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)
Thursday, February 13, 2003
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)
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)
Friday, February 07, 2003
DIFFERENT MAN, DIFFERENT MOMENT
By ADLAI E. STEVENSON III
Pundits and officials in Washington have dubbed Secretary of State Colin Powell's attempt to make a case for war against Iraq in the United Nations Security Council an "Adlai Stevenson moment." I couldn't disagree more. (NYT)
By ADLAI E. STEVENSON III
Pundits and officials in Washington have dubbed Secretary of State Colin Powell's attempt to make a case for war against Iraq in the United Nations Security Council an "Adlai Stevenson moment." I couldn't disagree more. (NYT)
Thursday, February 06, 2003
Intelligence Break Led U.S. to Tie Envoy Killing to Iraqi Qaeda Cell
In a New York Times story about an "intelligence break" that had led to a cell of Al Qaeda operating out of Baghdad, a reporter notes that a coalition of intelligence services from the United States, Britain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had announced that critical information about the network had emerged from "interrogations of captured cell members conducted under unspecified circumstances of psychological pressure". Hmmm.
In a New York Times story about an "intelligence break" that had led to a cell of Al Qaeda operating out of Baghdad, a reporter notes that a coalition of intelligence services from the United States, Britain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had announced that critical information about the network had emerged from "interrogations of captured cell members conducted under unspecified circumstances of psychological pressure". Hmmm.
Wednesday, February 05, 2003
MoveOn.org:
Let the Inspections Work
A group that will compile messages urging American restraint and present them to the administration, including Secretary of State Powell, and the members of Congress and to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
(Suggested by Donna Soto)
Let the Inspections Work
A group that will compile messages urging American restraint and present them to the administration, including Secretary of State Powell, and the members of Congress and to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.
(Suggested by Donna Soto)
Jurors Who Convicted Marijuana Grower Seek New Trial
Five jurors in the trial of a medicinal marijuana advocate issued a public apology to him and demanded that the judge grant him a new trial. (NYT)
Five jurors in the trial of a medicinal marijuana advocate issued a public apology to him and demanded that the judge grant him a new trial. (NYT)
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Alabama-Cuba relations keep growing closer A strengthening of ties: Alabama-Cuba relations keep growing closer (Anniston Star)
Monday, February 03, 2003
Marijuana 'Guru' Found Guilty by Reluctant Jury
Ed Rosenthal, the man some see as the Mother Teresa of medical marijuana, was convicted Friday of three felonies related to marijuana cultivation, a verdict that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Supporters wept and chanted outside federal court in San Francisco while the outspoken Rosenthal indicted the federal government's pursuit of California medical marijuana dispensaries and those who support them.(From law.com)
Ed Rosenthal, the man some see as the Mother Teresa of medical marijuana, was convicted Friday of three felonies related to marijuana cultivation, a verdict that could send him to prison for the rest of his life. Supporters wept and chanted outside federal court in San Francisco while the outspoken Rosenthal indicted the federal government's pursuit of California medical marijuana dispensaries and those who support them.(From law.com)
PROFESSOR'S SNUB OF CREATIONISTS BRINGS ON DOJ PROBE!!!
Prompted by a complaint from the Liberty Legal Institute, a group of Christian lawyers, the Justice Department is investigating whether a Texas Tech biology professor discriminated against students on the basis of religion when he posted a demand on his Web site that students wanting a letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated.(From NYT)
Prompted by a complaint from the Liberty Legal Institute, a group of Christian lawyers, the Justice Department is investigating whether a Texas Tech biology professor discriminated against students on the basis of religion when he posted a demand on his Web site that students wanting a letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated.(From NYT)
Sunday, February 02, 2003
FEEL LIKE DANCING?
Tom Daschle's anti-dancing legislation is a mean-spirited assault on youth culture, and an extreme violation of principles of federalism. (National Review Online)
Tom Daschle's anti-dancing legislation is a mean-spirited assault on youth culture, and an extreme violation of principles of federalism. (National Review Online)
WHO HAS THE HOT RODS?
The Bush administration has made fuzzy evidence against Iraq sound scarier than it is, and scary evidence against North Korea sound fuzzier than it is.(NYT)
The Bush administration has made fuzzy evidence against Iraq sound scarier than it is, and scary evidence against North Korea sound fuzzier than it is.(NYT)
Kurt Vonnegut Story
The response that I got from sending my friends this story is partially responsible for me instituting this blog. I hope that I am still kicking at 80. It would be presumptuous to hope that I could be doing it was well as he.
The response that I got from sending my friends this story is partially responsible for me instituting this blog. I hope that I am still kicking at 80. It would be presumptuous to hope that I could be doing it was well as he.
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