Politics & Government - 3 September 2006

2006-09-03 08:47:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Embassies & Consulates

2006-09-03 08:46:32 · 11 answers · asked by tammy 2 in Politics

What doe it mean if your retainer does not cover the trial in a felony charge? Are you covered for the preliminary or pretrial....basically when does your attorney no longer have to show up in court for you? What is the first day will they NOT have to be there?

2006-09-03 08:46:29 · 3 answers · asked by carebarri 2 in Law & Ethics

There are alot of question going around at present regarding migrants and illegals but i was raped by one in june this year in the UK outside my front door. He gets out in three months with a slapped wrist , a fine and no sign of him going back where he comes from. Should i be worried as he knoew where i live. i am only 26 it was outside my front door i have no way or moving as i am stuck in a morgage and my job was taken by an arabian when i went off sick because the papest broke my arm and smashed my face.

Do you think that fair??? I certainly dont as i have first hand experience
oh yes and he was an illegal as my mate is a cop and he told me

2006-09-03 08:45:56 · 13 answers · asked by Lost....Eve 2 in Immigration

The OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon) features a sort of air burst grenades which will be useful against enemies under cover,yet it is very heavy.Will it be necessary?

2006-09-03 08:44:18 · 6 answers · asked by super_6ix_4our 3 in Military

Both Republicans and Democrats practice it rampabtly,
Since it is practice by both parties I think that moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats should get together and force both parties to adopt more ethical rules regarding the assingment and divisionof districts,
Such as the assingment of a bi-partisan couincil or , keeping voting records away from politicians.
What do you think?

2006-09-03 08:43:46 · 4 answers · asked by Mr.happy 4 in Politics

If you are BROKE how can you obtain a good attorney with a GREAT track record?

2006-09-03 08:43:20 · 12 answers · asked by carebarri 2 in Law & Ethics

thanks every one who answered those questions abput jon bonet ramswey, i just wanted answers, and i got them, And i put my opion in thanks, But i do feel for the girl very much, it was soo haert wreching

2006-09-03 08:43:17 · 8 answers · asked by trudycaulfield 5 in Law & Ethics

2006-09-03 08:41:06 · 9 answers · asked by ibid 3 in Other - Politics & Government

greatest impact in democracy

2006-09-03 08:40:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

We want to know which channel he saw this on, or bring forth the actual footage in question here.

And yes we all acknowledge that Bush couldn't string a statement together to save his life. However, the statement made here is not a joke. Thousands of people died, and we demand answers and want to know, in this incident, which channel Pr. Bush was watching, and why in Heaven’s name wasn’t the President whisked away to some secret hideout somewhere, whilst his country was under attack, thus continue on with the school tour that morning.

This is a serious statement, and shouldn’t be ignored or brushed under the carpet as a mistake on Bush’s part.

Proof: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/text/20011204-17.html

Search for 'Tower'...

THE PRESIDENT: ‘I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on…’ ????

2006-09-03 08:38:25 · 8 answers · asked by BT 1 in Politics

Have a question from my criminal justice class and having a hard time thinking of answers. If you ran the world what legal acts would you criminalize? What already illegal acts would you legalize?

Here are some of the topics from classmates to give you an idea:

Criminalize:
-The sale of diet pills
-The purchasing of fireworks for personal use
- Alcohol all together
- Abortion

Legalize:
- The use of marijuana
- Euthanasia

Anyways, anyone have any suggestions of their own for both topics? What would be your reason for legalizing or criminalizing an act.

2006-09-03 08:36:29 · 14 answers · asked by Heythere1 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it any wonder the country and world are in peril,?

http://blog.nrwspd.de/archives/img/bushorchimp_blog.jpg

2006-09-03 08:34:13 · 19 answers · asked by Informed Liberal 1 in Politics

But if it was caught on survillance then how do we see the video quality so clearly in the news/documentaries?

2006-09-03 08:32:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I have a friend from Malaysia who is an overseas student in U.K and was holding a student Visa. He had finished his degree but he has forgot his Visa expiration date and when he found out he is already overstayed for 3 weeks. What is the consequences for this?

2006-09-03 08:32:04 · 12 answers · asked by abu_wong 1 in Immigration

I read the Yahoo! report on the Ku Klux Klan that just held a rally in Gettysburg. What a 30-men group of losers. But in the photo, there was this white dork standing next to a black man, both wearing the KKK symbols on their shirts (white cloack for the white guy, black shirt for the black guy).

WTF?

2006-09-03 08:30:58 · 31 answers · asked by Brackalicious 4 in Politics

In the last fifty years, we have grown accustomed to governments whose policies on specific issues may be good or bad, but which essentially institute incremental changes to the status quo. The major exceptions have been Thatcher and Reagan, but even their programs of dismantling systems of social welfare seem, in retrospect, mild compared to what is happening in the United States under George Bush – or more exactly, the ruling junta that tells Bush what to do and say.

It is unquestionably the most radical government in modern American history, one whose ideology and actions have become so pervasive, and are so unquestionably mirrored by the mass media here, that the population seems to have forgotten what “normal” is.

George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d’etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organizations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state.

It is the first administration to openly declare a policy of unilateral aggression, a “Pax Americana” where the presence of allies (whether England or Bulgaria) is agreeable but unimportant; where international treaties no longer apply to the United States; and where – for the first time in history – this country reserves the right to non-defensive, “pre-emptive” strikes against any nation on earth, for whatever reason it declares.

It is the first – since the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II – to enact special laws for a specific ethnic group. Non-citizen young Muslim men are now required to register and subject themselves to interrogation. Many hundreds have been arrested and held without trial or access to legal assistance-- a violation of another pillar of American democracy: habeas corpus. In Guantanamo Bay, where it is said that they are now preparing execution chambers, hundreds of foreign nationals – including a 13-year-old and a man who claims to be 100 – have been kept for almost two years in a limbo that clearly contravenes the Geneva Convention.

Similar to the Reagan era, it is an administration openly devoted to helping the rich and ignoring the poor, one that has turned the budget surplus into a massive deficit through its combination of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy (particularly those who earn more than a million dollars a year) and increases in defense spending. (And, although Republicans always campaign on “less government,” it has created the largest new government bureaucracy in history: the Department of Homeland Security.) The Financial Times of England, hardly a hotbed of leftists, has categorized this economic policy as “the lunatics taking over the asylum.”

But more than Reagan – whose policies tended to benefit the rich in general – most of Bush’s legislation specifically enriches those in his lifelong inner circle from the oil, mining, logging, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. At the middle level of the bureaucracy, where laws may be issued without Congressional approval, hundreds of regulations have been changed to lower standards of pollution or safety in the workplace.

Billions in government contracts have been awarded, without competition, to corporations formerly run by administration officials. In a country where the most significant social changes are enacted by court rulings, rather than by legislation, the Bush administration has been filling every level of the complex judicial system with ultra-right ideologues, especially those who have protected corporations from lawsuits by individuals or environmental groups, and those who are opposed to women's reproductive rights.

Most of all, America doesn’t feel like America any more. The climate of militarism and fear, similar to any totalitarian state, permeates everything. Bush is the first American president in memory to swagger around in a military uniform, though he himself – like all of his most militant advisers – evaded the Vietnam War. (Even Eisenhower, a general and a war hero, never wore his uniform while he was president).

In the airports of provincial cities, there are frequent announcements in that assuring, disembodied voice of science-fiction films: “The Department of Homeland Security advises that the Terror Alert is now . . . Code Orange.” Every few weeks there is an announcement that another terrorist attack is imminent, and citizens are urged to take ludicrous measures, like sealing their windows, against biological and chemical attacks, and to report the suspicious activities of their neighbors.

The Pentagon institutes the “Total Information Awareness” program to collect data on the ordinary activities of ordinary citizens (credit card charges, library book withdrawals, university course enrollments) and when this is perceived as going too far, they change the name to “Terrorist Information Awareness” and continue to do the same things. Millions are listed in airport security computers as potential terrorists, including antiwar demonstrators and pacifists. Critics are warned to “watch what they say” and lists of “traitors” are posted on the internet.

The war in Iraq has been the most extreme manifestation of this new America, and almost a casebook study in totalitarian techniques.

First, an Enemy is created by blatant lies that are endlessly repeated until the population believes it: in this case, that Iraq was linked to the attack on the World Trade Center, and that it possesses vast “weapons of mass destruction” that threaten the world.

Then, a War of Liberation, entirely portrayed by the mass media in terms of our Heroic Troops, with little or no imagery of casualties and devastation, and with morale-inspiring, scripted “news” scenes – such as the toppling of the Saddam statue and the heroic “rescue” of Private Lynch.

Finally, as has happened with Afghanistan, America has received very little news of the chaos that has followed the Great Victory.

It is very difficult to speak of what is happening in America without resorting to the hyperbolic cliches of anti-Americanism that have lost their meaning after so many decades, but that have now finally come true.

Perhaps one can only recite the facts, and I have mentioned only some of them here. This is, quite simply, the most frightening American administration in modern times, one that is appalling both to the left and to traditional conservatives. This junta is unabashed in its imperialist ambitions; it is enacting an Orwellian state of Perpetual War; it is dismantling, or attempting to dismantle, some of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy; it is acting without opposition within the government, and is operating so quickly on so many fronts that it has overwhelmed and exhausted any popular opposition.

Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country’s history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle.

2006-09-03 08:30:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-03 08:28:05 · 20 answers · asked by Nab 1 in Politics

2006-09-03 08:27:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Or are Liberals just keeping quiet for some reason?

2006-09-03 08:27:04 · 8 answers · asked by Rick 7 in Other - Politics & Government

I always thought the electoral college was created to keep the uneducated masses from electing incompotent and radical leaders.
Our founding fathers always warned us of an excess of democracy, has the electoral college fail to prevent this excess?

2006-09-03 08:26:40 · 6 answers · asked by Mr.happy 4 in Politics

There is a movie coming out about the assassination of a president and there is use in it of pictures and segments showing George W. Bush. This is fiction of course, but don't you think there will be a very negative reaction to that? And could it motivate some hot head or a terrorist to do the actual murder?

Personally, I do not like it at all! I have not seen the movie yet because it is coming out soon I think. I do not agree with Mr. Bush policies but certainly would't wish something like that happen to him. What is your opinion on this?

2006-09-03 08:23:28 · 13 answers · asked by montralia 5 in Other - Politics & Government

She is running for re-election now and I think if she loses she might run for President in 2008. She is the number 5 best Governor in the US, so says Liberal Time Mag.

2006-09-03 08:23:12 · 2 answers · asked by republican_ofGod_inKansas 1 in Politics

Have you actually looked at the real facts;

Millions and Millions of illegal immgrants pay taxes and the unacounted for ones using someone elses ss card are too paying taxes, what you idiots think each illegal alien is getting paid in cash only?

Look at this news report from CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/14/politics/main549153.shtml

Also, I have been to the Hospital many times and have yet to see an illegal alien, the majority of people there are Americans and I live in Southern California.

Everything that illegals consume is taxable, so according to you their not paying taxes, huh,

Studies have indicated time and time again, that illegals dont take not even a portion of what they pay in taxes back from the states. On the contrary anti illegal groups brainwash idiots like you to believe otherwise to promote their racist views, and you idiots fall for it time and again.

2006-09-03 08:22:30 · 21 answers · asked by jgmcs 1 in Immigration

where are you from what relion have u got if any and would you protest agaist them? do you think the whole situation after the so called terrorist attack has gone mad was th sep 11 a fake I think it was. I hope I don't affend anyone asking this.

2006-09-03 08:22:16 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

i was just wondering

2006-09-03 08:21:54 · 8 answers · asked by jdluver 1 in Military

Here's the meaning, whether you like those liberal --- that write dictionaries or not:

adjective 1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
2. cautiously moderate or purposefully low: a conservative estimate.
3. traditional in style or manner; avoiding novelty or showiness: conservative suit.
4. (often initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Conservative party.
5. (initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Conservative Jews or Conservative Judaism.
6. having the power or tendency to conserve; preservative.
7. Mathematics. (of a vector or vector function) having curl equal to zero; irrotational; lamellar.
–noun 8. a person who is conservative in principles, actions, habits, etc.
9. a supporter of conservative political policies.

2006-09-03 08:16:35 · 3 answers · asked by voltaire 3 in Politics

The U.S.A. is the only nation that ever used nuclear weapons in war, and then against an enemy of a different race, not just once but twice.

2006-09-03 08:16:16 · 23 answers · asked by KEVIN J 1 in Politics

Inequality is growing both locally and globally in every field of life. The average person is more and more opressed. When do you think the next revolution will come and what will it be?

2006-09-03 08:15:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

why people blame only us , I have neighboor from china , east india ,russian, ,vietnam,africa and etc all they go to welfare even they are legal immigrant, and most east india and russian brink all their parent who really old and sick to get medical here and most they are average hv more then 4 kids ....so pls dont blame only us......u think US place for poor country now??

2006-09-03 08:13:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration