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...individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government’s lack of transparency and its failure to adhere to reasonable standards of justice. The prisoners detained at Guantánamo are, according to the Bush administration, among the most dangerous of America’s enemies. Given the recent threats of terrorism against our country, suspected terrorists should be handled carefully and do not necessarily need to be afforded the same rights as American citizens. Nonetheless, there must be a balance between the protective measures taken by U.S. officials and the principles...
...media you still often see a negative portrayal of kids-kids on drugs, kids with guns, kids who suck at math. Our-kids-are-in-danger stories emit from a nexus of codependency between parents (whose default instinct is to be worried) and reporters (whose default instinct is to make others worry...
...Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen, goes even further: it says that once they can prove themselves competent, kids should have all the rights of adults. "Just about everything we do tells [teens] they're incompetent," Epstein writes. "We protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education or religion." Epstein's proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests" not only...
...distribution of emergency "morning-after" contraception pills at government-run hospitals. In a nation where three-fourths of the public say they oppose liberalizing the abortion law - which, like Nicaragua's, bars abortion in all circumstances, even in cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger - women's rights groups concede Bachelet's contraceptive tack was the most legally and politically feasible...
...disliked the government. It didn't stop me moving about the community." That was until he turned up for work and found the office of his NGO, the Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy, smeared with excrement. "Then I started to realize I was putting my family in danger with this kind of work...