VLVL PR3 and "the Movement"

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 8 07:34:52 CST 2004


 PREP will be slipped in as a rider when The Crime Control Act of
> 1970 is passed in 1972, but Brock's thin ice special, his baby, is
> already filling up. Allenwood is mentioned later and I suspect that Karl
> Bopp could have something to do with all the changes Nixon made at DOJ
> and FBI, including radical changes in the business conducted at federal
> prisons, and in BOPP, an acronym for the Bureau Of Prison's Population?
> 
> http://www.nathanielturner.com/danielberrigan.htm

Just want to clarify something here, Karl Bopp's scene is set in 1984,
although he's been around for a while. The connection I'll try to make
is between crime legislation passed under Reagan and Nixon. A lot of
this has been covered by Thoreen and others in the Oaky Law Journal
essays, but those essays are, at times, more inter/extra/intra-textual
than what we're about here this time around. 

Thanks again,  Robert, 

T



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