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Nov. 22nd, 2004 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingOhio Presidential election results to be challenged in state supreme court
Meanwhile, it is now the law that not only do women no longer have the right to get abortion information from their doctors or insurance companies, but also that any federal, state, or local law or regulation that PRESERVES access to abortion is no longer enforceable unless the organisation sacrifices *all* federal funding.
Oh, and the chairman of the US Committee For Western Hemisphere Affairs, which handles legislation regarding Guatemala (among other things) has married the daughter of the former Gautemalan dictator who is trying to get back into power again. Conflict of what?
Oh, and here's yet another case of institutionalised, officially approved torture by Americans - in this case torture OF Americans, in New Jersey.
"The case of Hemnauth Mohabir, a native of Guyana. In the spring of 2002, Mohabir returned to Guyana to visit his mother, who was ill. On his way back to New York that April, an immigration agent at Kennedy International Airport noticed Mohabir had a criminal record: Six years earlier, he'd been convicted of possessing about $5 worth of drugs. The judge fined him $250 for a misdemeanor and let him go.
Because of that past conviction, Mohabir was deported to Guyana and banned from ever coming back to the United States. But before returning to his native country, Mohabir was detained for almost two years at New Jersey's Passaic County Jail, where he alleges that guards taunted and beat detainees and terrorized them with dogs. One detainee was attacked by a dog earlier this year and sent to the hospital. Evidence obtained by NPR during the course of a five-month-long investigation suggests Mohabir's tale of abuse, corroborated by other detainees, is true."
Meanwhile, it is now the law that not only do women no longer have the right to get abortion information from their doctors or insurance companies, but also that any federal, state, or local law or regulation that PRESERVES access to abortion is no longer enforceable unless the organisation sacrifices *all* federal funding.
Oh, and the chairman of the US Committee For Western Hemisphere Affairs, which handles legislation regarding Guatemala (among other things) has married the daughter of the former Gautemalan dictator who is trying to get back into power again. Conflict of what?
Oh, and here's yet another case of institutionalised, officially approved torture by Americans - in this case torture OF Americans, in New Jersey.
"The case of Hemnauth Mohabir, a native of Guyana. In the spring of 2002, Mohabir returned to Guyana to visit his mother, who was ill. On his way back to New York that April, an immigration agent at Kennedy International Airport noticed Mohabir had a criminal record: Six years earlier, he'd been convicted of possessing about $5 worth of drugs. The judge fined him $250 for a misdemeanor and let him go.
Because of that past conviction, Mohabir was deported to Guyana and banned from ever coming back to the United States. But before returning to his native country, Mohabir was detained for almost two years at New Jersey's Passaic County Jail, where he alleges that guards taunted and beat detainees and terrorized them with dogs. One detainee was attacked by a dog earlier this year and sent to the hospital. Evidence obtained by NPR during the course of a five-month-long investigation suggests Mohabir's tale of abuse, corroborated by other detainees, is true."
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Date: 2004-11-22 03:17 pm (UTC)(No, I'm not at all pissed off about this. Not a bit.)
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Date: 2004-11-22 03:51 pm (UTC)And if Roe is overturned, I will be out on the streets demanding an amendment to the Constitution enshrining the right to privacy, because it should have been in there in the first place. Roe is the foundation upon which a gigantic number of our current privacy rights is built, including Lawrence v. Texas.