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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2364 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

He made his way, probably to Rome. He made his way to Italy. He spent two days scouting out the area where he knew the king was going to be. And then on July 29th, 1900, he went out and he got some ice cream. I think he had lunch with a stranger and just hanging out. And he was like, you're going to remember me, guy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

He made his way, probably to Rome. He made his way to Italy. He spent two days scouting out the area where he knew the king was going to be. And then on July 29th, 1900, he went out and he got some ice cream. I think he had lunch with a stranger and just hanging out. And he was like, you're going to remember me, guy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

He made his way, probably to Rome. He made his way to Italy. He spent two days scouting out the area where he knew the king was going to be. And then on July 29th, 1900, he went out and he got some ice cream. I think he had lunch with a stranger and just hanging out. And he was like, you're going to remember me, guy.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then he waited for Umberto to come through, waiting in the crowd that was all there to cheer on their glorious leader. And he shot Umberto to death. The crowd immediately grabbed him. Gaetano said, I did not kill Umberto. I have killed the king. I have killed a principal.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then he waited for Umberto to come through, waiting in the crowd that was all there to cheer on their glorious leader. And he shot Umberto to death. The crowd immediately grabbed him. Gaetano said, I did not kill Umberto. I have killed the king. I have killed a principal.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And then he waited for Umberto to come through, waiting in the crowd that was all there to cheer on their glorious leader. And he shot Umberto to death. The crowd immediately grabbed him. Gaetano said, I did not kill Umberto. I have killed the king. I have killed a principal.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Back home in New Jersey, his anarchist friends were like, oh, I guess we judged him wrong. And they started a fund to look after his kids and support his family. His wife came to Italy and testified to his good character in court. His whole family was like arrested in an investigation into conspiracy, but eventually everyone was let go.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Back home in New Jersey, his anarchist friends were like, oh, I guess we judged him wrong. And they started a fund to look after his kids and support his family. His wife came to Italy and testified to his good character in court. His whole family was like arrested in an investigation into conspiracy, but eventually everyone was let go.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Back home in New Jersey, his anarchist friends were like, oh, I guess we judged him wrong. And they started a fund to look after his kids and support his family. His wife came to Italy and testified to his good character in court. His whole family was like arrested in an investigation into conspiracy, but eventually everyone was let go.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And Italy under a king was actually had a more fair criminal justice system than the United States does today. They didn't have the death penalty. Mussolini is going to bring that back later. So he gets life in prison. He was held in solitary confinement. He had one hour a day of exercises, like feet were like manacled to the floor. They didn't treat him great.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And Italy under a king was actually had a more fair criminal justice system than the United States does today. They didn't have the death penalty. Mussolini is going to bring that back later. So he gets life in prison. He was held in solitary confinement. He had one hour a day of exercises, like feet were like manacled to the floor. They didn't treat him great.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And Italy under a king was actually had a more fair criminal justice system than the United States does today. They didn't have the death penalty. Mussolini is going to bring that back later. So he gets life in prison. He was held in solitary confinement. He had one hour a day of exercises, like feet were like manacled to the floor. They didn't treat him great.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Less than a year later, he was found hanging in his cell. And modern historians are reasonably certain he was murdered at the time. Everyone's like, nah, he just killed himself. Interestingly enough, this assassination didn't bring in sweeping reactionary forces or anything. Usually people are like, oh, you killed the king and something worse is going to happen.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Less than a year later, he was found hanging in his cell. And modern historians are reasonably certain he was murdered at the time. Everyone's like, nah, he just killed himself. Interestingly enough, this assassination didn't bring in sweeping reactionary forces or anything. Usually people are like, oh, you killed the king and something worse is going to happen.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Less than a year later, he was found hanging in his cell. And modern historians are reasonably certain he was murdered at the time. Everyone's like, nah, he just killed himself. Interestingly enough, this assassination didn't bring in sweeping reactionary forces or anything. Usually people are like, oh, you killed the king and something worse is going to happen.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

This changed things, but the existing kind of leftist government stayed in power and things kind of chugged along okay. It didn't even lead to โ€“ they cracked down on the anarchist movement, but they didn't come through and destroy it. It did lead to more international cooperation between law enforcement groups.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

This changed things, but the existing kind of leftist government stayed in power and things kind of chugged along okay. It didn't even lead to โ€“ they cracked down on the anarchist movement, but they didn't come through and destroy it. It did lead to more international cooperation between law enforcement groups.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

This changed things, but the existing kind of leftist government stayed in power and things kind of chugged along okay. It didn't even lead to โ€“ they cracked down on the anarchist movement, but they didn't come through and destroy it. It did lead to more international cooperation between law enforcement groups.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

When I first started dreaming up this show years ago, it was kind of in a different context. And I wanted to talk about anarchist history. And I was like, you know, they literally invented international policing to stop us. Why are all of our books boring? Has been my, like, go-to tagline. Because they did. International policing exists because of trying to stop the anarchist movement. Because...

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

When I first started dreaming up this show years ago, it was kind of in a different context. And I wanted to talk about anarchist history. And I was like, you know, they literally invented international policing to stop us. Why are all of our books boring? Has been my, like, go-to tagline. Because they did. International policing exists because of trying to stop the anarchist movement. Because...