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Outspoken opponents and unswerving supporters of the death penalty continually claim that the main issue in the debate is a moral one: should the state execute somebody who has clearly committed a heinous crime? Participants are asked by both sides to forget all those embarrassing stories about inmates released from death row after the state almost sent them to an unearned early grave. We are supposed to assume that our criminal justice system operates, or can one day operate, with little or no error...
Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: When life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis...
With joy, according to Gitlin, comes originality. He applauds the 1999 globalization protests in Seattle when Teamsters and Greens, dressed as sea turtles, marched together. He eschews purely hateful protest, no matter how heinous the injustice...
It’s time now to be very clear and up front about two facts: First, false accusations of rape do happen—and happen all too often. Second, victims of false accusations of such a heinous crime are just that—victims. As such, their rights and interests must be vigorously protected...
...Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: when life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "Our initial assessment is that they will all die," and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." An Egyptian woman called al-Sahhaf "the only entertainment...