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I agree that most of the criticisms coming from the right are purely political theater. On the other hand, political theater probably played a big role in deciding to try KSM. There are, however, legitimate concerns about trying KSM in our normal criminal justice system. I'm not particularly concerned with what kind of information the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by KDH2011 on November 18, 2009
There's discrimination, then there's discrimination
I have always maintained that I will ride with any partner who passed the same tests I did. I don’t know why a higher percentage of whites passed those tests - and neither does the city. Throwing out an unpopular test under political pressure when you don’t understand the results is wrong - and stupid. Maybe the whites had more time on the job and ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by SocialWriter on May 28, 2009
in china they prosecute judges for criminal offenses
BEIJING, March 12 -- China's top judge Wang Shengjun said on Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court will ''improve its education of work ethics'' for judges in a bid to weed out judicial corruption. Wang said judicial corruption has seriously damaged the credibility of the country's judicial system and led to ''very bad'' social ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by KayASieverding on March 15, 2009
Hypocrite Extraordinaire
In Texas Bush executed with pleasure a born- again Christian (like himself) named Karla Fay Tucker. Her problem was she confessed totally to her heinous crime instead of lying forever, like most of them. Her crime was committed while she was on coke/booze- something Bush did a lot of once, but still refuses to admit. Even the Pope and the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by redneckliberalpostbush on November 23, 2008
Juris prudence
Ms. Lithwick, Regarding your closing statement: ''He shouldn't waste her talents on state funerals and photo ops.'' I assume that sentence was meant for its rhetorical impact only. Surely you aren't suggesting that is what Mr. Cheney has been doing for the last 8 years! The hackneyed common joke is that he has been in ''an undisclosed location'' ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Lynns on September 13, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
of the corrupt, by the corrupt, & for the corrupt
What's this about a representative government? Perhaps 165 tears ago! Since then it's been a corruption by the corrupt, for the most corrupt, and of the richest corruption. Democrat, republican, and independent are sheepskin disguises for the corruptees. The shrub is No. 2 banana. No. 1 banana is busy complaining that he can't hear the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Json Abdon on July 16, 2008
Re: Attn:ONLY:Military, Law Enforcement, Corrections and Inmates
I want to respond to your post, and hope I can get a positive and ledgable message out, that will be heard and not taken wrong for any reason to benefit me or anyone person but to help by letting people know from my experience and knowledge what I have witnessed and experienced personally, without saying if its right or wrong. i do know how i feel ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by SOMETHING HAS GOT TO BE DONE on April 11, 2008
Wards and Morality
I want to comment on two different points, and this is mostly in response to all of the other follow-up posts to the main article: 1) Wards - a ''ward of the state'' is anyone taken into custody by the government. This includes recently arrested people who are taken into jail for something as petty as public intoxication, up to death row ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Cygnus_X-1 on April 11, 2008
Cruel and unusual?
The neglect this man suffered is unforgiveable, though I think it must be very rare. I worked at a medium security prison, and was incredulous at all the perks afforded the inmates. Health and dental care were better than I could afford. One man in my class had AIDS and revealed that to the rest of the class. The other inmates assumed he would ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Carlie01 on April 11, 2008

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