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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 1, 2021, 10:18 pm
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Down goes Macdonald!
HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-john-a-statue-removed-charlottetown-1.6047595
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> Charlottetown city council voted unanimously Monday to remove
the Sir John A. Macdonald statue permanently from Victoria Row
in the downtown of Prince Edward Island's capital.
>
> The resolution came in light of the discovery that local
Indigenous leaders in B.C. believe to be the remains of 215
children on the grounds of a former residential school in
Kamloops.
> ...
> His role in setting up the schools has made him a target for
anger over their legacy of abuse, cultural alienation and
sometimes death.
> ...
> Macdonald's government introduced residential schools in 1883
to remove Indigenous children from their families and prevent
them from growing up amid "savages," Macdonald was recorded as
saying in the House of Commons.
> ...
> For decades before, Indigenous leaders have said thousands of
children were never heard from again after leaving home to
attend the schools.
>
> Survivors have spoken of residences where malnutrition and
severe illness were common, and friends would sometimes vanish
without explanation. Gould said the discourse around the statue
and Macdonald's legacy has changed since the discovery of the
children's remains.
>
> "The story that we've been telling quietly, it's slowly being
unsilenced," he said. "Now that it's out there and it's not just
a story passed on by somebody's grandparents or they once heard
this about this, it's a fact."
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Remember, compulsory schooling is an exclusively Western
institution. All of us are direct victims of this violence. And
new generations of children will continue to be subjected to the
same violence until Western civilization is fully killed.
#Post#: 6872--------------------------------------------------
Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 3, 2021, 9:57 pm
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HTML https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-race-and-ethnicity-8ec48e4881368beb45a84dffb3b7d5be
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> MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park
Tuesday to begin the process of digging up the remains of
Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and moving the former
slave trader’s body from its longtime resting place in Memphis
to a museum hundreds of miles away.
>
> Crews prepared to remove the graves of Forrest and his wife
from Health Sciences Park in Memphis’ busy medical district. The
park used to bear the name of the early Ku Klux Klan leader and
feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has
been changed and the statue removed in recent years.
>
> Workers must dismantle the statue’s pedestal before they can
disinter the Forrests’ remains and move them to a Confederate
museum in Middle Tennessee. A heavy crane was positioned nearby
as workers began taking apart the pedestal Tuesday. The entire
process could take weeks.
> ...
> Forrest sold slaves in Memphis and served in the Confederate
army as a cavalry general. In April 1864, Forrest’s troops
attacked Fort Pillow in northwest Tennessee and killed 200 to
300 Union soldiers, most of them Black.
>
> Forrest was later accused of massacring the Union soldiers.
Questions linger about whether they were killed as they tried to
surrender. Northern newspaper reports referred to the battle as
an atrocity.
>
> Historians say he later became an early leader of the Ku Klux
Klan, though some of Forrest’s supporters dispute that.
Forrest’s critics call him a violent racist.
> ...
> The park where Forrest was buried has been the site of
protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Activists have long called for the removal of both the statue
and the remains. The words “Black Lives Matter” have been
painted in yellow by activists on a walkway surrounding the
tomb.
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They should find the skull and stick it on the top of the
flagpole of a BLM flag.
#Post#: 6983--------------------------------------------------
Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 7, 2021, 9:50 pm
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Beheading statues increase morale:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM5Bo-5qZL0
#Post#: 7020--------------------------------------------------
Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 9, 2021, 4:49 am
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We have reached the Windsors!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/queen-elizabeth-iis-portrait-pulled-010837144.html
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> Britain's conservatives in government and the media got their
knickers in a twist Tuesday after reports emerged that graduate
students at Magdalen College at Oxford removed a 1952 photo
portrait of Queen Elizabeth II from a common room as an
unwelcome symbol of "recent colonial history."
>
> According to Guido Fawkes, the rightwing website published by
political blogger Paul Staines, who broke the news, a committee
of students, many of them international students, voted by a
substantial majority to take the portrait down from the Middle
Common Room wall, and to explore replacing it with “art by or of
other influential and inspirational people.”
> ...
> "Queen becomes latest victim of cancel culture," yelped the
headline in The Telegraph, a favorite broadsheet of the Tories.
>
> "How dare they! Oxford students cancel our queen!" shouted The
Daily Express.
>
> "Absurd," sputtered Gavin Williamson, the member of Parliament
who serves as education secretary in the Conservative government
of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
>
> On Twitter, the outrage was practically palpable. Samantha
Smith, described in her Twitter bio as a contributor to The
Spectator, the conservative political magazine, and to the New
York Times, pointed out, correctly, that the widely admired
95-year-old queen pioneered anti-racism during the era of
widespread segregation and apartheid.
>
> One of her most important roles is head of the Commonwealth of
nations, most of them former British colonies – and most with
populations made up of people of color.
>
> "Imagine trying to cancel the reigning monarch," Smith wrote.
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We did:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/'royal'-family-hate-thread/
And it is now happening, albeit initially on a small scale.
Hopefully this will eventually lead to more countries dropping
Elizabeth as head of state.
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> As in the United States, Britain is grappling with its history
– including hundreds of years as a colonial and slave-trading
power and the connection of both to the monarchy over the
centuries. The difference is the Brits have hundreds of years
more history to reckon with than the Yanks.
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Yes, and Americans should try to actively blame Britain (or
France, if appropriate) for all the pre-Revolution evils on US
soil.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: June 9, 2021, 10:54 pm
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> Yes, and Americans should try to actively blame Britain (or
France, if appropriate) for all the pre-Revolution evils on US
soil.
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France is sending a second Statue of Liberty to the US
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> New Yorkers have a surprise gift to look forward to for this
Independence Day: a second Statue of Liberty sent by France.
This new bronze statue, nicknamed the "little sister," is
one-sixteenth the size of the world-famous one that stands on
Liberty Island.
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HTML https://www.cnn.com/style/article/statue-liberty-france-us-travel-lon-orig-mrg/index.html
;D
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 10, 2021, 1:49 pm
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HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/charlottesville-confederate-statues-removal/2021/06/07/ea741566-c7ca-11eb-a11b-6c6191ccd599_story.html
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> RICHMOND — The Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously
Monday night to remove statues of Confederate generals Robert E.
Lee and Stonewall Jackson from public parks, starting the clock
ticking on the demise of monuments at the heart of the deadly
"Unite the Right" rally in 2017.
> ...
> “It’s past time for those things to come down,” community
leader Don Gathers said. Like many other speakers, he urged the
city to move quickly and not to send the statues to another
community.
>
> Many mentioned that when neighboring Albemarle County removed
a statue of a Confederate soldier from its courthouse last
summer, the figure was relocated to a Civil War battlefield in
the Shenandoah Valley.
>
> “If my trash ends up in a neighbor’s yard, it’s still trash,”
Gathers said. “Those things are like the Bat-Signal for white
supremacists.”
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This is what I have been saying. Merely relocating them makes no
sense. Behead them all.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 15, 2021, 11:56 pm
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Another good move by Lightfoot:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-mayor-changes-course-announces-233100704.html
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> After initially saying it was too expensive, Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot announced on Monday that Chicago will recognize
Juneteenth as an official city holiday, the Chicago Sun Times
reports.
>
> “I, like many others, didn’t even know anything about
Juneteenth until I was an adult. And that’s because it has never
been treated with the reverence that it should be,” Lightfoot
said at Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza on Monday.
>
> “If you look at the history books that are used to teach our
children, you may only see a passing reference, if at all. We
must change that,” Lightfoot added. The city will start
observing Juneteenth as an official holiday in 2022.
>
> Last year, the Chicago City Council voted to recognize
Juneteenth by making June 19 an annual day of observance, but
the upgrade to an official city holiday will provide a paid day
off.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 17, 2021, 12:14 am
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HTML https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbd48/people-in-canada-are-cancelling-canada-day
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> A major Canadian city and at least one First Nation have
formally cancelled Canada Day because they don’t want to honour
“attempted genocide” against Indigenous peoples.
>
> The decision follows Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First
Nation’s discovery of 215 undocumented children, including some
as young as 3, buried under a former Catholic-run residential
school in Kamloops, British Columbia. There are likely many more
sites like it across the country.
>
> “The history of our country’s genocidal relationship with
First Nations has been once again revealed in a way that is
painful,” Victoria mayor Lisa Helps wrote in a motion, following
consultations with Indigenous leaders.
> ...
> Victoria city council announced Thursday it voted unanimously
to cancel its planned virtual celebration. The city will instead
hold an event in September to highlight Indigenous stories and
histories.
>
> Keewaywin First Nation in Ontario also declared on Thursday
that it will no longer recognize Canada’s birthday.
>
> “Keewaywin First Nation calls on the federal government to
carry out exhaustive investigations of all former residential
school grounds across the country,” the First Nation’s statement
says. “Until then, Keewaywin will mark Canada Day as a day of
mourning.”
>
> According to the statement, July 1 will be used to pay tribute
to residential school student and their families and to
“acknowledge the role the Canadian government and the churches
played in the attempted genocide of Indigenous people.”
> ...
> It’s hardly the first time people have called on government
officials to cancel Canada Day. In 2017, as Canada geared up to
celebrate the country’s 150th birthday—the official celebration
in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, costing upwards of $500
million—Indigenous folks all over and their allies abstained
from celebrating.
>
> “The fact that half a billion dollars was found to throw the
party is no surprise—however it does come as a shock to those
communities without drinking water who have been historically
told infrastructure is just too damn expensive in remote
communities,” writer Ryan McMahon wrote at the time.
> ...
> Way back when Canada Day was still “Dominion Day,” Chinese
people referred to it as “humiliation day” and boycotted the
event because it landed on the same day that the exclusionary
Chinese Immigration Act, which banned most Chinese immigration,
passed in 1923.
>
> Instead of Canada Day, Idle No More, an ongoing Indigenous
justice movement, has announced several rallies taking place
across the country to honour “all of the lives lost to the
Canadian State—Indigenous lives, Black Lives, Migrant lives,
Women and Trans and Two Spirit lives—all of the relatives that
we have lost.”
>
> “We refuse to sit idle while Canada’s violent history is
celebrated,” Idle No More’s site says.
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Reminder:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
--- Quote ---
> The reigning monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who is also
monarch of 15 other Commonwealth countries and each of Canada's
10 provinces. The person who is the Canadian monarch is the same
as the British monarch
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"Canada Day" = British Empire Day
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 17, 2021, 10:19 pm
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Status reports:
HTML https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-research-finds-quarter-of-controversial-statues-removed-due-to-be-removed-or-under-review-since-edward-colston-monument-toppled-12326278
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> Sky News contacted 44 councils in England, Wales and Scotland
who share 84 controversial statues between them. All have been
condemned for their ties to slavery and colonialism.
>
> Of the 84 statues, 21 have been removed, are due to be removed
or are under review since the statue of slave trader Colston was
pulled down in Bristol last year.
>
> Since the public toppling, a statue of slave dealer Robert
Milligan was taken down by the local authority in the London
Docklands - and the University of East London removed a statue
of merchant and slave trader Sir John Cass.
>
> It is now reviewing whether to drop his name from one of the
campus buildings, whilst institutions like City University
London have already dropped his name from one of theirs.
>
> Cardiff Council has also voted to remove the statue of slaver
and Waterloo war hero Sir Thomas Picton from the City Hall, but
is waiting on the Welsh government for final approval.
> ...
> Among the monuments they will review and discuss are Scottish
politician Henry Dundas, who "delayed the abolition of the slave
trade to benefit slavers"
> ...
> Glasgow's review into statues and place names was already
under way before the controversy began last year.
>
> Members of the public there will be consulted on the future of
statues in their city, such as 19th century military leader
Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, who is accused of helping to
set up concentration camps, and Sir John Moore, who participated
in both the Royal African and East India Companies.
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There is still a long way to go:
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> Sky News heard from some of the councils who have kept their
statues in place and have no plans to review their future.
>
> In Plymouth, statues that have been deemed controversial have
stayed put, but an additional slavery memorial has been
installed to acknowledge the city's historic role in the
transatlantic slave trade.
>
> Some like Tavistock Town Council have kept their monument of
Sir Francis Drake, but plans to install an information board
next to the statue outlining the explorer's links to slavery are
being explored.
>
> Carmarthenshire County Council will likewise place information
boards near the Sir Thomas Picton monument in Carmarthen with
reference to Sir Thomas's military career as well as his links
with slavery.
> ...
> When pressed on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in
Westminster, which last year was vandalised by demonstrators at
one of the Black Lives Matter protests, Ms Emelife says the
former prime minister's presence encourages questions and
debate.
>
> "I don't think it should be taken down at all," says the art
historian.
--- End Quote ---
This next status report is written by our enemies:
HTML https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2021/06/the-abolition-of-canada.html
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> The Ryerson Journalism department renamed two of its
publications, the Ryerson Review of Journalism magazine and the
Ryersonian newspaper, previously bearing the name of Egerton
Ryerson (1803-1882).
>
> A statue of Egerton Ryerson on the Ryerson university campus
was doused with red paint. The wall behind it was covered with
graffiti, some of which told white Canadians to “go back to
where you came from” and declared that the activists “hate all
colonizers”. There were no arrests.
>
> A petition on change.org was started by Maaz Khan calling for
the statue of Egerton Ryerson to be removed. At the time of
publication the petition had 10,158 signatures.
>
> The City Council of Charlottetown voted unanimously to remove
the statue of John A. Macdonald. It was removed at 6:30 in the
morning of June 1st. All that remains is a plaque and a concrete
pad with some red paint still on it from when the statue was
last vandalized (no arrests were made for the vandalism).
>
> Cam Galindo, a trustee for Hamilton’s school board, is calling
for Ryerson Elementary school to be renamed and has filed a
motion to formally reconsider the names of all schools named
after historic Canadians. Galindo declared that “all school
names must reflect human rights, decolonization, anti-racism and
anti-oppression principles”.
>
> Global News has reported that there are calls for all schools
in Ontario named after Egerton Ryerson to be renamed.
>
> The Yellowhead institute, an aboriginal think tank at Ryerson
University, has begun to use the name ‘University X’ as a
protest to remove Egerton Ryerson’s name from the university.
The Yellowhead institute declared that they are fighting “racist
narratives that continue to oppress Black, indigenous, and
racialized people generally”.
>
> Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi called upon the Calgary Board of
Education and the Calgary Catholic School District to change the
name of Langevin School and Bishop Grandin School.
>
> The Calgary Board of Education has renamed Langevin elementary
School, named after Hector-Louis Langevin (1826-1906).
>
> Edmonton Catholic Schools is reviewing the name of Grandin
Catholic Elementary School, named after Bishop Vital-Justin
Grandin (1829-1902).
>
> Winnipeg Mayor Brian Bowman has decided to rename Bishop
Grandin street. He has also created a committee to remove and
rename “historical markers and place names” and “resolve the
absence of Indigenous perspectives & contributions in the
stories remembered/commemorated”.
>
> Three Ottawa councillors have called for the renaming of the
Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.
>
> Grandin Fish and Chips in Edmonton is being renamed.
>
> Edmonton’s Mayor, Don Iveson, has decided to rename Grandin
LRT station. A mural of Bishop Grandin within the LRT station
will be covered in orange. The new name of the station will have
to contribute to “reconciliation”. All civic signs in Edmonton
bearing Grandin’s name will also be renamed.
>
> Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson has also declared that he is working
to rename all place names celebrating past Canadians who “no
longer reflect our diverse and inclusive community values”.
>
> The City of Edmonton has decided to rename the Oliver
neighbourhood, named after Frank Oliver (1853-1933).
>
> Trustees at Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools have formed an
ad hoc committee to review the names of all schools in the
division including Vital Grandin Catholic School.
>
> Hamilton Bike Share has removed the name Ryerson from one of
its recreation hubs.
>
> A portrait and bust of Egerton Ryerson has been removed from
outside Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath's office at her
request. It is now in storage.
>
> A school meeting will discuss the potential renaming of
Ryerson Public School in London, Ontario.
>
> Calls are growing to remove the giant statue of John A.
Macdonald statue in City Park, Kingston, Ontario. The Kingston
City Council is considering the matter.
>
> The University of Windsor has decided to rename the Macdonald
Hall student residence.
>
> Protestors used a truck and a rope to tear down the Egerton
Ryerson statue in Toronto. Protestors then separated the head of
the statue and hit it with a mallet. There was no police
intervention or arrests. President of Ryerson, Mohamed Lachemi,
said the statue would not be put back up.
>
> Newfoundland premier Andrew Furey has decided to change the
province’s coat of arms which depicts two Beothuk warriors.
>
> Prince Edward County council has voted 13-1 to remove the John
A. Macdonald statue from Main Street in Picton, Ontario.
>
> Hamilton public board votes to rename Ryerson Elementary
School
>
> Two sports teams at Ryerson University have removed Ryerson
from their names.
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I especially like this detail:
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>
HTML https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-slTvD6HWFrI/YMjonc8PghI/AAAAAAAAEgg/7TlXPebpZIURtVDjqUDqvA2BbZr7PPAjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/image%2B4.jpeg
> The head of the Ryerson statue now sits on a spike in the
“Land Back Lane” native blockade in Caledonia
--- End Quote ---
And we are just getting started! Hopefully we can do this to
Churchill's head eventually!
#Post#: 7226--------------------------------------------------
Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 19, 2021, 11:34 pm
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A good article on the importance of holidays:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/forget-fourth-july-time-celebrate-055220081.html
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> As Juneteenth approaches this year, America confronts a
resurgent conservative movement that appears somehow emboldened
by Donald Trump’s defeat. They have attacked the Capitol, passed
new laws to make it harder for people of color to vote, and have
worked to outlaw the teaching of critical race theory, critical
thinking, and the 1619 Project in schools.
>
> The conservative response to the empowered communities of
color that helped Joe Biden win the presidency has been the
strategic denial of freedom and the silencing of voices of
color. Their actions echo the philosophy of the Confederacy and
those intent on destroying Reconstruction.
>
> Their version of America cannot coexist with the criticism of
America’s systemic oppression that will inevitably occur as
people of color obtain more freedom and agency in American
society. Instead they respond to criticisms that can reveal the
truth about America by silencing dissent, and crafting a new
narrative that depicts white Americans as the benevolent rulers
of American society.
> ...
> For the rest of America, Juneteenth is an opportunity to
finally celebrate freedom in our society, but it is also a blunt
reminder of the perversity of the Fourth of July.
>
> In 1852, well-meaning white Americans believed that it made
sense for a formerly enslaved Black American to celebrate the
Fourth of July alongside them and embrace the freedoms that
white Americans had given themselves, yet intentionally denied
to Black Americans.
>
> When Black Americans vigorously celebrate white freedom and
the Fourth of July, America creates a hypocritical double
consciousness that normalizes white supremacy and impedes
freedom. Through Black celebration, white and Black Americans
are encouraged to believe in the existence of an equitable
American freedom that has never existed. To create the freedom
it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the
lies we have long told ourselves.
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Bonus:
HTML https://twitter.com/joe_warmington/status/1405861334269534217
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> The noose has been installed around SirJohn A MacDonald’s neck
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