Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where is the humanity in the slaughter of 5 million blackbirds in Christian County, Ky.? Surely in all of man's so-called advanced technology there exists a more compassionate way of controlling these birds than spraying them with detergent and leaving them to die of exposure. What became of the Christian in Christian County...
...session from November 1971 to September 1974, indicted no one for the killing of the ten hostages, no one for the killing of the ten hostages, no one for the killing of the 29 inmates, no state official or trooper or guard for indiscriminate firing or carelessness or man slaughter, no one for failing to provide medical care--although the authorities knew the attack was coming--or for failing to prevent reprisals after the attack. Instead, the Grand Jury has indicted 61 of the Attica inmates for enmes ranging from murder to kidnapping to sodomy in over 1400 counts...
With a blackbird population of 350 million, the U.S. can afford some meruline slaughter; even the Audubon Society agrees that the pests must be controlled. Besides, notes Mayor Atkins, furious at the New Yorkers who have thwarted the extermination plan, starlings spread through the U.S. from New York City.* To vent his frustration, he wryly asked Hopkinsville attorneys to draft a request for an injunction staying New York City from killing its rats...
...electronic luxuries, but the student reporters have enviable connec tions in high places. They expose everything from White House "plumbers" and shaky missile deals to consumer fraud and child abuse. This does not go down well in a small southwestern town, and its ill will bubbles over into a slaughter by National Guardsmen obviously modeled on Kent State...
...little of everything is dropped in along the way, from Indian rights to mysticism (in a shabby series of visions ripped off Carlos Castaneda) to a My Lai-style slaughter in which, of course, Billy Jack refused to participate. Shoddily as they are staged, Billy Jack's fights are the only portions of the film with the slightest life at all. These episodes prove it is a great deal easier to feel peaceful and full of good will when someone else is busting heads and scrambling brains...