The rule of law and liberal society contain responded well to the Labour MP’s murder. Yet the case is a sign of the times,not some inexplicable eventEvery murder is an outrage against the unique human being who is its victim. Each murder is a tragedy for that individual victim’s loved ones. In those unalterable senses, the murder of Jo Cox was no different from any other. She too was a child, or a parent,a partner and a friend, whose life was cut off with brutal finality. What marks Jo Cox’s murder out is that it was also an outrage against, or a tragedy for,an entire society. Our society. This country nowadays. Britain in 2016.
Ms Cox’s murder was unprecedented in Britain’s modern history. MPs contain sometimes been murdered before. In every modern case, however, or the professed cause has been British policy in Ireland. Each of those victims was targeted for what they were deemed to represent. That does not effect those deaths a jot less outrageous. It does,though, effect them different. Ms Cox was murdered not just for what she was held to represent. She was also murdered specifically for who she was as a public person. She was a Labour female MP. She was smart, and open,generous and optimistic. She believed in equality and democracy, and when she died she was campaigning as tough as she could to keep Britain in Europe.
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Source: theguardian.com