Be honest about patriotism As it has been weaponized by the right It is a vehicle for classism Used to most decency & fairness fight For when the citizens band together & try to improve their amazing lands Big business decides whether it’s better To help, or squash them with an iron hands Naïvely we sang “🎶This Land Is Your Land This Land Is My Land🎵” hoping for the best But this optimism was too unplanned For the great avarice that rules the west I love my country & some of the things Laws run by enforcement tragedy brings #headlinepoem #headlinesonnet #Repost @workingclasshistory ・・・ On this day, 15 April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest when a crush occurred after police directed fans into overcrowded areas, resulting in 96 dead and over 700 injured. Though it was caused by police negligence and a ground which did not adequately meet health and safety standards, the police and the Conservative government, with help from the mainstream media, concocted an entirely false story blaming working class Liverpool fans for the disaster. The right-wing tabloid Sun newspaper falsely claimed that Liverpool fans robbed the dead, urinated on police and attacked officers who were trying to save lives. After years of campaigning by the families of the victims, eventually in 2012 the truth finally came to light, with the Hillsborough Independent Panel determining that the primary cause of the disaster was a "lack of police control". They also revealed that police had doctored 164 witness statements, that Conservative MP Irvine Patnick had passed lies from the police to the press. The police also went to extreme lengths in their attempts shift responsibility to the victims, even testing the blood of dead children for alcohol to try to blame them for their own deaths. New inquests held in 2016 also found that the crush was caused by police, exacerbated by stadium defects. They determined that the senior police officer responsible breached his duty of care and that this amounted to gross negligence. They determined that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed. (at Geographic Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcXufl5OhGh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
