Marable weighs in

[Joe R. Golowka]

> Sorry to be a vulgar empiricist, but how many people did El
> Salvador's death squads kill, and how many have the NYPD killed? The
> ratio's something like 10,000 to 1, no?

So what?  A death squad is a death squad whether they kill 50 people or
5,000 people.