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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And this is the thing that has come up a bunch of times on this show but has left out a lot of the sensationalist stuff about bomb assassinations as all of the bystanders who get killed. There have been so many times in history, and there's going to be two in this episode, where people don't do it because they can't find a way to do it without hurting people.

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

And this is the thing that has come up a bunch of times on this show but has left out a lot of the sensationalist stuff about bomb assassinations as all of the bystanders who get killed. There have been so many times in history, and there's going to be two in this episode, where people don't do it because they can't find a way to do it without hurting people.

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

And this is the thing that has come up a bunch of times on this show but has left out a lot of the sensationalist stuff about bomb assassinations as all of the bystanders who get killed. There have been so many times in history, and there's going to be two in this episode, where people don't do it because they can't find a way to do it without hurting people.

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

He's there for like three weeks and he can't find a way to not hurt anyone else. He had all but given up and he was figuring he'd go back to Paris and attack the Soviets instead. When he was stopped on the street by cops on February 3rd, 1931, and I think he was just like stopped for being a sketchy guy because it's a fascist state, you know, and they take him to a holding cell for investigation.

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

He's there for like three weeks and he can't find a way to not hurt anyone else. He had all but given up and he was figuring he'd go back to Paris and attack the Soviets instead. When he was stopped on the street by cops on February 3rd, 1931, and I think he was just like stopped for being a sketchy guy because it's a fascist state, you know, and they take him to a holding cell for investigation.

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

He's there for like three weeks and he can't find a way to not hurt anyone else. He had all but given up and he was figuring he'd go back to Paris and attack the Soviets instead. When he was stopped on the street by cops on February 3rd, 1931, and I think he was just like stopped for being a sketchy guy because it's a fascist state, you know, and they take him to a holding cell for investigation.

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

There were three cops in the room. He pulled a gun and shot all three cops. Wow. And then he shouted long live anarchy and put the gun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger. Well, okay.

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

There were three cops in the room. He pulled a gun and shot all three cops. Wow. And then he shouted long live anarchy and put the gun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger. Well, okay.

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

There were three cops in the room. He pulled a gun and shot all three cops. Wow. And then he shouted long live anarchy and put the gun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger. Well, okay.

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

Yeah. Like, I think he like, he seriously injured one of the cops in himself. Jesus Christ. He was like rushed to emergency surgery and they, you know, wanted him fit to stand trial. Right. Stand trial for killing no one. That's actually part of the thing. I was reading newspapers at the time and they were like, look, shooting cops didn't carry the death penalty.

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

Yeah. Like, I think he like, he seriously injured one of the cops in himself. Jesus Christ. He was like rushed to emergency surgery and they, you know, wanted him fit to stand trial. Right. Stand trial for killing no one. That's actually part of the thing. I was reading newspapers at the time and they were like, look, shooting cops didn't carry the death penalty.

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

Yeah. Like, I think he like, he seriously injured one of the cops in himself. Jesus Christ. He was like rushed to emergency surgery and they, you know, wanted him fit to stand trial. Right. Stand trial for killing no one. That's actually part of the thing. I was reading newspapers at the time and they were like, look, shooting cops didn't carry the death penalty.

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

So it actually was against their own laws to try and give him the death penalty. But he admitted that he was there to kill Mussolini. In fact, they were like, what are you doing? He was like, I'm here to kill Mussolini. He tried to write his wife, and his wife tried to write him while he was in jail, but their letters were confiscated. He wrote to his father to the same effect.

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

So it actually was against their own laws to try and give him the death penalty. But he admitted that he was there to kill Mussolini. In fact, they were like, what are you doing? He was like, I'm here to kill Mussolini. He tried to write his wife, and his wife tried to write him while he was in jail, but their letters were confiscated. He wrote to his father to the same effect.

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

So it actually was against their own laws to try and give him the death penalty. But he admitted that he was there to kill Mussolini. In fact, they were like, what are you doing? He was like, I'm here to kill Mussolini. He tried to write his wife, and his wife tried to write him while he was in jail, but their letters were confiscated. He wrote to his father to the same effect.

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

In May 1931, he was tried by a fascist judge with no jury, and all the lawyers and witnesses had to be put before a special tribunal before they could come in. His defense was basically, I came here to blow up Mussolini. During the trial, he decried both fascism and communism. They told him he would be executed, shot in the back. He didn't say a word as the sentence came down.

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

In May 1931, he was tried by a fascist judge with no jury, and all the lawyers and witnesses had to be put before a special tribunal before they could come in. His defense was basically, I came here to blow up Mussolini. During the trial, he decried both fascism and communism. They told him he would be executed, shot in the back. He didn't say a word as the sentence came down.

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

In May 1931, he was tried by a fascist judge with no jury, and all the lawyers and witnesses had to be put before a special tribunal before they could come in. His defense was basically, I came here to blow up Mussolini. During the trial, he decried both fascism and communism. They told him he would be executed, shot in the back. He didn't say a word as the sentence came down.

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

When he was asked if he had anything to add, he shrugged his shoulders. At 2.30 a.m. the next morning, they came into his cell and told him he would be killed at sunrise. He said he did not need a priest, and he was shot in the back by a firing squad of 24 fascists, folks from his home of Sardinia who had volunteered specifically to kill him.

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

When he was asked if he had anything to add, he shrugged his shoulders. At 2.30 a.m. the next morning, they came into his cell and told him he would be killed at sunrise. He said he did not need a priest, and he was shot in the back by a firing squad of 24 fascists, folks from his home of Sardinia who had volunteered specifically to kill him.