Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
When I was 8, 9 and 10 I was a bully. I hit and kicked other kids all the time. I never threatened a teacher though. But I could have.
This little boy threatened his teacher with a plastic knife or fork. And he had to go to jail. Would that happen in other “civilized” […]
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Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Chip
In recent months anti-Death Penalty activist have won two major victories. The first came when Troy Davis was granted a 90-day stay of execution. For those unfamiliar with the case, in 1989 Troy Davis was convicted of killing police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Although the murder weapon was never found and there was no physical […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Aryeh
Alex recently posted about the Scooter Libby case, where he said that republicans think that the lawmakers are above the law. He is, of course, totally correct, and I would like to elaborate.
I believe that, since lawmakers are supposed to make laws, so I believe that any lawmaker that breaks the law should […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
Recently, a debate has been raging about Bush granting clemency for Libby. Republican’s have been pushing for a full pardon, because they seem to believe that law makers are above the law. Even the judge in Libby’s case has been questioning the legality and even the constitutionality of Bush’s decision. However, Congress, […]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Dear President Bush,
Why do you think that Scooter Libby’s sentence needs to be commuted? Why is it you opinion that a man who outed a CIA agent, lied to the FBI, and got convicted for obstruction of justice should serve no jail time?
“I respect the jury’s verdict. But I have concluded that the prison […]
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Filed under: Corruption, Featured Stories, FrecklesCassie, George W. Bush, Opinion, Republicans, Scooter Libby, addiction, courts, crime
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
We high school and middle students in the United States lost a good chunk of our ability for free expression.
The case is described here, and is summarized like this:
A former high school student has lost his case in what is the US Supreme Court’s first major ruling on students’ free speech rights in almost […]
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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Well it seems that perhaps people in the White House are talking about the closing Guantánamo Bay Prison & Concentration Camp for enemy combatants and anyone else the administration wants to torture and keep away from US courts, the rights of prisoners of war, the rights of people arrested in the United States, or any […]
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Posted on June 17th, 2007 by Aryeh
A while ago, I wrote a post on the lethal injection, and spoke to someone through comments, and this is what was said in regard to the death penalty:
“Aryeh says: I also want to say that I am pro death penalty, but only after the Judicial System is fixed, and it isn’t so easy to […]
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Filed under: Aryeh, Constitution, Featured Stories, Opinion, Scooter Libby, courts, crime, death penalty
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