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From: geb@cadre.UUCP
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Subject: NYC subway hero
Message-ID: <121@cadre.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 11:42:49 EST
Article-I.D.: cadre.121
Posted: Fri Dec 28 11:42:49 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 23:21:36 EST
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh.
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The manhunt is on!
Some poor bastard had the gall to shoot four punks
in NYC who attacked him with sharpened screwdrivers,
demanding money.  Now the police artist's drawing
of him is on nationwide television.  Public enemy number 
one.  If the punks had murdered him he would have been
lucky to make the back pages of the NY newspapers, and
the "authorities" would have spent far less money investigating
his murder than trying to track him down for daring
to defend himself.  I doubt if hizzoner Mayor Kock
would have gone on TV to denounce the punks, nor would
syndicated columnists say that we have a sick society
for allowing this scum to roam around harrassing people.
So why should someone defending his life and property
exasperate the establishment so?  Because of the groundswell
of popular support.  That is why "liberal" movie critics
hated "Death Wish" with Charles Bronson, too, I'll bet.
I just hope the witnesses had the good sense to give
the police the wrong description.