Word: metzger
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...OXFORD ANNOTATED BIBLE edited by Bruce Metzger and Roland Murphy (Oxford; $37.95). Last year's gender-blended New Revised Standard Version with notes and articles making judicious use of higher criticism...
Violent hatemongering can be an expensive hobby. That's the message of a $12.5 million verdict handed down in Portland, Ore., last week against television repairman Tom Metzger, his son John, their national racist organization White Aryan Resistance, and two of the three partying skinhead punks who, incited by WAR, arbitrarily bludgeoned a 27-year-old Ethiopian man to death two years...
...case. In an amicus curiae brief, the chapter urged that charges involving "negligent" and "reckless" speech be dropped, reasoning that a finding for the plaintiff on those grounds could have a chilling effect on First Amendment freedoms. A.C.L.U. lawyer Michael H. Simon adds, however, that adequate proof that Tom Metzger intended to cause serious harm by sending agents to Oregon would void his concern...
Acting as his own lawyer, WAR leader Metzger is casting himself as a beleaguered populist, but not an instigator of violence. "I'm a white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger...
Dees will attempt to introduce in evidence other Metzger tapes, including one in which the senior Metzger observes that those who killed Seraw performed a "civic duty." If Dees convinces the jury there is a vicarious liability connection and wins a heavy award, Metzger will probably lose his family's home and the WAR offices. Future earnings could also be attached, as they were in the Klan case. The Klan, says Dees, "hardly exists...