| The United States is a large modern country with | | | | the American people think that "the federal |
| devolving inner cities. There are more than 200 | | | | government has become so large and powerful |
| million guns in the possession of Americans. Most | | | | that it poses an immediate threat to rights and |
| violent acts in the States are the result of | | | | freedoms of ordinary citizens." Delta Force at |
| robberies, domestic disputes and drug-related | | | | Waco. Black helicopters over urban cities. New |
| violence. Terrorist acts, ranging from the killing of | | | | World Order? Naw just your tax dollars hard at |
| abortionist doctors to the bombing of the World | | | | work doing something. |
| Trade Center, are highly publicized but not | | | | In Oklahoma City, the Alfred P. Murrah Building is |
| considered a real threat to travelers. The threat | | | | blown up. The nondescript building has no |
| of robbery or violent crime in inner cities and | | | | significance other than being the headquarters for |
| some tourist areas is real and should be taken | | | | the DEA, Secret Service and the ATF. The |
| seriously. Travel in America is considered safe, | | | | aftermath is a nine story-hole, a crater 30 feet |
| and danger is confined to random violence and | | | | wide by 8 feet deep, and 168 innocent people |
| inner cities. Those seeking adventure can find it in | | | | killed. The methodology is very similar to that |
| a New Orleans bar at five in the morning or | | | | used in the World Trade Center bombing: a 1,000 |
| strolling through South Central L.A. after midnight. | | | | to 1,200-pound fertilizer- and diesel-based bomb |
| Land of the free and home of the brave. And | | | | packed into a rented Ryder truck and detonated |
| you had better be brave here, because people | | | | by remote control or timer. Different folks, same |
| are free to do pretty much anything they like. | | | | strokes. |
| Behind white picket fences and two-car garages, | | | | Farther south, some 300 miles away in Waco, |
| husbands clobber their wives silly while their kids | | | | Texas, the site of the Branch Davidian compound |
| make crack deals over the phone watching | | | | has become a popular local tourist attraction. The |
| Scarface on the tube. A land where the license | | | | bomb blast in Oklahoma City occurred two years |
| plates of one state reads: "Live Free or Die." Nice | | | | to the day after the attack by the ATF on the |
| choice. | | | | cult's compound. During the ATF raid, a |
| And dying we are! | | | | brainwashed prophet, with an arms cache the size |
| In Littleton, Colorado, a couple of pimply-faced | | | | of the Serbs', had his followers blow their brains |
| kids too squirrely to join their high school football | | | | out as he torched his compound-and their children. |
| team, and armed like a Navy SEAL team, whack | | | | Or so the government told us he did, until they |
| 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before | | | | found military advisors and inflammable tear gas |
| doing a sword-swallowing act with their assault | | | | canisters at the scene. |
| rifles and chowing on a lead lunch. And that was a | | | | Mayhem, Tabloid Style |
| copycat killing. | | | | We used to chuckle at the tabloids, as we bought |
| In Chicago, a World Church of the Creator | | | | them with our groceries. Now we can't figure out |
| white-supremacist fruitcake goes on a two-state | | | | if it's the news we're watching or promos for the |
| ethnic duck-shoot that leaves two dead and nine | | | | latest B movies. |
| wounded before also using a .32-caliber hand gun | | | | Hard times breed strange heroes. The |
| on himself. The victims' crime? They'd look a little | | | | hardscrabble days of early America bred the |
| out of place in a Greenwich, Connecticut, | | | | outlaws of the Wild West. Jesse James and Billy |
| Starbucks. | | | | the Kid were popularized in East Coast dime |
| In Wyoming, a kid is beaten in a pickup and his | | | | novels. The Great Depression gave us Dillinger and |
| corpse then propped up on a roadside property | | | | Capone, Bonnie and Clyde. Today, in |
| stake like a bludgeoned scarecrow-because he's | | | | down-on-its-luck L.A., we are hatching a new |
| gay. | | | | breed of famous ne'er do wells. In Los Angeles, |
| In Texas, another guy is dragged behind a pickup | | | | the land of "three strikes you're out" has become |
| until his limbs peel off his torso like drumsticks on | | | | "do a crime, do the prime time." Are you |
| a well-broiled turkey-because he's a black dude. | | | | watching a talk show or is it a Tyson bout? Is |
| In Los Angeles, a couple of guys who watched | | | | that a mass murderer or is he just working |
| DeNiro and Kilmer in Heat too much, robbed a | | | | through some "issues"? What is wrong and what |
| bank armed to the teeth and in full body armor, | | | | is right? Film at 11. Answers, never. |
| turning the streets of North Hollywood into a | | | | Here, random violence and thoughtless pain take |
| battlefield. Hollywood producers scramble on their | | | | on plot, character and movie deals, as two rich |
| Star Tacs to cut their deals for World's Scariest | | | | kids splatter their parents' brains against a wall |
| whatever deals as the bad boys walk around | | | | with a 12-gauge for a couple of Rolexes. In Los |
| calmly, jacked up and spraying bullets. The cops | | | | Angeles, a former football hero and movie star is |
| were so outgunned they raid a gun shop for an | | | | accused of nearly severing his ex-wife's head and |
| arsenal usually reserved for beach landings. Was | | | | brutally stabbing to death her acquaintance. |
| there a message? Hell Yeah! Great ratings on Fox. | | | | Meanwhile, during his "getaway," traffic on plagued |
| This is a land where doctors kiss their wives | | | | L.A. freeways comes to a halt; motorists emerge |
| good-bye and later lose their lives outside burning | | | | from their cars waving banners urging, "Go O.J.!" |
| abortion clinics in Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, | | | | and "Save the Juice!" After the most publicized |
| Oregon, Ohio, Minnesota and California-the victims | | | | trial in history, the jury lets him go free. |
| of preachers, former altar boys, and women who | | | | Crime needs a subplot and linkage. A mother |
| look more like manicurists than terrorists. Other | | | | tosses her kids off a bridge and jumps in herself |
| docs doing the dishes in their suburban homes are | | | | afterward. The news media immediately connects |
| assassinated with deer rifles. | | | | it to a woman in the South who rolled her two |
| In Idaho, Montana, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, | | | | kids to their watery end-a woman who played |
| Texas and Utah, the pride of white America, | | | | the media like a fiddle in her search for her |
| stash a decade's worth of Spam and freeze-dried | | | | "kidnapped" children. A mother of a school |
| food into the hills, practice with paint guns and plot | | | | shooting victim walks into a pawn shop to see a |
| the demise of everybody from the IRS to the | | | | gun, loads it and shoots herself in the head. |
| FBI. In this land of equality and free speech, the | | | | Distraught people block crowded freeways, unfurl |
| JDL and Nation of Islam do their part to keep the | | | | large banners and then blow their brains out on |
| hate at a scalding pitch. | | | | the freeway. Suicide by cop means clean |
| In L.A., inner-city toddlers catch stray bullets from | | | | shooting, an ambulance if they miss and |
| drive-by shooters, while, in New York, Islamic | | | | wall-to-wall TV coverage. Everyone can be |
| whackos use a rented van full of fertilizer | | | | Hemingway now. |
| makings to blow up the World Trade Center. In | | | | Crime also needs a surprise ending, a payback. |
| San Diego, a despondent plumber hotwires a tank, | | | | Rodney King gets the crap beaten out of him, |
| flattens some cars, and is shot to death after | | | | sues and gets millions. Reginald Denny gets the |
| high-centering on a freeway divider. Rival rapsters | | | | crap beaten out of him and hugs and kisses the |
| in New York and L.A. gun down each other in a | | | | mother of one of his attackers. The Unabomber's |
| war of the coasts. | | | | big demand is that he have his antitechnology |
| What would Ozzie and Harriet Nelson say? | | | | manifesto published. We Americans seem to like |
| In Miami, a renowned fashion designer out to | | | | our crime. Just keep it fresh, surprising and very |
| fetch his morning paper-whose only crime is | | | | brutal. |
| penning groin-high hemlines-is blown away by a | | | | What's the answer? Who are the real terrorist? |
| young, bar-hopping trendie from West L.A. who | | | | The answer is easy. TAKE IT BACK! Take |
| looks disturbingly like another young, bar-hopping | | | | America back to the beginning. The biggests |
| trendie from West L.A.-only that one is allegedly | | | | problem in the country are the attorney's and |
| hacked up by a famous football and movie star. | | | | judge's who are allowing this crime to happen. |
| Local police are now hiring ex-SEALs to teach | | | | When the criminals have more rights than the |
| them how to take down entire schools instead of | | | | victum then a change is needed. Who are the real |
| trailers. Things are heating up. What's that miss? | | | | terrorists threats? It's not Osama, it's in your own |
| Your kitten's up the tree? Boom! | | | | backyard folks. The militias and gangs, those are |
| A recent Gallup poll discovered that 40 percent of | | | | the real terrorists this country needs to be facing. |