Word: salvi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American fundamentalists are no less convinced of their own righteousness than any other religious zealots. Observe the blank looks, even smiles, of John Salvi and Paul Hill as they are arraigned and tried in court. These men feel no repentance at all for the killing of people in no way guilty of breaking this country's laws...
...anything, Salvi and Hill face the prospect of martyrdom as the bold heroes of their comrades in arms...
Just as huge funerals bearing (not solely) the bodies of adulated terrorists paraded through the streets of the West Bank during the Intefada, hundreds of Americans now stand outside jails and court-rooms exalting and praying for Salvi and Hill...
Massachusetts, Virginia and federal authorities worked to untangle the maze of charges each has brought against John Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student captured in Virginia and accused of killing two abortion-clinic employees in the Boston area. Salvi was returned to Massachusetts, where he faces murder charges. In a bizarre statement denying guilt and alleging discrimination against Catholics (by Freemasons, no less), Salvi said that if convicted, "I wish to receive the death penalty," but if acquitted, "I will become a Catholic priest...
Both sides struggle to cope with John Salvi's rampage...