The below loftily celebrates the state murders, peculiar to the US among
European nations.  However no mention is made about the state's focus
on the poorest people (often African/Chicano)--and the historical
insight that these state murders are but a continuation of lynching.
wcm
>
> In a message dated 5/10/00 8:50:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > You have a great number of multiple / serial killings in your violent
> >  country, comrade. What does this do to your statistics... what do murder /
> >  suicides do... what of those gunned down prior to capture... what of those
> >  who die in prison... of the insane.... There is much to this, comrade, and
> I
> >  could go on... and on... but your .001, and your assertions that follow
> from
> >  it, are incorrect in the case of the former, and premature in the latter.
> We
> >  will not tolerate this insidious propaganda, comrade.
> >
> >  Good night.
> >
>
>  Homicide trends in the U.S.
> Multiple victims and offenders
>
> "Few homicides involve multiple offenders and fewer involve multiple victims
> Homicides are more likely to involve multiple offenders than multiple victims
> The percentage of homicides involving multiple offenders rose dramatically in
> the late 1980's and early 1990's, increasing overall from 10% in 1976 to 17%
> in 1998
> The percentage of homicides involving multiple victims increased gradually
> during the last two decades from just under 3% of all homicides to 4% "
>
>    As you can see, if we apply what you hoped to be obfuscation
> (multiple/serial killings) we have an increase in the total number of
> murderers.  If we subtract the high end (4%) of 462,720 victims to compensate
> for multiple killings by a single killer we are left with 444,211 which when
> divided by the 499 executed murderers still leaves .001 percent.
> Murder/suicide is statistically rare, and few murderers are ever "gunned
> down."  In short it does nothing to the statistic.
>
>     Those murderers who die in prison (where else should they die?) or are
> incarcerated in insane asylums is irrelevant to the apparent difficulty one
> has in getting executed in the US -- or perhaps it simply clarifies that
> difficulty.  "Insideous propaganda -- new term for reality?:-)
> Sleep tight.:-)
> Yours,
> Issodhos
>