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...goes, with the U.S. complicit in hurting the Cuban people for at best uncertain gains. By ending the embargo, the U.S. could alleviate a humanitarian situation that has become progressively worse in recent years, and we may even help achieve what everyone wants: the end of Castro's reign...
...that is exactly what they have done. By refusing to grant Jacobs' stay, our nation's highest court became complicit in a judicial homicide. Save for the dissent by Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer, the court prioritized procedure over good sense and let an innocent man be killed...
...publicly, subtly and insidiously instilled fear in thousands of Californians. It reinforces the position of the political right by capitalizing on anti-immigrant sentiment in California and the United States. Proposition 187 not only dehumanizes all undocumented people, but it also requires our (those of us who are documented) complicit participation in that dehumanization. We are forced to claim our legal status at the expense of those of us who are "illegal." Because legal status is the requisite for humanness, to be "illegal" is to be subhuman. Therefore, Proposition 187 is a sharp attack on human rights which targets specific...
...payoff was information that helped the U.S. land 20,000 troops in Haiti without casualties so far and speed the dismantling of the military regime and restoration of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Many other people, of course, feel that knowingly paying killers inevitably makes the U.S. morally complicit in their murders, and that is too high an ethical price to pay. Says New Jersey Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli: "Getting good information from bad people is one thing. Contracting with bad people committing reprehensible deeds that are contrary to our national policy is quite another...
...omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...