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Habeas Corpus Thisus!
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The Constitution does not say that every citizen has the right to habeas corpus.?
Quote transcribed, live from the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee
And in the mean time, hearsay and testimony extracted through coercion, including torture, is allowed as evidence.
Myth Busted: Oprah Winfrey and the 9/11 Ticket Agent “Suicide?
Back in september I wrote this:
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Plagued by sleepless nights and visions of Atta, Tuohey felt another layer of guilt when he learned the ticket agent in Boston who checked in Atta and Alomari for the last leg of their flight committed suicide.
It turns out Touhey was lying! although it isn’t clear he knew that
No-fly list checked for accuracy, cut
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The Bush administration is checking the accuracy of a watch list of suspected terrorists banned from traveling on airliners in the U.S. and will probably cut the list in half, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday.
Yes, it’s great to see that even the threat of oversight by a Democratic Congress is enough to get these things done, but it’s nowhere near enough.
Imagine a list of suspected terrorists so dangerous that we can’t ever let them fly, yet so innocent that we can’t arrest them - even under the draconian provisions of the Patriot Act.
Fokke & Sukke
Schedule a meeting!
WIPO Stumbles on Broadcast Treaty
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The specialized UN Agency known as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is meeting this week to finalize an eight-year negotiation on a new treaty for the protection of broadcast organizations. The treaty comes at a time when our whole concept of what constitutes a broadcast or a broadcaster is undergoing profound changes.
Many now follow news events from youtube videos clips (including apparently President Bush, who told 60 minutes he watched the cell phone video of the Saddam Hussein hanging on the Internet). The proliferation of low cost video cameras and editing software, higher bandwidth cable, satellite and Internet connections, are creating a highly diverse and dynamic environment for creating, distributing, redistributing and remixing information. To this exciting world the UN’s specialized agency for intellectual property wants to impose a new legal regime. The problem is, no one here has a clue what the legal regime should look like.
And they should stay the fuck away from the issue.