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Because Harvey Milk and George Moscone are dead - she wasn't killed by Dan White[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations http
by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Because Harvey Milk and George Moscone are dead - she wasn't killed by Dan White[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassinations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscone%E2%80%93Milk_assassina...
(Edit: What I'm trying to say is that she was the person that found Harvey Milk shot and was one of the people that police asked to identify the bodies of both Milk and Moscone. Certainly being that close to the aftermath of violence changes a person.)
- coldpie 11y agoWow, I had no idea Feinstein was so close to the assassinations. That's traumatic. I wonder if those events lead to her positions on defense and privacy which are so uncharacteristic of the rest of her party.
- NoGravitas 11y agoHer positions on defense and privacy are actually pretty representative of the establishment wing of her party. The Democratic party has some pretty severe divisions in it, and has for years.
- coldpie 11y agoThat's a fair point. Obama is in the anti-encryption camp too, after all.
- api 11y agoI highly recommend a book called Season of the Witch by David Talbot. It's a great history of SF in the 50s-80s with a strong focus on the 60s and the counterculture. It's some amazing history that many people don't know much about. If the 60s counterculture and the rest of America had been geographically segregated like the South and the North in the 1860s, you'd have had secession and civil war.
- joesmo 11y agoThe good ones always die and the assholes live. It seems like Feinstein has been trying to legislate that day away for decades now. Shame on her. She's obviously not competent to do her job and this is not the first bill to reflect that.