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Whether the FBI can find anything that qualifies as a conspiracy to commit violence under the Attorney General's rules is far from certain. Says Dallas Blanchard, a professor of sociology at the University of West Florida and a consultant to the pro-choice National Abortion Federation: "There probably is collusion among the leaders of sit-ins and invasions of clinics. ((But)) the real extremists -- the bombers, the arsonists, the murderers -- tend to be encapsulated," planning their most violent acts privately...
...clinics, according to The New York Times. This represents a significant change for the Feds, who are usually reluctant to get involved in abortion-related violence. The Times cited a confidential FBI memo indicating that the Bureau was looking into whether or not anti-abortion activists are conspiring to commit violence at clinics. If so, they could be busted under the same laws that put mobsters behind bars. In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal anti-racketeering RICO law can be used against anti-abortion groups. Also today, the Senate voted 98-0 to call for federal...
...program or activity that has either the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." But Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., said the provision would also forbid counseling of gay students, who he said are up to three times as likely to commit suicide as other teen-agers. "We simply can't do that," he said, calling the amendment "very mean-spirited...
Your story failed to acknowledge that men also suffer abuse. However, a recent editorial in the Dallas Morning News cited the following statistics: Women commit half the spousal murders in the U.S. A survey funded by the National Institute of Mental Health found that men and women abuse each other at about the same rate, with women more inclined to use weapons to compensate for their smaller size. And several studies indicate that domestic violence against males occurs at a rate nearly identical to that of violence against women, yet women are nine times as likely to report the abuse...
Barry "the Blade" Moldanno (Anthony La Paglia), the feared mobster whose knife inspires Jerome Clifford to commit suicide before Barry can kill him is, as his Mafia-kingpin uncle says, "stupid." Reducing criminal intrigue to a new level of sleaze and triteness, Moldanno adds almost nothing to a plot which pertains to him only in the murder he committed before the film begins...