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...Etzioni said he did not stand behind the new "Stephanie Laws," which hold sexual offenders in mental institutions after their release from prison...
...most important legacy will be that the traditional French deference to elites has been shaken a bit, says Crumley. "This case has set a precedent to make people more willing to take politicians to task for their actions. In the U.S. two of them would have been in prison, and Fabius's career would be over...
Before King left prison, he wrote in Hoover's prison album, calling him "my Aryan brother in arms" and inviting him to a party on July 4, 1998, the day he planned to form the Texas Rebel Soldiers. "And don't forget," King wrote, "a huge Wood gathering, BBQ and bashing on July 4." Hoover explained that a "bashing" meant killing a black man. King was by now in the process of becoming a white-supremacy polemicist. In his prison writings, he cast himself as a hero in a coming race war with racial minorities and Jews. He drafted proposed...
When King got out of prison in 1997, he got to work planning the Independence Day kickoff for his Texas Rebel Soldiers. He wanted something to call attention to the group, prosecutors say, and what he had in mind was a racial killing. As it turned out, opportunity--in the form of Byrd ambling along the highway--presented itself a few weeks before July 4. It seemed precisely the kind of dramatic action King had been working toward. King dragged his victim's severed torso through a black part of town and dumped it near a black church and cemetery...
Case in point: the silence that has greeted the well-documented reports of human-rights abuses in the U.S. that Amnesty International USA has been issuing since last fall. The latest installment--a horrifying account of the treatment of female prisoners--is due this week. According to AIUSA, such barbaric practices as shackling female prisoners even while they are giving birth, along with rape and other sexual assaults by both guards and male inmates, have become commonplace as the female prison population has nearly tripled since 1985, to 138,000. But there has been only sporadic press coverage...