ENGLISH LAW GUARANTEES
The power of the police to carry out searches - of people or property - has undoubtedly increased over the last few years. This is particularly true of `random' stop-and-search operations. In reality, however, more people are searched because they don't know when they have a right to refuse, than are searched under the exercise of specific police powers. It isn't entirely unheard of for police officers to allow people to conclude that powers of search are more extensive than they really are....In English law, any interference with your personal liberty beyond, say, a tap on the shoulder, is prima facie unlawful. Similarly, it is a trespass to enter another person's home without that person's permission, or to interfere with another person's property. This applies as much to the police as it does to anyone else. It follows that unless a right to stop and/or search is granted by a specific legal provision, the search will be unlawful.
(Suggested by Brent Gourley)

Poll Shows Most Want War Delay
Even after the administration's aggressive case for going to war soon in Iraq, a majority of Americans favor giving United Nations weapons inspectors more time to complete their work so that any military operation wins the support of the Security Council, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.

90 US CITIES HAVE PASSED ANTI-WAR RESOLUTIONS
Some 90 U.S. city councils have passed resolutions opposing military actions against Iraq, with many arguing that such a war would devastate their economies, organizers of the campaign said on Thursday. Representatives of many of these cities, which include Chicago and Philadelphia among others, gathered in Washington to deliver their resolutions to the White House.
(Reuters)

"BRIGHTS"
Michael Jackson Baby Drop Game
Suggested By Connie Acevedo
Airport Security Mechanism
Suggested By Alfonso Alvarez
Latin Band Maker
Suggested By Connie Acevedo
Sneaky FBI
Suggested by Sixto Mendez
Patriot Registration Act
Suggested by Joel Sogol
Bush Speak

RIGHTS FOR "ENEMY COMBATANTS"?
Are such citizens entitled to constitutional protections?
In the seven months that Jose Padilla has been locked up in a Navy brig, the federal government has provided pages of alleged evidence that the former Chicago gang leader was scheming to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb."
Six pages, to be exact.
The number of times that Padilla's court-appointed lawyers have been allowed to see him falls short of even that modest figure. Since June 9, when President Bush declared Padilla an enemy combatant in the war on terrorism, lawyers Donna Newman and Andrew Patel have had no meetings with their client.
(Philadelphia Inquirer, Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)

New anti-war song featuring Bush and others is free to download.
In the Garden of Eden a new anti-war song by a group facetiously called The Compassionate Conservatives has been released in MP3 format only via the Internet.
(From TalkLeft, Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)