Law & Ethics - June 2007

Answer that apply to USA and Australia would be nice. thanx for any in input

2007-06-22 16:29:30 · 4 answers · asked by petersmith 2

I am concerned that our borders are not properly secured. I am not anti-Hispanic or any other nationality that comes to the US legally. Why are folks hostile if this serious issue is challenged? I want to be clear...I don't blame the people (Mexicans, Canadians, Russians etc...) I question and find fault with the policy makers and the corporations that hire illegal aliens. I have a problem with folks who enter this country illegally. It is wrong and against the law.
I want someone to answer me by taking out the emotion and tell me what is racist or ignorant about my concern?? My loyalty is with my country, the US, first and always. I try to not mistreat anyone because they are different from me.

2007-06-22 15:54:34 · 14 answers · asked by Roxanne 2

Isaiah Washington who was recently let go of Grey's Anatomy, is now considering, a lawsuit. He claims, it should have been, T.R. Knight. That Knight, used the controversy, to beef up his part and for an increase, in pay. He goes on to say to the Houston Chronicle, that he apologized, did everything he could, to make it right and still, was fired. Now, he is considering, a lawsuit. What do you think, and for those of you who do not know, he called his costar directly or indirectly, a ******? Soon after, he was fired. Was ABC, justified?

2007-06-22 15:36:39 · 13 answers · asked by whatnext 3

This person has no family at all. I'm the only family he has and I want to have the power of being a family, like in case he needs medical attention or something.

2007-06-22 15:33:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am only 16, am a responsible shooter and member of 4h shooting sports, the ATA, and have completed my hunter safety course, so i do know of the dangers of firearms. i wanted to start carrying a concealed weapon for when i work and other times in MD. im planning on getting a pistol soon("getting" meaning my father purchasing it and letting me use it but its still my money), to shoot in IPSC also. so i was just wondering what the age is, because ive heard of some kids my age being able to.

2007-06-22 15:30:53 · 4 answers · asked by notthenameiwanted 3

2007-06-22 15:28:57 · 9 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4

Imagine if a state - any one state - were to completely legalize marijuana. As available as a pack of cigarettes in any corner store or super market. There would certainly be an influx of new arrivals and possibly an exedus of some present citizens.

Now - TRUTHFULLY - imagine what that state would be like in 5 or 10 years from now.

Now extrapolate that to the country as a whole.

2007-06-22 15:14:14 · 12 answers · asked by LeAnne 7

(I'm doing comics, have a name for them & need to know if the name's already being used.) then I wanna copywrite it & need to know what to do-can names be copywritten online? how much does it cost?

2007-06-22 14:55:43 · 3 answers · asked by strange-artist 7

What types of laws in the Criminal Justice System would hurt the accused? I want the name you call them? Remember, this is the American System.

2007-06-22 14:48:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone know if lolicon is illegal or legal in the united states ? to thoses that don't know what lolicon is: it's japanese animated P0rn that dipicts "young" looking characters (in a cartoon sense).

2007-06-22 14:02:29 · 2 answers · asked by John D 1

Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, and doctors to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful. This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect. There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.) That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry, the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.

The petroleum industry would be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough biofuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells.
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.

Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc

or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,

(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

2007-06-22 13:53:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does anyone know where I can find out if something is legal or illegal without having to physically talk to a lawyer?

2007-06-22 13:48:36 · 6 answers · asked by John D 1

The United States has more different methods of judicial killing than any other country in the history of the world. They've all got two things in common; they're painful and unreliable. Any anaesthetist and anybody who's ever had a general anaesthetic knows that it's easy to kill somebody painlessly. If it's really necessary to kill people to demonstrate that killing people is wrong, why not do it with laughing gas, halothane or entonox?

2007-06-22 13:41:53 · 12 answers · asked by zee_prime 6

Can a judge order the following 1. require an 8 year old female to talk to the non custodial parent on the computer with a web cam. 2. order a custodial parent to send the minor child across country on a plane to visit the parent without supervision of such parent and 3 order the custodial parent to teach the child sigh language to talk to her non custodial parent because he is deaf although he can read and write.

2007-06-22 13:37:10 · 2 answers · asked by gamafoo 4

My mother owns half of a house with my brother, I have another brother that has been living there for 37 years that only does so because my mother who is not terminally ill allows him to. Because of the problems he starts with my mother I believe he should be removed. Can this be done? I am looking particulary toward california laws.

2007-06-22 13:05:37 · 14 answers · asked by hvacrjohn 2

I am thinking about leaveing my boyfriend but I think he will freak out and follow me and make my life a living hell, so I want to get a restraing orde, but do I have to wait untill he does something or harrasses me to get one? or can I get one first? and where do I go to get one? do I go to the police station? I live in Ontario, canada

2007-06-22 12:43:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My curfew is at nine oclock. I am still a virgin to freedom. I have been home for 60 days. My PO doesn't check on me. Is it possible to break curfew and get away with it? What time should I leave the house.

2007-06-22 11:46:26 · 8 answers · asked by pato 1

2007-06-22 11:45:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am being evicted. I have no job. I live in Chicago, and I'm white. Any cheap rental or homeless shelters I go to I will be the only white guy there, which will be a very awkward situation, to say the least. I will walk or ride a bicycle anywhere in the country at this point. There is no reason for me to be here anymore. The question is where can I go with no job history, no rental history and bad credit, even if I do find a job? Who will let me rent from them? I have no criminal record, no drugs, or insane asylum history. I'll walk to f u cking Omaha or whatever. I don't care.

2007-06-22 11:41:36 · 5 answers · asked by martin h 6

who else gets made when polititians and pro-lifers (supporting the death penalty) try to tell women what they should not do with their bodies?

2007-06-22 11:25:17 · 8 answers · asked by ? 3

I served probation for a felony (obtain funds by false pretenses). I was convicted 10/04. I was just given a summons for class 1 misdemeanors (obstruction of justince, trying to get job with anothers ssn). Is it mandatory to serve the remaining time on the original chargbe? It was 5 years with 5 years suspended.

2007-06-22 11:24:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I went to a local police station to report a crime of identity fraud and the police just kept picking holes in what I was saying, being rude and obnoxious toward me. I wrote to the companies concerned but should the police not be doing more to help, instead of being rude? What do you think?

2007-06-22 11:20:31 · 8 answers · asked by psalmist 4

if i go in to a store and open up of chips but i will pay for it so is that stealing?

2007-06-22 11:16:54 · 12 answers · asked by hockey fan 3

My sister is worried that her late husband may have tricked her into signing a quitclaim deed with a lawyer. I do not think a lawyer would ask her to do this without an explaination.
She has a living trust and nothing came up in regard to a quitclaim while settling the estate and some lawsuits over the estate.

2007-06-22 11:04:55 · 5 answers · asked by charlotte q 2

Confidence in human beings in the light of prevailing argument was "sure people do not trust evil within people" in the light of this vicious circle, how to get the confidence of others

2007-06-22 11:03:24 · 4 answers · asked by a4tech2030 1

later on an special unit finds a gun in the trash can the cop says he saw the kid run by...when asked if he ever seen the kid actually possess the weapon he asnwers no he did not..the kids fingerprints are not on the gun either.....what do you say guilty or not guilty..remember that the D.A. most prove that he had that gun beyond a reasonable dought...note it was dark.....and the kid has a prior felon for possiesion of a weapon..

2007-06-22 10:58:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here's the brief story: My grandfather passed away two days ago. My aunt somehow was appointed to be executor of the estate. I believe she "paid herself" for taking care of him. The hurtful thing is that I found his death notice in the paper and no one contacted me. I believe also that she may not have claimed everything on income taxes and that she starved him to death. What is the correct legal route in this situation?

2007-06-22 10:54:25 · 5 answers · asked by Blondie 1

2007-06-22 10:51:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-22 10:31:42 · 6 answers · asked by martin h 6

My dad's car was hit by a postal carrier's van and caused $800 of damage to it. When we tried to make a claim against the post office, they wrote a letter saying that they did not find themselves legally obligated to pay us anything. They told us we could pursue this matter in federal district court, but that would require spending more money on lawyers as well as time, which would result in more than the settlement. This is we want to settle the matter in small claims court, but we are unsure as to whether one can sue a federal institution for damages in small claims court. Any advise would be helpful.

2007-06-22 10:25:45 · 4 answers · asked by bob s 2