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- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: American Notes:Justice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- JUSTICE
- Scalping the Skinheads
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- <body>
- <p> Violent hatemongering can be an expensive hobby. That's the
- message of a $12.5 million verdict handed down in Portland,
- Ore., last week against television repairman Tom Metzger, his
- son John, their national racist organization White Aryan
- Resistance, and two of the three partying skinhead punks who,
- incited by WAR, arbitrarily bludgeoned a 27-year-old Ethiopian
- man to death two years ago.
- </p>
- <p> Victorious lawyer Morris Dees, whose Alabama-based Southern
- Poverty Law Center specializes in suing hate groups, vows to
- try to collect every penny in order to close down WAR, its
- newspaper, cable TV show, and 23 telephone hot lines. In a
- similar $7 million lawsuit in Alabama three years ago, Dees
- managed to bankrupt the United Klans of America for its role
- in instigating the shooting and hanging of a black youth. Said
- Dees of his latest victory: "The jury has spoken loud and clear
- that in this country the First Amendment guarantees the right
- to hate people and say what you want, but not the right to hurt
- people."
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- </body>
- </article>
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