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Initially, the killings at Kent State and the after-math follow the same pattern: disorder breaks out, deadly force is called in to quell it, people are shot at random, evidence is suppressed, and a kangaroo tribunal returns indictments against the victims while clearing the killers. This is what happened during the summer and early fall at Kent: a grand jury cleared the Guardsmen, while indicting 25 students on charges of riot, arson, and unlawful assembly. The report-including a passage which stated that the responsibility for the shootings lay with the students, faculty, and Administration of the University...
...JATC is a kangaroo court," McNeil charged. "It is made up of four union racists and four Harvard bosses." Butler said he would not recommend the transfer to the committee, largely because of the higher tuition involved. "But we don't intend to tell the JACT how to run their business," he said...
...show that they were as capable of meting out kangaroo justice as the "official" I.R.A., the "provisionals" last week dragged a 20-year-old man from a pub, allegedly for pushing drugs, then tarred and feathered him and chained him to a park fence. They also accused an English ex-soldier of "interfering with women" and tarred him outside Belfast...
Muhammad Ali was flabbergasted. Oscar Bonavena, the hulking, beetle-browed Argentine with only a halting command of English, was beating the Louisville Lip to the surly quip. Calling Ali a "black kangaroo" and a "maricon" (faggot), Bonavena boasted that he would knock out the deposed champion in Round 11. "Imagine that!" exclaimed Ali. "Him predictin' on me!" At their prefight physical, Oscar tweaked Ali's cheek. Ali started to lunge at Oscar. "Why you so nerbous?" said the Argentine. "You afraid Oscar and his beeg muscles?" Ali: "You're not good enough to touch me." Oscar...
...defense. Given the CFIA's refusal to attend, and the consequent lack of evidence from their side, no objective assessment is possible. If the SDS declares, as a result of the forum, that the CFIA should be abolished, we will have had, not an objective inquiry, but a kangaroo court in the absence of the defendant...