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6976 gun control -- rank: 46

alister air: > ... > Unless you're seriously saying that large numbers of firearms in our > community would have lowered these rates of crime (and have something > vaguely resembling statistical evidence to back this up) then gun ownership > has nothing to do with rates of crime. ... I don't follow these things closely ...

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Author:	G*rd*n
Date:	Wed May 26 05:56:05 PDT 1999

6977 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Russia: Investigate Attacks on Gay Pride March -- rank: 46

I agree with HRW on this (rather tiny relative to what has been going on in Russia) issue, but they have no weight with me in general. Their commentary on the murders, rapes and plunders in Chechnya in the early 90s was remarkably nonexistent. I thought Sergei Roy of intelligent.ru ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jun 1 14:05:07 PDT 2006

6978 [lbo-talk] CNN's Cooper recounts Steven Seagal with NOLA SWAT team during Katrina -- rank: 46

[Anderson Cooper interview in July 2006 Stuff magazine.] Q: In your book [Dispatches from the Edge], you mention all the celebrities who showed up in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Does any one encounter stand out as the most bizarre? ANDERSON COOPER: Steven Seagal. A cop car pulls up, and ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu Jun 1 18:15:18 PDT 2006

6979 [lbo-talk] How Does Chechnya Compare to Iraq? -- rank: 46

... year (I have no idea how many of the Chechen police* were). Those "Russia is caught in unending war in Chechnya ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 2 09:08:36 PDT 2006

6980 [lbo-talk] Ilya Ehrenburg's appeal to US Jews for help -- rank: 46

... an anti-Jewish pogrom. It was organized by the tsarist police and a small group of ??? (CD-- bosyaky. I don't ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Jun 3 16:30:22 PDT 2006

6981 [lbo-talk] Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt: Ahmadinejad -- rank: 46

--- martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote: > My experience suggested that the sense (of > collective guilt) was more > poignant in a young and untrained mind - chris' > mother, perhaps? > As a matter of fact, her father, who was a product of what Ilya Ehrenburg calls the Zavod Smerti (Death Factory), the Hitlerjugend ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 4 07:57:07 PDT 2006

6982 [lbo-talk] Guns -- rank: 46

I don't know about Romania, but people suer as hell had guns in the Soviet Union (that whole "the Communists took everybody's guns away" US conservative position is simply nonsense): Hunting and fishing Cost of Living by Alexander Kondorsky >From the day-to-day grind to a night on ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jul 19 00:33:33 PDT 2004

6983 [lbo-talk] The curse of literacy -- rank: 46

... agency? I'd make it compulsory. ;-) > would you have speech police? how would you word a law that >states how to ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sun Jul 18 19:40:18 PDT 2004

6984 [lbo-talk] The Glock 9mm is your friend, he said... -- rank: 46

R said: "the USA gave up the idea of a militia circa the War of 1812, when militias crumbled before the invading british army. this is when a professional army of citizen soldiers was accepted as a necessity and put into effect permanently. so i'm afraid dwayne is essentially correct ...

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Author:	jared
Date:	Sun Jul 18 17:16:34 PDT 2004

6985 [lbo-talk] The Glock 9mm is your friend, he said... -- rank: 46

... force remains, _nothing_ remains.) But the U.S. has huge police forces, and they are deadly. They were originally created to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jul 18 16:08:40 PDT 2004

6986 [lbo-talk] The Glock 9mm is your friend, he said... -- rank: 46

jared wrote: > > Dwayne said: > > > I would disagree. I think this position simplifies too much and > overlooks the dynamics involved in a U.S. military attack on a real > militia, which is, after all, a citizen army. The 82nd Airborne is > composed of young American men and women. Obeying an order to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jul 18 15:37:21 PDT 2004

6987 [lbo-talk] Clinton interview in Le Monde (2004 July 18) -- rank: 46

... inspectors, had not completed his mission. There has been the brutality with which we have treated Germany and France as well ...

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Author:	dano
Date:	Sun Jul 18 15:16:50 PDT 2004

6988 [lbo-talk] self-injury epidemic -- rank: 46

... then stopped it at the orders of Theordore Roosevelt, then Police Commissioner of NYC. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jun 5 08:20:38 PDT 2006

6989 [lbo-talk] The Glock 9mm is your friend, he said... -- rank: 46

the USA gave up the idea of a militia circa the War of 1812, when militias crumbled before the invading british army. this is when a professional army of citizen soldiers was accepted as a necessity and put into effect permanently. so i'm afraid dwayne is essentially correct, jared. as ...

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Author:	R
Date:	Sun Jul 18 14:25:14 PDT 2004

6990 [lbo-talk] US companies boost share of economic pie -- rank: 46

... wages are kept really, really low by rulers’ laws and police. Increasing the rate of exploitation helps "the economy" a lot ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Tue Jun 6 00:40:04 PDT 2006