Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yazzie conveyed the seriousness of the issue as he indicated that crime on Indian reservations has increased in recent years, bucking a national trend...
...suddenly, the outrage is gone. The Wyoming state senate quashed proposed hate-crime legislation last week. Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah have all defeated similar bills over the past few months. Only 40 states have hate-crimes legislation. Of these, only 21 specifically provide for hate-crimes prosecution for crimes against gays and lesbians. Despite federal statistics that show 14 percent of reported hate crimes nationwide are motivated by sexual orientation, the movement to add a sexual orientation clause to hate-crimes laws has run into a brick wall...
While the murder of Matthew Shepard is the most horrendous example of hate crime, hate crime legislation is also vital in the prevention of lesser crimes which have the effect of terrorizing whole group of citizens. Surely spray-painted swastikas and burning crosses are far more pernicious than ordinary vandalism...
Model railroaders argued, among other things, that if their trains doubled in price, more kids would turn to lives of drugs and crime. Other train enthusiasts, including Davis, wrote letters: "I fail to see any relationship between model-railroad equipment and bananas." Trains got dropped...
...underlying message is this: the violence and misogyny and lustful materialism that characterize some rap songs are as deeply American as the hokey music that rappers appropriate. The fact is, this country was in love with outlaws and crime and violence long before hip-hop--think of Jesse James, and Bonnie and Clyde--and then think of the movie Bonnie and Clyde, as well as Scarface and the Godfather saga. In the movie You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks even refers to the Godfather trilogy as the perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree...