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  • I argued with the colleagues at the uni radio station about banning a certain Violent Femmes song because it debased wimmin (what the song actually was eludes me now after looking through the rather innocuous lyrics in the early Femmes albums – maybe we were just incensed about men taking the name?).

    Archive 2008-02-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008

  • One of the hidden sites police discovered was called "Violent Desires."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • VICAP is an acronym for Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • VICAP is an acronym for Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • VICAP is an acronym for Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • VICAP is an acronym for Violent Criminal Apprehension Program.

    POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990

  • Many of us found what we'd been looking for on or around the first night of the prolonged-snuff-film Sheen called his "Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour."

    Zachary Stockill: One Last Word on Charlie Sheen Zachary Stockill 2011

  • HR 1955, otherwise known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, is a much-needed piece of national security legislation subject to unnecessary paranoia and fear.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist? 2008

  • HR 1955, otherwise known as the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, is a much-needed piece of national security legislation subject to unnecessary paranoia and fear.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist? 2008

  • The report - titled Violent Islamist extremism, the internet, and the homegrown terrorist threat – was released on May 8 by Senator Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and Senator Susan Collins, the committee member.

    American Muslims alarmed at the new report on "Violent Islamist extremism" 2008

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