{"id":134922,"date":"2016-06-18T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=134922"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:51:51","slug":"history-as-ghastly-repetition-anna-lindh-jo-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=134922","title":{"rendered":"History as ghastly repetition \u2013 Anna Lindh &#038; Jo Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Off-Guardian &#8212; June 18, 2016<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anna-Lindh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anna-Lindh.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Lindh\" width=\"550\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anna-Lindh.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anna-Lindh-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>In 2003, just four days before the Swedish referendum on joining the Eurozone, a prominent pro-Euro MP, Anna Lindh, was <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anna_Lindh\">stabbed to death in a public place<\/a><\/span>. The man later convicted, claimed to have no idea why he had done it, and no political motive was ever suggested for the killing.<\/h5>\n<h5>Nevertheless many people predicted that the brutal death of a pro-Euro MP, so soon before the vote, would have a massive effect on the results. In the end it did not, and Sweden voted to stay out.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 2016, just seven days before the UK referendum on leaving the EU, a prominent pro-EU MP, Jo Cox, was shot to death in a public place. The man accused has been described <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36558386\">by neighbours<\/a><\/span> as \u201cquiet, bit of a loner, keen gardener\u201d, with no known political opinions, and, according to \u201crecords obtained by\u201d the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2016\/06\/16\/alleged-killer-british-mp-was-longtime-supporter-neo-nazi-national-alliance\">Southern Poverty Law Centre<\/a><\/span>, as a white-supremacist Hitler-supporter with a houseful of Nazi regalia and other incriminating items.<\/h5>\n<h5>It is too soon to say whether the awful, violent death of Ms Cox will have any bearing on the EU referendum, but if it does <em>not<\/em> it won\u2019t be for lack of shameful effort on the part of elements in the mainstream media to make political capital out of this still largely unexplained human tragedy.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2016\/06\/18\/history-as-ghastly-repetition-anna-lindh-jo-cox\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had almost forgotten but as they say &#8220;history repeats itself&#8221;, and Jo Cox&#8217;s murder had a bizarre precedent 13 years ago.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,15,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History","category-jo-coxs-murder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134937,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922\/revisions\/134937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}