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Gunman Gets Life
Los Angeles
white supremacist has pleaded
guilty to seriously wounding five
people in a shooting rampage at a
local Jewish community center and
murdering a Filipino American mail
carrier in 1999.
In a deal with prosecutors, Buford
0. Furrow Jr., 39, is to receive a
mandatory life prison sentence, but as
a result of Wednesday's plea, he will be
spared a possible death sentence.
Federal prosecutors and public defend-
ers concluded separately that Furrow
suffers from serious psychiatric prob-
lems, the Los Angeles Times reported.
During his Aug. 10, 1999, attack on
the North Valley Jewish Community
Center in Granada Hills, Calif,
Furrow sprayed the lobby with 70 bul-
lets, wounding an adult, a teenager
and three young boys. He later killed
mail carrier Joseph Ileto.
Victims of the JCC attack and their
families were not immediately avail-
able for comment.
Furrow is a follower of the Aryan
Nations, a racist and anti-Semitic hate
group.
— Tom Tugend/JTA
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D.C. Insider Visits
A Washington, D.C., insider from the
Anti-Defamation League gave his
insights of how the ADL implements
and makes policy, how it decides when
to compromise with Congress, and
gave updates on civil rights issues.
Michael Lieberman, Washington
Counsel, lobbyist, and newly named
director of the ADL Civil Rights
Policy Planning Center, spoke of hate
crime legislation, separation of church
and state, and anti-discrimination
efforts before the Michigan Region
ADI2s Civil Rights Committee and the
Steinberg Youth Leadership Institute
in Bloomfield Township.
He explained why the ADL didn't press
on Congress to vote down legislation to
support posting the Ten Commandments
in public schools last year.
The ADL sent out a fact sheet to
Congressional members explaining
why it would be wrong to vote for it.
"They started to call our office," he
said, "and they said, 'Look, don't ask
me to vote against a non-binding reso-
lution on the Ten Commandments.
It's a bad 30-second sound bite.'"
No Congressman wanted to look like
he was against the Ten Commandments,
so it passed overwhelmingly.
— Harry Kirsbaum
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