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Abortion reform clears last hurdle

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:25:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A long battle against the hysterical conservatives is over. Choice is decriminalised.

Clip Source: www.theage.com.au

ABORTION has been legalised in Victoria.

Just after 10.30 last night, a historic vote in State Parliament gave women the right to choose to have an abortion free from the threat of criminal prosecution.

The conscience vote of upper house MPs prompted tears of joy from veteran pro-choice campaigners, including Jo Wainer, in the public gallery.

Former Labor premier Joan Kirner hailed the vote as a victory for women after a 35-year campaign to take abortion out of the Crimes Act.

But the 23 to 17 vote for decriminalisation was also greeted with cries of "You've got blood on your hands" from anti-abortion protesters.

Four pro-life activists were forcibly evicted from the public gallery amid angry and emotional scenes. They condemned the vote as a green light for "state-sanctioned baby killing" and vowed to continue their vocal campaign.

Last night's conscience vote ended a marathon parliamentary debate that split the major parties.

Tags: good news

PC terms

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:55:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bored.com

A Criminal - unsavory character
A Crook - morally (ethically) challenged
Abortion - Near-Life Experience
Alcoholic - Anti-Sobriety Activist
Alive - temporarily metabolically abled.
An Immigrant - a newcomer
Assassination - involuntary term limitation
Bald - comb-free
Bald - folically independent
Bald - follicularly challenged.
Battle Fatigued - shellshocked
Blind - optically darker
Blind - photonically non-receptive
Blind - visually challenged
Body Odor - nondiscretionary fragrance.
Broken Down Automobile - mechanically challenged
Broken Home - Dysfunctional Family
Bum - Displaced Homeowner
Bum - Homeless Person
Bum - Involuntarily Domiciled
Cannibalism - Intra-Species Dining
Censorship - Selective Speech
Cheating - Academic Dishonesty
China - Porcelain
Chronically Late - Temporarily Challenged
Clumsy - uniquely coordinated
Commercial Fisherman - Flipper Whipper
Computer Illiterate - Technologically Challenged
Corpse - Permanently Static Post-Human Mass

CITIZEN TERRORISTS

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:54:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wonder what other over zealous law enforcement officers are out there doing their job

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Citizen Terrorists Deleted

The homeland security mania has invited some startling abuses of police power, but we have yet to hear of any more knuckle-headed than one in Maryland. There, the State Police are sheepishly tracking down 53 innocent people to let them know they were entered as suspected terrorists on state and federal databases — for the Orwellian offense of engaging in peaceful protest.

The citizens had merely joined gatherings opposed to the Iraq war and capital punishment. Yet they were listed as terrorists three years ago on criminal intelligence rolls. “On the contrary, the groups were determined not to violate the law,” Stephen Sachs, the former Maryland attorney general, took pains to point out in a blistering report concluding that the runaway program violated constitutional rights and federal regulations.

a legitimate surveillance of “fringe people”

“those who wish to disrupt the government.”

American wonder what else

police programs.

ICE Raids in Election Swing States in Full Swing!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wonder what happens to the families? Just like in the days of slavery, they are split up - see the story!

Clip Source: www.ice.gov

Of the 331 arrested yesterday, 11 (2 females, 9 males), including one plant supervisor, face criminal charges for various crimes including re-entry after deportation, aggravated identity theft, counterfeit documents and false statements. All have been transferred into the U.S. Marshal's custody.

All of those administratively arrested have been interviewed, fingerprinted, and photographed by ICE agents and processed for removal from the United States. The females arrested were transferred to the Atlanta City Detention Center in Atlanta, Georgia and the males were transferred to the Stuart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

Tags: ice raids, slavery, human rights, immigration rights, inhumanity

Citizen Terrorists Deleted

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:03:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Promising reform to angry legislators, the Maryland police are scrambling not so much to apologize as to notify the 53 that they were falsely deemed terrorists and can inspect their files before the files are purged. The databases were originally intended for anti-drug intelligence, but were misused, officials explained, by zealous, “technologically challenged” commanders.

Constitutionally challenged, as well."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The homeland security mania has invited some startling abuses of police power, but we have yet to hear of any more knuckle-headed than one in Maryland.

It should make any American wonder what else is out there in the way of misbegotten police programs.

The 300 hours of surveillance devoted to data-smearing outspoken citizens was aptly described in the report as “an instructive example of the abuses that can result when the mere invocation of ‘terrorism’ is understood to override constitutional protections.”

Michael Sanchez and the Abduction of Emily Machado

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:16:14 GMT

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Clip Source: murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com

Emily Machado was only two years old when her mother Nigia Machado fled from the United States. She is now in hiding in another County.

The mother Nigia Machado has committed a crime, Parental Abduction. She has denied Emily's father his rights under the law to be with his daughter.

Michael Sanchez; Emily's dad needs our help. The District Attorney of Nothern Illinois has yet to file criminal charges against the mother.

Tags: emily machado, parental abduction, international abduction, missing, missing child

Indicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:59:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The DOJ has mounted an extraordinary case against the hacker who revealed Sarah Palin's apparent systematic violation of the Open Records Act (by using a private email address to conduct government business). Given that the DOJ normally doesn't care much about cyber-crime, one has to wonder how the decision to allocate those resources was made.

Clip Source: harpers.org

Cyber crimes are rampant in America today. Frequently they involve theft of identity metrics used to tap the victim’s credit. As I reviewed in a recent piece for the BBC, however, the Department of Justice has allocated few resources to investigate these crimes except in very large scale and systematic cases—that is crimes in which there is a clear criminal purpose and a clear victim, and tens of millions at stake. Generally the Department has not acted in cases in which the result of the intrusion is merely to embarrass the target, for a fairly obvious reason. At best we’re only talking about a misdemeanor. The Palin email hacking case quite plainly falls into this category. So what is going on?

Tags: politics, presidential_campaign_2008, palin, internet, crime, law, news, opinion

Obama Flip-Flops and American Press Just Winks...

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:14:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama has accepted money from big oil and a Chicago criminal. He dumped Jewish voters to appease Arabs. Now he wants to meet with Ahmadinejad with 'no preconditions.'

Clip Source: www.ynet.co.il

Can Obama be trusted?

Obama’s promises of change can’t hide manipulations, political flip-flops

He promised to “stay away” from the money and influence of powerful interests, but switched sides when he accepted money from oil companies, from a dubious Chicago criminal, and from other sources. He “promised” Jewish voters that under his administration Jerusalem shall remain Israel’s united capital, but got scared and reversed course (resorting to mumbled explanations) when Arab voters were outraged.

Tags: obama, press, oil, chicago, jewish, voters

Fatal Fallout, Coping With Crime

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:18:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This series explores the effect of crime from the perspective of not only the victim's family, but the family of the convicted. It is a raw look at how in a moment's notice, so many lives are changed, some for the better, some for the worse.

Clip Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com

In 1982, columnist Issac Bailey's brother Herbert "Moochie" Bailey Jr. was charged in the stabbing death of James Bunch, a former Bonneau city councilman. Bailey recently spoke for the first time about the slaying with the victim's family, as well as his own, for a six-part series that explores the lingering effects of murder on the families of the victims and the accused.

Special series

Coping with crime

A fellow inmate stabbed one of my youngest brothers "in the back and the face,'' he told me as nonchalantly as if discussing the blueness of the sky.

It was during a fight in a Baltimore prison. Zadoc Bailey stabbed the other guy in the back. Neither reported the incident, so neither received treatment. They didn't want to be taken to solitary confinement.

A small scar is still visible on his face.

More Special series Headlines

Tags: crime, victims, families, families of convicted

McCain's Double Standard

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:54:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If McCain wants to bash Obama for his occasional appearances on the same board with Ayers, a 1970's political activist who Obama disclaims friendship with, then he needs to examine his admitted long-time friendship to a government operative who was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history - and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law, G. Gordon Liddy.

Both Ayers and Liddy say they have no regrets for what they did. Both served prison terms for their actions.

Liddy, a radio talk show host, gives the advice: "if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot, they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. Kill the sons of bitches."

Ayers, since imprisonment, has spent his time helping the poor and disadvantaged.

McCain thinks Obama should apologize for associating with a criminal extremist. To which Obama might reply: After you.

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Can a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the 1970s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology -- and who has never shown remorse or admitted error? When the candidate in question is Barack Obama, John McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is John McCain, he's not so sure.

Obama has been justly criticized for his ties to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, who in 1995 hosted a campaign event for Obama and in 2001 gave him a $200 contribution.

McCain minced no words: "I think not only a repudiation but an apology for ever having anything to do with an unrepentant terrorist is due the American people."

What McCain didn't mention is that he has his own Bill Ayers -- in the form of G. Gordon Liddy.

Far from repudiating him, McCain has embraced him.

How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be

Tags: mccain, obama, politics, double standard

Tenn lawmaker's son indicted in Palin e-mail hacking case

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:51:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The indictment against David Kernell alleged that on Sept. 16 he reset the password to Palin's personal e-mail account to gain access to it. Authorities say Kernell then read the contents of the account and made screenshots of the e-mail directory, e-mail content and other personal information, later posting some of the information to a public Web site.

The Justice Department said the case was being prosecuted by section chief Michael DuBose and trial attorney Mark Krotoski of the criminal division's computer crime and intellectual property section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The FBI's Anchorage and Knoxville field offices investigated the case.

Clip Source: www.bnd.com

WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury has indicted the son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker in connection with the hacking of the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn., the son of state Rep. Mike Kernell, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

David Kernell was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Palin, Alaska's governor, the Justice Department said.

Kernell, an economics major at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release.

His father, a Memphis Democrat, is chairman of Tennessee's House Government Operations Committee. Mike Kernell has said he had nothing to do with the hacking incident.

Tags: palin, e-mail hack, palin e-mail hack, hacking, kernell

Family Law

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:15:13 GMT

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Clip Source: jenniferbarnett.com

Family law disputes are some of the most emotional, intensely personal types of cases that people encounter. That should be no surprise, as the foundation of a person's peace and familiarity with their home life are completely altered in such proceedings. Divorces and custody litigation can affect where you will live, how often you are allowed to see your children, how you will spend your paycheck, and may even dictate who can spend the night at your house. Accusations of domestic violence, criminal mischief, and interference with a "911" call may be crossover cases that develop out of unpleasant interactions during the divorce process. It has been jokingly said that people display temporary insanity and act in crazy ways when going through a divorce and/or custody battle. But undercurrents of truth remain in such jokes. People act in unusual and unpredictable ways when their security and home life are abruptly disrupted.

The Law Office of Jennifer Barnett, P.C.

Tags: divorce attorney plano

John McCain's Terrorist Ties

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:16:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Liddy also said he should have recommended shots to the groin instead of the head. If that wasn't enough to inflame any nut cases, he mentioned labeling targets "Bill" and "Hillary" when he practiced shooting.

Given Liddy's record, it's hard to see why McCain would touch him with a 10-foot pole. On the contrary, he should be returning his donations and shunning his show. Yet the senator shows no qualms about associating with Liddy -- or celebrating his service to their common cause.

How does McCain explain his howling hypocrisy on the subject? He doesn't. I made repeated inquiries to his campaign aides, which they refused to acknowledge, much less answer. On this topic, the pilot of the Straight Talk Express would rather stay parked in the garage.

That's an odd policy for someone who is so forthright about his rival's responsibility. McCain thinks Obama should apologize for associating with a criminal extremist. To which Obama might reply: After you.

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as "an old friend," and McCain sounded like one

he gushed.

your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."

Which principles would those be?

The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents

The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn't disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention

The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist

Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history -- and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did

All this may sound like ancient history. But it's from the same era as the bombings Ayers helped carry out as a member of the Weather Underground. And Liddy's penchant for extreme solutions has not abated

Clip Source: www.raisingkaine.com

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Author of anti-Obama screed deported from Kenya

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:51:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Corsi, who also defamed Kerry, tossed for lack of work permit

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Corsi's book claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.

Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and his campaign picks apart the book's claims on the Web site FightTheSmears.com.

The campaign's rebuttal is titled "Unfit For Publication," a play on the book Corsi co-authored against 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military service called "Unfit For Command."

Corsi was detained at immigration headquarters in Nairobi for not having a work permit before being ordered to leave Kenya, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Tags: corsi, kenya, obama

A Better Strategy on Opium in Afghanistan

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:07:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The statistics are bleak and we are pursuing typically myopic policies in Afghanistan. Hitchens (whose writing I think is superb) makes a great case for a different approach.

"in the short term, hard-pressed Afghan farmers should be allowed to sell their opium to the government rather than only to the many criminal elements that continue to infest it or to the Taliban. We don't have to smoke the stuff once we have purchased it: It can be burned or thrown away or perhaps more profitably used to manufacture the painkillers of which the United States currently suffers a shortage. (As it is, we allow Turkey to cultivate opium poppy fields for precisely this purpose.)"

Clip Source: www.slate.com

suicide bombings in Afghanistan were up 27 percent in 2007 over 2006, commenting that Mullen "should have added that they are up 600 percent over 2005, and that all insurgent attacks are up 400 percent over 2005."

the number of attacks on World Food Program convoys, on relief workers, and on prominent Afghan women. All of these show a steady upward curve,

depressing figure is the index of civilian casualties caused by aerial bombardment from NATO forces: This year will show a large increase in these, as well, and that is one of the chief concerns underlying Sir Sherard's bleakly expressed view that the current U.S.-led strategy is "destined to fail."

Afghanistan's poppy fields,

produced 93 percent of all the world's opium.

the vast bulk of the revenue from this astonishing harvest goes directly to the Taliban or to local warlords and mullahs. Meanwhile, in the guise of liberators, NATO forces appear and tell the Afghan villagers that they intend to burn their only crop.

Tags: afghanistan, strategy, drugs, war, war on terror

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Abortion reform clears last hurdle

PC terms

CITIZEN TERRORISTS

Citizen Terrorists Deleted

ICE Raids in Election Swing States in Full Swing!

Citizen Terrorists Deleted

Michael Sanchez and the Abduction of Emily Machado

Susan Murphy Milano's Journal

Indicting the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's private email - Harpers.org

Obama Flip-Flops and American Press Just Winks...

Can Obama be trusted?

Fatal Fallout, Coping With Crime

Coping with crime

More Special series Headlines

'But he's still my brother'

The victim's view

Piecing it together

Enduring abuse

Loved one lost

Crime's reach stretches beyond criminal, victim

McCain's Double Standard

Tenn lawmaker's son indicted in Palin e-mail hacking case

Family Law

John McCain's Terrorist Ties

Author of anti-Obama screed deported from Kenya

A Better Strategy on Opium in Afghanistan