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Jul. 19th, 2007 11:54 am
Jul. 19th, 2007
When Dr Seuss Made Editorial Cartoons.
Jul. 19th, 2007 01:25 pm
(Still applicable today, except the targets of the piece are no longer the Germans.)
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Jul. 19th, 2007 03:25 pmBoris Johnson is running for Mayor of London
He said this year: "The real hero of Jaws is the mayor, a wonderful politician. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beach open. OK in that instance he was actually wrong, but in principle we need more politicians like the mayor, we are often the only obstacle against all the nonsense."
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Jul. 19th, 2007 03:45 pmMarine testifies that he personally saw other marines from his squad deliberately and with foreknowledge shooting unarmed civilian women and children in Haditha.
Added bonus: the marine who did the shooting allegedly bragged about the number of civilians he'd killed to the family of another Marine, who'd been killed earlier in the day by the Iraqi resistance.
Added bonus: the marine who did the shooting allegedly bragged about the number of civilians he'd killed to the family of another Marine, who'd been killed earlier in the day by the Iraqi resistance.
Bush wipes ass on Fifth Amendment, again.
Jul. 19th, 2007 05:23 pmBush orders property seized and assets frozen of anyone and everyone who the Secretary of the Treasury, or any of his appointed underlings, deems
If the Treasury department thinks you *might* have done something, or if you *might* have provided assistance to someone who might have done something, or if you are *accused* of acting on behalf of someone who *might* have done that, all your assets can be seized and frozen. All of them. Making it illegal for you to buy coffee with cash.
Check out the really weaselly part of (iii): If I had my bank account frozen based on the "gut feelings" of somebody in the US, I'd probably want to call a lawyer to take them to court and act on my behalf, right?
Read (iii). Any lawyer who takes my case gets their assets frozen. Any newspaper who reports on my case gets their assets frozen. Anyone who takes my poor homeless ass in and gives me a place to live when my rent bounces? Assets frozen.
Extra-weaselly: (iii) is an actionable item separate from (i) and (ii), and acting on behalf of someone whose assets are frozen *is itself* an actionable offense, regardless of the legitimacy of the freezing - meaning that even if I'm frozen for totally blatantly trivial reasons, the lawyer who helps me prove that in court is himself unambiguously in violation of the order.
Oh, and there's explicitly no need for review, no need for fact-checking, no need for warning or notification, and no process that needs to be followed to get designated a victim, here.
(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:Take a look at that closely.
(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or
(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and poltical reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;
(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or
(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.
If the Treasury department thinks you *might* have done something, or if you *might* have provided assistance to someone who might have done something, or if you are *accused* of acting on behalf of someone who *might* have done that, all your assets can be seized and frozen. All of them. Making it illegal for you to buy coffee with cash.
Check out the really weaselly part of (iii): If I had my bank account frozen based on the "gut feelings" of somebody in the US, I'd probably want to call a lawyer to take them to court and act on my behalf, right?
Read (iii). Any lawyer who takes my case gets their assets frozen. Any newspaper who reports on my case gets their assets frozen. Anyone who takes my poor homeless ass in and gives me a place to live when my rent bounces? Assets frozen.
Extra-weaselly: (iii) is an actionable item separate from (i) and (ii), and acting on behalf of someone whose assets are frozen *is itself* an actionable offense, regardless of the legitimacy of the freezing - meaning that even if I'm frozen for totally blatantly trivial reasons, the lawyer who helps me prove that in court is himself unambiguously in violation of the order.
Oh, and there's explicitly no need for review, no need for fact-checking, no need for warning or notification, and no process that needs to be followed to get designated a victim, here.
