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Advertisements [ ? ] Cleveland Man Pummeled to Death by 15, Urinated On and Stripped in the Street Monday, May 12, 2008 E-Mail Print Share: CLEVELAND — Even by tough, urban crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head...

and then we are shocked when people think violence is the solution to whatever their problem happens to be.

Edited on Mon May-12-08 10:45 PM by ben_meyers Revolutionary, Whiskey Rebellion, war of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American, WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, Panama, Somalia, Gulf War 1, Afghanistan, Iraq or what am I leaving out? I wonder if we haven't been at war more than not.

The proliferation of such shows, all makign entertainment out of the misery of others, surely should have been a sign to us long ago that something was going very wrong with our National Psyche. I'd be lying if I said I saw it at the time. I mean, the whole COPS genre of entertainment-from-real-life-suffering did make me sit up and take notice, but I had no idea what I was seeing, which was ...

Edited on Mon May-12-08 10:53 PM by tom_paine Which would probably include Vietnam, Panama (not so much because Noriega was innocent, but because he was the Bushies' cocaine trafficking pal until he started skimming too much or whatever finally caused them to take out their Old Friend and Accomplice PumpkinFace) and the Iraq Invasion. I understand your point. That wars have happened ...

as long as the perpetrators can get away with it. That includes promoting slavery, even genocide.

Crime is pretty much proportional to social inequity... for both the obvious reasons and toss in too many hours worked with too little time spent raising kids and this is what you get. Imagine growing up in a neighborhood where to survive "honestly" you have to work 2 jobs and ride the bus for 3 hours a day to get to and between them. You'll never get "ahead", you'll never retire, you ...