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...licensed idiots, as one reporter describes himself and colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host is Eldon’s sister, Amy Eldon, and its producer is his mother, Kathy Eldon, who is also an international journalist...
Eldon’s avenging trio (his sister, mother and father, Mike Eldon) held a screening of the film and a discussion about his legacy in light of recent events on Oct. 12 at Fisher College in Boston. The event was part of a Fisher College Honors Colloquium, “In the Extreme: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Grave Human Rights Violations.” The audience was still audibly shaken by the hard-hitting film they had just watched, but Eldon’s family did not wait. They immediately pushed ahead to put the film in the context...
...Dees points to alumni like Buford Furrow, who is awaiting trial on charges of shooting up a Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles and killing a Filipino postal worker last summer. Furrow, who pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only a matter of time" Dees argues, "before the unfit, untrained...
...Dees points to alumni like Buford Furrow, who is awaiting trial on charges of shooting up a Jewish day-care center in Los Angeles and killing a Filipino postal worker last summer. Furrow, who pleaded not guilty, worked security for Butler in the 1990s. Another ex-security chief, Eldon Cutler, 59, was convicted in Boise in 1986 of conspiring to kill a federal witness in a case against the Order, a notorious terrorist cell of ex-Aryans who had gone on a crime spree in the 1980s. "It was only a matter of time" Dees argues, "before the unfit, untrained...
...unpardonable killing of thousands of innocent citizens every year by drivers under the influence of alcohol. The bombing of a few strategically located "factories" where the production of alcohol is alleged to take place would send the message that such behavior will no longer be tolerated. HARRY K. ELDON Lethbridge, Alta...