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...This incident could have had a tragic ending,” said Catalano. “An officer was put in the position to use lethal force, but because of their training, they had other options available to them besides their firearms...
...speeches in 16 states to defend the Patriot Act because Congress is trying to repeal it, and more than 150 cities and towns have passed resolutions saying they don't like being spied on. On the other hand, you can read the latest reports about flimsy border security and lethal germs and how easily a man took a 4-in. knife on board a United flight in June and wish that even more money, more muscle, more ingenuity were going into this fight...
EXECUTED. PAUL HILL, 49, who in 1994 serenely gunned down a doctor who performed abortions and his volunteer escort in Pensacola, Fla.; by lethal injection; at Florida State Prison, in Starke, Fla. The unrepentant former Christian minister, the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the U.S., maintained until his death that abortion opponents should "do what you have to to stop...
...film's plot is as streamlined as its combat. Zatoichi (Kitano) wanders into a village beset by gangs, one of which has hired a lethal samurai (Tadanobu Asano) to wipe out its enemies. Meanwhile, a geisha assassin and her brother, a female impersonator, seek revenge on the criminals who slaughtered their family. Zatoichi ends up in the middle. This is a film designed to get to the payoff as fast as possible, and that payoff is bloodier than a hematology convention. Hyperviolence is not new to the Zatoichi oeuvre, but Kitano does Katsu one, two or 11 better. To Kitano...
...Much of the book draws from Hill's own experience and also contains theological arguments supporting the use of lethal force to prevent abortions. The manuscript has not been submitted to publishers but Hill's backers, for the most part pastors who lead small congregations or splinter groups on the extreme edge of the anti-abortion movement, promised him it would be published in one form or another. Whether there is anyone willing to actually kill, then die for their crimes, as Hill was, is another matter...