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Eat Me, Joe Biden

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:48:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As a life long independent, I think Obama could have done better.

Put a mythical six chimpanzees to work on a mythical six typewriters and one of them might eventually type out Hamlet, but I feel fairly confident that a billion years could pass before any healthy primate would make it even halfway through the unlikely sentence Donald Rumsfeld impeded the Iraq war effort. Yet there was Joe Biden, saying it on live television last week.

Tags: politics

Broken Levees, Broken Lives: A Post-Katrina Focus On Healthcare

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:25:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hospitals still closed after Katrina. For-profit hospitals see no profit in New Orleans.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: healthcare, katrina, politics, human rights

Teenage Sex Offenders? Ten Year Old Sex Offenders?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:01:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kids don't get in trouble, they're put in trouble. Adolescent sex offender treatment and registration laws become a modern witch hunt. Bad laws win elections, destroy lives.

Clip Source: www.ethicaltreatment.org

He is looking at being put on the public registry when he turns 18, along with his picture...Because of the registry and the stigma which accompanies it, we have had suicides, attempted suicides and youths who are ready to give up.

Tags: sex, laws, politics, justice, psychology

SWAT OVERKILL: More Common Than You Think

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:52:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And, in a case that is now drawing national attention, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, who lived in a high-crime neighborhood of Atlanta, recently opened fire on police when they broke down her door while executing a drug warrant. They returned fire, killing her. It’s hard to believe any of this would have happened had the police taken a less aggressive approach in the first place.

Clip Source: www.popularmechanics.com

SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force

SOLDIERS AND POLICE are supposed to be different. Soldiers are aimed at enemies from outside the country. They are trained to kill those enemies, and their supporters. In fact, “killing people and breaking things” are their main reasons for existence.

Tags: police, corruption, law, politics, justice

Drug War Bloating Police And Prison "Industries."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:33:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What ever happened to the days of Andy of Mayberry? Today's law enforcement officers are dressing up like paramilitary thugs in some futuristic sci-fi where "if you ain't cop, you're little people."

Clip Source: www.enterstageright.com

Drug war very effective -- at bloating police, prison 'industries'

Seeing a new source of funds for local police equipment, staff and operations, "Every congressman has raised their hand and said, 'I need relief from this problem, too,' " explains UCLA public policy professor Mark A.R. Kleiman.

Tags: police, drugs, law, justice, politics, corruption

Cuckoo's Nest Revisited

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:46:38 GMT

Clip Source: www.ethicaltreatment.org

EXCERPTS FROM
“DON'T SHOOT, WE'RE YOUR CHILDREN:
HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR IN OUR RESPONSE TO ADOLESCENT SEXUAL ABUSERS AND CHILDREN WITH SEXUAL BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS?”

...we have been concerned to see children as young as 10 or 12 subject to sex-offender registration laws and neighborhood notification; to have seen a 10-year-old coercively interrogated by police without parents or attorneys present, shackled and chained, and then placed in lock-up facitilies where he was beaten and sexually assaulted by older inmates until becoming suicidal; or to see parents told that their 7-year-old child could never return home again after two incidents of genital fondling of a 5-year-old sibling--all in the name of controlling sex offenders...

Tags: sex, law, justice, human rights

I Like Chinese

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:46:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How apropos for today.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: china, olympics, music, video, entertainment

Sex Offender Registry Includes Consenting Teens

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:19:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Being labeled a sex offender has completely changed Ricky’s life, leading him to be kicked out of high school, thrown out of parks, taunted by neighbors, harassed by strangers, and unable to live within 2,000 feet of a school, day-care center or park. He is prohibited from going to the movies or mall with friends because it would require crossing state borders, which he cannot do without permission from his probation officer.

Clip Source: www.lacitybeat.com

Is Ricky Really a Sex Offender?

California’s registry for life may soon include promiscuous kids

When Ricky was 16, he went to a teen club and met a girl named Amanda, who said she was the same age. They hit it off and were eventually having sex. At the time Ricky thought it was a pretty normal high school romance.

Two years later, Ricky is a registered sex offender, and his life is destroyed.

Tags: sex, laws, teens

How The War On Drugs Victimizes Women

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:27:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Treatment costs much less than incarceration and provides far better returns.

Clip Source: realcostofprisons.org

War on Drugs Victimizes Women

War on Drugs victimizes women
By LOIS AHRENS
Op-Ed- Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA
We live in Orwellian times. We are asked to believe that the peacekeeper missile delivers peace and declaring war on a nation will bring democracy. Now Sally Van Wright, soon to be assistant superintendent of the Hampden County House of Correction, a new jail for women, states ''We incarcerate to set free.''

Despite the beliefs of jailers, when the public is polled, as they were in a study by Peter Hart (''Changing Public Attitudes Toward the Criminal Justice System,'' February 2002), they say incarceration cannot solve the deep social and economic problems that drive crime, nor is criminalizing addiction more viable than treating it as an illness. Jailing women does not set them free. It also drains money from programs that could treat drug addiction, prevent and treat childhood sexual abuse, and fund quality education.

Tags: durgs, prison, war on drugs, justice, women

Why The American Prison System Is A Failure

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:19:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More punitive policies and the war on drugs provide perverse incentives to a private corrections industry with an interest in bilking public funds.

Clip Source: realcostofprisons.org

The Failing American Prison System

"Just as national security planners faked a "missile gap" in order to justify extravagant expenditures for defense, criminal justice policy makers are currently faking a "crime gap" in order to justify similar expenditures on prisons. Just as the military- industrial complex is a means of exercising international control so is the prison-industrial complex a means of exercising domestic control. This system is less about keeping the streets safe or rehabilitating criminals and more about serving a dual role in social management. Prisons are used to warehouse members of the unwanted social groups. Simultaneously, the job creation from the expansion of the prison system serves as a means of partially compensating and pacifying elements of the population negatively affected by outsourcing, automation, and farm failure."

Tags: prison, crime, justice, america, drugs

The Guatemala Genicide Case

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:35:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Among the witnesses was Jesus Tecú Osorio, survivor of the Río Negro massacre and winner of the Reebok Human Rights Award. Tecú was a child when the military began attacking the communities of Rabinal with increasing intensity during 1981 and into 1982. He was ten years old when he watched the Army and civil patrols (PAC) enter his village of Río Negro on March 13, 1982, and carry out the massacre that left 70 woman and 107 children dead, including his own mother and infant brother.

Clip Source: www.gwu.edu

The Guatemala Genocide Case

The investigative phase of the international human rights case charging three Guatemalan former military presidents and five senior army and police officials with genocide, state terrorism, torture and other crimes against humanity opened a second round of hearings on May 26, 2008, in Madrid, Spain. Judge Santiago Pedraz presided in his chambers at the Audiencia Nacional (Spain’s federal court) as five survivors and four expert witnesses described the scorched earth operations that decimated hundreds of Mayan communities in the department of Quiché in Guatemala’s highlands during the early 1980s, as well as issues relating to ethnicity and racism that have bearing on the case.

Tags: genocide, national security, war

Death By Denial

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Americans across the nation demonstrated in favor of guaranteed healthcare and in protest of AHIP — America’s Health Insurance Plans — the insurance industry lobbyists who profit from pain. Their annual convention was met today by thousands of protesters on site in San Francisco and simultaneously in cities across the nation.

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Tags: healthcare, singe payer, health, people

U.S. Mayors Conference Backs Single-Payer

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:37:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Grass roots political support for Single Payer Health Insurance Program is strong.

Clip Source: www.pnhp.org

U.S. Conference of Mayors Backs Single-Payer National Health Insurance

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, meeting in Miami, adopted a resolution this morning in support of single-payer national health insurance.

The assembly, in unanimous vote, backed a resolution calling for the enactment of the “United States National Health Insurance Act,” H.R. 676. The bill, which is also known as the “Improved and Expanded Medicare for All Act,” is sponsored by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and 90 other members of Congress.

Tags: healthcare, single payer, politics

Bill Moyers Journal: It's Not About Oil

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:11:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bill Moyers hits the nail on the head again..

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Tags: oil, iraq, bush administration, lies, politics, news

Keith Olberman w/ Jonathan Turley on Failing To Impeach

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:52:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When checks and balances break down

Clip Source: impeachment.kucinich.us

“…clear Presidential crimes…”

So says Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley in an interview with MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann about Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush – a document that Olbermann calls “a remarkably lengthy and thorough record of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Tags: bush, impeachment, video, congress, politics