An old New Yorker piece on the harassment of women by the Christian anti-abortion cult .
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I went into the hospital early in the morning, and was home in bed early that evening. At seven the next morning, the telephone rang. A woman asked for me.
“Yes?” I said.
“How are you?” she asked.
I said I was O.K.
“Well, we know that yesterday morning you murdered a six-week-old baby girl, and we’d like to offer you some guidance.”
“Who is this?” I said, frightened and trying to think.
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The piece was written 45 years ago. The hate is still there - much stronger now and emboldened by an illegitimate Supreme Court.
playing the coal game
Some interesting characters at a Montana operation.
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As night fell, a driver traveling along a state road some 20 miles away from Bluefield noticed a man on the roadside: a disheveled Mr. Price, who was rushed to a hospital. He told investigators he had been abducted by an outlaw biker gang that drugged him and took him to his motorcycle shop where they robbed him before loading him into a van and dumping him on the roadside. When surveillance cameras showed there hadn’t been a robbery, he changed his story, saying that the gang had asked him for coal train schedules for a scheme to traffic methamphetamines by rail.
The truth was, Mr. Price hadn’t been kidnapped at all. As he later admitted in court, he had staged his own kidnapping, a last-ditch attempt to escape investors’ wrath for embezzlement schemes totaling more than $20 million that he’d hatched with the president of the Montana coal mine.
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