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...worth looking at what happened the night the government moved Padilla, because it's part of a larger change in American society since Sept. 11. Six weeks after the World Trade Center fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more...
This is not to suggest that environmentalists should be spineless. The threat of boycott prompted Home Depot to promise to phase out its selling of wood from old-growth forests. The good news is that once an industry leader turns green, the rest often follow, fearful that consumers will punish them if they don't. Today every major home-improvement retailer makes an effort to sell only products certified to have come from sustainably managed forests...
...prove even more reckless than their elders. "French drivers suffer from a veritable culture of irresponsibility and egotism that causes thousands of needless deaths and injuries each year," laments Jacques Robin, vice president of the League Against Road Violence. "It takes political courage and will to police and punish dangerous driving. It happens elsewhere, yet no French government has risked angering drivers by making enforcement of laws on roads and in courts a priority...
...very concerned that we have an overall system that properly balances the need to deter and punish those who perpetrate sexual assaults with proper due process,” Summers said...
...relatives in Slovakia, particularly with sister Eva Bezekova, who visited her in New York in 1967. But when Bezekova returned from her U.S. trip, all the relatives heard was her lambasting America and Warhol's lifestyle. "They build tall houses there, all the way to heaven ... God will punish them for it," she told Bycko in 1987. "Andy is strange. He is never quiet. He is always doing something, telephoning, carrying around a box out of which a human voice speaks. Satan's work...