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5326 [lbo-talk] A Form Letter for Corporate Journalists -- rank: 72

... us violent terrorists while ignoring the terror and violence that police officers routinely inflict upon demonstrators at large protests, not to ... of color. Perhaps you spent columns talking about an injured police officer while

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Mon Feb 28 19:34:41 PST 2005

5327 [lbo-talk] Two Sunni militants blow selves up in Quetta -- rank: 72

... bits with a hand grenade after a gunbattle with Pakistani police on Friday, officials said. Police said the men, who were members of the banned al ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Mon Feb 28 04:45:42 PST 2005

5328 [lbo-talk] Al J's obit -- rank: 72

... author, has has died at his Colorado home, in what police say could have been a suicide. He was 67. Thompson ... home outside the ski resort of Aspen on Sunday night, police said. "We do have confirmation that Hunter Thompson was found ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 21 09:56:06 PST 2005

5329 [lbo-talk] Seditious Conspiracy (long but important) -- rank: 72

--- Yoshie and Jordan are unclear about what was proved against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman Jordan says, he isn't an actual > terrorist. Rahman > >> was convicted of "seditious conspiracy": Yoshie says: > > If the > prosecution had enough evidence to charge Sheik Omar > Abdel Rahman > with murder, it would have charged him with ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Feb 15 20:32:17 PST 2005

5330 [lbo-talk] Corpse encounters [was RE: Message from Louis Proyect] -- rank: 72

[Few look death in the eye more cooly than Henry David Thoreau, who memorably described the aftermath of the 1849 wreck of the brig St. John, which was carrying immigrants from Ireland and crashed on the rocks off Cohasset, Massachusetts, with the loss of 99 lives. Thoreau viewed Cohasset's ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Feb 11 22:34:13 PST 2005

5331 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 72

... pretty fast. Republicans too. I'm no fan of the police, but I recall a remark Studs Turkel made in, I believe, Working about police doing chores that most people wouldn't want to do ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Fri Feb 11 18:57:48 PST 2005

5332 [lbo-talk] Message from Louis Proyect -- rank: 72

... him go for state park ranger instead. Safer job. > > Joanna > Police work appears dangerous only because of the many traffic injuries and fatalities. Take away traffic deaths and police work is quite safe. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Feb 11 15:36:42 PST 2005

5333 [lbo-talk] TASER International Reports Record 177% Revenue Growth -- rank: 72

http://web.syr.edu/~tckerr/Cruel.html Cruel and Unusual Punishment by William F. Schulz [The following essay appeared in The New York Review of Books, April 24, 1997] 1. During a break in his trial on charges of assault, Edward Valdez walked out of the San Diego courtroom into the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Feb 8 17:40:23 PST 2005

5334 [lbo-talk] Nip it in the bud -- rank: 72

American Fascism, that is. The usual Israel worshiping, Arab hating blackshirted thugs are crawling out of the woodwork in pursuit of their very own Kristallnacht. American leftists (at least the honest and sincere ones with no illusions about Israel - that certainly cuts down the number), need to lend Mr. Alam a ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Feb 2 11:27:06 PST 2005

5335 [lbo-talk] Naked streets -- rank: 72

... are no markers on the ground, no speed bumps, no police officer conducting the flow of vehicles. There's not even ...

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Author:	alex lantsberg
Date:	Thu Feb 3 09:45:42 PST 2005

5336 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill -- rank: 72

John Lacny wrote: >The hounding of Ward Churchill is nothing short of real McCarthyism, >with the sole qualifier that "McCarthyism" is itself something of a >misnomer (since red-baiting, including in academia, predated >McCarthy). They're starting with Churchill because he's an easy >target, having really said some egregious and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Feb 3 09:20:50 PST 2005

5337 [lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl -- rank: 72

... feature it extends that portrayal to all characters, even the police who arrest Vera for performing illegal abortions. The end results ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Feb 3 06:41:29 PST 2005

5338 [lbo-talk] horse sex wins popularity contest -- rank: 72

[original story follows] <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html> Seattle Times - December 30, 2005 Horse sex story was online hit By Danny Westneat Seattle Times staff columnist As I look back at the year in news, it's clear I should have focused more on people having ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 30 13:23:42 PST 2005

5339 [lbo-talk] NYT does Graeber -- rank: 72

... plastic bullet." The bullet, he said, was fired by the police in Quebec City during a protest against globalization in 2001, grazing his head. Battles with the police are a fact of life for Dr. Graeber, an associate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 28 07:45:09 PST 2005

5340 [lbo-talk] Fwd: ZNet Update Transit Strike Essay -- rank: 72

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The anti-war movement, unfortunately in my view, has not sought to > overcome this problem. If anything, there seems to be something > approaching consensus among many anti-war activists: concentrate on the > Iraq War, don't try to bring in "other issues," so that we can have a ...

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Author:	Chuck
Date:	Fri Dec 23 16:31:15 PST 2005