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...record: it is true that somewhere between 21,000 and 24,000 people have died since America’s Iraqi campaign began in March 2003. With the exception of Saddam’s murderous sons—and the gang of thugs employed as secret police by the Hussein family—each one of those deaths is a tragedy. It is even possible that many of them could have been averted if the administration’s blinded neo-cons had listened to Colin Powell and done some better pre-war planning...
...control advocates are distraught over this development, predicting a rise in everything from road-rage episodes to gang violence. Gun toters may wrongly assume they have "total immunity from prosecution," said Miami police chief John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...
...civil rights movement was focused on the courts. King’s direct action was considered radical, dangerous, and possibly harmful to the cause. The more conservative leaders of the movement feared that King would turn public opinion against integration by making civil rights activists look like a gang of law breakers...
Prosecutors contended that Io Nachtwey was raped, stabbed to death, and then thrown in the Charles River on Nov. 3, 2001 by the defendants to send a message to her friends, who had refused to join the robbery gang allegedly run by the defendants...
Procopio said that Parker and the Vasquez brothers were the leaders of a gang that had tried to recruit Nachtwey and some of her friends. But, Procopio said, when Nachtwey’s boyfriend, another “Pit kid” named Gene Bamford, and some other recruits refused to carry out orders from the gang leaders, the defendants struck back by raping and killing Nachtwey...