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Back home in Canada, on the other hand, we smile widely when we hear about increased taxes, particularly those that punish the wicked. Indeed, our moralistic cravings are deleriously satisfied when the 'sin taxes' on gas, cigarettes and alcohol are jacked up. Somewhere, Canadians are doubling over in laughter, thinking "Ooooh, poor America, time to pay off the bills. Poor, poor, baby. How will they ever deal with this...
...even if Yusam had probable cause to arrest Rashad for illegal possession of alcohol, the board ruled that the arrest was likely made for other "reasons, i.e., to punish Mr. Rashad for commenting that the police could not come into the house without a search warrant...
Turk, who emphasized that he was speaking as a private citizen and not representative of any government, also condemned Serbia's human rights violations and criticized the Security Council for failing to punish Serbs for their war crimes...
...disappointment that we didn't play better," Church said. "We should take no prisoners. We failed to really punish them. Our coach talked to us for a half hour after the games and he didn't have a positive world...
...other hand, four successive U.S. Presidents have sought to punish Vietnam through an economic embargo and diplomatic isolation. It is impossible to determine whether the Vietnamese economy was damaged more by those policies or by the misguided efforts of Ho Chi Minh's heirs to impose a Soviet-style system on the unified country. But the combination proved devastating. By 1985, 10 years after "liberation," Vietnam was on its knees and heavily dependent on aid from its chief ally, the Soviet Union...