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...Platoon is out on patrol, moving through the draws and brush-covered hills along the border. Armored humvees with gunners inside are parked on the ridges, while the infantrymen below stalk through the wadis, or dry streambeds. One soldier thinks his buddy is playing a joke, hitting him in the back with a rock. But it's shrapnel. Suddenly mortar rounds are screaming in, landing all around the Americans. Sergeant David Gilstrap is bleeding; he has been hit in the face. A jagged dart of shrapnel protrudes from Specialist Robert Heiber's arm. It hurts like fire, but Heiber mostly...
...According to a close friend and advisor to Hill who spoke to TIME shortly after the execution the manuscript is more than a call to action, or martyrdom, as his supporters term it. Hill details not only how to stalk an abortion doctor, but also advises potential martyrs on a number of other details, such as how to prepare themselves mentally and emotionally to kill a law enforcement officer who might be escorting the doctor. You have to kill the officer first, according to Hill...
...perverse premise: a rising tide of teenage rebellion prompts the government to pass a law stipulating that every year an unlucky junior-high-school class be sent to a remote island. There, students are issued weapons from a sadistic arsenal?crossbows, scythes and the like?and forced to stalk and kill their classmates. Compliance is assured by fitting each combatant with an explosive radio collar that can be detonated at the discretion of malicious adults refereeing the game. Sure, it's a bizarre educational policy (after all, a mind is a terrible thing to waste), but it makes for interesting...
Then the shooting starts. The lyrical pseudo-documentary style quickly lurches into horror-film mode. The killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They spring out of nowhere, giving their victims (and the audience) a seismic shock. They are monsters of the id--our worst nightmare. Not America's. Humanity...
...pretty girlfriend planning their social calendar; two other lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon. And then the shooting starts - a replay of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in the U.S. The film's lyrical pseudo documentary style now lurches into horror-movie mode. The two killers stalk their prey down the bright corridors as efficiently and implacably as any Jason or Freddy. They are monsters of the id - our worst nightmare. Not America's: humanity...