Politics & Government - 29 March 2007

15 sailors captured do you think British will seek War to get them back???? I think we will see some type of military action by the british this year if they don't hand over the sailors.

2007-03-29 05:08:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Come on be honest.
Pugil Sticks? Rifle Range?

Everyone in the military please answer.

2007-03-29 05:08:18 · 22 answers · asked by banner_man08 1 in Military

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/27/national/a141200D13.DTL

First the mother blames the dog for what happened even though the child was her responsibility but she decided to get drugged up. Secondly, she was addicted to legal drugs and illegal ones too.

Not taking responsibility and being addicted to illegal and legal drugs and also being allowed to care for a child under that state, what is wrong with this picture?

2007-03-29 05:07:30 · 7 answers · asked by Enterrador 3 in Law & Ethics

'Slaps on wrist' for attacking Minutemen
Columbia University issues only written warnings for rioters

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Posted: March 29, 2007
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Protesters storm stage at Columbia University (WND photo)
After nearly six months, Columbia University has issued punishments, including "slaps on the wrist," to students who wildly rushed a campus stage and shut down a speech by Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist.

As WND reported, Gilchrist was attacked at the New York City school during an Oct. 4 speech on illegal immigration. Minuteman board member Marvin Stewart, an African-American who spoke prior to Gilchrist, was taunted with the "n-word" and was on stage when the protesters stopped the event. WND's Jerome Corsi was waiting backstage, scheduled to follow Gilchrist by reading excerpts from their co-authored book, "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders."

Video of the attack can be seen here

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Three students confirmed to the Columbia Daily Spectator campus newspaper Monday they were charged with simple violations of the university's Rules of Conduct.

The paper said the warnings – the lowest of four possible outcomes – will be notated on the students' transcripts and remain there until the end of 2008.

Students who receive a disciplinary warning suffer no financial or academic restraints, and the notation simply states "future violations will be treated more seriously."

Then Tuesday, the paper reported at least three other students were censured, a step up in severity from a disciplinary warning. A censured student who violates rules a second time is automatically suspended from the university.

Corsi said yesterday the students deserved much tougher punishments and called it "a sad day for higher education."

"The university is supposed to be a bastion of free speech. Instead, Columbia has decided to take a political position," he said. "The students who disrupted our Minuteman presentation should have been severely disciplined, possibly even expelled. Instead, by issuing minor punishments and rebukes, Columbia signals that protecting the free speech of the Minuteman Project was far less important than making sure the disruptive protestors had the opportunity to deliver their violent message of angry opposition."

One of the three students given a disciplinary warning, Monique Dols, told the paper she considered it "a light punishment."

"It's a slap on the wrist," she said. "It's a victory for free speech and anti-racism."

A second student handed a disciplinary warning, David Judd, president of the International Socialist Organization, was found, along with Dols, to have briefly interrupted a university function and aided others in doing so.


Minuteman board member Marvin Stewart speaks amid taunts at Columbia University (WND photo)

A third student, Andrew Tillet-Saks, also was found to have engaged "in conduct that places another in danger of bodily harm."

Minuteman national media director Tim Bueler said that after taking six months to hand down a decision, the disciplinary warnings were a "travesty of justice."

"They should have been expelled from the school," he told the Columbia paper.

Judd said he's glad the Minutemen are outraged.

"They get press from whining, but an impression of strength is more important in the long run for a vigilante group which thrives on intimidating immigrants, and this verdict, like the protest, helps subvert that," he said.

Tillet-Saks insisted the students who went on stage acted peacefully, and he contended the Minutemen were the dangerous ones.

"I don't think I endangered anybody. I'm upset at the administration for choosing to condemn my peaceful actions in protest while the Minutemen walk around toting rifles," he said. "It's illogical, hypocritical and also a hindrance to further progress. I'm not pleased with the university."

Tillet-Saks criticized the university's disciplinary process, saying the students had no rights and administrators didn't give them due process.

Outgoing Student Governing Board chairman Sakib Khan wrote in a statement the "whole discipline process is/was a show trial to avert a lawsuit by the Minutemen against the university."

"The thought of being suspended or expelled certainly crossed my mind," Tillet-Saks said. "I didn't think it was a likelihood. I understood that if that's what they thought was best for their PR they wouldn't have hesitated to do that."

The paper reported yesterday students given censures were Karina Garcia, chairwoman of the Latino outreach group Lucha; Lucha member Martin Lopez; and Cosette Olivo.

Garcia told the Daily Spectator the university had "brought shame on itself" with the disciplinary action.

"They bowed to right-wing pressure. It's noteworthy that Columbia reserved the harshest punishment for Latinos – two Mexican-Americans and one Dominican," she said.

'Workers of the world unite!'

Just before the Oct. 4 event, a group of protestors estimated by New York police to number around 200 assembled outside the meeting hall with placards and a loudspeaker to denounce Gilchrist and the Minutemen.

Slogans on the placards included, "Workers of the world unite! Same struggle, same fight!," and "Minutemen, Nazis, KKK! Racists, fascists, go away!"

About 20 protesters managed to momentarily take control of the stage during Gilchrist's speech, with loud shouts and fists thrust in anger. Security fought to restrain them and managed to rush Gilchrist backstage before he could be assaulted, according to Corsi

Corsi said the protestors were "angrier than I have seen before."

After taking over the stage, protesters unrolled a banner that read, in both Arabic and English, "No one is ever illegal."

According to the New York Sun, as security guards began escorting people from the auditorium, students jumped from the stage, pumping their fists, chanting victoriously, "Si se pudo, si se pudo," Spanish for "Yes we could!"

Protesters in the crowd harassed Stewart with shouts, and toward the end of his speech, some in the audience stood silently and turned their backs to him.

The Sun report said that when Stewart referred to the Declaration of Independence's self-evident truth that "All men are created equal," audience members called him a racist, a sellout and a black white supremacist.

One student's demand that Stewart speak in Spanish drew thundering applause and brought the protesters to their feet, the New York paper said. At that point, the protesters turned their backs to Stewart and drowned him out by chanting, "Wrap it up, wrap it up!"

Stewart appeared unfazed, however, and with a smile, said, "No wonder you don't know what you're talking about."

2007-03-29 05:07:13 · 17 answers · asked by NONAME 2 in Immigration

The terrorists our laughing at us, they are like dumb americans, Bush thinks the War will be won by winning Iraq but how??? Terrorism is a global thing it happens not just in Iraq but in other countries. Osama bin laden is somewhere in pakistan hiding and laughing at us. We need to bring our troops home we need to face the facts Terrorism is not a winnable. It's so wide spread that getting rid of it would take a global effort, I Mean how can you defeat terror the question is you can't anybody can be a terrorist. We have the right to be in Afganhistan but Iraq is a different story , Iraq never had terrorists until we got rid of Saddam, Now Terrorists occupy the majority of Iraq. Saddam hated terrorists and Iran, Now that Saddam is dead terrorists go where they please. Whats your thoughts on these matters??? Do you think we are wasting our time in Iraq???

2007-03-29 05:03:55 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

OK, I found the bill the Democrats are trying to push through Congress for the funding for the Iraq war:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:2:./temp/~c110kL3PCu::

Look at the stuff they threw in there!!

The minimum wage increase
The minimum wage increase in AMERICAN SAMOA!
$50 million for the "Capital power plant"
Increasing the capital gains rate for certain people
A payment to the widow of a congressman
$25 million to SPINACH GROWERS!
$80 million for public rental assistance

And the list goes on. I am not even mentioning the withdrawal date (because I can't find it!!!) But yet, when Bush vetoes all this garbage, what are we going to hear?

LOOK! BUSH DOESN'T WANT FUNDING FOR THE TROOPS!!!

But, the American people are sheep, and since the Liberal media says "Bush is bad", it must be so.

2007-03-29 05:03:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

kidnapping fifteen british citizens, after all Iran is a member of the U.N.

2007-03-29 05:02:32 · 19 answers · asked by joseph m 4 in Politics

Is it? Give a reason pro or con.

2007-03-29 05:01:36 · 13 answers · asked by captaincarney 3 in Law & Ethics

casue she new iraq had bad info

ha ha ha ha ha hh ah aha hah a haha hah

2007-03-29 04:59:56 · 1 answers · asked by DumbsField o 1 in Politics

I RECENTLY GOT MY SUPPORT MODIFIED AND THE FATHER CONTESTED THE AMOUNT SO THEY STOPPED MY SUPPORT COMPLETELY SINCE NOV 06, THE HEARING WAS 2/5/07, HE WITHDREW HIS APPEAL AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MY CASE WOULD GO BACK TO THE MODIFIED AMOUNT....NOW IT IS 3/29/07 AND I CAN NOT GET ANY RESPONSE FROM THE PEORI ILLINOIS OFFICE ON WHY IT IS TAKING SO LONG. THE SPRINGFIELD 800# CAN NOT HELP BECAUSE THEY TAKE DIRECTION FROM THE PEORIA OFFICE DIRECTLY, SO ALL THEY TELL ME THEY ARE WAITING ON THE PEORIA OFFICE TO ISSUE THE MODIFICATION PAPERS TO SETUP AGAIN. I CAN GO ONLINE BUT EVERYTHING IS STILL SHOWING A ZERO AMOUNT???? WHOELSE WOULD I BE ABLE TO CALL TO GET HELP?

2007-03-29 04:56:58 · 3 answers · asked by Sylvia Brown 2 in Law & Ethics

My local hospital has banned smoking even in its grounds now. A nurse was murdered in East Anglia due to the fact that she had to smoke outside the relative safety of her hospital grounds. Lung cancer through 'passive smoking' seems to be some kind of convenient medical excuse despite the fact we have to inhale carbon monoxide and diesel fumes from cars. Finally, the people voted as numbers one and two greatest Britons of all time were Winston Churchill and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Undoubtedly smokers! Adolf Hitler, however, was a rabid anti-smoker. When you think of the way anti-smokers act or speak towards smokers, don't you sometimes think that Hitler may have succeeded in a small way somewhere along the line. (Great! Hitler's just committed suicide! I'm gasping! We can have our final *** in the bunker now!)

2007-03-29 04:56:05 · 1 answers · asked by Uncle Sid 3 in Law & Ethics

How and when can a judge be disciplined...
and by whom?

2007-03-29 04:55:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-03-29 04:55:28 · 4 answers · asked by D B 6 in Law & Ethics

On February 13, 2005, at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Senator Clinton outlined her support for a strong United Nations:

My first observation is simple but it must govern all that we do: The United Nations is an indispensable organization to all of us - despite its flaws and inefficiencies. This means quite simply, that everyone here today, and governments everywhere, must decide that our global interests are best served by strengthening the UN, by reforming it, by cleaning up its obvious bureaucratic and managerial shortcomings, and by improving its responsiveness to crises, from humanitarian to political. [...] At its founding in San Francisco sixty years ago, fifty members signed the Charter. Today, the UN has 191 members, and, quite frankly, many of them sometimes act against the interests of a stronger UN, whether consciously or not, with alarming regularity.

2007-03-29 04:54:50 · 13 answers · asked by pip 7 in Politics

If not, why are we there?

2007-03-29 04:54:35 · 13 answers · asked by hichefheidi 6 in Politics

Best answer wins a 10 weekself catering camping holiday for 5 at the fabulous 1 star Abu Graib campsite in Bagdad (flights not included)

2007-03-29 04:52:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#sex

This link, which is BJS (the official Bureau of Justice Statistical site) says that sex offenders only have a 5.3% (EXTREMELY LOW) rate of recidivism. Now, that is factoring in all the sex offense statistics.

This is a cut and paste from that site - "Sex offenders were less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested for any offense"

This site gives a lot of facts that can be looked up and compared with actual statistics from the Bureau of Prisons.

-OR -

Do we go by sites like this:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/71876/recidivism_among_sex_offenders.html

which is a site that says sex offenders have an EXTREMELY high rate of recidivism.

This site is at best a glorified BLOG - someones opinion. They give a lot of "facts" without supporting them.

2007-03-29 04:50:21 · 4 answers · asked by Leroy Studying Law 1 in Law & Ethics

If they did they'd probably stay up there even longer.

2007-03-29 04:50:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I'm a conservative and am getting tired of your diatribes and many referenced quotes. Don't answer unless you have an original thought, please.

2007-03-29 04:47:01 · 3 answers · asked by Scott B 7 in Politics

Most of you might think that this is a reference to Bush.. but only in part...

By February 2007, Clinton made a point of refusing to admit that her October 2002 Iraq War Resolution vote was a mistake, or to apologize for it, as anti-war Democrats demanded. “If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Clinton told an audience in Dover, New Hampshire. [4]


I'd say those that support Bush for his convictions could find some appreciation for Hillary's

2007-03-29 04:46:50 · 9 answers · asked by pip 7 in Politics

I'm not looking for narrow-minded people to call republicans OR democrats names - it just shows how shallow and uneducated you are.
I DO have a question - and I'd really like to understand why things are the way they are.
Does anyone else wonder why Republicans don't stand up to the Democrats - or why they don't stand up for themselves in general? They continue to allow democrats to go on baseless, meaningless witch hunts - but when a democrat does something warranting an investigation, republicans seem all too happy to allow the press to sweep it under the rug & nothing is ever done about it. Why don't we ever prosecute democrats?
I'd NEVER consider voting democrat, but I'm slightly ashamed to call myself a republican because we seem to let people walk all over us and I don't agree with that. Why is it SO difficult to grow a spine?

2007-03-29 04:45:04 · 15 answers · asked by Roland'sMommy 6 in Politics

Am I wrong? If so how?

2007-03-29 04:43:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

No country in the Middle East has a liberal democracy (with the possible exception of Israel), with most of the population having very limited political rights and civil liberties, especially the women.

2007-03-29 04:42:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I have been working 5 years now in a small Gas station.. We have no Public Restroom... Everyday I tell this to our customers, they threaten to sue our store. I am wondering if Service stations are required to carry restrooms.. Is there a law about it?

2007-03-29 04:42:21 · 9 answers · asked by Redeemed 5 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-29 04:39:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

im thinking of going to court by my self... Im 19. I got pulled over and the cop said he didnt know how fast i was goin, but it was evident i was speeding. he gave me a basic speeding rule violation and it was 100 dollars...is this legal??? i mean i wasnt even sure i was speeding and he admitted he didnt know how fast i was goin... What o you think the outcome will be?

2007-03-29 04:36:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Who saw this clip of Karl Rove rapping to the beat at the dinner??? is this crazy or what. Typical Republicans they make themselves look bad.

2007-03-29 04:35:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

my husband was a over the road truck driver and died from a heart attach in another state. He didn't Pass in the truck but called 911 for help to be checked out.I believe from his phone records he was trying to get out from under the load but they told him to keep going with it. They have been known to do that in the past.

2007-03-29 04:34:18 · 6 answers · asked by lady b 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-03-29 04:33:51 · 3 answers · asked by Fran1 1 in Law & Ethics

We have a ton of lifetime politicians, should we put in term limits to circulate new thought through our government....

2007-03-29 04:33:11 · 2 answers · asked by kmg3798 1 in Politics