The Quest for Justice!
The AP reports that Spain’s top investigative magistrate, Judge Baltasar Garzon, opened an investigation of the Bush Administration over the alleged torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, saying that documents recently declassified by the Obama administration “reveal what had been just an intuition: an authorized and systematic plan of torture and mistreatment of person [...]
After a long sleep the Supreme Court awakens to reality!
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides:
“ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, [...]
Do we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in America?
After many years of Apartheid in South Africa the country went about airing its unsavory history without sending the offending people to prison or to execution, even where people were murdered by the prior regime. To date there has been no mass murdering of the offenders in South Africa. Perhaps we need to get out [...]
Flying High in Japan
I LOVE this story:
Towards the end of May, a drug dog at Narita Airport (Tokyo) failed to detect 142 grams (about 5 ounces) of pot in the side pocket of a passenger’s luggage. While this must be troubling for the Japanese officials, what is a bit more troubling is how they knew that the [...]
Don’t Mess With Texas
American Madness readers: meet William Johnson.
William, it is my pleasure to introduce you to American Madness.
I apologize up front for the awkward introduction, but this is the only way we could arrange for this meeting. William is currently incarcerated in Brazoria County, Texas on a burglary charge.
Turns out, he asked one of the local trailer [...]
Trust us
As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
Seek and ye shall find
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