In These Times

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• • 13 Jul 08
  • 5:22 pm

  Why is it that we don't hear of armed criminals invading police stations in order to rob and kill cops? Is it maybe because the police are armed and robbing them is too risky? It is far less of a risk from a criminal's point of view to target a home in a city where gun ownership is prohibited and where the occupants are very likely disarmed. Gun prohibition along with drug prohibition has done far more to encourage violent crime than anything else. All those who think that gun prohibition will reduce violent crime should do their part in the …

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• • 13 Jul 08
  • 7:38 pm

  Just as 9/11 was the blowback for the failure of military intervention abroad, street crime is the blowback for the failure of "social justice" intervention at home. The right wing demands yet more foreign wars in response to the failure of earlier aggression to attain their stated goals of American global domination, and the left wing demands a war against guns in reaction to the failure of their wars against poverty, illiteracy, discrimination and drugs to achieve their stated goals of social virtue and prosperity for all. In either case, failure of policy redoubles the effort for more money, power and …

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• • 13 Jul 08
  • 4:51 pm

  Paul Hockenos's article is such a piece of shameless propaganda that one hardly knows where to begin to discredit it. His theme is that the Serbs, in the grip of hyper-victimhood, had embarked on an orgy of ethnic cleansing, destabilizing Yugoslavia and requiring outside intervention. He neglects to mention that Serbia is one of the most multi-ethnic nations in Europe and remains so today and throughout all the bloodshed. All ethnic groups within Serbia, enjoy the same individual rights. The Croatian government declared all nonCroats to be 2nd class citizens. By recognizing Croatia, the American government encouraged the illegal breakup of …

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