Word: smith
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Unfortunately, last week the answer seemed to be yes. Benjamin Smith, a 21-year-old WCOTC sympathizer who had been so close to Hale he moved to Peoria to be near him, recently became convinced that the group's goal of white victory in the coming racial holy war couldn't be achieved through propaganda alone. Setting off July 2 from the Chicago suburbs where he was raised, Smith shot 11 Asian Americans, blacks and Jews, killing two, before committing suicide July 4 in southern Illinois...
...while Dershowitz said he had expressed willingness to take Hale as a client when the case centered around free speech alone, he said the racially motivated killings committed by Hale's disciple Benjamin N. Smith this month have made him unwilling to represent Hale in the matter of his law license...
...think this case is any longer a pure first amendment case," Dershowitz said. "I think he has condoned violence...We know he spoke to this man Smith hours before this rampage...
Dershowitz, who called Hale's organization "a church of psychopaths," said Hale had to be aware that his message could provoke violence. "When Hale says he has no sympathy for the victims but only for Smith, that sends out a message of violence," Dershowitz said...
...Smith is absolutely right," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The party establishment has found its candidate, the guy they think can win, and they?d prefer that the issues social conservatives like Smith champion would just go away." The Republicans have been worrying about their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars...