Politics & Government - 2 October 2006

2006-10-02 23:58:53 · 5 answers · asked by AstRoNaUT 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-02 23:57:38 · 5 answers · asked by Azeez Hammed 1 in Law & Ethics

In the UK what is the difference? I know lawyers, practice law. But what, in layman's terms are the basic differences? When you would you need one but not the other? Do they deal with different aspects of law?

2006-10-02 23:48:10 · 24 answers · asked by mumof2 1 in Law & Ethics

This was a famous case regarding the British military occupation of portions of (what is today) Maine, during the War of 1812. The complete legal reference is United States v. Rice, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 246 (1819). However, I have been unable to find a link to this case on the internet. The FINDLAW website does not have this case.

Can anyone provide a link to this Supreme Court case from the year of 1819?

2006-10-02 23:44:48 · 2 answers · asked by IR-student 3 in Other - Politics & Government

The international airport servicing Johannesburg was known as 'Jan Smuts Airport' from its construction in 1952 until 1994. In 1994, it was renamed to 'Johannesburg International Airport' to remove any political connotations. In 2006, it was announced that it would be renamed again, to 'Oliver Tambo International Airport'. Doesn't is seem that the ANC has double standards when they decided to change the name to a anti-apartheid politician??

2006-10-02 23:43:45 · 11 answers · asked by paulrasjr 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Along with our real allies, the Irish and French. We would be able to stand up to anyone. Including the USA, who I doubt would take side against the home countries of most of their (white) population.
I doubt the African Americans would fight for the people who enslaved them in the first place if they had a choice.

2006-10-02 23:42:25 · 40 answers · asked by The Boxer 2 in Military

They face Hobson's Choice.Damned if they do,damned if they don't.If they stay,more deaths,and maimed soldiers.If they leave they lose face in the biggest way.What happens?

2006-10-02 23:38:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

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2006-10-02 23:37:36 · 22 answers · asked by samantha s 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-02 23:33:32 · 35 answers · asked by Grinner5000 4 in Law & Ethics

How many laws are there in total that the british public have to obey?And how often do the authorities trick the public by using certain laws the public are unaware of?????

2006-10-02 23:20:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

don't you wonder about this technology and the
implications it could hold?

2006-10-02 23:19:13 · 3 answers · asked by john john 5 in Other - Politics & Government

It almost seems like the good guys always go down but some how the badguys escape. Stalin died in his sleep , a natural death.People like Lincoln,Gandhi and King(MLK)stood, not a chance.I'm sure there are history pundits out there whos anciient history is better than mine, who can put a list of historical figures (bad and good) just to prove the point.

2006-10-02 23:18:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Nixon resigned in disgrace, and Bush has gone far beyond what Nixon did. Why should he continue as
President?
Should he be impeached and tried so limits on
Presidential power are made clear?
Don't the people deserve an accounting?

2006-10-02 23:17:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I feel so disgusted That he is a pedophile and it was common knowledge on the hill. Shades of priests. I am (was) a republican and Catholic.

2006-10-02 23:15:52 · 8 answers · asked by mary texas 4 in Law & Ethics

do they have their own laws?

2006-10-02 23:05:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

i think they should .a neighbor lady is parilizied from a women hiting the back of her car. while the women was puting on lip stick, damn i hate that happened to her,

2006-10-02 23:00:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Texas case is one of two being used to define how far punishments of immigrants can go
By PATTY REINERT
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Possession of a small amount of cocaine is a misdemeanor under federal law. But in Texas, the crime is a felony — serious enough that it helped send Reymundo Toledo-Flores to prison for two years before he was deported to Mexico.

On Tuesday, the first day of arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006-07 term, the justices will consider Toledo-Flores' criminal case, along with that of a fellow Mexican national deported after a similar drug conviction in South Dakota. The issue before the court is whether the federal or the state view of the immigrants' crimes should be used to decide their prison sentences and the terms of their deportation proceedings.

To decide, the justices will need to clarify a federal immigration law that once was aimed at ridding the country of foreigners convicted of crimes such as rape and murder but increasingly is being used by immigration authorities to deport those charged with relatively minor offenses, including drug possession and shoplifting.

"The idea was that when immigrants commit really serious crimes, we didn't want them in the country," said Magali Candler, a Houston lawyer who chairs the regional chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "But over the years, the immigration laws have been amended repeatedly and now they are written so broadly that an immigrant who commits a minor crime, even if they never served a day in jail, can be deported."

Court records show that Toledo-Flores has repeatedly entered the United States illegally. He was deported last spring after serving his two-year sentence for felony illegal re-entry — a prison term that was lengthened because of his previous conviction in Harris County for possessing less than a gram of cocaine.

His lawyers are challenging his enhanced sentence before the Supreme Court, saying that because the drug possession charge would not be a felony under federal law, it should not have been used to increase Toledo-Flores' sentence on the re-entry conviction. If he wins, Toledo-Flores would gain nothing, but his case could help other immigrants charged with similar crimes fight their sentences and deportations.


The Lopez case

2006-10-02 22:58:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Was watching Montel yesterday & this was the subject of the show....
Some of the people had 2 felonies, but was busted for something minor like shoplifting & got 25 yrs to life....

Should the 3 strikes law be for ALL crimes commited...even petty crimes...for someone who already has 2 strikes against them...or should there be allowances?
Should someone really go to jail on this law for 25 yrs to life for something like walking through a store & drinking a soda without paying for it first?

2006-10-02 22:54:59 · 6 answers · asked by mysticfairy74 5 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-02 22:52:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

claim the title honorable as part of the way they are addressed? (congressmen, enators, judges, etc.) Would the following suggestions make for good new regulations where public officals are concerned?
1. Out law lobbests giving gifts, cash, trips or perks to officals.
2. Salary should be determined by the voters not congress.
3. Eliminate pages and interns, as congressional staff expenses at an all time high should cover thiese tasks.
4. Eliminate retirement benefits for professional polititions.
5. Mandatory jail terms for abuse of office.
6. Any elected offical convicted ina bribary case shall be subject to a term of life in prison.
7. All "fact finding" missions ( congressional good time trips), must be approved by the full hose.
8. term limit of 4 terms in the house 3 in the senate
9. Officals limited to the insurance coverage of regular governement workers.
10. Abolish the congressional health clubs and restraunts that provide free useage by congressmen and senators.

2006-10-02 22:52:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

220 squadron were a costal command squadron my grandfather edward roe flew with durring wwII

2006-10-02 22:51:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

if not how is the curfew imposed?

2006-10-02 22:46:50 · 12 answers · asked by ginger 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-10-02 22:45:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I was sickened to hear of the polish girl Angelika who was murdered and today I read of 17 year old Carly Furness who was also stabbed as she walked to work.I am boiling with rage.period. why dont the people of Britain unite and demonstrate ferociously against our goverment and police to stamp out this and other violent crimes? how many more atrocities in our daily papers always with the same story lines? our MPs seem idle or lack of venom to tackle issues which the public want sorted out NOW. please dont tell me capital punishment does not work, I WANT IT BACK. people of Britain unite now and write, phone, whatever to your MP, lets try to stop another sickening attack. hang the bastards. sorry, but I am wild. how would you deal with these sick in the head low life scumbags? you can guess what I would do.

2006-10-02 22:44:54 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Both study the teaching of Buddha
Both preached the teaching of Buddhism

So why are US blacks not Buddhist? Instead, the US blacks are turning to Islam. A religion that despised them in Africa!

2006-10-02 22:43:24 · 7 answers · asked by Taco 3 in Government

2006-10-02 22:42:42 · 21 answers · asked by Dude 1 in Government

2006-10-02 22:40:52 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

My husband is up for a disciplinary at work for an accident which wasn't his fault, a company lorry reversed into his company vehicle.

However, because there were two men in the lorry they are sticking together with their story and saying that they didn't see him, but my husband is being done for being off route, which he was slightly but he was on his way back to the depot and decided to grab a sandwich on his way back, but is this really a cause for a disciplinary meeting because the lorry driver should have looked for other vehicles before reversing shouldn't he?

2006-10-02 22:37:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

i want people to be able to download content from their mobile devices free from my mobile site

2006-10-02 22:35:22 · 1 answers · asked by anon2008 2 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-02 22:34:16 · 2 answers · asked by Leonard M 1 in Other - Politics & Government