{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "One thing looking through history it\u2019s striking how many of the main characters were at some point sentenced to death - and...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/152416264733/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/152415988053/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>One thing looking through history it\u2019s striking how many of the main characters were at some point sentenced to death - and we\u2019re not talking bullshit folk crimes but like, \u201cmaking a pretty serious attempt to overthrow the government\u201d or \u201cassassinating someone important\u201d, and then had the sentence lifted/commuted/pardoned/overturned/reprieved/amnestied.<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe that just means \u201cleaders of powerful movements will get traded as bargaining chips\u201d.</p><p>Before film and the Cold War they coulda just hung Mandela. <br/></p><p>(I remember the \u201890s, 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)<br/></p>"}