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Raymond McCord is, in local parlance, a ?hard man? - one of the tough guys that seem to grow out of the cracks in the sidewalk in the little working-class streets between Belfast's docks and its hills scarred by heavy industry; men who could take a punch, and then...
But it was only after his eldest son was murdered by one of the Protestant gangs that McCord proved how tough he really is - by taking on not only the killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned...
Raymond McCord, Jr., was battered to death with a concrete block by members of the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1997. The 22-year-old had been caught transporting drugs allegedly belonging to a leader of the group, who, police believe, lost $100,000 as a result. It was the type...
Never before in U.S. history had Jewish leaders shown such bold hostility toward Evangelical Christians, the largest Protestant community in America and, by most measures, the most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel. In normal times, this would be paradoxical. In an age of jihad it was dangerously perverse.
Ehrenreich: (Laughs) Well, there's a very Protestant ethics type of question. What anthropologists would answer that question by saying is that it's a way of bonding communities, it's a way of building bonds among people who are not necessarily related. That's a very important human ability...