Word: excrementalism
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...tapes showed soldiers of the elite Airborne Regiment at Petawawa, Ontario, a base 115 km northwest of Ottawa, participating in vicious and racist hazing rituals in 1992. In one scene a black recruit crawled across the ground, with symbols declaring ``I love the Ku Klux Klan'' daubed in excrement on his back. Another soldier was shown being forced to eat urine-soaked bread. The second tape depicted Airborne members in Somalia in 1993, where they were serving as U.N. peacekeepers. Asked to describe his tour, one soldier told the anonymous interviewer, ``I think it sucks, man. We ain't killed...
...then he was trying his hardest to stay alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described the moment in Fortunate Son: "I thought initially that the loss of my glasses...
...lawyer and Harvard Club President Don Shapiro say that a $10 bonus should no longer be paid to employees "who perform so-called 'dirty jobs' such as cleaning vomit, blood excrement...
...Chicago police swept into 219 North Keystone Avenue last Tuesday looking for drugs, and found children instead. There were 19 in all. Lying two deep on a pair of dirty mattresses. Or sprawled on the apartment's cold floor amid food scraps, cigarette butts and human excrement. Most were in dirty diapers or underwear; one boy, subsequently found to have cerebral palsy, wore bruises, belt marks and cigarette burns on his body. Two of the smallest children, reads the police report, were awake, sharing a neck bone with a dog. As the police removed the children from the residence...
...currently in the midst of a campaign for the U.S. Senate--first became a significant player in New York City race politics during the infamous Tawana Brawley trial in 1987. Brawley, a young Black woman, had been found one summer night, lying in an alley, covered with excrement. She claimed to have been kidnapped four days earlier, held captive in the woods and repeatedly raped by several white males...