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By the time you read this, the Swedish police may have charged 24-year-old Mijailo Mijailovic with the murder of Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. Or then again, maybe not. The investigation proceeds with a curious, dreamlike quality. When the deadline for holding him was up, Mijailovic himself, echoing the national lack of will to action, "agreed to be detained" for a further two weeks while the government sought more evidence, saying he didn't really fancy his chances of getting released anyway. Last September, pro-EU integration, euro enthusiast Anna Lindh went shopping in an exclusive department store in the center of...

FreeRepublic: the safe-haven of the world. The one place of sanity in a global insane asylum. But what makes it safe? Or more correctly, WHO makes it safe? Why, the AdminMods and Jim Robinson, of course, as well as several others (no, not you, you vain freeper). But we seldom take the time to tell them "thanks" or "keep up the good work". Oh sure, we do it NOW, when the fundraisers happen, and we do it when there is a ZOT thread. But what if an Admin exerpts that was left unexerpted? Do you FReepmail him and say, "Thanks,...

Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, born a slave, once offered a lesson in patriotism. In 1859, he fled for his life, accused erroneously of participating in the raid on Harper's Ferry, along with John Brown. Director-producer-writer Ron Maxwell ("Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals") notes that, in 1860, Douglass spoke in Glasgow, Scotland, where, prior to his address, a radical antislavery leader delivered a scathing attack not just on slavery, but on all things American. Despite his experience of brutality and dehumanization, Douglass, nevertheless, criticized the previous speaker. "He who stands before a British audience to denounce anything peculiarly American in...

As war with Iraq seems to edge ever closer, former US Marine Kenneth Nichols O'Keefe - who fought in the Gulf War - plans to lead a group of Westerners to be human shields: I'm hoping to recruit hundreds of volunteers en route to Iraq and my goal is thousands. After we leave London on 25 January, we go to France, then Holland, Germany and Switzerland before heading towards Baghdad. In the UK and the US, there's little appetite for war but the authorities don't expect many people to go to such extremes to stop it. That would be true...

Evil's Advantage Over Conscience The Weekly Standard ^ | 04/15/2002 | Norman Doidge Posted on 04/06/2002 5:37 PM Eastern by Pokey78 Why the West gives Yasser Arafat endless second chances. HOW IS IT that the Bush administration, which is deadly serious in opposing terrorists and those who harbor them, could let Colin Powell declare last week--on the same day that senior terrorist Yasser Arafat was caught funding the Al Aksa suicide bombers--that Arafat is no terrorist at all? On April 4, President Bush asked Israel to halt its attacks on Arafat's terrorist infrastructure. What must be going on in...