But Mr. Lowenthal and others who urge a calmer, more strategic assessment of the recent rash of violent schemes insist that the country is far safer than it was in 2001.
It was then that her soul was bound in perpetuity to that of another (Rajniesh Duggall, a Mr. India turned actor), and also to that of a nemesis whose violent schemes have grown more elaborate through the ages.
One reviewer, Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center said, "Their story has an important childhood lesson at its heart: How good men and women, black and white, would stand up to violent, scheming racists in the era of Jim Crow".
Then, Stateside, the partnership veers from minor to major fraud, as Boaz masterminds an ever-more-intricate, violent, reckless criminal scheme, even as he seeks all the more cravenly to slake his lust and flaunt his depravity, all while wearing a yarmulke and touting his Judaism.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
He captures the whiplash wiles of hardscrabble underdogs and the bitterly ironic and violent ricochets as their schemes turn against them.
In 1966, Martin Luther King started to campaign against segregation in Chicago only to find his efforts thwarted by violent mobs and a scheming mayor.
The manipulative schemes and violent threats of union leaders concealing their corruption are matched by the wiles of government investigators who pursue their legal ends with cavalier indifference to the workers' well-being.
With unemployment nudging 35%, and at least a third of the population living below the poverty line, the scheme has provoked violent protests and grassroots opposition.
Theresa May, the home secretary, announced in July 2010 she would abandon a scheme to remove violent partners from the family home.
