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community members packed the meeting to express outrage by the tragedy, which school officials characterized as an “event.”

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If the writer is smuggling criticism of the school officials for labeling the rape an event, he should look into the mirror and blame himself for labeling it a tragedy. People who call outrageous events tragedies usually do so out of fear that the great unwashed among us will become angry enough to insist on doing something about it.

These soft-peddlers of outrageous activity showed the same colors in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks by suppressing video of the Tower jumpers in their push to have us spend more time hanging yellow ribbons and less time flying the American flag.

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These soft-peddlers of outrageous activity showed the same colors in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks by suppressing video of the Tower jumpers in their push to have us spend more time hanging yellow ribbons and less time flying the American flag.
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Well and truly said.