Word: martyrizing
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That's a sobering lesson for the moderate forces who oppose globalization and condemn violence but believe mass demonstrations are necessary to deliver their message. Stein was hardly a political martyr; he acted, and was shot, for reasons that have nothing to do with structural adjustment programs or Third World debt. As the antiglobalization movement swells, so too will security forces' sense of siege and the chances that future protests will bring serious casualties. Europe's governments are beginning to address the threat. In a special meeting last Friday, the E.U.'s interior ministers agreed to share information with...
...roll of posters and a bucket of paste. On the posters was the image of Raed Dabash, a 20-year-old P.F.L.P. member shot by Israeli soldiers. The activist set to work pasting up pictures of Dabash over the top of some older posters. That was his mistake. The martyr whose posters were obscured was Hussein Abayat, a gunman who became the first victim of Israel's policy of "liquidating" Palestinians with snipers and helicopter gunships. He was also a Ta'amra. In Bethlehem that makes him untouchable. The burly Ta'amra ran over, grabbed the P.F.L.P. youth and began...
Nkosi Johnson died a hero in the battle against AIDS in Africa, but he was not a martyr. Martyrs are those who choose death in pursuit or in defense of their beliefs, but 12-year-old Nkosi did not choose death. Death chose him, even before he was born HIV-positive to a mother who died of AIDS before his third birthday. Back then, his adoptive mother Gail Johnson was told Nkosi had nine months to live, but he went on to be South Africa's longest surviving AIDS orphan. But it was not only his longevity that made Nkosi...
Climbing to that lofty perch seemed to have been Jackson's goal since he appeared on the Today show on the morning after King's assassination in 1968, wearing a turtleneck that he claimed (falsely) had been stained with the martyr's blood as King lay dying in his arms. His good looks and catchy slogans ("Put hope in your brains, not dope in your veins") captivated both the masses and the media. He was candid enough to tell blacks that many of their problems were the result of self-destructive behavior and brash enough to run for President...
President Bush had a message for McVeigh, and for anyone else who would try to make him a martyr to those questions and doubts. He said McVeigh is "lucky to be in America. That this is a country who will bend over backwards to make sure that his constitutional rights are guaranteed." But that was small consolation to the victims' families, the parents and children and spouses whom McVeigh derides as the "woe is me" crowd, to whom he has never shown the least regret, other than that there were not more of them killed, that he did not bring...