Harold H. Thompson

Harold H. Thompson (April 9, 1942 – October 11, 2008) was an American anarchist activist and prisoner.

Biography Thompson was of Irish extraction, his parents having emigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century and settled in Huntington, West Virginia. Raised in a politicized environment, Thompson acquired an interest in anarchism at an early age, having heard the political debates of his father and his father's friends. He joined the Army and served in the Vietnam War. He was discharged for being wounded, and became an anti-war and anarchist activist associated with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the 1960s and 1970s.

He was condemned to life imprisonment with an additional fifty years,

On October 11, 2008, Harold H. Thompson suffered a heart attack, dying in West Tennessee State Penitentiary at sixty-six years of age. In accordance with his final request, Thompson's ashes were scattered over the waters of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland by six of his anarchist friends. A frequent correspondent, Sean Matthews, oversaw the event. When asked to comment on Thompson's criminal history, Matthews described it as "no worse than the wage slavery that underpins our economy".

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