Brandon Whipple, a former statehouse Democrat elected in Wichita, Kansas, was subject to a kidnapping and murder plot. In texts sent to another member of the Wichita city government, the suspect, Meredith Dowry, asked for Whipple’s address and then made clear his intentions.
Wichita implemented policies aimed at protecting citizens from spread of COVID-19, but some members of the community have backed conspiracy theories instead of science. …
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
On this day, 18 October 1977, the Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group) killed Martin Schleyer, former Nazi war criminal and SS officer who was also head of the German Employers Association known for his tough opposition to unions and strikes. He had been kidnapped by the group demanding an exchange for 11 RAF prisoners. However when three of the prisoners were found dead, the RAF shot Schleyer. Schleyer had served time as a prisoner of war for his SS activities, but he got a shorter sentence by lying about his rank and pretending to be more junior than he was.
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