Word: mobbing
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...last week, a mob of angry dissenters upped the council's ante. And the council left them literally speechless...
Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected" mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound in Hayden Lake...
...Many Catholics consider Gregoire a turncoat priest for swearing allegiance to the revolutionary state, which repudiated the power of the Pope. Last June, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, head of the French church, officially endorsed a campaign to sanctify 181 priests and three bishops who were murdered by a Paris mob in the Carmes prison in 1792. "France is like a family that has had an internal dispute," Lustiger said. "If we don't talk about the bad things that happened, we won't have a real reconciliation." Right-wing Catholics will converge on Paris for an August anti-bicentennial rally...
...trucks were immobilized by the mob, and within minutes the vast square was turned into a sea of waving white and red student banners as protesters chanted pro-reform slogans...
...Suddenly about 100 rifle-toting Israeli border policemen swarmed into Nahalin to make arrests, imposing a curfew on its 3,000 residents. Shouting vulgar insults, the Israelis started searching for young Palestinians suspected of stoning the cars of Jewish settlers traveling on nearby roads. Confronted by a stone-throwing mob, the policemen opened fire, killing a 28-year-old laborer named Riyadh Abu Gayadeh...