One thing looking through history it’s striking how many of the main characters were at some point sentenced to death - and...
One thing looking through history it’s striking how many of the main characters were at some point sentenced to death - and we’re not talking bullshit folk crimes but like, “making a pretty serious attempt to overthrow the government” or “assassinating someone important”, and then had the sentence lifted/commuted/pardoned/overturned/reprieved/amnestied.
Maybe that just means “leaders of powerful movements will get traded as bargaining chips”.
Before film and the Cold War they coulda just hung Mandela.
(I remember the ‘90s, how the great Palestinian and Irish propaganda gently glide-pathed to shit after the USSR fell, Gerry Adams got the message but Arafat had a good run)