This story is repulsive in the extreme. Its rank sort of injustice, bordering on slavery.
The employer seems to think that if If you can’t get labor at the cost (money or social here) and you can’t get conscripts or slaves (neither of which make good nurses) than you use force to make your nurses […]
That si the title of a fine essay by Mort Rosenblum on Common Dreams.
These two sentences say everything, more than I could in 10.
For anyone not clear whether something is torture, here is a simple test: Try it. Not under controlled circumstances, when you know that it will stop. Try it for real. […]
I saw this yesterday and to be honest I didn’t want to report on it. I just was so angry at the footage I wasn’t sure I could give the police a fair shake.
After seeing it on other blogs I decided to put in my two cents worth.
Raw Story has this appalling case […]
I’ll pass the Nation article along to you for your perusal but let me add a few comments.
I love C’D’s with a passion and I don’t use file sharing.
That being said but nothing any record company does is going to save the business model they use.
The days of media centralization are nearly over […]
From Times Online
The second paragraph states
A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.
This is an appallingly stupid idea that violates good international practice and leaves Americans at severe […]
This judgment, 15 Days in jail + deportation was laid down in Sudan for the heinous offense of naming a teddy bear after one of her students, who also happens to be named Mohamed .
I suppose it could have been worse. she could have gotten 40 lashes and 6 months.
I feel sorry […]
A women recently plead guilty to the heinous crime providing sex ed to her 12 and 16 year old sons.
Excuse me. What the hell is wrong with the Judge and Persecutor, I mean Prosecutor in this case If a parent wants to say nasty stuff to their kids for good or ill […]
No a five year old is not a threat.
To quote the above article
So what about a 5- or 6-year-old?
That’s OK, according to Gwinnett police policy.
“People who are handcuffed are still a threat no matter what age,” said Cpl. Illana Spellman, a Gwinnett County Police Department spokeswoman.
Frankly if I were a police chief and […]
It shouldn’t take a Chicago paper to report on an injustice in Iowa but here you go.
In Iowa apparently to borrow the title. Self-defense is, inexplicably, no defense
Thing like this are reasons mandatory minimums are a bad idea. The sentence needs to fit the circumstances of the crime.
In this case, if the story […]