Louis Epstein
2016-06-16 17:43:52 UTC
Today (June 16th) British MP Jo Cox was murdered by a lone assailant.
She would have turned 42 on June 22nd and leaves a husband and young
son and daughter.
She becomes the latest in the "Eminent Elizabethans II" (persons of note
in the realms of,and living their entire lives in the reign of,Elizabeth
II) I have been noting the deaths of since about 1999...most recently
Victoria Wood,and before her Harry Harpham,like Cox an MP but dead of
natural causes.
Time.com says Cox was the first MP killed in office in a generation but
doesn't go back to the last,only noting more recent non-lethal assaults.
Have any been killed since Ian Gow?
(Gow's death has been indirectly credited with the fall of Margaret
Thatcher not long after,as he might have papered over the disputes that
brought her down...I wonder if Cox's death will cause the UK to stay
stuck in the European Union,which she supported and her murderer was
apparently against.(Shades of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin)).
The longer the Queen reigns,the easier for a life to fall completely
within it,but this was a life cut short.(I began EE II postings shortly
after the murder of Jill Dando).
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
She would have turned 42 on June 22nd and leaves a husband and young
son and daughter.
She becomes the latest in the "Eminent Elizabethans II" (persons of note
in the realms of,and living their entire lives in the reign of,Elizabeth
II) I have been noting the deaths of since about 1999...most recently
Victoria Wood,and before her Harry Harpham,like Cox an MP but dead of
natural causes.
Time.com says Cox was the first MP killed in office in a generation but
doesn't go back to the last,only noting more recent non-lethal assaults.
Have any been killed since Ian Gow?
(Gow's death has been indirectly credited with the fall of Margaret
Thatcher not long after,as he might have papered over the disputes that
brought her down...I wonder if Cox's death will cause the UK to stay
stuck in the European Union,which she supported and her murderer was
apparently against.(Shades of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin)).
The longer the Queen reigns,the easier for a life to fall completely
within it,but this was a life cut short.(I began EE II postings shortly
after the murder of Jill Dando).
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.