tell you, and the first shot was fired at a quarter past nine. 1020. After reading the Riot Act the soldiers made a bayonet charge? — They advanced with the bayonet. 1021. Was that before the fire engine came? — I believe it was.

Page 33: 1150. After the shooting did you come forward to where the soldiers were from the offices? — Once or twice I did. 1151. And were you there when the fire engines arrived? — No, I did not see them. 1152. Nor when the second lot of policemen arrived? — I saw Inspector Prosser come from the hallway station with some policemen just after nine o’clock. 1153. Did you go with him? — No, I did not go with him. 1154. Did you go to the bridge when it was being burnt? — No, I did not. 1155. In fact, you saw very little more? — When I was walking past before the shooting I heard them say to Mr. Hartley, “Read the Riot Act if you dare,” and Mr. Hartley then begged of them to go away and be quiet or they would be shot down. One of the two made answer and said, “We would rather be shot down than hungered to death.”

Page 36: 1289. Did you hear what Mr. Hartley said to the mob? — Yes. 1290. Can you say what it was? — He told them he was a magistrate, and had some down in the name of the Queen to ask them to disperse quietly, and that if they did not go it would be his duty to read the Riot Act, and that the soldiers were there to take action if the Riot Act was read, if, being read, they did not disperse. 1291. Did Mr. Hartley read the Act so that it could be heard? — Yes. 1292. Was the crowd quiet or disturbed at that time? — Quiet all round the front of the crowd. There was murmuring coming from the back of the crowd up here. Those round here, I should think, for a radius of 10 or 15 yards round Mr. Hartley — every man could hear every word he said. 1293. After the reading of the proclamation, what did you and Mr. Hartley do? — When Mr. Hartley came to the conclusion that it was necessary for him to read the Riot Act, I marched the men up. They had been standing with unfixed bayonets up till then. I fixed bayonets and brought the men to the shoulder, and marched them up in line, followed Mr. Hartley close behind up to about five yards of the crowd. 1294. Where was the edge of the crowd about at this time? — The front edge? 1295. Yes? — Just inside the boundary here. 1296. Did it extend down Green Lane both ways? — Both ways down Green Lane. They were in a sort of semi-circle all round here and there. 1297. Were you just point were the crowd doing anything from that quarter? — Throwing stones continuously from that quarter. 1298. Did Mr. Hartley give you any order then to clear the yard? — After he read the Riot Act I turn the men about and ordered them back to the same position we had been in before. 1299. Why? — The stone-throwing went on just the same.

Page 37: 1347. Did the crowd do anything to extinguish the fire or render help? — No, on the contrary some of them evidently who broke away from them, and worked their way in got in behind where we were. They were here, and the house was here, and they came in and cut the hose in four or five places. Several times I saw a lot of men behind there. All through the evening I had, and I asked Mr. Holiday once or twice if they were men who had any business there, and he said he did not recognize them. I asked two or three colliery officials if they recognized them, and they said no. They seemed to have got in, mixed up with the firemen I suppose, and one or two people. 1348. With regard to the injury of this one man who came up, do you know where he as at the time? — I do not know where he was. I know that before the Riot Act was rad, and even when it was read, when Mr. Hartley and I went up to address them, he was using very bad language the whole time. He was standing right in the front rank and twice I saw him. He had a stick, and he twice hit at Mr. Hartley and he was close up to us once and using very bad language, and insulting Mr. Hartley when he was reading the Riot Act. I recognized him as the same man.

Page 38: 1367. You told us that you heard the Riot Act read and Proclamation? — Yes. 1368. About where was Mr. Hartley standing at that time? — I should say he was standing about there. 1369. About how many yards from the entrance to Green Lane? — For about 10 yards. 1370. And you say that the whole of Green Lane was alive with the crowd. — Yes. 1371. What distance would that crowd extend say to the right of the opening? — This way. 1372. Yes? — It extended as far as I could see which I should say was quite up to here. 1373. Perhaps 100 yards that way? — I should think so fully. 1374. How far would it extend the other way? — Down as far as the bridge. 1375. You did not hear the Riot Act read above once? — Once it was read. 1376. Do you think it possible for the persons say at the extreme end of either side of the opening in Green Lane to have heard the Riot Act read? — No, it was impossible. 1377. Was it not impossible for anyone to hear the Riot Act read except those immediately in front of the opening into Green Lane from the colliery premises? — I should say that everybody in front of the opening who was standing in Green Lane, and all those who were in the premises, that is, within 10 yards from where Mr. Hartley stood to the palings or to the opening (and you were told there were five or six rows of them there), and everybody opposite the entrance, which was about 30 yards wide, must have heard it. 1378. They would have heard it, but not the persons at the extreme ends? — No, considerably over 200 heard it read — must have.

Page 40: Police Inspector Charles Prosser called and examined. 1465. At what o’clock in the evening did you first hear more of the matter? — Do you mean relative to rumors or Featherstone? 1466. Relative to Featherstone? — I arrived at the superintendent’s office at Pontefract shortly after a quarter past 7, and on my arrival at the office there was a constable awaiting me from Featherstone stating that disturbances had taken place that morning, that the crowd had gone away quietly, and if nothing further too place the sergeant would report fully on the matter. I was reading the report at the time the constable cam from Featherstone asking for a magistrate, as the military had arrived and there was not a magistrate there, and he was sent to ask for a magistrate to read the Riot Act. That would be, as near as I can remember, some time between 20 and 25 minutes past 7. 1467. We may take this shortly. Did you send him to Mr. Hartley. — I did.

Page 44: 1597. Now come to the time when Mr. Hartley arrived and you went there. Did you see the crowd or any of them do anything? — Yes. 1598. What did you see? — They were carrying wood and piling it on the fires from this part and carrying it round here. There were several piles of wood across there where I found shavings had been put to them apparently to light them when we first arrived. 1599. And you walked down with Mr. Hartley and Serjeant Sparrow to the mob when the soldiers were drawn up? — I did. 1600. We need not go through all the story again, but Mr. Hartley told the men that he would be obliged to read the Riot Act and then you walk back with him? — I did. 1601. Did the stone throwing cease as you walked back? — No; immediately after he had been the first time they commenced to stone throw and I walked backwards away and kept my face to the crowd so that I could see the stone come and keep away from them.

Page 48: 1796. Take your mind towards 8 o’clock. Did you see Mr. Hartley, the magistrate, arrive? — Yes, I was on the platform. 1797. What did you do? — After he arrived we went over the railway on to the colliery yard. 1798. You accompanied Mr. Hartley? — Yes. 1799. And Captain Barker? — And Captain Barker, up to the crowd towards Green Lane, about 5 yards from Green Lane. 1800. What sort of a crowd was it when you arrived? — There was a great crowd of people there. 1801. Noisy or what? — Noisy. When the magistrate went up to them and told them to be quiet and go back they shouted that they would not go. 1802. Did you hear the Riot Act read? — No. 1803. Where were you at that time? — Near the collier, where the fire engine stood. 1804. Were you there when the order to fire was given? — Yes.

Page 51: Mr. James Haseltine called and examined. ….. 1963. You saw the fire start. Did you go there with your engine? — I tried to advance my men with the hose, but we were driven back by stones. 1964. And struck again? — Some of the men were struck. 1965. Just let me ask you this. Were you there when the Riot Act was read? — I was. 1966. And you heard the fire engine? — I heard the fire engine. 1967. And was this fire that started after the firing or was it before? — Before. 1968. And did you try to put it out after the firing or before? — After the firing. 1969. WAs it after the Riot Act had been read that the firing was started? — It was. 1970. You told me you had a difficulty in getting up to put that second fire out. Did you ultimately get up and put it out? — After the detachment came from Pontefract under the command of Captain Barker I saw Mr. Holiday, and I think a gentleman of the name of Wst, and we want to Captain Barker and asked him to advance his men to the gate and right and left to protect us so that we might put out the fire.

Page 52: Mr. George William Long called and examined. 2006. (Sir A.K. Rollin.) Do you remember a riot at Featherstone on the 7th? — Yes. 2007. Did you see the soldiers preparing to fire? — Yes. 2008. I want you to commence there. Did you see anything happen to them to the helmets? — I saw the stones and bricks and that sort of thing kept coming from Green Lane, striking the men on the body and head and helmets. 2009. Was this before or after the Riot Act had been read? — It was after the Riot Act had been read, and before, too, for that matter. 2010. When Mr. Hartley read the proclamation in the Act was he close to the crowd? — Yes. 2011. How far away was he? — Not above 2 or 3 yards. 2012. Did you see untying done to him and Captain Barker at that time? — Stones were thrown at him. 2013. After the reading of the proclamation did the stone throwing continue or not? — Yes. 2014. Do you remember the soldiers arriving from Pontefract at 11 o’clock? — Yes.

Page 53: Mr. Thomas Jamieson Main called and examined. …. 2042. Were you all in uniform? — I was not in uniform. The firemen are in uniform. 2043. Had you as a matter of fact to be lifted from the engine when you arrived? — Yes. 2044. could you go to work at once? — No. 2045. What was done with you? — I was sat on some timber against the tank over here. 2046. Did you hear the Riot Act read? — I heard part of it. 2047. What was going on that moment and afterwards when the Riot Act was being read? — There was a great noise and several sticks and stones were flying about. 2048. After the reading did the stone throwing continue or not? — I cannot say. They moved me away to another end of the yard. 2049. Why? — I suppose to be out of the way.

Page 55: Police Sergeant Harry Phillipson called and examined. 2142. (Mr. Haldane.) I believe you are a police sergeant stationed at Ackworth, and that on the 7th of September you were on duty at Featherstone? — Yes. 2143. I want you to direct your mind to the time when the Riot Act was read. Were you there? — Yes, I held the light for the magistrate to read it. 2144. You held the lantern? — Yes. 2145. What was going on when you held the lantern and Mr. Hartley was reading the Riot Act? What was the crowd doing? — There was silence. They were listening to the Riot Act being read. 2146. Just before he began to read, what was the crowd doing? — Yelling and shouting and throwing stones. 2147. Did any strike you? — Not before the Riot Act was read. 2148. After the Riot Act was read what happened? — I saw the magistrate struck with a stone. He was struck on the right side. I could not see whether on his head or shoulder. 2149. Were you struck? — Yes, immediately; one struck me on the right shoulder and another on the front of my thigh. 2150. Were many stones thrown? — Yes. 2151. What sort of crowd was it. Was it mostly men, women, or boys? — I saw no boys. I twas mostly men I saw there. There were some women. 2152. After the Riot Act had been read, did you remain on the spot? — Yes. I retired further back with the magistrate and the soldiers. 2153. And were you there when the first volley was fired by the soldiers? — Yes.

Page 57: Corporal Hickey called and examined. ….. 2216. Did you see other men struck by missiles? — During the time Mr. Hartley, the magistrate, was reading the Riot Act, I saw them struck several times on the head, and also Captain Barker on the back. 2217. And you and your other men were frequently hit? — Yes.

Page 58: Lance-Corporal Harris called and examined. 2274. (Mr. Haldane.) You were on duty at Featherstone on the night of the 7th also? — Yes. 2275. Were you struck with stones? — Yes, on the left hand. 2276. At what o’clock was that? — As far as I could say it was about — 2277. Was it before or after the firing? — Before the firing. 2278. About how long before the firing? — About a quarter of an hour. 2279. Was it after the Riot Act was read? — Yes. 2280. Was there any part of your uniform damaged or anything you had with you? — My bugle was damaged. (The bugle was handed to the Commissioners.)

Page 70: [Mr. Simeon Haggis called and examined.] 2807. What happened when the magistrate came down with the soldiers? — The crowd moved back into Green Lane. 2808. And then what did you see the magistrate do? — Thy said that he was reading the Riot Act. Of course I could not get sufficiently near him to hear all that he said. 2809. Did he read what you understand now was the Riot Act? — Yes. 2810. How far off were you? — Perhaps five yards. 2811. Did he come to the edge of the opening? — Yes. 2811a. How far off him were you? — Perhaps five yards. 2811b. did he come to the edge of the opening? — Yes. 2811c. And then did he say anything to the crowd? — Yes; I heard him, in finishing the Riot Act, order the crowd to disperse. 2811d. Now at that time when he was finishing the Riot Act, were any of the crowd still upon the colliery premises, or had they left it? — No; they were in Green Lane. 2811e. After the Riot Act was read did the crowd do anything? — No; not that I saw. 2811f. Was there any stone throwing? — I did not se any stone throwing. 2811g. Are you able to say that there were none, or only that you did not see any? — I am able to say that I did not see any. 2811h. Where were you when the magistrate went back after reading the Riot Act? — I went a little way up the Green Lane again, back from where it came. 2812. How far up the lane did you go? — Twenty yards, perhaps. 2813. And did the crowd cry out anything, or were they silent after the Riot Act was read? — No; I heard a lot of murmuring about the magistrate reading the Riot Act, as they considered there was no need for him to read the Riot Act. 2814. Then did you expect that the soldiers were going to fire later on? — No; I had not the least idea of it. …… 2839. You told us you heard someone say the Riot Act was read? — Yes. 2840. After that during the time that you remained there, did the crowd encroach at all upon the colliery premises? — No, I did not see them.

Page 71: 2864. I suppose from where you were standing you could see the soldiers drawn up? — Yes, I saw the soldiers come across the yard. 2865. And you could se Mr. Hartley? — Yes. 2866-78. Did you see the soldiers come up to the crowd quite close? — Yes. 2879. And Mr. Hartley spoke to the crowd and implored them to go away? — Yes. 2880. Were the crowd quiet the whole of this time? — yes. 2881. And there was no noise? — Only that they were saying there was no need for him to read the Riot Act. 2882. Before the Riot Act was read was the crowd quite quiet? — Yes. 2883. No noise? — No noise. 2884. No jeering or shouting? — No jeering, only talking about the fire, of course. 2885. No jeering of the soldiers or Mr. Hartley? — I never heard any jeering of the soldiers. 2886. If there had been you would have heard it? — I should think so. 2887. You say there was a good flare. If there had been any stone-throwing, or brick-bats, or iron, I think you must have seen it? — Yes, I think so. ….. 2893. During the whole of those two hours not a single stone or missile of any kind was thrown? — No. I went back from the opening when the Riot Act had been read. 2894. How far did you go back? — About 20 yards. ….. 2925. Where you were standing at that particular time when the charge with the bayonets was made? — What, prior to the reading of the Riot Act? 2926. When the charge with the bayonet was made after the reading of the Riot Act? — Oh, I did not see that. 2927. You did not see the bayonet charge? — No. 2928. But you just told me you did. You told me you saw the bayonet charge and saw the people fall back before them? — Yes; that was before he read the Riot Act. 2929. But there was only one bayonet charge. Are you sure the bayonet charge was before the Riot Act was read? — I mean to say that the soldiers shoved the people out of the yard and then the magistrate read the Riot Act. 2930. Are you sure that the charge with the bayonets was before the Riot Act was read or was it after? — It was after. 2931. It was after? — Well, of course, I was not there when the charge with the bayonets was mad. 2932. You were not there? — No. 2933. but you told me just now you saw it? — I was there when the magistrate read the Riot Act. 2934. Were you ever there at all that night? — was I there. 2935. Yes? — Yes. 2936. Did you or did you not see a bayonet charge? — No.

Page 73: [Mr. Joseph Devenry called and examined.] 3018. Did you see anything of the soldiers charging? — I was sitting on the gate at the time. The soldiers charged, and I could not see them where I was. 3019. Were you sitting on Thompson’s gate? — On Thompson’s gate — Mr. Thompson’s gate. 3020. Was that after or before the magistrate had read the Riot Act, and asked the people to disperse, as you judge? — It would be after. 3021. Then you say there was this charge took place. Now did you hear anything shortly after? — Yes, I heard two shots fired. 3022. How long after that, as you judged, was it the charge had taken place? — Perhaps 10 minutes.

Page 75: 3154. You were moving up and down this morning? — Yes, from time to time. 3155. You came back again to the opening? — Yes. 3156. How near were you when the Riot Act was read? — I did not hear it read. 3157. How near were you to the opening? — I did not hear it read. 3158. How near were you to the opening? — I did not hear the Riot Act read. 3159. I did not ask you that. I asked you how near you were to the opening in the road. Did not you hear the Riot Act read? — No. 3160. Did not you see the magistrate there? — Yes. 3161. And a lamp? — I saw a man whom I supposed was the magistrate. 3162. Did you see a lamp being held for him? — No, I did not.

Page 77: [Mr. William Halstead called and examined. 3284. You were on the causeway just opposite the opening? — Yes. 3285. And did you stay there, or come down to Station Lane again? — We first stepped on to the Causeway. We could see the soldiers then. They were up to the entrance. 3286. You would see them then? — Yes, after this rush out. 3287. What was the next thing you saw? — I saw a man with a paper in his hand. He said it was the Riot Act. Of course I could not hear what he said. We could hear he was reading something, and he said it was the Riot Act he was reading. 3288. Did you see any stone-throwing? — During the time he was reading the Riot Act there was something thrown, but I could not tell what it was. 3289. Could you see very well from where you were? — I could see something was thrown. It wont over his shoulder. 3290. Was ti only one thing you saw, or several? — Only one. It seemed to be about nearly the size of half a brick.

Page 78: 3343. Then you went home? — Yes. 3344. And you left them where you saw them? — I left them at the station, but I saw them when I was at my own door. They passed a little while after. 3345. All of them? — Part of them. I cannot say for all of them. There was a crowd. 3346. You saw the Riot Act read? — I heard what they said was the Riot Act. 3347. You saw a gentleman reading it? — Yes; there were three. 3384. Immediately after the Riot Act was read you went, I think, out into the field, did not you? — Yes, I went further down the lane. 3349. How long were you away altogether in that field? — Half an hour perhaps.

Page 79: [Mr. George Herbert Gibbs called and examined.] 3399. Did you see a gentleman come from the yard towards the crowd? — Yes. 3400. Could you make out what he did or said? — No, I was not near enough to hear what he said. 3401. Did you hear him speak to the crowd? — I saw him reading from a paper which I heard afterwards was the Riot Act. 3402. Did anybody have a lantern holding up for him to read by? — No. 3403. You could not say? — No. 3404. But you saw him reading something? — Yes. 3405. Then what did he do? — He went back into the yard a piece. 3406. Just tell me exactly where you were? — I stood at the entrance opposite the works.

Page 80: 3183. Why did you not go home when the Riot Act was read? You heard the Riot Act read. You were told it was the Riot Act, were you not? — I learnt afterwards that it was. 3484. Did no you ask at the time? — No. 3485. Did not you ask while it was being done, what the magistrate was reading. Did not you ask that before your brother was shot? — Yes, I asked some of those grown persons. 3486. And you hard it was the Riot Act? — Yes. 3487. Why did not you go home then? — Well, I did not feel inclined to go home. 3488. Why not? — I cannot tell you. 3489. You were there only as a specter looking at the fire? — Ys. 3490. And the Riot Act was read? — Yes. 3491. And you know that is usual before the soldiers fire? — I had never heard the Riot Act read before. 3492. You were told that it was? — Yes. 3493. And it was read before the soldiers fired? — Yes. 3494. Knowing that, why did not you go home? — I really cannot say. I had no inclination. 3495. And no one did go home after the Riot Act was read? — Not that I am aware of. 3496. But after you were charged by the men with bayonets, why did you come back again? — I do not know. 3497. (Mr. Mellor.) You say you had never heard of the Riot Act before. Did you know that the Riot Act would have to be rad, and that that might be followed by the soldiers firing? — I really did not know what the Riot Act meant. 3498. You are aware of it now, but you were not then? — Yes, that is so,

Page 81: [Mr. Charles Dobson called and examined.] 3551. Were you there before the soldiers charged? — Well, I did not see anything going on whatever until I was shot. 3552. Were you there when the soldiers charged into the road? — No. 3553. You came up after that? — Yes. 3554. Did you hear the soldiers had charged the mob? — No. 3555. Did not anyone tell you that? — No. 3556. Did you hear that the Riot Act had been read? — No. 3557. Did no one tell you that? — No. 3558. You saw the first volley fired? — I heard it fired. 3559. What did you think they were firing at? — I do not know what they were firing at. 3560. The crowd, I suppose? — I had no idea.

Page 82: [Mr. William Tomlinson called and examined.] 3589. Did you see there several people you know in the crowd? — Yes, I saw Gibbs. 3590. Now, did you go on until you got to the opening into Ackton Hall yard? — Yes. 3591. Did you stay there? — About two minutes. 3592. What was going on when you were there? — When I got there I could not say the exact number, but there were a few soldiers some distance in the pit yard. 3593. Did you see a magistrate come out and read the Riot Act or anything of the sort? — No. 3594. Tell me at this time what the soldiers were doing? — The first soldier looked as if he was kneeling down getting the guns ready to fire.

Page 89: [Mr. Elias Allen called and examined.] 3914. Were the rest of the people in Green Lane or on the colliery premises, or where were the rest of the people except the 15 or 20, over in Green Lane or on the colliery premises. Where were they? — They were all of them in the Green Lane until he beckoned or appeared to beckon them to come towards him. 3915. Some 15 or 20 you say? — Yes. 3916. Did you see whether he had anything in his hands? — He seemed to have a paper. 3917. And I believe some people said something to you? — It was thought by some standing near me that he was reading the Riot Act. 3918. What was the crowd at this time — were they noisy or quit, or what? — They were very orderly at this particular time. 3919. What did they appear to you to be doing? — They did not appear to be doing anything except looking on and passing remarks to each other about the fire. 3920. When you understood he was reading the Riot Act what did you do? — I went up Green Lane a little and then returned. 3921. And then returned to the opening? — Yes. ….. 3964. Did you anticipate any shooting? — I thought there would be some shooting when the Riot Act was read.= 3965. Not afterwards? — After the Riot Act was read, of course, I mean. 3966. Did you see the bridge take fire? — I saw it when it was afire. That would be perhaps 11 or 12 o’clock.

Page 90: 4000. Nobody round you ever attempted to do it. None of that crowd attempted to put out the fire? — Not that I saw. 4001. You heard no one in the crowd advise them to go home when you heard the Riot Act read? — No. 4002. You did not advise anybody to go home? — It was not my place. 4003. Why not? — Because they were on a public thoroughfare. 4004. You knew that after the Riot Act usually comes the shooting? — What? 4005. You knew that after the Riot Act usually comes the shooting? — I did not now anything about that. 4006. You said, I thought, that there would be shooting when the Riot Act had been read? — Thinking a thing and knowing a thing are two different things. 4007. You thought so? — Yes. 4008. Did you tell anybody there that you thought there would be shooting, and advise them to go home? — Yes, one person, a man and woman coming down. 4009. Did you advise them to go home? — You have asked me to answer the question. 4010. Did you advise them to go home? — I will answer it in my own sweet way. 4011. Go along then? — There was a man and woman coming down that I knew perfectly well. I advised them to go home, as the Riot Act was being read, and there might be something beyond that. 4012. Was he a friend of yours? — Not a friend. 4013. Did you know him? — I knew him as a gatherer of life insurance money. 4014. Did you go home? — No. 4015. You did not go home? — I went to the top of Station Lane. 4016. The only person you advised was the single person you have mentioned? — Yes. 4017. Did you hear any of the rest of the crowd advising the others to go home? — They were moving to go home generally. 4018. What happened to the mob after the Riot Act? — They appeared to be going on. They were going away and some coming, but the attraction of the five brought them, I suppose. 4019. You told one person? — I told two persons. A man and his wife are two persons. 4020. I thought there were one. How many were there altogether? — I do not know.

Page 91: [Mr. James Halstead called and examined.] 4064: When the magistrate retired back what happened next? — He came again shortly after and advised them again. 4065. What did they do that time? — They still stayed where they were in Green Lane. 4066. Were there any tons thrown then or shouting? — No. 4067. What happened after that? — After he advised them the second time he returned back on to the premises again. 4068. Did he read anything that second time? — No, he did not. 4069. He did not read from any document? — No. 4070. Then after that what happened? — After that — a short time afterwards — I saw him come again, and he began to read something when he came. 4071. That was the third time he had come? — Yes. As far as I could make out it was the Riot Act. 4072. This was the third time you had seen him come? — Yes. 4073. And he read something, and then what happened? Did the people retire? — The people still stayed where they were. He retired back. The soldiers fixed bayonets and came out of the colliery. They did not make a charge because nobody gave them the chance. 4074. This third time was there any shouting or throwing stones? — No, there was not as far as I saw.

Page 92: 4113. There was nothing to justify the magistrate coming forward? — Not at all. 4114. There was no reason to ask the crowd to disperse because the crowd was not doing anything? — No, they were not doing anything. 4115. You knew what the Riot Act meant, did not you? — Well, I never heard one read before. 4116. Somebody told you, I expect? — I expect I should have to stand the consequences if anything did happen, the same as the other people, but there was no necessity for it being read. 4117. But you know there might be some shooting afterwards? — Certainly. 4118. There was no commotion of any kind, as far as you could make out, on the part of the crowd? — Not where I was. 4119. You were examined before the coroner, were you not? — No.

Page 93: [Mr. Charles Philpott called and examined.] 4172. Do you remember the Riot Act being read? — Yes, I do. 4173. How far did you stand away from the gentleman that read it? — I should think I would be about four or five yards. 4174. When he had read the Act, or part of the Act, how did the crowd behave? Where they doing anything? — No, they were doing nothing; they behaved quietly. 4175. Were they at all on the colliery premises, or were they in Green Lane? — I never saw no one on the colliery premises. They was all in Green Lane. 4176. Did you see any of them go forward towards the magistrate? — No, I did not. …… 4197. What were the soldiers there for? — To make peace, I expect. 4198. Did any people return after the soldiers drove them down the Green Lane? — Yes, they returned again to the opening. 4199. did you hear the magistrate ask the people to do anything? — Yes. 4200. What did he ask them to do? — I heard him say he should be very sorry if he had to read the Riot Act, and asking them to go home. 4201. How long was that before he read it? — I should think it would be about a quarter of an hour. 4202. Did you know it was the Riot Act he was reading? — No, I did not. I never heard the Riot Act read bore. 4203. What did you think it was? — I do not know what I thought it was. I thought it was something to try and frighten the people away.

Page 94: 4240. You heard the Riot Act read, did you? — Yes. 4241. He spoke loud enough for everyone round about to hear? — Yes, those just round about. 4242. He spoke pretty plain to those who were round about. Did you say, “I heard two or three hoot “when the Riot Act was read”? — I might have said such a thing. 4243. And if you said it, it was true? — Yes, if I said it it was true. 4244. The coroner put this to you, did not he, and this is what you said, that the crowd told him quietly to read it. They told him to read it when he should; he should have to read the Riot Act if they did not disperse? — Yes. 4245. They said “Read it”? — Yes. 4246. And they said that quite quietly? — Yes. 4247. Were not these words they used: “Read it you old b—“? — I never heard that said. 4248. “If you do not, you dare not”? — I never heard it said at all. 4249. Will you undertake to say it was not said? — I never heard it said, and if I had heard it said I should have said so. 4250. They told him politely to read it, I suppose? — Yes. 4251. Why did they want it read? — I cannot say. 4252. You knew what the Riot Act meant? — No, I did not. 4253. Did not you know there might be some shooting after it? — No, I did not. 4254. Did anyone tell you? — Yes, someone told me they would shoot some blank cartridges afterwards.

Page 97: [Mr. Benjamin Littlewood called and examined.] 4455. What did you see then? — When I had been there a bit I saw Bernard Hartley put his overcoat on and come forward about 30 yards, and he sent to us for someone to come to him. I guess about 30 — I will not say to one or two — went up to him, and he said, “Now go away and do not be foolish. I shall read the Riot Act out.” I caught hold of his arm and said, “For God’s sake do not rad it out here, or somebody will be killed.” He lifted up his stick to strike me, and said, “Get away you foolish boy,” and I got to the entrance again. 4456. Did the crowd go away after that? — We all want away to the entrance. 4457. Did he read the Riot Act? — He came down again towards the entrance after that in about 10 minutes, and read the Riot Act out there. 4458. Did the crowd shout at them? — I did not hear one shout at all. 4459. No shouting? — No. 4460. And no stones thrown? — I never saw a stone thrown.

Page 98: 4462. After that, what took place — after he read the Riot Act. Did the crowd remain or go away? — They stopped facing the entrance, and then the soldiers came out and fixed bayonets, and marched about 40 yards to the right of Green Lane, and then turn and went about 40 yards to the left. I was then against Featherstone Pit Gate, and when thy went in again I move further up the Green Lane. 4463. And then what happened? — I saw the fire engine come, or the hose cart first rather. 4464. Did anybody shout at it, or throw stones at it? — There were some little ones thrown at them close alongside.

Page 99: [Mr. Benjamin Oakley called and examined.] 4518. Was there a crowd at Shaw’s yard? — No, there was not. 4519. What did you do next? — I stood leaning there over the wire opening, when a young man came to us of the name of Williams (there was my brother there and my son) and he said they had read the Riot Act over and they had drawed bayonets. I said: “They can read the Riot Act over or draw bayonets but I am going no nearer than I am.” While I was answering him I was shot. 4520. Can you tell me where you were standing at the time you were shot, upon that map. Where is Shaw’s yard? — It is about 500 yards, as near as I can tell, from the center of it into Green Lane. 4521. It is away altogether? — Yes, ti is near Featherstone Church. (Mr. Lodge.) It is about where the word “plan” is. 4522. (Mr. Haldane.) Then you saw nothing of the crowd close? — No, I did not.

Page 103: [Mr. Charles Clay called and examined.] 4757. did they say anything to you about the necessity of the presence of a magistrate to read the Riot Act if necessary? — I understood from the conversation that Mr. Gill had undertaken to find one and also had undertaken to endeavor to fine me, knowing well, Mr. Fernandez, particularly, that I should in all probability be in the town and at the club at that particular time, as is my usual practice, to lunch, and they came down there. 4758. What did you say to them? — When they came to me of course I said I thought it was my duty in all probability to go, but I was very inexperienced in the matter, and I was afraid I should not know much about what was required of me. 4759. Was there anybody else, as far as you knew, within reach who could take your place? — I did not know of anyone else. In fact, they came to me, I believe, partly on account of the difficulty they had in finding anyone at that particular time. …… 4762. What passed between you when you met him? — As a matter of fact, very little passed between him and me personally. Mr. Fernandes was the spokesman upon that occasion, and he said something in the way of an introduction of me to Mr. Gill. He said: “Here is Mr. Caly,” or “We have found Mr. Clay” or something of that sort. I think that is what pass at the moment. 4763. Was a copy of the Riot Act given to you? — Amongst other things, Mr. Fernandez said we should require a copy of the Riot Act. I had not one, and Mr. Gill immediately undertook to provide us with one, and left for a moment, as I understood and believe, to make a copy of it in the office of the Great Northern Railway Company, and we waited about until he brought it back to us. 4764. Then you read it? — It was handed to me. Then I read it. I believe he asked me if I could read the writing, and I read it out aloud to see whether I could do so or not. Some little comment was made upon it, and that was the end of the conversation as far as I was concerned. 4765. What passed between you and Mr. Gill as to your meeting the troops at any place? — I can answer that by saying positively nothing. 4766. Where were you to go to read the Riot Act? — I had undertaken to go to Mr. Creswick to the Sharleston Colliery to read the Riot Act, and I understood that Mr. Gill approved of that course. 4767. Did you not understand that you were to met the troops at Sharleston Station? — Certainly not. 4768. You did not understand that you were to go on to Featherstone? — I can say that Featherstone was never mentioned to me at all. I do not recollect in any way that Featherstone was ever mentioned to me.

Page 104: [Mr. George William Louis Fernandez called and examined.] 4841. Did you then go back to the constabulary office? — We did. 4842. Did you find Mr. Gill has gone to Westgate Station? — We found Mr. Gill had gone to Westgate Station. 4843. Did you go after him and see him? — Yes. 4844. You and Mr. Clay? — And Mr. Creswick. 4845. Will you tell us in your own way what passed, according to your recollection, with Mr. Gill at the railway station? — We found Mr. Gill standing at the entrance to the booking office. I introduced Mr. Clay by saying, “This is Mr. Clay,” or something of the sort, and I think I asked whether he had heard what time the troops were likely to arrive, and he said, NO, he did not. I said, “Would not one of the station officials be able to tell.” He said, “No, they did not know yet.” Then I said, “Would not Mr. Clay require a copy of the Riot Act?” He said, “Oh, yes, he will,” and he left, I think, to go to Inspector Corden. Then he went into one of the offices of the officials and brought out a written copy of the Act which he handed to Mr. Clay. Mr. Clay read it aloud, and some comments were made about it. He forget “God save the Queen.” That is the proclamation did, and he did not read that, and some comment was made about it, and that was all the conservation that took place.

Page 107: [Mr. Edwards Wilkinson called and examined.] 4998. When you get down Station Road past the railway, is not there a road that comes to the right that would bring you along the bottom of the place in this direction? — I do not know what you are on, I cannot read that very well. 4999. I am not asking you to read it. If you come down past the railway, leaving the railway on your left, is not there a road that turns to your right and brings you along the line of the railway? Cannot you get round this way after passing the station? — I did not go in the station. 5000. But do you know the country? — No, I do not. 5001. This was about as well conducted and orderly a crowd as you have ever seen? — Yes, as far as I could see. I have never been in much of a crowd. 5002. There was no reason for the Riot Act being read, or for the firing or anything else? — Not as I am aware of. I did not see anything. [The witness withdrew.]

Page 109: [Mr. John Jones called and examined.] 5082. (Lord Bowen.) Did you see the magistrate come down to read the Riot Act? — No, I was not close by them. 5083. I understand how far you were off, but did you see him? — I see him on the platform. 5084. No; when he came to read the Riot Act? — No, I was not close enough down. 5085. How far off were you? — I should think I was 30 or 40 yards off. 5086. then did you see anything at all of it? — I heard him say he was coming down to read the Riot Act. There were a lot of folks between. 5087. Did you hear that he was about to read the Riot Act? — Yes. 5088. At that time were the children still there? — Yes. 5089. Did they go away or did they stay there? — They all stopped. They were all walking backwards and forwards right opposite the place. 5090. Just you let me ask you this, because it strikes me as a curious thing. I had had a long experience in law. Did all the men let the children stay there after the magistrate had read the Riot Act? — There were plenty of men there who never thought they were going to fire only blank cartridge, and I thought so myself. 5091. I can quite understand your taking the chance yourself, but it is a new thing that men should let the children stay there? — We never thought they were going to fire till it was done. (Lord Bowen.) That may explain it.

Page 122: [Adjutant-General Sir Redvers Buller, K.C.M.G., called and examined.] 5322. Would there by any possibility, consistently with the military practice and convenience, of having a summons addressed to the crowd (I am putting aside the Riot Act for the moment) at the last moment — at the eleventh hour — before the firing began; such, for instance,e as the beating of a drum immediately before the firing? — I think it is generally usual to do it, unless troops are suddenly attacked and they fire in self-defense, which very seldom happens. There is generally a very formal parade made of the intention to fire. 5323. In the present case the Riot Act had been read half an hour before. The night of course was dark, and the crowd, it is alleged by some of the witnesses, was more or less a shifting one? — Well, in an ordinary case the Riot Act would have been read an hour before. 5324. The suggestion is that, the Riot Act having been read half an hour before, persons might join the crowd who were really unconscious of the imminency of the firing? — Yes, but they are supposed to be aware of the law, and it is their duty to go away after the Riot Act is read. Of course anybody in reach after that is there at their own peril.

Page 132: Alfred Holiday, agent for Lord Masham’s colliery at Ackton Hall, narrates how crowds visited the colliery on September 6th and 7th; his applications at Pontefract and Wakefield for protection; his return to Featherstone on September 7th; the arrival of the military, who are placed in the engine house, but retired to the station; the threats to himself; his sending for a magistrate; the arrival of Mr. Hartley, J.P.; return of the military to the colliery; reading of the Riot Act; the behavior of the crowd; the firing by the soldiers; setting fire to the bridge; and gradual cessation of the riot. 14-27.

Bernard Hartley, J.P., narrates his arrival at the colliery; the behavior of the crowd; how he read the Riot Act, and then ordered the firing. 27-30.

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The extremist media group published the graphic showing flames in front of the Paris cathedral's bell towers, which survived Monday's blaze. There is no indication that the fire was linked to terror but ISIS fanatics have revelled in the damage to the 850-year-old landmark, a symbol of Western civilisation, just days before Easter. The latest image, revealed by terror monitors SITE intelligence, hints at a possible deliberate attack by ISIS-aligned militants in the future. As the church burned on Monday night the ISIS-linked Al-Muntasir group had published a poster of the blazing cathedral accompanied by the words: 'Have a good day'. Al-Munatsir has previously shared propaganda rejoicing in terror attacks which have rocked France. This poster created by the Al-Muntasir media group - an ISIS affiliated propaganda wing - appeared online on Monday night ISIS fanatics warn of a future attack on fire-ravaged Notre Dame in online poster depicting the cathedral up in flames once more The Paris prosecutor's office said it was treating the fire as an accident, ruling out arson and possible terror-related motives, at least for now. Notre Dame had previously the site of a terror scare in 2016 when a car carrying seven gas cylinders was found near the cathedral. Three women were arrested over the alleged terror plot, although they were thought to have been targeting a Paris railway station rather than the cathedral itself. Fifty investigators are now working on a 'long' and 'complex' probe into the cause, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz told reporters. A Paris judicial official said investigators have questioned about 30 people after the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. He said most of them were employees working on the renovation of the monument, including the now-collapsed spire. As many as 50 investigators are working on the case but are not allowed to enter the cathedral yet for safety reasons, he said. The tragedy prompted an outpouring of support internationally, with the Queen saying she was 'deeply saddened' and Pope Francis offering his prayers.

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America’s First Train Robbers – The Reno Gang Jackson County, Indiana

Before Seymour and Jackson County became known as the home of John Cougar Mellencamp and the fastest growing epidemic of HIV positive individuals in Indiana, the southern Indiana town and county was home to the Reno Brothers, believed to be the first peace-time train robbers in the US.

In the early to mid 1800’s, the south-central town of Seymour, Indiana was situated at the junction of two great railways, connecting four of the largest cities in the Midwest, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and Indianapolis. Following the Civil War, these railroads transported many tired and weary soldiers trying to make it home to their families, as well as goods being traded between the cities. The trains also transported money, gold and government bonds. This made it a great attraction for thieves, con men and counterfeiters who sought to take advantage of these solders and steal the goods being transported. Among those who sought to take advantage of the situation were three brothers from the local Reno family.

In 1813, J. Wilkison Reno moved to Rockford, a small town near what would become the town of Seymour, where he met and married Julia Ann Freyhafer in 1835. The couple established a 1,200 acre farm and started having a family. They were blessed with five sons, Franklin “Frank” in 1837, followed by John in 1838, Simeon “Sim” in 1843, Clinton “Clint” in 1847 and William in 1848. In 1851, the family was joined by their only daughter and sister, Laura. The family was a strictly religious family, being active members of the town Methodist church, and participating in Bible studies and attending Sunday School and church.

As the older boys entered their teen years, they began to get into legal troubles. They would lure travelers to their farm and host crooked card games, bilking the unsuspecting travelers of money and possessions. They were also suspected of stealing horses from neighbors and were considered suspects in several unsolved arson fires in town. As the Civil War began, Frank and John became “bounty jumpers”. They would sign up to join the army, collect the bounty, and then go AWOL, only to appear in another town and start the process all over again. When the Federal government instituted the draft, the brothers would agree to take the place of draftees, collect the fee and then desert days later.

The brothers returned to Rockford, a city outside of Seymour, in 1864. They brought with them other “bounty jumpers”, criminals and confidence men and formed a gang. Joined by younger siblings, Sim and Clint, the brothers and their gang hid out in the burned out buildings (in all likelihood, burned by the brothers themselves) of Rockford. Late in 1864, Frank and two gang members, Grant Wilson and Dixon, robbed the post office and Gilberts Store in Jonesville. They were captured by marshals but able to post bond. The following year, two more post offices were robbed, along with several retail burglaries, in Dudleyville and Seymour. Wilson later turned state’s witness against Frank. Before he could appear in court, he was murdered and without his testimony, the case against Frank was dropped.

Over the next several years, the Reno Brothers and their associates took up residence in the Radar House, a hotel in Seymour. From there, they launched a crime spree that included robbing hotel guests, murders and post office robberies. They were suspected in the murder of guest of the Radar House when a headless corpse was found in a local river. They also began traveling to nearby states to rob and burglarize state and federal treasuries. Despite public fear and support, local authorities refused to arrest any of the gang members. It is believed that the Reno brothers were bribing and terrorizing local officials and that is why nothing was done to stop their crimes.

In 1866, the gang turned their attention to train robberies. The trains coming into Seymour carried more than travelers and goods. They were also often carrying gold, money and bonds. On October 6, 1866, John and Sims, along with gang member Frank Sparks, boarded the Ohio and Mississippi train in Seymour. Once on board, they covered their faces and stole approximately $12,000. This was the first recorded peace time train robbery.

John and gang member, Val Elliott, traveled to Missouri in November, 1867, where they robbed the Daviess County Courthouse. John was recognized, arrested, tried and sentenced to 25 years in prison. In February, 1868, the gang robbed the Harrison Couny treasury in Magnolia, Iowa and the following week, robbed the Louisa and Mills Iowa county treasuries. They netted about $35,000 in the two robberies. While hiding out in Iowa, the famed Pinkerton Detective Agency arrested gang members, Frank, Albert Perkins and Miles Ogle, but the three were able to break a hole in the cell wall and escape.

On May 22, 1868, the gang robbed another train in Marshfield, Indiana. In this heist, the gang actually uncoupled several train cars and stole a section of the train, making off with $96,000 in gold and government bonds. Following this robbery, public sentiment finally turned law enforcement against the gang, forcing them into hiding. The famous (or infamous) Pinkerton Agency was brought in to track down the gang members. Frank, Charlie Anderson, Albert Perkins, Michael Rogers and Miles Ogle headed to Windsor, Canada. Sim and William hid out in Indianapolis.

Remaining gang members, Frank Sparks, Volley Elliot, John Moore, Charles Roseberry, Henry Jerrell and Theodore Clifton hid out in Jackson County. With the Reno brothers in hiding, John Moore took over the gang and attempted to rob an O & M train at the Shields Watering Station, near Brownstown, Indiana. This time, the authorities were alerted and the ten Pinkerton agents were waiting for the gang to attack. Clifton, Roseberry and Elliot were arrested, and while traveling via train to the Jackson County jail in Brownstown, were dragged from the train by an angry mob and hung from a tree near the railroad. Moore, Sparks and Jerrell escaped to Illinois, but were caught and brought back to Seymour for trial. On July 20, 1868, Moore and the two gang members were traveling with the Pinkertons to Brownstown. They were accosted by a group of masked men, demanding that the gang members be handed over. Outnumbered, the Pinkertons let the mob have the men, who were then hung.

The Pinkertons were determined to bring the rest of the gang to justice. In the fall of 1868, William and Sim were captured in Indianapolis and brought to a jail in New Albany, Indiana. Authorities sought extradition of Frank and Charlie Anderson from Canada, who refused because Canadian authorities were concerned about the vigilante justice seen after the last train robbery. Frank, in an attempt to avoid extradition, paid an assassin to kill Allan Pinkerton. The failed assassination convinced Canadian officials to extradite Frank and Charlie Anderson, and in early winter 1868, Frank and Anderson joined the rest of the Reno brothers in New Albany.

In the early hours of December 12, 1868, a group of masked men forced their way into the New Albany jail. One by one, the members of the Reno Gang were strung up and hung. An inquiry was made into the lynching, but no charges were ever filed.

John, who was in prison in Missouri, served 10 years and was pardoned by the governor of Missouri. He returned to Jackson County and was immediately arrested for crimes committed prior to his imprisonment. He paid bail and was released. He settled on a farm and for five years was a honest man. In 1885, he was arrested on charges of passing counterfeit money and sentenced to three years in a northern Indiana prison. He returned to Seymour upon his release and died January 31, 1895.

Although, Clint, the fifth brother, was not involved in any of the gang activities , he was not innocent of any crimes. He had a history of criminal activities, including assault and battery and operating an illegal gambling house. He died in Topeka, KS in an insane asylum.

Sister, Laura, who supposedly helped to hide her brothers, eventually married and became a respectable citizen. References and Further Reading

Garbers, Alan. The Legend of the Reno Gang, (n.d.). Retrieved from http://genealogytrails.com/ind/jackson/reno-gang.htm Accessed April 9, 2018.

Legends of America: Reno Gang & the 1st Big Train Robbery, (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-renogang/ Accessed on August 8, 2018.

Reno Gang. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno_Gang Accessed on August 8, 2018.

The Reno Brothers and The First Peace-time Train Robbery America’s First Train Robbers - The Reno Gang Jackson County, Indiana Before Seymour and Jackson County became known as the home of John Cougar Mellencamp and the fastest growing epidemic of HIV positive individuals in Indiana, the southern Indiana town and county was home to the Reno Brothers, believed to be the first peace-time train robbers in the US.

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It is very sad that at least nine persons were killed and hundreds injured on Monday in violence across several states as protesters blocked trains, clashed with police and set fire to private and public properties, including police posts, during a nationwide bandhcalled by Dalit groups, officials said. Thousands were detained following widespread incidents of arson, firing and vandalism across over 10 states, several of them being Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled including Madhya Pradesh where at least six persons died during the protests against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Two persons died in Uttar Pradesh and one in Rajasthan, according to officials there. Other states hit with violence included Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra and Delhi. Those arrested included a former Bahujan Samaj Party MLA in UP. Curfew was imposed in several places, while the Union Home Ministry, which rushed 800 anti-riot policemen to MP and UP, asked all states to take preventive steps and maintain public order to ensure safety of lives and property. The army and paramilitary forces were also put on standby in Punjab. In Madhya Pradesh, the deceased included four Dalits and two upper caste Hindus, while several others were injured across the state, the officials said. Inspector General (law and order) Makrand Deoskar told PTI that the casualties occurred during fights between the bandh supporters and its opponents and not due to police firing. A sub-divisional magistrate and a police official were also injured in the protest in Gwalior-Chambal division, he said. MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan appealed to the protesters to maintain peace in the state. Transport, mobile and internet services were hit in many states with over 100 trains getting affected due to protests, even as the Centre moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its recent judgement on the SC/ST Act, maintaining that the verdict will violate constitutional rights of these communities. The Supreme Court had on March 20 diluted certain provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, in a bid to protect ‘honest’ public servants discharging bona fide duties from being blackmailed with false cases under the Act. The verdict is being widely criticised by Dalits and the Opposition who claim that the dilution of the Act will lead to more discrimination and crimes against the backward community. While some states had ordered closure of educational institutions as a precautionary measure, incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from various parts of the country and the properties facing the wrath of protesters included railway tracks, police stations as also public and private vehicles. The bandh supporters damaged a railway track, disrupting rail traffic in Morena, the main Station Master, B K Sharma, said. Trouble started at around 10.30 am when the protesters, carrying sticks, spilled onto the streets in the Malanpur area of Bhind district and indulged in violence, including breaking window panes of buses, the police said. The Rediff.com : 3rd. Apr,18

Muzzaffarnagar: Smoke billows out of burning cars during ‘Bharat Bandh’ against the alleged ‘dilution’ of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes act, in Muzzaffarnagar on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI4_2_2018_000236B)

Varanasi: Police personnel lathicharge on an activist during ‘Bharat Bandh’ call by Dalit organisations against the alleged ‘dilution’ of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes act, in Varanasi on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI4_2_2018_000289B)

Jalandhar: Dalit activists and supporters stage a rail roko during a protest march against the alleged dilution of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Act in Jalandhar on Monday. PTI Photo (PTI4_2_2018_000275B)

EDS PLS TAKE NOTE OF THIS PTI PICK OF THE DAY:::::::: Meerut: Protesters vandalize a police vehicle during ‘Bharat Bandh’ call given by Dalit organisations against the alleged ‘dilution’ of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes act, in Meerut on Monday. PTI Photo(PTI4_2_2018_000149A)(PTI4_2_2018_000244B)

SIX PERSONS DIED DURING PROTESTS AGAINST THE DILUTION OF THE SC/ST (PREVENTION OF ATROCITIES) ACT : It is very sad that at least nine persons were killed and hundreds injured on Monday in violence across several states as protesters blocked trains, clashed with police and set fire to private and public properties, including police posts, during a nationwide

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WATCH: Army, Police march on Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa, Haryana

The Army, Rapid Action Force, and police are marching on the headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa, Haryana.

#WATCH Army, Police and Rapid Action Force enter the premises of #DeraSachaSauda in Haryana's Sirsa #RamRahimSingh http://pic.twitter.com/YKMHbaMIFa

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

The Dera's chief and self-styled godman, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was on Friday convicted of raping two of his women followers. The case dates back to 2002.

Ram Rahim was convicted by a CBI court in Panchkula.

His followers, who had been gathering in the town -- Panchkula is a satellite township of Chandigarh -- went on the rampage immediately after the verdict.

Thirty-two people have died in the violence that followed, and over 250 have been injured.

ANI reported that 29 people had died in Panchkula and three in Sirsa.

Along with Army & Rapid Action Force, Police has also entered the premises of #DeraSachaSauda HQ in Haryana's Sirsa #RamRahimSingh http://pic.twitter.com/Y5tVg1BCp4

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

Ram Rahim was flown out of Panchkula by helicopter and is currently being held in a jail in Rohtak, Haryana.

He will be sentenced on Monday.

Outside visual of Rohtak district prison in Sunaria where Dera chief #RamRahimSingh is lodged. #Haryana http://pic.twitter.com/uyuZmhgZKh

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

ANI reported earlier on Saturday that another person succumbed to injuries in Sirsa, taking the death toll to three in the district, in the violence that erupted in the states of Haryana and Punjab, shortly after the verdict convicting Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh of rape on Friday.

#RamRahimVerdict: One person injured in Sirsa, yesterday, succumbs to injuries. Total 3 people have died in Sirsa.

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

#RamRahimSingh is being treated as normal prisoner. No attendant provided, no AC in the cell he is lodged in: KP Singh, DG Prisons (Haryana) http://pic.twitter.com/aLLXdUcNym

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

Some channels & papers reporting on special treatment to #RamRahim. I clarify he is in Sunaria Jail, not in a guesthouse-DG Prisons(Haryana) http://pic.twitter.com/GMDnqpImxB

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

#LatestVisuals from Panchkula where violence was witnessed yesterday: Section 144 still imposed; security deployed. #RamRahimVerdict http://pic.twitter.com/eRAolxSlsJ

— ANI (@ANI) August 26, 2017

In addition to this, 29 people died in the violence in Panchkula, six of them from bullet injuries.

Section 144 has been imposed in Panchkula where the verdict was delivered.

Heavy security forces were deployed in the area as well.

The Haryana Police on Friday said that the situation in Panchkula district is under control following the ruckus that took place after the conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by a Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court of Panchkula.

The Deputy General of Police (DGP), BS Sandhu, while addressing the media said, "The situation in Panchkula district is under control. The Haryana Police has been successful to control the crowd after the court verdict was announced."

In another update, Western Railways have cancelled six trains and partially cancelled two trains in the wake of law and order situation in Punjab and Haryana.

Following are other updates related to the case:

-- Curfew has been imposed in Sangrur, security stepped up after violent protests by Dera followers in Punjab

-- Section 144 imposed in Uttarakhand`s Nainital

-- Baghpat District Magistrate directs all schools in the region to remain closed today in Uttar Pradesh

-- Delhi Transport Corporation has suspended bus services to NCR due to incidents of arson

-- Panchkula is completely peaceful at the moment, flag marches conducted: DGP Haryana, BS Sandhu

-- Dera Sacha Sauda followers tried creating mischief, case has been registered. We have CCTV footage, probe underway: Madhur Verma, Delhi Police

-- Haryana Government had made complete arrangements; the mob was really huge: Manohar Lal Khattar, Haryana CM

-- Urged officials to work round the clock to restore normalcy and provide all possible assistance that is required, tweets PM

-- PM Modi assures help to restore normalcy in violence-hit areas

-- Taking preventive measures, Chandigarh Police detains 81 people; confirms Chandigarh DGP Tejinder Singh Luthra

-- Six private commandos of Ram Rahim Singh arrested by Chandigarh Police, weapons and petrol cans seized from them

-- Instances of violence are deeply distressing. Strongly condemn violence urge everyone to maintain peace, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted

-- 29 people have lost their lives, and 200 are injured. Directed doctors for best possible treatment: Haryana CM ML Khattar

-- Curfew has been imposed in Patiala

-- Passengers have been stranded at Bathinda railway station due to curfew imposed in Punjab

-- Heavy security in place; Rapid Action force also deployed in Bathinda

-- Curfew has been imposed in Punjab`s Sangrur and Moga districts

-- High level meeting is called at Home Minister Rajnath Singh`s residence today. Home Secy and others senior officials will also be present

-- Almost 250 trains cancelled. All trains going towards Rohtak cancelled for tomorrow: Neeraj Sharma, CPRO, Northern Railway

-- Section 144 imposed in Noida and Ghaziabad

-- Dera supporters set power sub-station office on fire in Sriganganagar, vehicle at sub-station premises also torched in Rajasthan

(With inputs from ANI)

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More than 30 dead, 250 injured in violence after Godman Ram Rahim held guilty of rape

Panchkula: Maverick self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Friday convicted of rape by a court here, triggering widespread violence and arson in Haryana where more than 30 people were killed and over 250 injured after which curfew was imposed here and several other places.

Arson by the frenzied followers of the head of Dera Sacha Sauda was also witnessed in Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan within a few hours of the pronouncement of the judgement by the CBI court here in the 2002 case.

CBI judge Jagdeep Singh held Ram Rahim, the 50-year-old flamboyant chief of the dera, guilty of rape in a case that was registered on the basis of an anonymous written complaint in 2002 that he had sexually exploited two female followers.

On the basis of the report, a case was registered against him in December 2002 by the CBI on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

The quantum of sentence against Ram Rahim, who enjoys ‘Z’ category security, will be pronounced on August 28, CBI counsel HPS Verma told reporters outside the court.

The punishment can be a jail term not less than seven years but may even extend to life imprisonment.

Ram Rahim travelled to the court from Sirsa, about 260 kms from Chandigarh, in a huge convoy of vehicles which had his security guards and several followers.

As the news spread and his thousands of followers gathered near the Panchkula court went on the rampage, Ram Rahim was taken by a helicopter to a jail in Rohtak.

His followers, ironically called ‘premis’ (who believe in love), unleashed violence and set afire a large number of vehicles, buildings and railway stations in Panchkula, otherwise a peaceful city on the outskirts of Chandigarh, as well as in Sirsa, where the dera is based, and in Punjab.

Media persons and assets were among the main targets of the mobs.

Police and paramilitary used force, including firing and lobbing teargas shells, to control the volatile situation created by the dera followers who had gathered in thousands defying the prohibitory orders like Section 144 of the CrPC,

which bars assembly of more than four people at one place.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the violence, terming it as “deeply distressing” and urged everyone to maintain peace.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, under attack for alleged inaction, said that some perpetrators of violence, including those “who opened fire”, have been identified and will be arrested.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said curfew has been imposed in 10 districts of Malwa region as a precautionary measure and appealed to the people to maintain peace.

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In Case You Thought This Couldn't Happen... Here's a List Just for You

http://uniteordiemedia.com/in-case-you-thought-this-couldnt-happen-heres-a-list-just-for-you/ http://uniteordiemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/North-Woods-600x319.jpg In Case You Thought This Couldn't Happen... Here's a List Just for You The Ever-Growing List of ADMITTED False Flag Attacks | Zero Hedge Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack)...

The Ever-Growing List of ADMITTED False Flag Attacks | Zero Hedge

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror

In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:

(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this, this and this.

(2) A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.

(3) The minutes of the high command of the Italian government – subsequently approved by Mussolini himself – admitted that violence on the Greek-Albanian border was carried out by Italians and falsely blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy’s 1940 invasion of Greece.

(4) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson.

(5) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 – while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis for launching the “Winter War” against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War.

(6) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.

(7) The British government admits that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see this, this and this).

(8) Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).

The U.S. Army does not believe this is an isolated incident. For example, the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies said of Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service):

“Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”

(9) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.

(10) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece – also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence.

(11) The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change.

(12) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s through the 1980s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.

As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” … so that “a state of emergency could be declared, so people would willingly trade part of their freedom for the security” (and see this) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special. They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other countries.

The CIA also stressed to the head of the Italian program that Italy needed to use the program to control internal uprisings.

False flag attacks carried out pursuant to this program include – by way of example only:

The murder of the Turkish Prime Minister (1960)

Bombings in Portugal (1966)

The Piazza Fontana massacre in Italy (1969)

Terror attacks in Turkey (1971)

The Peteano bombing in Italy (1972)

Shootings in Brescia, Italy and a bombing on an Italian train (1974)

Shootings in Istanbul, Turkey (1977)

The Atocha massacre in Madrid, Spain (1977)

The abduction and murder of the Italian Prime Minister (1978) (and see this)

The bombing of the Bologna railway station in Italy (1980)

Shooting and killing 28 shoppers in Brabant county, Belgium (1985)

(13) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that the U.S. launch “a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]”.

(14) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals.

(15) As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

(16) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of American States – such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely blaming them on Cuba.

(17) The U.S. Department of Defense also suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: “The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”

(18) A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro” campaign – the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists.

(19) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the general said, “I am giving an example”.

(20) A declassified 1973 CIA document reveals a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to investigate terrorist acts:

The Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign police/security organizations through its field stations ….

[CIA provides training sessions as follows:]

a. Providing trainees with basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations.

b. Introducing the trainees to commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques, likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by terrorists or saboteurs.

c. Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of target analysis and operational planning that a saboteur or terrorist must employ.

d. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication.

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The program provides the trainees with ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques.

(21) The German government admitted (and see this) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.

(22) A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter.

(23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him “to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the ANC for the bombing.

(24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).

(25) In 1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians. Official documents from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (i.e. the British government) show that the mastermind of the bombing was a British agent, and that the bombing was designed to inflame sectarian tensions. And see this and this.

(26) The United States Army’s 1994 publication Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces – updated in 2004 – recommends employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA’s “Dirty Wars“. And see this.

(27) Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a “martyr” for the cause. The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that – during the 1984 presidential debate – President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television:

At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.

(28) A Rwandan government inquiry admitted that the 1994 shootdown and murder of the Rwandan president, who was from the Hutu tribe – a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival Tutsi tribe, and which led to the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus – was committed by Hutu soldiers and falsely blamed on the Tutis.

(29) An Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that “elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked”.

(30) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion).

(31) As reported by the New York Times, BBC and Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit that in 2001, the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on terror”. luring foreign migrants into the country, executing them in a staged gun battle, and then claiming they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent on attacking Western embassies”. Macedonian authorities had lured the immigrants into the country, and then – after killing them – posed the victims with planted evidence – “bags of uniforms and semiautomatic weapons at their side” – to show Western diplomats.

(32) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were videotaped getting out of police cars, and were seen by an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside the police station”. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a violent crackdown against protesters.

(33) The U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks – as shown by a memo from the defense secretary – as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war.

Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime, that Cheney “probably” had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction.

Despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have alleged that 9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it knew Iraq had nothing to do with it.).

(Additionally, the same judge who has shielded the Saudis for any liability for funding 9/11 has awarded a default judgment against Iran for $10.5 billion for carrying out 9/11 … even though no one seriously believes that Iran had any part in 9/11.)

(34) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country. And see this.

(35) According to the Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization.

(36) The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings.

(37) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester.

(38) In 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Defense admitted that interrogators were authorized to use the following method: “False Flag: Convincing the detainee that individuals from a country other than the United States are interrogating him.” While not a traditional false flag attack, this deception could lead to former detainees attacking the country falsely blamed for the interrogation.

(39) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

(40) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School – a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of ‘netwar’ – called for western intelligence services to create new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups, as a way of undermining “real” terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy was, Hersh reported, already being implemented by the Pentagon:

“Under Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists…

The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls ‘action teams’ in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. ‘Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?’ the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we financed them,’ he said. ‘The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon’s commando capabilities, said, ‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”

(41) United Press International reported in June 2005:

U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

(42) In 2005, British soldiers dressed as Arabs were caught by Iraqi police after a shootout against the police. The soldiers apparently possessed explosives, and were accused of attempting to set off bombs. While none of the soldiers admitted that they were carrying out attacks, British soldiers and a column of British tanks stormed the jail they were held in, broke down a wall of the jail, and busted them out. The extreme measures used to free the soldiers – rather than have them face questions and potentially stand trial – could be considered an admission.

(43) Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians.

(44) Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this).

(45) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual recommends that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as “paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members, black marketers, and other social or political ‘undesirables.’” The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S. special operations can involve both counterterrorism and “Terrorism” (as well as “transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)

(46) The former Italian Prime Minister, President, and head of Secret Services (Francesco Cossiga) advised the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students:

He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior … infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything …. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent, … beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.

(47) An undercover officer admitted that he infiltrated environmental, leftwing and anti-fascist groups in 22 countries. Germany’s federal police chief admitted that – while the undercover officer worked for the German police – he acted illegally during a G8 protest in Germany in 2007 and committed arson by setting fire during a subsequent demonstration in Berlin. The undercover officer spent many years living with violent “Black Bloc” anarchists.

(48) Denver police admitted that uniformed officers deployed in 2008 to an area where alleged “anarchists” had planned to wreak havoc outside the Democratic National Convention ended up getting into a melee with two undercover policemen. The uniformed officers didn’t know the undercover officers were cops.

(49) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence.

(50) The oversight agency for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police admitted that – at the G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 – undercover police officers were arrested with a group of protesters. Videos and photos (see this and this, for example) show that violent protesters wore very similar boots and other gear as the police, and carried police batons. The Globe and Mail reports that the undercover officers planned the targets for violent attack, and the police failed to stop the attacks.

(51) Egyptian politicians admitted (and see this) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.

(52) Austin police admit that 3 officers infiltrated the Occupy protests in that city. Prosecutors admit that one of the undercover officers purchased and constructed illegal “lock boxes” which ended up getting many protesters arrested.

(53) In 2011, a Colombian colonel admitted that he and his soldiers had lured 57 innocent civilians and killed them – after dressing many of them in uniforms – as part of a scheme to claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing terrorists. And see this.

(54) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 admitted that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also show the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence.

(55) A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat.

(56) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was shown by videos and pictures distributed via social networks.

(57) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently admitted that the Saudi government controls “Chechen” terrorists.

(58) Two members of the Turkish parliament, high-level American sources and others admitted that the Turkish government – a NATO country – carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria and falsely blamed them on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.

(59) The Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials admit that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos.

(60) Burmese government officials admitted that Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false flag attacks against Muslim and Buddhist groups within the country to stir up hatred between the two groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.

(61) Israeli police were again filmed in 2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing stones, then turning over Palestinian protesters to Israeli soldiers.

(62) Britain’s spy agency has admitted (and see this) that it carries out “digital false flag” attacks on targets, framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material … and blaming it on the target.

(63) The CIA has admitted that it uses viruses and malware from Russia and other countries to carry out cyberattacks and blame other countries.

(64) U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants.

(65) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in 1981:

In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim.

Newsweek reported in 1999:

Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers. After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a “throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them during a stakeout.

Wikipedia notes:

As part of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating gang members, planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings.

(As a side note – and while not technically false flag attacks – police have been busted framing innocent people in many other ways, as well.)

(66) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently alleged:

Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services.

(67) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom said:

By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.

(audio here).

(68) The Director of Analytics at the interagency Global Engagement Center housed at the U.S. Department of State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where he teaches the graduate course National Security Challenges in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology, a former branch chief in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, and an intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security (J.D. Maddox) notes:

Provocation is one of the most basic, but confounding, aspects of warfare. Despite its sometimes obvious use, it has succeeded consistently against audiences around the world, for millennia, to compel war. A well-constructed provocation narrative mutes even the most vocal opposition.

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The culmination of a strategic provocation operation invariably reflects a narrative of victimhood: we are the victims of the enemy’s unforgivable atrocities.

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In the case of strategic provocation the deaths of an aggressor’s own personnel are a core tactic of the provocation.

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The persistent use of strategic provocation over centuries – and its apparent importance to war planners – begs the question of its likely use by the US and other states in the near term.

(69) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the “benefits” of of false flags to justify their political agenda:

“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”. – Adolph Hitler

“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.

“The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened”. – Josef Stalin

Postscript: The media plays along as well. For example, in 2012, NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, was kidnapped in Syria. NBC News said that Engel and his reporting team had been abducted by forces affiliated with the Syrian government. He reported that they only escaped when some anti-Syrian government rebels killed some of the pro-government kidnappers.

However, NBC subsequently admitted that this was false. It turns out that they were really kidnapped by people associated with the U.S. backed rebels fighting the Syrian government … who wore the clothes of, faked the accent of, scrawled the slogans of, and otherwise falsely impersonated the mannerisms of people associated with the Syrian government. In reality, the group that kidnapped Engel and his crew were affiliated with the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army, and NBC should have known that it was blaming the wrong party. See the New York Times and the Nation’s reporting.

Of course, sometimes atrocities or warmongering are falsely blamed on the enemy as a justification for war … when no such event ever occurred. This is sort of like false flag terror … without the terror.

For example:

The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 … manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war

One of the central lies used to justify the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq after Iraq invaded Kuwait was the false statement by a young Kuwaiti girl that Iraqis murdered Kuwaiti babies in hospitals. Her statement was arranged by a Congressman who knew that she was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. – who was desperately trying to lobby the U.S. to enter the war – but the Congressman hid that fact from the public and from Congress

Another central lie used to justify the Gulf War was the statement that a quarter of a million Iraqi troops were massed on the border with Saudi Arabia (see also this article)

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind reported that the White House ordered the CIA to forge and backdate a document falsely linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 … and that the CIA complied with those instructions and in fact created the forgery, which was then used to justify war against Iraq. And see this and this

Time magazine points out that the claim by President Bush that Iraq was attempting to buy “yellow cake” Uranium from Niger:

had been checked out — and debunked — by U.S. intelligence a year before the President repeated it.

Everyone knew that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. More

The entire torture program was geared towards obtaining false confessions linking Iraq and 9/11

CIA agents and documents admit that the agency gave Iran plans for building nuclear weapons … so it could frame Iran for trying to build the bomb

The “humanitarian” wars in Syria, Libya and Yugoslavia were all justified by exaggerated reports that the leaders of those countries were committing atrocities against their people. And see this

Read More: www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/ever-growing-list-admitted-false-flag-attacks

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