Law & Ethics - November 2006

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2006-11-15 22:41:17 · 3 answers · asked by marianna_s1180 1

How many people admit to crimes that they have not committed

2006-11-15 22:36:30 · 9 answers · asked by CHRIS C 1

I have spent much time reflecting on how to handle IRAQ. After considerable thought, we only have 2 realistic options: The western world becomes a Police State OR IRAQ does.

I believe we must look at the country as a whole. It can not be governed to Democracy while the masses are threatened continuously. Implimenting a Totalitarian government will secure the land and ensure the peoples well-being. Then after 3 decades we can move them to democacry

Is the US justified in this action? No, we should’ve never entered this mess without a real plan. UN maybe?

The honest truth is - at least two generations must pass in the country before we can expect any real success. IRAQ is too far gone to impliment a government without an infrastructure to support it. And that takes decades - which is doomed to the US attention span of gotta have results now.

People are affraid of their country turning into a police state… the solution is to turn them into one OR us. Your thoughts?

2006-11-15 22:35:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just come across this article which offers a reason for Saddam NOT to be hung....http://www.slate.com/id/2152999/nav/tap1/

Do victims not have ANY human rights at all in the 21st Century?

I wish someone could tell me exactly WHAT right any victim has?

2006-11-15 22:18:44 · 4 answers · asked by Hello 3

I'd make it illegal to have to get out of bed when it's cold and dark out. Brrrrrrr!

2006-11-15 22:11:04 · 26 answers · asked by nev 4

Habeas Corpus has been suspended for American citizens...If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an "unlawful enemy combatant"(this is defined as anyone the US President considers unlawful), how will you get your trial without rights?...they no longer have to tell you why they are holding you. If you agressively yell at protest you will be arrested! Police allowed to torture you to organ failure!
So, what is the difference b/w the USA of today & Nazi Germany?

2006-11-15 22:07:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

why should we give a place among us to those who dont see themselves and act as though they are one faith among many?

2006-11-15 21:55:30 · 24 answers · asked by catweazle 5

2006-11-15 21:52:19 · 5 answers · asked by Nolimit-e 4

Can Code Enforcment abuse their power? And what can I do? Who do I get in touch with?

2006-11-15 21:40:14 · 1 answers · asked by Lori P 1

An employee gets a verbal and written warning for sleeping on the job and 3 months later is still sleeping on the job, we're talking anywhere from 10 min. to 1 hour at a time. Employee get fired, stating she had three months to get it straightened (employee said it had to do with medicine which makes her fall a sleep and now she is applying for unemployment . I FEEL THIS IS MISCONDUCT AND SHE SHOULD NOT BE ENTITLED TO UNMEPLOYMENT

2006-11-15 21:24:10 · 4 answers · asked by snoopy 2

An employee gets a verbal and written warning for sleeping on the job and 3 months later is still sleeping on the job, we're talking anywhere from 10 min. to 1 hour at a time. Employee get fired, stating she had three months to get it straightened (employee said it had to do with medicine which makes her fall a sleep and now she is applying for unemployment . I FEEL THIS IS MISCONDUCT AND SHE SHOULD NOT BE ENTITLED TO UNMEPLOYMENT

2006-11-15 21:21:56 · 5 answers · asked by snoopy 2

U.N. environmental consultant Rene Dubois might be horrified to see the phrase he coined in 1972 applied to the world's largest retailer, the source of all evil for many so-called progressives these days.
And yet ...
Dubois was suggesting that ecological awareness should begin at home, asking us to think about how our individual actions reverberate through the environment and culture even on a global scale. In the area of economics, there is nowhere this insight might better be applied than to the relationship between Wal-Mart shoppers and millions of Chinese peasants looking for a way out of grinding poverty.
Consider some numbers:
•From 1990 to 2002 more than 174 million people escaped poverty in China, about 1.2 million per month, according to the Asian Development Bank.
•Wal-Mart had an estimated $23 billion in Chinese exports in 2005; perhaps 70 percent of Wal-Mart's products are made by various manufacturers in China; in addition, Wal-Mart has 60 retail stores in China and directly employs about 30,000 Chinese.
•Extrapolating from these numbers, Wal-Mart might well be single-handedly responsible for bringing out of poverty about 460,000 Chinese per year, according to Industry Week magazine.
So, even without considering the $263 billion in consumer savings that Wal-Mart provides for low-income Americans, or the millions lifted out of poverty by Wal-Mart in other developing nations, it is unlikely that there is any single organization on the planet that alleviates poverty so effectively for so many people as Wal-Mart does in China. Moreover, insofar as China's rapid manufacturing growth has been associated with a decline in its status as a global arms dealer, Wal-Mart has also done more than its share in contributing to global peace.
How can this be, given the vast and growing literature documenting Wal-Mart's faults? We have seen workers in the factories of Wal-Mart's suppliers complain on tape about being forced to work long hours under terrible conditions. Certainly no one should be forced at any workplace. And yet even articles documenting Wal-Mart's faults often mention other facts that ought to be considered before coming to too quick a judgment concerning the overall impact of the corporation. In a Washington Post story titled "Chinese Workers Pay for Wal-Mart's Low Prices," documenting abuses of workers at Wal-Mart suppliers in China, the authors point out that:
"China is the most populous country, with 1.3 billion people, most still poor enough to willingly move hundreds of miles from home for jobs that would be shunned by anyone with better prospects."
If we care about alleviating global poverty we need to take this fact seriously. Without Wal-Mart, about half a million of these people each year would be stuck in rural poverty that is, for most of them, far worse than sweatshop labor.
D. Gale Johnson, an economist who studied regional inequality within China, described the enormous disparity between urban and rural workers as "the great injustice." Urban workers earn about 2.5 times as much as rural workers. Even after counting the higher cost of living in urban areas, urban workers make about twice as much. Not surprisingly, massive numbers of people are moving to the city to work in factories. In 1990, 71 percent of China's labor force was in agriculture, whereas by 2000 that percentage had dropped to 63 percent: This great migration represents roughly 100 million people leaving rural areas to earn, on average, twice as much as they had on the farm.
Other than economic growth, there is no way to double the salaries of 100 million people (and growing). After the 2004 Asian tsunami, more than one-third of Americans gave an aggregate of more than $400 million in charitable aid, an extraordinary outburst of giving by any standard. And yet there are more than 630 million rural Chinese remaining, many of whom are living on less than a dollar per day. While each would welcome a charitable dollar if we could get it to them, that charitable dollar, representing one good day's worth of income, would not do them nearly as much good as would a job in the city paying twice as much day in, day out. Charity cannot take place on an adequate scale to solve global poverty.
Despite Jeff Sachs' enthusiasm for foreign aid, Bill Easterly, in his book "White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good," makes a compelling case that government-to-government aid damages economies as often as it helps them. Does anyone think the World Bank raises more people out of poverty than does Wal-Mart?
What about social entrepreneurship? Ashoka, the highly regarded social entrepreneurship organization certified as among the "Best in America" charities, highlights among its hundreds of projects a worker's cooperative in Brazil that is growing rapidly:
Each member contracts individually with Coopa-Roca, but the collective meets weekly. Membership in the cooperative grew from eight members in 1982 to 16 in 2000, and has surged to 70 steady members today.
Is it heroic to raise one person up out of poverty each month, but merely a statistic to raise up a million?
There is a thatched-ceiling to poverty alleviation through micro-finance. It may well be the case that the vast majority of Grameen Bank micro-entrepreneurs experience considerably greater pride and happiness in their work than do the factory workers hired by Wal-Mart suppliers. But most of these micro-entrepreneurs, who borrow less than $100 each and then repay the loan, do not experience as large an increase in standard of living as do those rural Chinese who move to urban areas and thereby earn an extra $1 or so per day, $365 or so dollars per year. Poor, rural micro-entrepreneurs selling eggs to other poor rural peasants simply do not have access to the vast pipeline of wealth from the developed world.
Most of the sweatshop workers in Japan in the 1950s and '60s, as well as the most of the sweatshop workers in Taiwan and South Korea in the 1970s and '80s, are now middle-class retirees in developed nations. Likewise most of the "underpaid" Chinese workers of today will retire in a state of comfort and luxury unimaginable to them in their rural youth, as average Chinese wages will gradually rise just as they have risen in every other nation that has experienced long-term economic growth. At present rates of economic growth, China will reach a U.S. standard of living in 2031.
Paul Krugman, one of the most aggressively left-liberal economists writing today, understands how economic growth helps the poor. Writing for Slate in 1997, he said:
"These improvements ... [are]the indirect and unintended result of the actions of soulless multinationals and rapacious local entrepreneurs, whose only concern was to take advantage of the profit opportunities offered by cheap labor. It is not an edifying spectacle; but no matter how base the motives of those involved, the result has been to move hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty to something still awful but nonetheless significantly better."
The Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas once said, "Once you start thinking about economic growth, it is hard to think about anything else." Non-economists, especially those associated with the environmental movement, regard this as evidence that economics is a form of brain damage, a cancer on our Earth. But rural Chinese peasants surviving on less than a dollar per day do not regard economic growth, or Wal-Mart factory jobs, as a cancer. When a Mongolian student at a U.S. workshop on globalization heard U.S. college students denounce sweatshops, he shouted: "Please give us your sweatshops!"
An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its suppliers' factories.
And yet it is also important to remember that Wal-Mart's "vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market," as Charles Fishman, author of "The Wal-Mart You Don't Know," described it, is a vast pipeline of prosperity for the hundreds of millions of rural Chinese whose lives are more difficult than we can imagine.
Act locally, think globally: Shop Wal-Mart.
1.How does the attitude of Chinese workers differ from the attitude of American workers toward Wal-Mart?
2.How has Wal-Mart lifted many Chinese out of poverty?
3.Why is Wal-Mart viewed as a cancer by the American Left but not by Chinese?
4.How would one imagine that Wal-Mart may help the Chinese military and result in creating a superpower out of this large developing country? Please give your opinion and why?

2006-11-15 20:53:08 · 6 answers · asked by Benedict A 2

if you set up an arrainment in california for a speeding ticket vc22350 and you have the traffic and engeneering survey showing that no survey has been conducted ever and the use of radar was used to determine your speed can you motion to dismiss based on a speed trap persuant to vc 40801/40802/40803??? California penal code 1385(a) ????thank's

2006-11-15 20:43:09 · 1 answers · asked by 06tiburon 1

the system stick together and you have to be a rich just to get some one to look over the case is there people people out there who care who can be of assistance

2006-11-15 20:38:08 · 1 answers · asked by spoiled b 1

Second week i have read about two fathers, one in wales killing his children and the other in manchester, killing a entire family. What on earth is the world coming too? Surely these murderers should be given a death sentence.

2006-11-15 20:36:50 · 21 answers · asked by lonely as a cloud 6

To make a very long story short, I punched one guy (18) once in the face (no real harm done), and I pushed another kid (17) off of me (but he's trying to say I choked him. I have witnesses.)

Both are pressing charges. They have been classified as a M1 Misdemeanor, both with a 6 months in jail and $1000 fine max penalty. I have went to pre-trial, the prosecutor made no offers.

To be honest it was an act of self defense. I have 5 eye witnesses backing me up, 2 of which are non-affiliated with me. Problem is, they basically have the same amount of witnesses lying for them on their side.

I am 18 years old, this will be my first offense. I am signed up to leave for the Marine Corps. I was supposed to leave Sept 18th but all of this happened, I'm wanting to get out of here as soon as possible.

I currently have a Public Defender but plan on hiring an attorney as soon as I obtain the funds. The jury trial isn't until January 25th. I have a bad feeling about it, hence why I'm askin

2006-11-15 19:46:28 · 13 answers · asked by Adam S 1

hi. basically if i have applied for mobile contract over internet, filled in questions and got quote. clicked on ok button "to take advantage of offer"as they put it, wait for the documentation for me to sign to come through and they never send it. i email thema nd they say that the price quoted was wrong, therefore no contract. is this true or not? is the contract legally binding. Have i provided consideration? as much help needed as u can give!!! cheers. (with case examples too if u have any) cheers. Martin

2006-11-15 19:45:56 · 8 answers · asked by @@@Marty@@@ 1

if a person A murder person B, should A be sentenced to death? tats means death = death is it?

2006-11-15 19:41:30 · 15 answers · asked by zorro_4040 2

My boyfriend stole a credit card to buy porn. Yeah. He's an idiot.

So he's getting charged with credit card theft and 8 counts of actual theft. I want to know if credit card theft is a Felony or a Misdemeanor and how much time he may serve. And What is Theft? A Felony or Misdemeanor, and how much time will he serve for just one count? We live in Utah.

Thanks alot.

2006-11-15 19:36:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you siad something about your Boss, nothing derogatory or defaming, an opinion and was forced to resign or be fired, wihtout ever having a write up, and having his Boss say in the Meeting that you were exceptional and one of the best emlpoyees, but his boss afriad to do anything abou it? This guy has a long history of not doing his job, but is from the area where I am not? Sound like workplace Harassment or unfair Labor Practice?

2006-11-15 19:29:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

This company has two contracts
Training contract and an employment contract.
Training contract states that if you leave during the training, I need to pay the company certain amount of money.
I finished the training, and even signed the training completion form, which the company never gave me the copy.
They made me sign the employment contract, which states that if I don't work for certain period of 'project' time, I'm responsible for certain amount of money to the company.
(Company works more like an agency, sending out consultants to projects coordinated by 3rd parties)
I really wanted to leave the company
but I was scared about the contract and stayed with them for 2+ month.
Nothing came up so I decided to leave, and they are coming after me saying I didn't work for the certain period of time.
I asked them if i was an employee but they said I'm still a trainee since I wasnt on the project.
I'm not sure what to do.
Please give me some suggestions.

2006-11-15 19:22:26 · 1 answers · asked by sand worm 1

If so do you think the D.A will pick up the case?
and?/or could it be droped to a mistameter?
please im in need of an answer quick! im worried! its my brother in law. thanks plese no nasty answers.........

2006-11-15 18:51:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Several states have passed laws making it a crime to protest within sight and sound of a funeral. This was due to several military funerals being picketed by a Kansas Church.

The problem is that since laws must be content neutral, this prevents demonstrations for and against the war. The laws make it a crime to display a sign within sight of a funeral, wake, burial, or memorial service.

I feel that these laws go to far. What do you think?

2006-11-15 18:48:30 · 22 answers · asked by bartmcqueary 3

i am from out of country and recently discovered that my spouse from canada deliberately withheld immigration mail from me in order to get me deported. She had withdrawn her sponsorship and never told me and stole mail notifying me of her actions along with leaving me homeless,vehicless, and problems with workpermit now. what can i do legally ?

2006-11-15 18:47:39 · 1 answers · asked by mfhkauai 1

I need to move from where I live now but I have no one to go to and if I leave here my car has to stay I have no one to call. I am not working right now so I also have no money! I am taking college classes, does that help w/ anything. My credit bad cause I owe bout $50,000 in medical bills. I know I sound like a dumbass but Im not!

2006-11-15 18:42:30 · 4 answers · asked by Baby Girl 1

2006-11-15 18:27:45 · 1 answers · asked by Mel 1

as used in legal termanolgy

2006-11-15 18:15:32 · 3 answers · asked by kelimiko 1

her mom is out of town with her brother at a doctor's appointment and I'm a little out of practice.

2006-11-15 18:13:16 · 6 answers · asked by vonnie r 1

i want to get a job with ILWU but i heard they hired 10000 people in a drawing years ago and now they are not going to hired anymore? how can i get a job with them? I heard you need a ILWU card to work and if someone has one you can buy it from them and work?

thanks

2006-11-15 17:50:04 · 2 answers · asked by jason e 1

2006-11-15 17:48:35 · 9 answers · asked by Mel 1