By Garrison Keillor
We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the “war” on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.
The cruelty of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is stark indeed, as are the sentencing guidelines that impose mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug possession-guidelines in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that sailed through Congress without benefit of public hearings, drafted before an election by Democrats afraid to (...)
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A Foul Tragedy. Democrats fled in the face of danger
13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
12 commentsBy JOCELYN GECKER
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."
The tough new measures came as France’s worst civil unrest in decades entered a 12th night, with rioters in the southern city of Toulouse setting fire to a bus after sundown and pelting (...) -
The FBI’s Secret Scrutiny : in Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans
7 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Barton Gellman
The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said.
Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer (...) -
PARIS : THE FIRE RAISER
6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
9 commentsby Patrick Apel-Muller
Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, claimed that efficiency shall guide his policy... But the impacts of his provoking statements, of his visits in the neighbourhoods where he nags the populations, of his shying away from prevention policy can be measured against burned cars, stones and fire bombs thrown at civil servants, and increasing unrest in some French cities.
Situation assessment, sad! French Interior Minister, Nicolas (...) -
Shots fired as French riots escalate
3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsRioters shot at police and fire fighter crews in the worst night of a week of violence in poor suburbs that ring Paris, as France’s conservative government struggled to quell the unrest.
Youths who rampaged on Wednesday night left a trail of burnt cars, buses and shops in nine suburbs north and east of Paris, home to North African and black African minorities frustrated at their failure to get jobs or recognition in French society.
"It’s a dramatic situation. It is very serious and we (...) -
G8 summit police lied, says report
15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Chris Summers
The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
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Brutality trials start for top Italian police
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment· G8 protesters claim they were gassed and beaten · New laws could render convictions meaningless
in Rome
Seventy-five people, including some of Italy’s most senior police officers, go on trial in the next two days, accused of taking part in an orgy of brutality against protesters during and after the demonstrations at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
Court papers seen by the Guardian show that one police witness gave a written statement describing his colleagues "beating young people (...) -
Trial forces Italy to relive shocking police brutality
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Peter Popham in Rome
Italy is about relive two of its most shocking episodes of alleged police brutality as the trial of officers accused of illegal behaviour over attacks on anti- globalisation protesters proceed in Genoa.
The attacks occurred as the G8 summit of July 2001 in the port city was winding down after days of peaceful mass demonstrations by 200,000 people from all over the world, and violently anarchic protests by a small group known as the Black Block.
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Italy G8 ’brutality’ trial opens
13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
See footage of the violent clashes between protestors and police
Forty-five Italian police and medical staff have gone on trial accused of brutality against protesters arrested during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
The case, which opened at a court in Genoa, was adjourned until November.
The defendants - which include senior officers from Genoa - deny the charges, including unlawful violence.
On Friday, in a related case, 28 officers are due appear in court over a raid at a school (...) -
Bird flu used as an excuse to scrap Posse Comitatus and impose martial law? Cui bono? Who benefits?
6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsTularemia (Rabbit fever) bacteria detected on Washington Mall during recent anti-war protest
October 5, 2005 — Bush, Bird Flu, and Martial Law. At a White House Rose Garden press conference yesterday, George W. Bush responded to a question about the danger of a bird flu pandemic by stating he wants the authority to use the military to enforce mandatory quarantine zones in areas infected by the virus. Bush wants Congress to overturn the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, originally enacted to (...)