24 Ιουλ 2011
6 Ιουλ 2011
Bildersturm
[...]"Accounts of the actions of the iconoclasts from eye-witnesses and the records
of the later trials of many of them make it clear that there was often a considerable
element of carnival to the outbreaks, with much mockery of the images and fittings
such as fonts recorded as the iconoclasts went about their work. Alcohol features
largely in very many accounts, perhaps in some cases because in Netherlandish law
being drunk could be regarded as a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing.
The destruction frequently included ransacking the priest's house, and sometimes
private houses suspected of sheltering church goods. There was much looting of
common household goods from clergy houses and monasteries, and some street
robberies of women's jewellery by the crowd; after the images were smashed and
the property occupied, "men fed their stomachs in a carnivalesque indulgence
of beer, bread, butter and cheese, while women carted off provisions for the kitchen
or bedroom".[18] There are many accounts of rituals of inversion, in which the
church sometimes stood for the whole social order; children sometimes
participated enthusiastically, and street games afterwards became play battles
between "papists" and "beggars"; one child was killed in Amsterdam by a stone
thrown in such a game. Elsewhere the iconoclasts seemed to treat their actions
as a job of work; in one city the group waited for the bell rung to mark the start
of the working day before beginning their work.
The tombs and memorial inscriptions of the patriciate and nobility, and in some cases royalty,
were defaced or destroyed in several places, although secular public buildings
such as town halls, and the palaces of the nobility, were not attacked.
In Ghent, on the one hand the memorial in a church to Charles V's sister Isabel
(and so Philip's aunt) was carefully left alone, but a statue in the street of Charles V
and the Virgin was destroyed.
The actions were controversial among Protestants, some of whom implausibly tried
to blame Catholic agent provocateurs , as it became clear that "the more popular
elements of the dissident movement were out of control""[...]
"Maroni dovrebbe fare quel che feci io quand'ero ministro dell'Interno. In primo luogo, lasciare
perdere gli studenti dei licei, perché pensi a cosa succederebbe se un ragazzino di dodici anni
rimanesse ucciso o gravemente ferito. Gli universitari invece lasciarli fare. Ritirare le forze di polizia
dalle strade e dalle università, infiltrare il movimento con agenti provocatori pronti a tutto,
e lasciare che per una decina di giorni i manifestanti devastino i negozi, diano fuoco alle macchine
e mettano a ferro e fuoco le città. Dopo di che, forti del consenso popolare, il suono delle sirene
delle ambulanze dovrà sovrastare quello delle auto di polizia e carabinieri. Nel senso che le
forze dell'ordine dovrebbero massacrare i manifestanti senza pietà e mandarli tutti in ospedale.
Non arrestarli, che tanto poi i magistrati li rimetterebbero subito in libertà, ma picchiarli
a sangue e picchiare a sangue anche quei docenti che li fomentano. Soprattutto i docenti.
Non quelli anziani, certo, ma le maestre ragazzine sì."
Francesco Cossiga
He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior. [...] infiltrate the
movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything [...] And after that,
with the strength of the gained population consent, [...] beat them for blood and
beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers.
Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes.
sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeldenstorm , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
BILDERSTURM~ eiconoclastic fury
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