The daughter of former Vice President Al Gore is expected to appear in Boston Municipal Court today stemming from charges last month when she and two dozen other activists trespassed to protest a natural gas pipeline that its engineer says will provide reliable energy to the region.
While several of the 23 protesters struck deals to reduce the charges, Karenna Gore and five others have plead not guilty to charges of trespassing, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.
"The world goes on fighting cold little wars but we must unite and all fight with one cause" — The Ugly's, "The Quiet Explosion"
He was described as a "seething compound of hostilities reaching critical mass." On a blazing August day, Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas and honorably discharged from the Marines, barricaded himself, high-above, in an observation tower where he methodically killed 13 and wounded 31 others. An act of such wanton violence, according to Time, that "seized his grisly fame as the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history." Whitman symbolized a "Gun Toting Nation" and the "Symptoms of Mass Murder." The year was 1966.
