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...does it perplex us when these violent eruptions take place? One needs only to channel-surf the television any night of the week to see show after show dealing with murder, rape, stalkers, violence toward police, gangs, war and domestic violence. Ours is a culture in which The Sopranos is considered great entertainment. What entertains you becomes a part of you. Anne M. Perry, HAMILTON, NEW YORK...
...Sarkozy's hard-right, authoritarian and anti-immigrant policies swelled to up to 500, ultimately degenerating into clashes with police as they dispersed near Bastille. By midnight, nearly 100 had been arrested after trashing property in the area. Similar protests broke out in other French cities both nights, with violent altercations and arrests occurring in Nantes, Rennes, Caen and Tours, and over 500 cars torched around the nation...
Ncube: We should all come together. We must be orderly, not violent - or these people will thump you. I would lead an orderly crowd. The trouble is getting people to be convinced of that...
...Meadows' attempts to humanize skinheads is a world away from the knee-jerk negative characterizations that informed cinema's previous depictions of the subculture as uniformly racist and violent. While it may be true that far-right parties no longer play any part in Britain's mainstream political discourse, other extremist movements are rising in Europe. And with the invasion of Iraq and rise in Islamophobia, Meadows suggests that This is England could be as much a warning for England's present as it is a depiction of its past...
...mental illness is just one of the many issues in the terrible tragedy in Virginia. But most types of mental illness do not have a component of psychosis. In fact, many people with psychosis are rehabilitated with medication, counseling and monitoring and never turn violent. Let's use the term mental illness judiciously so that its stigma does not prevent people from seeking help and early intervention. If we don't, paradoxically, that could cause more patients to slip through the cracks...