Heather Mills Quotes
I have to clear my name.
Mills, Heather. Interview with Fiona Phillips. GMTV, ITV, 31 Oct. 2007.
In one of the classic disputes between the military and civilian authorities, the government did not want to spend the money or risk the troops to expand French positions. The military officers however had a different view. Humbert suffered a military setback in the field and felt that he was caught in between the higher military and civilian authorities.
Thereafter, Blaine was known as "The Plumed Knight." Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
In 1920 in the midst of a wave of anarchist bombings, two men in Braintree, MA were murdered in an armed robbery. Vanzetti and another political anarchist, Ferdinando Nicola Sacco, were charged with the crime. While anarchy was a non-violent philosophy for many, there was another movement imported from Europe who used bombings as a method of terror and protest to achieve their political aims. Vanzetti and Sacco were of the former type with no criminal record whatsoever but both were considered politically undesirable and part of the terrorist anarchist movement that had been striking in a number of cities. Most Americans saw little difference between the anarchists and the communists although there were foes. These anarchist men were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the robbery and murders despite what was very flimsy and contradictory evidence. In Vanzetti’s case, the evidence against him was the fact that 2 of the shell casings from the crime scene were according to the police fired from the same type of Colt pistol that Vanzetti owned. However, 300,000 other people owned the same type of gun, and ballistics scientific evidence later showed that the shells could not have been fired from Vanzetti’s gun. The case became a worldwide cause celebre with politics, police and judicial misconduct. Even today, there is no clear evidence of either their guilt of innocence (although there was even less evidence against Vanzetti), However, the trial brought more publicity to the anarchist political philosophy than the defendants could have imagined. It also called the finality of capital punishment into question and caused major examination of the police, prosecutorial, judicial systems and even the defense attorneys. The two men were electrocuted on August 23, 1927 amid protests the world over. See {625975} and {600317} for example.
Heather Anne Mills is an English former model, media personality, businesswoman and activist.
