May 2024
Hillsborough - Fighting for truth has meant fighting the bosses' state
Submitted by schless on Thu, 2017-06-29 00:12
Today the Crown Prosecution Service has announced that criminal charges will finally be laid against some of those at the centre of the state and media lie machine that has run since April, 1989.
In 2012 we published an article saluting those who had fought against lies, disortions and injustice. In 2016 when the inquest returned the verdict of "unlawful killing" we again applauded their tenacity. Those articles can still easily be found on this site.
Once more, we need to praise the ongoing struggle, demanding accountability, against a system more interested in defending vested interest and power than dealing honestly with the death of 96 people.
The battle about Hillsborough has so far taken more than 28 years.
Tragically, today we are at the stage were the friends and families of the victims of greed and profit at Grenfell Tower are having to start on the same struggle against the lying and thieving system and its foul state machine.
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This is only a thought, but
This is only a thought, but perhaps it is a relatively easy way out for the system to periodically accept that wrongdoing occured many years after the event.
It is not cost free for the ruling class, but the alternative is to appear unaccountable, aloof, brittle, undemocratic. This may generate greater resistance than the approach of conceding some points which do not threaten it fundamentally.
For example, some admissions regarding brutality and the like during the miners's trike in 1984-5 could eventually be forthcoming, but given the passing of time, even if not good for the image of the state, would not be massively damaging.
The system plays a complex game with its victims. It gives a little and takes a lot. It maintains passivity whilst permitting exploitation.
We have noted it many times
We have noted it many times that
it is a relatively easy way out for the system to periodically accept that wrongdoing occured many years after the event.
It has happened so often but the fight against this remains the only way in which we even get to know a modicum of the truth. Solidarity with those who fought so long.