In The Golden Compass, the Gobblers do this action to remove people's daemons.
In "Somebody Blew Up America," Amiri Baraka claims that those telling the tale of 9/11 are the same ones who "live on Wall Street / The first plantation," did this to you, "rape your ma" and "lynched your pa." In A Fine Balance, Ishvar loses his legs while Om becomes victim to this type of event. The Jehovah's Witness Gumercindo Tello threatens to do this action to ($) himself in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In The Golden Compass, the Gobblers do this action to remove people's daemons. This unfortunate thing happens to one character when a (*) gate is left unlatched at the behest of his brother Jason, and Percy Grimm does this before shooting Joe Christmas in Light in August. For ten points, identify this painful event, which Cronus did to his father Uranus with a sickle.
In "Somebody Blew Up America," Amiri Baraka claims that those telling the tale of 9/11 are the same ones who "live on Wall Street /
{castration} (accept equivalents like “cut your nuts off” if Amiri Baraka is playing)