Liberals killed by Conservatives
because of the differences in their beliefs
( listed in reverse chronological order ):
- The the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001 were an attempt by extremely Conservative religious fanatics to kill as many Americans as they could because they view Americans as diabolical Liberals.
- Doctor Martin Luther King was clearly killed in 1967 by a Conservative who hated the Liberal agenda that King represented.
- Victor Jara (Chilian folk singer and political activist, brutally tortured and killed by Conservative government's "law enforcement" - 1973 )
- The Murderous Riot of Conservative Whites against African Americans in Wilmington, N.C. in 1898.
- Steven Biko ( Black African activist murdered by "law enforcement" of Conservative South African apartheid regime in 1977.)
- Massacre of the Greensboro,N.C. Five by white racists : Sandy Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.
- 168 people died and over 800 were injured in the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in 1995 by Timothy McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols, ultra-Conservative militia movement, which hated what it considered the Liberal government under President BillClinton. It is the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States and was the deadliest act of terrorism within U.S. borders until September 11, 2001.
- Chico Mendes, a union leader and environmental activist in Brazil, was murdered in 1988 by land-owners whose total control he threatened.
- Patrice Lumumba (an African anti-colonial leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed by Conservative forces shortly after he helped to win the independence of this former colony from Belgium in June 1960.
- Jewish radio show host Alan Berg by the White Supremacists known as 'The Order',in 1984.
- Benigno Aquino, Jr. the leading opponent to the ultra-conservative Marcos regime, assassinated in 1983.
- Harvey Milk played an essential role in the story of the emergence of the gay community. He was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential politicians of the 20th century. But in 1978 a Conservative rival shot and killed both him and the mayor in San Francisco's city hall. The homophobic jury responded to the killer's "twinky defense" by giving him a five year sentence.
- See the web page I devote to the seven leading liberal Catholic cardinals and popes who died suspicious deaths in and around the Vatican in 1978 : http://JesusWouldBeFurious.Org/murderedpope.
- Orlando Letelier (Leading Liberal Chilian activist, educator and diplomat, & his assistant were car-bombed in 1976 in Washington, D.C. because of his powerful opposition to Conservative Dictator Pinochet )
- The murder of Episcopalian seminarian Jonathan Daniels who was working for racial justice and equality in Alabama, in 1965, prompted outcries from many and is believed to have been a turning point in America's battle for equality among the races. 'One of the most heroic Christian deeds of which I have heard in my entire ministry and career for civil rights." (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) His denomination recognized Daniels as an official martyr and dedicated August 14 to his memory.
- Black Mississippian James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered near Philadelphia,Mississippi, when they tried to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, 1964 by members of the KKK.
- Meddgar Evers, NAACP field secretary and civil-rights activist in Missisippi, 1963.
- The bloodiest race riot in the history of the United States took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, when the white community burned down the black community because the African Americans had been so successful in establishing a prosperous community, killing about 300 of the residents .
- Although Mahatma Gandhi was himself assassinated by fellow Hindus (who may or may not have been "Conservatives", the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, also known as the Amritsar Massacre, on April 13, 1919, where British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children supporters of Gandhi was a different matter. The firing lasted about 10 minutes and 1600 rounds were fired. Official sources place the casualties at 379. According to private sources, the number was over 1000, with more than 2000 wounded. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre]
- The Haymarket (Chicago) five labor-leaders hanged on false pretences, after a 1886 May Day rally in support of the 8 hours work day.
- President Abraham Lincoln, assassinated as part of an ultra-Conservative plot. in 1864.
- Mariana de Pineda Mu�oz a Spanish national heroine.killed in 1831.
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