Cooper believes that there may be more to the story than what has been presented so far and begins digging deeper into the events surrounding the murders. The plot of “The Assault” revolves around John Cooper, a young reporter who is assigned to cover the trial of Ronald Jr. The only surviving member of the family was Ronald Jr., who was found guilty of all six murders.

The DeFeo patriarch, Ronald DeFeo Sr., and his wife and four children were brutally shot to death in their sleep. This book tells the story of a brutal murder case that occurred in the DeFeo family home. Therefore such a person has his face turned toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.“The Assault” by Bill O’Reilly is a historical thriller novel that takes place during the 1970s in Nassau County, Long Island. But nothing exists in the future it is empty one might die at any minute. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. This is the kind of concept that does not please philosophers, but then, inventions of the heart have little to do with those of the intellect.īesides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that is hard to imagine. THere is, of course, something wrong with both these images, for if time is movement, then it must be moving through another kind of time, and the secondary time through yet another and thus time is endlessly multiplied. To ore passive ones, it is rather like a raft drifting along with the tide. To dynamic personalities, the present is a ship that drives its bow through the rough seas of the future. “The way we word it, it's as if our backs were turned to the past as we look toward the futre and that is, in fact, how we actually think of it: the future in front, the past behind. The only thing is, we mustn't become too much like them, mustn't destroy ourselves altogether, otherwise they'll have won in the end.” But they'll lose in the end, because they have no light in them. Not them they can simply remain themselves, that's why they're so strong. We first have to do away with something inside ourselves before we can do away with them.

But they don't have that problem they can do away with us without any qualms. We've got to become a little bit like them in order to fight them so we become a little bit unlike ourselves. For them everything is very simple, but for us it's more complicated. We hate hate itself, and for this reason our hate is better than theirs.īut that's why it's more difficult for us. How is that possible? It's because we hate them in the name of the light, I guess, whereas they hate only in the name of darkness. And yet we've got to hate Fascists, and that's considered perfectly all right.

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