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In article <33CEAC86.2704A2D7@hotmail.com>, adamjackson@hotmail.com says...

>A few weeks ago, two people, a man and a woman, were kidnapped from a
>parking lot not three blocks away from the central police station.  The
>woman was brutally raped, but escaped with her life.  The man, a bright
>and promising future civic leader known personally by our Mayor, drowned
>to death in the trunk of a car, along with another promising,
>intelligent and objectively WORTHWHILE human being.  Taken together,
>these two people had the potential to contribute more to this community
>than the sum total of the entire music "scene" for the past fifty (or
>the NEXT fifty) years.  But no - they were horribly killed, and this
>poor woman, who's become almost forgotten in the aftermath, is scarred
>for life. I place the blame for this horrific atrocity squarely on the
>shoulders of irresponsible city leaders who, for some insane reason,
>consider providing the means for beer-swilling, dope-smoking,
>guitar-grubbing LOSERS to attain some paltry degree of local celebrity,
>more important than putting ENOUGH POLICE on our STREETS to create an
>INTIMIDATING PRESENCE for scumfuck CRIMINALS.  How many police officers
>could have been funded with the money that the city flushed down this
>toilet they like to call the "Austin Music Network"?  END OF DISCUSSION.

Well then. This should be a nice spring-board into a thoughtful,
intelligent discussion here on the information super-highway.

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