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Perry and Horn were convicted of first-degree murder. But family members have also sued Hit Man's publisher, Paladin Press, claiming the company is liable for the murders because it provided the blueprint. Though the First Amendment traditionally protects even the most objectionable writing, a federal court of appeals in Richmond, Va., earlier this month allowed the suit to go forward. In a groundbreaking ruling, the court said the Constitution does not protect books that aid and abet in the commission of a crime...
Renegade publisher Paladin Press was founded in 1970 by Peder Lund, a former Green Beret captain, and Robert Brown, who later left to start Soldier of Fortune magazine. The Boulder, Colo., publisher's "Action Library" runs heavily to books on armed combat and bombmaking. Among its classic titles: Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, a book whose discussion of ammonium nitrate Timothy McVeigh allegedly used to assemble the Oklahoma City bomb. Paladin also sells instructional videos like Winning a Street Knife Fight: Realistic Offensive Techniques and the fast-selling Advanced Ultimate Sniper. Lund makes no apologies for the information...
...Paladin says Hit Man is being maligned unfairly, because it was written at least partly with tongue in cheek. "I have trouble taking the book seriously," says Thomas Kelley, lawyer for the publishing house. He argues that the book contains many "clearly absurd things," like its advice that hit men be careful not to remove their gloves--and leave fingerprints--if they help themselves to snacks in the victim's refrigerator. And Kelley says the book cover's boast that Feral is a hit man and a "lethal weapon aimed at the enemy of the one who pays him" misstates...
...earliest and most successful products of these publishers is the Anarchist Cookbook, which was put out in 1971 by Lyle Stuart Inc. But to bomb-squad commanders, the most notorious publisher is Paladin Press in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1970 by two Special Forces veterans of the Vietnam War. The company carries a catalog of 40 books and videos on how to make explosives, including the Improvised Munitions Black Book series-repackaged versions of military manuals with instructions for building explosives. Paladin's list also carries Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, about which one catalog edition says, "Serious...
...Matisse, paladin of modernism, is a long way from us now. Almost a generation older than Picasso, his counterpart, he was born in 1869, the year the Suez Canal opened and Gustave Flaubert published L'Education Sentimentale. Everything that looked modern in Matisse's environment is now ancient, from the gas buggies that were just coming onto the streets of Paris when he was a student in Gustave Moreau's atelier to the Vichy politicians who ran France during the Nazi occupation as he painted in Vence...