MasterLiness.com | The Russian word troika, "threesome", was used during the Great Purge period in the Soviet Union to denote commissions of three persons as an additional instrument of extrajudicial punishment (внесудебная расправа, внесудебное преследование) introduced to supplement the legal system with a means for quick punishment of anti-Soviet elements.
TheLibertarianEnterprise | It is irrelevant—and often a matter of sheer conjecture and unsupported opinion—whether drugs in general, or any drug in particular, happen to be good or bad for the individual or for society. In an era in which most of the world—especially government and the media—was hoaxed into believing in global warming, it would be wise to be suspicious of science offered in support of government policies.
AntiPolygraph.org | On 27 October 2004, investigators from the Will County, Illinois Sheriff's Office coerced a false confession from Kevin Fox to the sexual molestation and murder of his four-year-old daughter following a polygraph "test" administered by polygrapher Richard Williams. As a result, Fox spent nearly eight months in prison on a capital murder charge before being exonerated by DNA evidence. The following civil complaint should serve as a cautionary tale to anyone considering whether or not to agree to a polygraph "test" in a criminal investigation. Quote:
CopBlock.org | In practice, the effects of this charge disturbingly fall on undeserving victims. Strangely, people can be charged with nothing else but resisting arrest – meaning that there only crime was resisting arrest. This makes little sense. In essence, there was no reason to arrest them, but since they resisted their wrongful arrest, they are now criminals.
C4SS.org | In the normal course of affairs, when we consume services offered on the market, we expect only to get the services we ask for, and to pay for just what we get. If we don’t want the service a business is providing, we don’t have to consume it or pay for it. And if someone else offers a superior version of the service on terms that we prefer, we can take our business elsewhere.
Mid-2004 interview with Marc Stevens, author of "Adventures in Legal Land", and host of "The No State Project" (a weekly radio show discussing news and issues related to the law, courts, and personal liberty, with a particular interest in considering free-market alternatives to government-provided services). Marc's perspective is that the very concept of government is based on numerous dishonest and misleading labels and presumptions that amount to a complex public relations scheme.
CAFR1.com | On 06/12/2010 Wikipedia through a rep with the user name "Sandstein" deleted the BIO of Walter Burien from Wikipedia. A BIO is a detailed and accurate depiction of who someone is, where they lived, worked, and what they have done throughout their life. Walters BIO that has been on Wikipedia for the last seven years was just that and proof edited by himself for accuracy and verifiable through many different sources. Why did Wikipedia delete this BIO at this time? Reading the BIO of this man will explain well enough and comprehension is on the rise.
TechDirt.com | Could you make the argument that by restricting the use of certain resources and restricting freedom of expression, those laws lead to unethical limitations? Put another way, if intellectual property is causing actual harm, then you could make the claim that there is a moral issue in discussing them -- in that the laws of intellectual property, by themselves, are immoral. That is, if taking away IP causes no direct harm, then there's no moral issue to discuss. But, if leaving them in place does cause harm, then that is a moral issue worth considering.
