We spend so much money on police barriers in Iraq while subtracting funding for police personnel in this country, so that many of the most crime-ridden cities in the nation are losing 50 percent of their police protection. Where is the "police state" and what will result?
In the wake of the earthquake and nuclear power plant disasters in Japan, one wonders whether we will destroy the world or ourselves first, or both simultaneously.
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ON MARCH 19, 2003, having marched and rallied once the Iraqi gleam in Bush's eye went public, I was volunteering at a booksale in Princeton, bracing myself for the onslaught, which I figured out would happen any minute. At 3 in the afternoon, there was a cloudburst of large hale stones, the size of golf balls. They fell so thickly and heavily for just a few minutes that the building flooded--a new and expensive classroom edifice where such things don't normally happen.
I was told that people within less than a mile experienced no rain. I felt chosen, for some reason--none of the other people in the room seemed concerned, unless they were more tactful than I.
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