A NEWSPAPER ABOUT TRUTH ISSUE #6 - - Comments - Past Issues |
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OFFICER DOWN
[Location Deleted] - Officer [Name Deleted] was gunned down doing a routine stop this past week. The driver of the other car, a Mr. [Name Deleted], pulled a pistol without provocation on the officer. He was quickly tracked down, thanks to the surveillance video on Officer [Name Deleted]'s car. He is being held for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and attacking an officer of the law. A city sits and waits to see if murder will be added to the list.  SMALL NEWSPAPERS PUSHED OUT OF LOCAL STANDS NEW YORK, NY - Larger newspaper chains are buying up local newsstands all over the city. The purpose? To keep the smaller presses out of the hands of the streetwalking populace. After each stand is purchased, a licensing fee is charged to each periodical that wishes to be displayed. For larger papers, this is no trouble, they just work a deal using their own stands. The people who are getting the short end are the low run papers that relied on these stands for distribution. And the people who read them. "The smaller papers gave you the real stories," Donnie Franks said. He runs a small newspaper stand. "That's why I ain't selling out. The Post? The Times? Those guys couldn't find [Deleted] in a barrel. "Truth is something a big company can't copyright." |
EDITORIAL - VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE, OR DOES IT?
We have all heard it before: an eye for an eye. That was law at one point, whatever you did was returned to you. That isn't the way it works anymore. Now we have other ways of dealing with violence. But do they work? An eye for an eye is great, but what have we gained by not doing this? Some of the worst killers of all time were not put to death, but locked behind bars for the rest of their lives. Psychologists interviewed, studied, poked, prodded, did whatever they could to learn more about them. Now we know more than we ever thought we would about some of the darker things in the human mind. If we cannot change the past, then we must learn from it. How did a psycho get a gun? Why was someone able to purchase several thousand pounds of explosives? Why did no one notice 150 people with an arsenal locked up in a building? What is our first reaction when we are hurt? To hurt back. To hit harder, to punch more, to kill even whoever, whatever hurt us. The problem is that no one ever learns from violence. We learn to fear from violence, but history shows us fear never changes anything, only suppresses. Until it explodes. |
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