Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...villagers snipped packets of Bibles from the submerged barge with rope cutters supplied by the smugglers, then carried them to waiting bikes, buses and trucks (Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire the vehicles). But about four hours after the departure of the Michael, an army patrol turned up unexpectedly in Gezhou village. The patrol stormed the beach, arresting hundreds who were still at work carting off the Bibles. Subsequently, according to Hong Kong reports, most of the prisoners were released...
...load the missiles onto a new, as yet undesigned generation of large, slow aircraft, dubbed "Big Bird," which would carry the MX aloft on permanent patrol and launch it in midair...
...para-military thing should scare us all. It's easy to be taken in by the Guardian Angels, the citizens' patrol group that recently arrived in Boston. Founded several years ago by Curtis Sliwa, the Angels sought to restore some of the security that was missing from the New York City subway system. The movement has since grown nationwide...
...capable of breaking down is clear. The groups that have noticed these anarchical trends and then stepped in to stop the slide, might very well be themselves the most powerful catalysts to anarchy. The Angels are part of a concept, as is the world that they seek to patrol. It is difficult to avoid the distraction of arguing over the Angels' specifics: their berets, their rumbles, their bragging. At a certain level, the Angels are dangerous according to these specifics, but such a proof would apply only to the Angels. The next group would make sure not to repeat...
...Brown Shirts, but only faith and not the facts justify such optimism. The Angels must rigidly be held accountable to the local government and their actions should not be given the benefit of the doubt. It's easy to be paranoid about the latent fascism behind trained citizen patrol groups, but it is better to be paranoid than wrong...