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Kazuo Murakami
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Ulrika Zugzwang
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12-16-2005 00:02
I've heard some terrible excuses in my days but this is just the worst. One of two men accused over the murder of a US-born nun in Brazil has said he shot her in self-defence, contradicting earlier statements he made to police. Rayfran Sales said he thought Dorothy Stang was pulling a gun from her bag, when she instead reached for a Bible. ~Ulrika~
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Pham Neutra
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12-16-2005 00:18
From: Ulrika Zugzwang I've heard some terrible excuses in my days but this is just the worst. It gets even better. Quoted from said article: From: BBC NEWS Many landowners in the area have openly argued that Sister Dorothy's murder was in legitimate defence of property. |
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Persephone Phoenix
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12-16-2005 16:24
That's horrendous. Nonetheless, it made me wonder about some analogous behaviour in the forums and in SL: is this kind of hatred of older women and refusal to accept their wisdom here too? Didn't I read in many W-hat threads that SL is horrible because of all the old women who want tea parties? And that there was a time when 70-year-old women would be afraid to argue with 20-year-old men on the internet (said as if wistful for a prior age).
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Little old Ladies
is the term they use
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Kazuo Murakami
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12-16-2005 17:07
From: Persephone Phoenix That's horrendous. Nonetheless, it made me wonder about some analogous behaviour in the forums and in SL: is this kind of hatred of older women and refusal to accept their wisdom here too? Didn't I read in many W-hat threads that SL is horrible because of all the old women who want tea parties? And that there was a time when 70-year-old women would be afraid to argue with 20-year-old men on the internet (said as if wistful for a prior age).
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Little old Ladies
is the term they use
to make us laugh
at women who've
been fighting for over 60 years It didn't really have to do with her age, this was a murder-for-hire brought on by her efforts to stop corruption and other shady things. From: someone The campaigning nun was a thorn in the side of the region's most powerful political and economic interests, reports the BBC's Tom Gibb, often denouncing illegal logging and forest clearance and multi-million dollar corruption by local politicians.
She pushed for land to be granted to landless peasants as an environmentally-friendly alternative to large-scale ranching and logging. |