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...this new world of Columbine, Conyers, Jonesboro and Santee, where kids seem crueler and more prone to violence than ever before. Just this week three girls from Boonville, California - two 8 year-olds and one 9 year-old - were charged with attempted murder for allegedly sneaking pellets of gopher poison into the lunch sandwich of a classmate. They said they did it simply because they didn't like the victim...
...Daschle has threatened, he will keep the Senate in session through the July 4 recess. But Lott wants to string out the debate so HMO and insurance groups can get more attack ads on the air and G.O.P. Senators will have more time to round up votes for their poison-pill amendments. The American Association of Health Plans, for instance, has budgeted up to $5 million this year to attack the Kennedy bill, and is running a TV spot featuring a small-business owner in Texas who frets that the bill will drive up insurance costs and force...
...What similarity is there between Falun Gong and Jones-town or Aum Shinrikyo? Almost none. What happened in Jonestown was mass murder, not suicide: Jim Jones misled his followers into drinking poison and 913 died. As for Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese court has refused the government's request to ban the sect though it has handed down death sentences to two leaders found guilty of the gas attack. The court made the distinction between violators of existing laws and citizens' constitutional freedom to practice faith, however unpopular those beliefs may be to others. To link Falun Gong with these groups...
...poison in the drawer...
...Michela Wrong points out that Lumumba had been considered so dangerous by Washington that President Eisenhower actually signed off on an assassination plot. The idea was to slip him a poison that would mimic a fatal local disease. Devlin told Wrong that he kept the poison in his desk for several months and then dumped it in the river. In the end it wasn't necessary...