Shootings in Greenwich Village

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Thursday March 15, 2007 · 1:40 AM PDT

2007/03/15 · 01:40

There's story in the NY Times about how "two unarmed auxiliary police officers were fatally shot last night during a chase with a gunman on a busy stretch of bars and restaurants in the heart of Greenwich Village." According to the police, the gunman shot a waiter at a pizerria fifteen times in the back, and that is what prompted the auxiliary police officers to follow the gunman.

So, apparently New York city is having volunteers patrol the streets, unarmed, looking out for some criminal activity. That the criminals that the volunteers run into might be armed is apparently something that never occurred to the people who set up this program.

I shall state the obvious: either the volunteer auxilary police officers should be armed, or the whole auxiliary police officer program should be scrapped.

Court-martial against US Army refusenik rigged

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Monday February 05, 2007 · 3:24 PM PST

2007/02/05 · 15:24

Today is the first day of the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, who has refused to redeploy to Iraq on the grounds that the invasion and occupation are illegal. "As his court-martial got under way, military judge Lt. Col. John Head refused to allow almost all defense witnesses to take the stand. Head previously ruled that Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, could not debate the legality of the Iraq war in court" (AP).

This ruling makes it impossible for Watada to get a fair trial. What else would you expect, in Bush's America.

Alexandre

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 12:18 PM PST

2007/01/26 · 12:18

Last week, there was controversy at dKos over whether AG Gonzales was justified in his claim that "There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution". There were many diaries, but perhaps the most prominent were mcjoan's call for Gonzales's impeachment "for his willfully obtuse interpretations of the Constitution" and neoperiapt's, which came to Gonzales's defense and purported to "debunk" mcjoan's post.

Well, now John Dean has chimed in. neoperiapt based his argument on a 1980 book on the Constitution and habeas corpus. Dean on the other hand bases his argument on a 2001 book on the same subject. It thus appears that the reason neoperiapt thought Gonzales was right is that neoperiapt was using outdated scholarship.

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