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...currently engaged in an undeclared civil war between those who value individual liberty and those who think it is too dangerous. The latter group espouses a craven dependency on a government that is more than willing to micromanage our lives. The fact that you celebrate two individuals who are anathema to American values shows that Time is better suited to George Orwell's Oceania than to the U.S. This country did not achieve greatness with a mind-set of "safety first" but rather "live free or die." Mike Glaser, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
...located. One key request that was refused was to allow workers to sleep on the premises. Once outside company property, miners were vulnerable to the paramilitaries, who are believed responsible for most of the 900 extra-judicial killings taking place every year in the country's continuing, decades-long civil war. And just as Drummond's local union chapter was involved in heated negotiations over wages and and compensation for workers killed in a mining accident, pamphlets appeared on Drummond property denouncing the union as a "guerrilla union" - regarded by the workers as a virtual death sentence to its leaders...
...pled guilty to one count of "engaging in transactions" with a terrorist organization for paying $1.7 million to a right-wing paramilitary organization seeking to wrest control of the Uraba banana-growing area from leftist guerrillas. Was it simply protection money or taking sides and in effect fueling the civil war a time when more than 4,000 Colombians, mostly civilians, were murdered by the paramilitaries? The U.S. Justice Department seems satisfied with the $25 million fine Chiquita must pay, and Chiquita denies it did anything more than make payments. But family members of some of those killed...
...When Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas during the Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans rounded up after Pearl Harbor, Congress quickly debated, and then blessed, the actions retroactively. As a result, Americans were "reassured that the President's unilateral action would stand only with the approval of their congressional representatives, as the founding fathers intended," Greenberger explained in Legal Affairs magazine...
Iraq's triumph in the Asia Cup signals a soccer program rising from the ashes, even as the country descends deeper into civil conflict. The resurgence of Iraqi soccer is one of the few untainted pieces of good news to emerge from post-invasion Iraq. A powerhouse in the '60s and '70s, the national team faded in the 1980s as Iraq's young men were killed and maimed by the hundreds of thousands in Saddam Hussein's war with Iran. Saddam's son Uday vented his sadism on soccer players and other athletes, forcing them to kick immovable stones...