plunderer

Cahokia’s would-be plunderers form an unholy alliance with the Ku Klux Klan, whose followers despise Cahokia’s multicultural essence and are itching for riot and murder.

Today the list of resources extracted from Borneo reads like a modern plunderer’s shopping list: timber, gold, diamonds, bauxite, coal, natural gas, and animals poached for the pet trade or traditional medicine.

The gardeners use the name of one member’s mother as “a kind of shorthand for the many evils of the baby-boomer generation, a despised cohort of hoarders and plunderers.”

“This museum is one of the main plunderers in this planet’s history, and it will not stop it,” Dr. Muscarella, who died Nov. 27 at age 91, told Newsday in 1995.

Last month he lashed out at detractors, including 21 ex-presidents of Latin American countries and Spain who denounced his reelection scheme, condemning them as “plunderers” and “assassins.”