Murder of an activist
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“Our lives are brief, a mere fluttering in time. So open the door wide and let the light in!”
So we cut the roses for your grave and let them rest on the wet grass — your life was a golden thing, hope filled and hope given to so many! You will never leave us.
In the early afternoon of Thursday 16th June 2016, after leaving a meeting with her local constituents, the 41-year old British Labour politician Helen Joanne Cox, a married mother of two young children, was chased down the streets of Birstall, England by a man intent on killing her, a killer who was patiently lying in wait. The man subsequently stabbed her, then shot her, and left her to bleed to death in a car park behind the local library.
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Murder of an activist
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Dress it up whichever way you want,
but what it breaks down to
is the senseless murder
of a woman by a man.
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Senseless the loss.
Senseless the pain.
The resort to violence.
The resort to hate.
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And the mindless murder
