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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism.

Meanwhile, her opponent, DonaldTrump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting for her, piped in, saying yes, she was smearing African Americans. This was the same Trump who in 1989 had called for the execution of the "Central Park Five," five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were convicted of brutally raping a jogger but were later found to have been innocent.

Superpredators were taken at the time to mean young street thugs who repeatedly committed violent crimes with no conscience or empathy and were undeterred by traditional punishment. New York happens to be one of the safest cities in the country, but instances of brutal crimes, especially on the subway, get highlighted by national media. And usually, the individual pushing some bystander in front of a subway train is a person of color.

Ronna McDaniel's conduct following the 2020 election was shocking enough, but NBC's decision to hire her as a paid political analyst almost topped it. The blowback from the company's own commentators prompted the executives to turn around and send McDaniel packing.

Note that other kinds of killers -- serial killers and mass shooters -- tend to be white. They have similar histories of mental illness, addiction and arrests. They, too, are superpredators.

Call them what you want. They must be taken off the streets. That means they must be involuntarily retained in a prison or mental hospital.

Some ditsy newsrooms continue to frame the problem as "larger society" having failed these individuals: "Accused Subway Shover Found Little Help in New York's Chaotic Shelters" (The New York Times).

It may be true that these predators have trauma in their background and serious mental illness. It is true that the mental health shelters are overwhelmed and unable to ensure that every resident has the full array of psychiatric services.

But it is also true that people who enter them are free to leave. And they can't be forced to go to appointments and take their medications: city Department of Homeless Services rules.

There comes a time when an accumulating list of serious acts of violence requires involuntary confinement. Ideally, it would be a compassionate place. But it can't be a place where the "clients," as social workers like to refer to them, can walk out the door.

The most recent subway shover, Carlton McPherson, 24, lived in one of the shelters where he worked off his anger. He was given a cane after being treated for a leg injury and used it to attack a security guard. The person he threw in front of a train in East Harlem was Jason Volz, a 54-year-old man.

The shelters themselves are often scenes of rampage. If certain people can't be controlled within a mental health facility, what hope is there for controlling them once they've left?

The man charged in the recent shooting death of New York City Police Officer Jonathan Diller is Guy Rivera. Rivera, 34, had been arrested nearly two dozen times on drug and attempted assault charges. What was he doing out free?

This is a big sprawling problem. The closing of mental hospitals decades ago was intended to save taxpayers money while offering "clients" more humane care in community centers. But community centers were also not free and were never properly financed.

Outpatient services could probably help a lot of mentally ill people. But there are those they obviously cannot reach. These individuals spread fear and crime in their own neighborhoods and beyond. The "clients" create communities of innocent victims.

In the off-chance they can be fixed with intensive psychiatric care, treatment must be done in locked facilities. Meanwhile, it's time to call these sick people by their proper name, superpredators.

Harrop, who lives inNew York City and Providence, Rhode Island, writes for Creators Syndicate:fharrop@gmail.com.

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Bill Clinton to publish a memoir about life after the White House following the November election

Updated: 7:17 PM EDT Apr 4, 2024

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher."CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton."Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

Following the upcoming presidential election, former President Bill Clinton will release a memoir about his life after serving two terms in office.

The book, titled "Citizen: My Life After the White House," is expected to be released on Nov. 19, according to Reagan Arthur, Knopf executive vice president and publisher.

"CITIZEN is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way," Clinton said in the press release announcing the memoir.

The announcement comes after Clinton joined President Joe Biden along with former President Barack Obama at a New York City fundraiser last week where he issued a stark warning about the threat former President Donald Trump would pose if reelected.

The publisher said that Clinton will touch on "crucial events of the 21st century," including the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, culture wars, the elections of 2008 and 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, as well as discussing political moments involving his wife, Hillary Clinton.

"Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy at home and across the globe," the press release says.

Clinton's book "My Life," published in 2004, detailed his journey from Arkansas to the White House, and it sold more than 400,000 copies on the first day it was available.

Former presidents and first ladies have gone on to sell millions of copies of their books and memoirs. Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" sold more than 2 million units in all formats and editions in the US and Canada during the first 15 days of its publication, and Barack Obama's "A Promised Land" sold more than 3.3 million units across all formats and editions in the US and Canada during its first month of publication, according to Penguin Random House. According to Simon & Schuster, Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats.

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The Girls on the Bus is a fizzy recasting of the campaign-trail memoir Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick, who covered the 2016 election for The New York Times. But it is not a show about Hillary Clinton. Immediately, it takes pains to banish her persona from the screen. The Democratic front-runner of the pilot episode is a governor named Caroline Bennett (Joanna Gleason), and though she is a baby boomer (check) in a pantsuit (check), she also writes romance novels under a pseudonym.

Its a very un-Hillary detail, and it foretells a very un-Hillary downfall. Shortly after Chozicks reporter stand-in, Sadie McCarthy (Melissa Benoist), eagerly hops onto Bennetts bus, she finds her candidate sidelined by a sex scandal (and not her husbands).

These are silly choices, and savvy ones. Only when Clintons baggage has been dumped is The Girls on the Bus free to repave the trail into an escapist romp. For the better part of two decades, Clinton has gripped the cultural imagination around the idea of a first female president. Hundreds of millions of Americans, of several generations, both supporters and critics, imagined it would be her. Screenwriters foresaw it, too. The Girls on the Bus, now streaming on Max, is one of the first shows about presidential politics that is forced to contend with her absence. But it cant quite quit her.

As Clinton ran and lost and ran and lost in the real world, television universes selected a succession of fictionalized Hillarys to occupy their replica Oval Offices. Clintons politics, her path, her bearing, her wardrobe, her haircut these character details could be mirrored or mocked or refuted onscreen, but they could not be ignored.

When Cherry Jones played the first female president on 24, beginning in 2008, she told a reporter, unprompted: Shes not Hillary. She has nothing to do with Hillary. But when Lynda Carter played an (alien!) president on Supergirl in 2016, she said, I used Hillary to prepare.

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At least 30 protesters from Little Rock Peace for Palestine showed up in front of the Clinton Presidential Center on Thursday ready for Hillary Clinton and U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan to hear their message at an event for Womens History Month.

The Clinton Presidential Center hosted a conversation between Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, and Shogan, the first woman to be appointed U.S. Archivist, to highlight the importance of preserving and understanding American history.

Shogan heads the National Archives and Records Administration as the nations chief records keeper. The NARA preserves some of the nations most historic documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It makes these records accessible to citizens as a fundamental right of democracy.

The archives hold 13.5 billion physical paper records and 30 billion original digital records, Shogan told the audience.

We are an essential building block of democracy, the national archives, she said. Records are our basis for holding our government accountable and providing transparency. It is not a nice thing to have. Its not something that should be an afterthought. It is a necessity, and if we dont have accountability, if we dont have transparency in our democracy, then we cannot have a democracy.

Michelle Swope, one of the protesters, said after the event that, unfortunately, the U.S. government is opaque, unaccountable and has horrifying voter suppression.

Clinton acknowledged during the event that Arkansas was ranked as having the worst voter turnout in the U.S.

Clinton declined to answer any questions about the protests that had audience members turning their heads to look outside as chants of $2.3 million dollars for what? 2.3 million lives! andArchive the blood on her hands! could be heard inside the lecture hall.

The $2.3 million referenced funds Clinton received while a U.S. senator from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies from U.S. lawmakers and others.

Swope said she and her husband Marcus visited Hebron in Palestine in 2016 and what they saw opened their eyes.

We were both raised Christian Zionists, Christian Evangelicals, like a lot of people, and really had no idea, we were completely ignorant of what was going on, Swope said. Then October 7 happened and we got connected and have been coming to the protests ever since.

She was referring to the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants that killed about 1,200 Israeli citizens and foreigners. Since then, Israel has bombarded and attacked with ground forces the Palestinian territory of Gaza, displacing millions and killing about 30,000, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Swope said she hoped those entering the presidential center would see what she saw.

I really want people to just see whats truly happening, because thats how they get away with this, is they make sure that people dont know, she added.

Marcus Swope said when he visited Hebron with an organization called Community Peacemaker Teams, they met with former Israeli Defense Force soldiers, Breaking the Silence members and Palestinian families.

He vividly remembered walking elementary students through military checkpoints and seeing a young Israeli soldier, visibly shakenvery scared.

Later that same day, we heard a bunch of gunshots She had accidentally discharged her weapon in the middle of elementary kids going to school.

He said he hoped the protests can provide the same nudge for others to investigate and have a wake-up call.

Other protesters read aloud stories of journalists, mothers and children lost in the Israel Defense Force bombings over the last six months.

Cynthia Martinez, an organizer with the group, said its important to still be present at events like this after six months of genocide. Martinez emphasized that the lives lost are not just numbers.

They are human beings, each with a name and a story, she said. At the end of the day, our taxpayer money is funding this. Its funding their death.

At an event meant to highlight the importance of archiving U.S. history, democracy and womens history, Martinez said she wanted those in attendance to be aware of the countrys impact on the rest of the world.

Hillary Clinton has a really big platform, she said. And so lets use it, lets utilize it, lets bring attention to what is happening.

Martinez said she hoped that those attending the even would feel uncomfortable.

I just want people to know that after so many months, after all this, were still going to keep fighting for a ceasefire, fighting for a free Palestine.

Inside the center, Clinton asked Shogan why its important for women to be in leadership positions such as hers.

I would say its agenda setting, she said. Those decisions are made in the senior leadership meetings, and not necessarily the decisions but what were going to debate in the first place, what were going to decide upon that prioritization. So having women in that room is absolutely the first critical step.

Shogan noted that eight women now sit on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee and that matters because they will decide what they debate and legislate about.

Shogan said her team is working to emphasize access to archival records in person, online and in schools.

She added that test scores showed a dip in understanding American government, civic knowledge and history.

We had a renaissance in this country 15, 20 years ago for STEM, education for science, technology, mathematics, and it worked, Shogan said. It brought test scores up, more kids got interested in those subjects. We need that equivalent of that STEM push that we did, that needs to happen right now for civics and American history.

Teachers also should be teaching students how to respectfully disagree with one another and still be productive, she added.

Clinton also asked Shogan how she sees the National Archives contributing to the documentation and understanding of diplomatic history, particularly in times of international tensions.

Shogan recalled when President Volodomyr Zelenskey visited from Ukraine to give a speech at the National Archives. He viewed a few historical documents, including a telegram from President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant near the end of the civil war. President Lincoln told Grant to fight like a bulldog when pursuing the Confederate Army.

That was such a powerful thing, that bulldog telegram, for President Zelenskey to see the actual copy, Shogan said. He was visibly moved by it and changed his speech and talked about it several times after that. So thats an example of how our history can influence diplomatic history, international relations.

Outside the hall, Ebrahim Abunasrah, a leader of Little Rock Peace for Palestine, said he hopes Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, would one day be invited to the National Archives as well. Abbas has visited the United States several times, including meetings with President George W. Bush and President Donald Trump in 2003 and 2017, respectively.

Abunasrah noted that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government on Thursday for having lost their way in the six-month assault on Gaza.

Politicians and the world, theyve seen the videos, they know whats going on, Abunasrah said.

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