Word: civilize
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Somewhere in hell, James Earl Ray must be laughing his fool head off. The U.S. Department of Justice is completing its review of the "new evidence" that Martin Luther King Jr.'s family claimed would prove that a government conspiracy--and not Ray--plotted the murder of the great civil rights leader. Its report, due out in a few weeks, concludes that the Kings' allegations are not "credible" and provide no basis for new criminal charges. In other words, they are hogwash. Considering that these lurid fantasies sprang from the fertile imagination of Ray's former lawyer William Pepper...
...Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until President Clinton leaves office. So once again the mud is flying around the White House, a fact that its enemies lost no time trying to exploit. Noting...
Additionally, during the panel Nathanson compared murderer Hill to John Brown, the abolitionist who died trying to start a war against slavery a few years prior to the Civil War. While Nathanson said of people like Hill, "I consign them to the lunatic fringe," his comparisons of Hill to Brown makes Hill seem like a martyr for a cause that will soon draw the whole country into battle. In fact, Hill would see this comparison as a compliment. He proclaims from his website, "Now is the time to defend the unborn in the same way you'd defend slaves about...
...that the spokespeople for anti-abortionists take these rhetorical easy-outs because they reflect poorly on the vast majority of anti-abortionists who condemn violence. Their tactics prevent meaningful dialogue with abortion activists, who understandably find it hard to engage in civil discourse with Nathanson, and others like him, who insist on heroizing those who have declared literal war against clinics across the nation...
...TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The government wouldn't have offered half a billion dollars if they didn't see a good case," he says. Now that it's finally over, the Justice Department may wish the case hadn't dragged on quite so long; according to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, all legal fees from the case are now the government's responsibility. The painful irony of this case wasn't lost on the plaintiffs, each of whom will receive roughly $450,000. These were the journalists whose main career objective was spreading the gospel of democracy and freedom...