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POPSChina Using Olympics As ‘Pretext’ For Crackdown: Amnesty
“Authorities have used the Olympic Games as a pretext to continue and in some respects, intensify existing policies and practices that have led to serious and widespread violations of human rights,” the report added. It listed a series of recommendations urging China to: * release all prisoners of conscience; * stop police arbitrarily detaining activists and dissenters; * impose a moratorium on the death penalty; * allow complete media freedom; and * account for those killed or detained in Tibet. “It is very disturbing that Chinese authorities have indulged in such a big crackdown on the activists,” Mark Allison, China researcher for Amnesty, told AFP. “These are people who represent many many more people in China.” Officials were also extending the use of punitive administrative detention, notably of activists and petitioners as well as beggars and peddlers, Amnesty said. In January, Beijing police launched a campaign against “illegal activ
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POPSchristopher http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/#r
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POPS"Institutionally racist" MET is sued by leading Muslim police chief for racial discrimination!! Ghaffur is the latest senior ethnic minority officer to decide to sue the Met for discrimination. Dizaei, who is a commander in the Met, received a payout in his case, while the case of Shabir Hussain is still being heard. Personal, I believe the reason for the discrimination is due to his opposing the Labour government in its repressive Bush inspired 42 day detention period that is tearing the Labour party apart and will do for Brown. Another legacy of Bush's 9/11.
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POPSCzech resistance to Communism cast as heroes and as murderers The current Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, a liberal, decided in March to honor the three survivors as heroes, no doubt expecting some controversy in a nation still grappling with its Communist past. But the government was not prepared for a searing debate that encapsulated all the ambivalence associated with the country’s recent history. A minority of Czechs lauded the award as a fitting tribute to freedom fighters who had dared to stand up to a repressive government, but nearly half of the population viewed the men as criminals, according to a poll conducted for Czech Television.
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POPSBush/Cheney Pot calling the Kettle black! The Bush/Cheney Neocons would have loved patterning the USA after the repressive government of Uzbekistan but thanks to our constitution (a bit tattered from the last 8 years) for not allowing them this fantasy. With all their criminal efforts they have rendered America as the Pot and Uzbekistan the Kettle. The charred blackness which is on the Pot; doesn't see the black on himself and calls the kettle black! Excerpted From Article: But this is Uzbekistan, a repressive country where laws mean little, rights are relative and torture is endemic... After criticism from Wash., Uzbekistan ejected the U S from a military base that was supplying the war effort in Afghanistan. How much influence should the US try to exercise — if any at all — over another country’s behavior? And will that country be receptive, given the abuse, indefinite detentions and closed tribunals that have been part of the United States’ record in recent years?
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POPSShould You Travel to Repressive Countries? Using this summer's Olympics in China as a prime example, this article raises an interesting question: does traveling to a repressive country further embolden a government or increase an exchange of ideas that may one day lead to a freer society? What do you think?
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POPSSeven Signs of Non-Competitive States As written by Ralph Peters, a retired Lieutenant Colonel formerly with U.S. Army Intelligence. Some of the poorest nations and most repressive autocracies suffer all of these traits.
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POPSOscars Tainted with Conflict Diamonds by Zionist Mogul. "Oxfam stated publicly that Leviev had never been an Oxfam donor, nor would they accept donations from any individual who constructs settlements in occupied territory in contravention of international humanitarian law. Twenty days after Adalah-NY raised the issue, an article which claimed that Leviev donated to Oxfam was finally removed from the news site belonging to an organization of which Leviev is the president."
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POPSBlowback "If we should go to war with Iran over nuclear weapons, we will have Pakistan—and ourselves—to thank for that as well."
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POPS Santa Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Videos
Click on "Clipped From" link for videos at top of this Clip. People in violation of these laws face $92 tickets, despite our Vice Mayors confusion. According to reports, tickets can be dismissed from court because the city of Santa Cruz does not offer any legal sleeping option for people who do not have a legal place to sleep. Although the tickets may be dismissed in court, rangers and police regularly destroy or confiscate items belonging to homeless people, wake them up while sleeping, harass them and drag them through a revolving-door court system. You have to have the proper letter, walk to the shelter and hope the right person is there. It is not a solution with any dignity or compassion. These laws are demoralizing, unethical and unconstitutional in nature. I have never seen this type of dialog happen in Santa Cruz, I hope to see more of it in the future. Vice Mayor Ryan Coonerty came across as a representative of business, with no real compassion for the plight of people in pov
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POPSSanta Cruz Sleeping Ban Debate Broadcasted on Community TV. Voices of the Village Part 1 The night Time Sleeping Ban. A TV Debate with Vice Mayor Ryan Connerty Civil Rights Attorney Kate Wells, ACLU Local Rep. Don Zimmerman, and Public questions. Video in Parts due to length, 1hr. Click on source for video or download. This battle in Santa Cruz has raged on for decades, and now is raging across the nation. Crimes against the homeless nationally are on the rise. This basic debate over the right to sleep and other crimes of necessity that unconstitutionally make poverty illegal. Remember the country we fled from? Debtors Prison etc. While some cities are softening others are being more repressive with anti feeding bans. These laws are unconstitutional , immoral, and inhuman. Please call our City Council and tell the to end the Sleeping Ban. Santa Cruz City Council 809 Center St # 10 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us (831) 420-5020
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POPS Jack Bauer's Creator Speaks There are also plans for a 24 theatrical movie, which has already been written, but will only be made once the series is over. I think Jack Bauer has paid a horrible price for having to do the things he does.... It's always done with the dark side attached. But we happen to believe that torture works, in a very simple, simplistic, way. We believe that if your kid was kidnapped and was about to be killed and you had the person who could tell you where that kid was, that if you didn't torture that person to get information, that would be immoral and irresponsible." Nonetheless, Surnow sees Bauer as a "tragic character" who has been emotionally eviscerated over the course of his show as a result of what he has had to do. He's lost his wife, has been estranged from his daughter, and imperiled everybody close to him. This reality has made the show harder than ever to write, because "There's nothing for Jack to love or protect or care for anymore."
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POPSHouse hearings have harsh words for spying in China but none for doing same in USA There were harsh words for the US tech firms aimed at their China internet spying activity yet -- unbelievably not one word about the companies doing the same in the USA to our own people in Bush's domestic spy program. YES the cat is out of the bag - splitters were installed by the internet companies in the USA and the Bush spy program is looking at EVERYTHING -- no warrent, in violation of our constitutional right. This is a high crime against the United States of America. The guarantees in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights was passed to amend the Constitution and define what can and can not be done. These superceed any perceived powers granted to a president by the Constitution and in no way allow in peace or war to do away with these rights.
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