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PETA argues that animal research puts an implicit higher value on human life than animal life. We humans do not have a right to consider ourselves so superior that we can use other animals' live to save our own. We are discriminating on the basis of species. But we already do that. Cat food contains meat including tuna, poultry, and veal. We must have decided at some time that our cats' lives were more important than the animals we're feeding them. By keeping some animals as pets, we are automatically condemning others to suffering. In 1987, 5 million British...
Meanwhile, in Lynwood, a largely ethnic neighborhood of Los Angeles, another Union Summer group gathered at 8 o'clock on a recent morning across the street from the Superior Super Warehouse and readied for a "blitz." "You'll be scared," warned veteran organizer Lois Elbornetti. "But don't worry, just have fun." The students had to "roach" the nonunion store--they entered en masse, headed for the back, then spread like cockroaches. They quickly handed out leaflets with the phone number of the United Food & Commercial Workers to all employees. And got out fast. The plan went like clockwork, with...
Last week the California supreme court--a conservative panel with six Republicans and one Democrat--called time out. The case before them was that of Jose Romero, a San Diego drug abuser whom superior court judge William Mudd sentenced to six years for possession of 13 g of cocaine. Romero had 24 previous convictions, but they had all been for nonviolent crimes, such as burglary and drug possession. Prosecutors appealed the decision, saying the judge was required by law to sentence Romero to 25 years to life. Mudd refused, arguing that the three-strikes law "basically castrates a judge...
...march. There is the race argument: it is more often southern blacks than whites who end up being executed. There is the wealth argument: those who have the money to assemble a "dream team" a la O.J. Simpson have a vastly superior chance of avoiding execution. There is the fallibility argument: DNA tests have recently shown that many convicted criminals were actually not responsible for the crimes for which they were imprisoned. If they were executed, that would have been that. And there is the deterrence argument: the pro side argues that the death penalty deters others from committing crime...
...April 2, a lawyer representing HAARC asked a judge in the Middle-sex Superior Court for a preliminary injunction to continue the construction stoppage...