The increasing erosion of our constitutions, civil rights and democracies as they are being gradually subjugated by Authoritarian Security Surveillance States. The bloating no-fly lists and terrorist watch-lists. The continuing inhumane and barbaric renditions, "enhanced interrogations" and indefinite detentions - of children, teenagers and adults alike. The continuing standing of Military Commissions, which are nothing more than politically-driven, rigged, kangaroo courts. The seemingly... Read Full Story
I said it before and I'll say it (yet) again:(...) when will we acknowledge the fact, once and for all, that it is the incompetents among us who consistently promulgate violence as a solution for anything, to everything? For the sake of our continued existence, we must strive to forget nevermore that rationalizations supporting the use of violence - other than the need for the rightful exercise of self-defense when set upon by a genuinely clear, present and immediate danger - invariably... Read Full Story
That is the question - where LPC leader Stéphane Dion is concerned with regards to booting off Harper and his Harpies out of government, and consequently trigger a general election. Across the Canadian progressive blogosphere, the Liberals have been taking shots after shots - and deservedly so - for their demonstrated ineptitude as the official opposition party. The following pretty much sums it all up (emphasis added):Pray tell, what exactly the Liberals waiting for? What will show them... Read Full Story
Just a quick thought concerning the "New Yorker cover-gate" (see also here for more), especially with regards to the number of folks out there who still think that Barack Obama is muslim, got sworn in on the Quran, attended a madrassa and/or remain unsure whether these ludicrous, uniformed médisances are true or not. Here's my hypothesis as a potential explanation for this: considering the atrocious levels of public misinformation these days, coupled to rampant intellectual sloth among the... Read Full Story
It appears that the US Supreme Court way back in 1984 knew the injustice of our federal appeal retrial review process really only being available for affluent Americans to get benefit from. The masses of poor and mostly uneducated prison inmates who are being forced to write their own federal appeal legal cases, are being denied new trials by the federal courts in mass all across this country everyday. Some believe this injustice stems way back in our history to the Civil War era... Read Full Story
