Word: skinheaded
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Leyden's journey from normal kid to thug and back again, began when he was a teenager in the blue-collar town of Fontana, California. His parents divorced when he was 15, and he became angry, lonely and, most important to skinhead recruiters, vulnerable. "I needed to lash out," he explains. "They look for young, angry kids who need a family." He dropped out of school and began meeting skinheads hanging around the punk-rock scene. The trappings--bomber jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought...
According to Friedberg's report, the man removed his hat and "proclaimed he was a skinhead...
...Cincinnati Reds lost the first three games and then came back to take the World Series. I've found that it's pretty safe to make up facts about the Cincinnati Reds. They didn't seem to have many knowledgeable fans outside Cincinnati even before they fell into neo-skinhead ownership...
Fini joined politicians in condemning skinhead violence. He said the - marchers in Vicenza should be "put in coal mines so they can break rocks with their heads." When told that his National Alliance colleague Buontempo thought highly of the demonstrators, Fini simply said, "Buontempo is mistaken...
...simplistic solution, and unfortunately one of the most often suggested, is that the entire idea of freedom of expression in antiquated and should not be held to apply to certain kinds of speech. Demonstrators at one recent rally against racism in Boston demanded that a skinhead organization not be allowed to march--a flagrant violation of the constitutional right to free speech and assembly...