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Some pundits have countered that an act of civil disobedience by Time Inc.--declining to follow an "unjust" ruling while being prepared to suffer the legal consequence--wouldn't be the same as placing oneself above the law. In Pearlstine's view, "when the courts rule that a citizen's obligation to testify before a grand jury takes precedence over the press's First Amendment right, to me, going against that finding would put us above the law." Others have questioned whether Time Inc. was putting corporate priorities over journalistic ones. Continued refusal to cooperate with the judge would have...
...They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed." DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, defending the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in light of allegations of inmate abuse and unjust detention
...courtroom in Atlanta chanted, "Hang the Jew." After the Governor courageously commuted his sentence from death to life imprisonment, he was kidnaped from his jail cell and lynched. For more than 70 years, defenders of the frail, scholarly Leo Frank have fought to reverse the verdict against him as unjust and bigoted. Last week Frank was finally given a belated measure of justice when a Georgia board awarded him a posthumous pardon...
...UNJUST DESSERTS...
...historical level, we can also note some surprising parallels. In late February, students staged a sit-in in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) to protest Yale’s financial aid policies. The French had their Bastille; Yale had the OUA. A correlation between the storming of an unjust prison and a sit-in for fairer financial aid policies: coincidence? I think not. Yale rose up again in April, when graduate students set up a strike for teaching unions. This is like the March on Versailles for bread—a loud demand for better treatment...