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...grew up in an America filled with hate and war and drugs and Watergate and CIA-FBI "investigations" and Rich ard Nixon free and James Hoffa free and Helter Skelter and Attica and riots and murder and rape and kidnaping . . . and I asked, "Dear God, what has happened to my country?" Last night I read the article on torture, and I thought, "Thank God I am an American...
...them. He pushed through a one-year residency rule for welfare recipients in 1970, bragging later that "I decided to get the cheats and chiselers off the taxpayers' back." This action was followed by repressive (and ineffective) mandatory sentencing measures for drug dealers and users, as well as the Attica murders...
...exorcised all his demons in public. Apart, they reveled in the sort of vocational excesses they had once checked in each other. Lennon collaborated with his wife, Yoko Ono, on a series of noisome avant-garde records, then switched to abrasive social protest on subjects as various as the Attica killings and the oppression of women. McCartney wrote about the undemanding pleasures of farm life and domestic bliss, going so far as to record a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb four years...
...seems like so much quibbling, albeit understandable quibbling. What Collier and Horowitz are trying to do is to create a grand, novelistic family epic where personal sins and relationships have an exact coincidence with the world the Rockefellers dominate. Thus the Ludlow massacre, and its strikingly similar grandchild at Attica, are made to seem as if they hover over the family consciousness like a dark cloud--but in a world as protective and as solipsistic as the one the Rockefellers inhabit, that may very well not be the case at all. Collier and Horowitz make a convincing argument for wealth...
...investigation of the Attica massacre should continue at all levels--especially at that of the governor and his advisors. And because, as the Meyer report says, members of the two recently-disbanded grand juries from nearby Wyoming County displayed "partiality and emotion...in considering charges against enforcement personnel who were their friends and neighbors," a new grand jury should be formed in another county to consider more justly the charges brought before it. Finally, the inmates convicted for their roles in the Attica uprising should be retried...