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the slippery slope of treating kids as adults

November 30, 2007 – 3:53 pm

When you allow your courts to charge 12-year-olds as adults, it’s hard to deny an 8th grader the right to passive suicide:
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the [...]

By slim | Also posted in Healthcare, Privacy, Religion | Comments (0)

R.U. Sirius Kicks Off The QuestionAuthority Movement

November 28, 2007 – 8:26 pm

Author, podcaster and Mondo 2000 founder Ken Goffman - better known as R.U. Sirius - has a proposal for all of us:
A dark cloud is passing over America. We’ve witnessed, in recent years, the death of many of our constitutional rights and liberties. We’ve also seen increasingly authoritarian trends in daily life and culture.Those of [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Free speech, Gov Acctability | Comments (3)

YouTube stops account of anti-torture activist

November 28, 2007 – 8:00 am

The video-sharing website YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said.
Wael Abbas said close to 100 images he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Middle East conflicts, Torture, War on terror | Comments (0)