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True awfulness sets in when collateral damage is no longer collateral but becomes the intended point. Innocents are terrorized as a matter of policy. Stalin's Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands...
RULED NEGLIGENT. CHARLES LAUX, former sheriff of Richardson County, Neb.; for not offering protective custody to Teena Brandon, a 21-year-old cross-dressing woman whose rape and murder inspired the movie Boys Don't Cry; by the Nebraska Supreme Court; in Lincoln...
...doubt) take advantage of the free housing in the tent-covered yard, and creepy music continues to emanate from the stands in front of the protest. (I heard Native American chants booming from a stereo one afternoon. Granted, the Indians were oppressed and we did take their land and rape their children, but I fail to see how crimes against the Cherokee have anything to do with the living wage campaign. But maybe I’m just naïve.) In any case, the PSLM has already martyred itself to draw national attention, so why not take the grandstanding...
...tied and bound to his gagged parents, who were choking on their own blood. Two men, posing as stranded motorists, had come to their farmhouse in Okarche, Okla., asking to use the phone. Once inside, the armed men tied up Brooks and his parents, took turns trying to rape his 12-year-old sister, Leslie, then shot all four of them. Brooks helped free Leslie, who ran for a kitchen knife, while he gnawed at the ropes confining his mom and dad. By the time she returned, their parents were dead...
...Some people who call themselves feminists think that all sex equals rape...