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Bernard Goetz

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Bernard Goetz
A 48-year-old New Yorker who shot 4 black youths on a subway, leaving one paraplegic


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For an extreme example think Bernard Goetz, who shot four teenagers who were trying to mug him on a New York subway in 1984.
``As one of our presidents once put it, let's say that this town won't have Bernard Goetz to kick around anymore.
But the "me-too" mimicry, if it takes pot shots at political correctness, also opens for scrutiny a deeper, darker vein into the living theater of '90s American Gothic in which the ghosts of such infamous do-it-yourselfers as Joe McCarthy and Wilhelm Reich make cameo appearances alongside Bernard Goetz and countless others who had a vision that failed and, who, in the process of their induction into the annals of infamy, got more than a little wacky.
 
 
 
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