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As the Instapundit notes, it's a double standard. They can track the GPS in my car but I can't track them. They can record me using a police video cam but I can't record them.
And so on.
We might just need a new constitutional amendment, one that reads (for example):
"Neither the Congress nor the several states shall enact any law that exempts government employees or the holders of public office from the consequence of enforcement of said law."
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[An Nahar] Police in China arrested a man 28 years after he was accused of hugging a woman against her will -- a serious charge at the time -- only to find he had married his "victim", state media said Friday.
Chen Zonghao was accused of "hooliganism" -- a charge that no longer exists under Chinese law -- in the 1980s, at a time when China toughened measures against "immoral" behavior, the official China Daily newspaper said.
He had allegedly hugged a female colleague against her consent in the southern island of Hainan and the woman's parents reported the incident to the police, prompting Chen to flee to his hometown in nearby Guangdong province.
Hainan police officers finally arrested Chen in Guangdong on October 3 -- three decades on -- after driving 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) in a strong typhoon, the report said.
But they found he had married the alleged victim. The couple now have two sons and a daughter and run a shop together.
An officer at Hainan's Wanning police station, who would not give her name, confirmed the case when contacted by Agence France Presse.
"He is on bail and it's not clear yet what we will do next, the police are still investigating and will decide," she said.
A spokesman for police in Hainan told the China Daily that they "still had a responsibility to arrest the criminal and close the case", even though the charge no longer exists.
"But we have to consider the special circumstances, since the victim has married her assailant and said she doesn't want her husband to go to prison," he was quoted as saying.
The hooliganism charge was deleted from China's criminal law in 1997. But in the 1980s, it could result in the death penalty as authorities cracked down on "immoral" acts such as gang fighting and vandalism, the report said.
At the time, China was only just starting to open up to the outside world and there were still very strict moral standards governing relationships between men and women.
A police officer told the Hainan-based South China Metropolitan Daily that they are trying to explain the special circumstances of the case to local prosecutors in the hope they will withdraw the lawsuit.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the constitutionality of a 2006 law making it a criminal offense to lie about being decorated for military service.
The Stolen Valor Act makes it unlawful to falsely represent, verbally or in writing, to have been awarded any decoration or medal authorized by Congress for the Armed Forces of the United States, any of the service medals or badges awarded to the members of such forces, the ribbon, button, or rosette of any such badge, decoration, or medal, or any colorable imitation of such item. The measure imposes penalties of up to a year in prison.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's official residence as well as the offices of the National Election Commission has been cordoned by police due to rising tension in the capital, Monrovia.
A statement by the police said the two premises will remain cordoned throughout the electoral process which will end with the declaration of the final poll results on October 28.
The two premises were cordoned off on Friday by a joint UN Mission in Liberia and the local police following plans by the leading opposition party and ''certain individuals'' who intend to demonstrate in Monrovia against the partial poll results.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... on Sunday, Ms Sirleaf's party vowed that she will contest a run-off presidential vote even if the opposition boycotts the polls, fanning fears of new violence in the war-torn country.
"If the opposition wants to boycott the process, that will not stop the process," Unity Party campaign director Musa Bility said after the opposition on Saturday rejected as "flawed" provisional results of the October 11 vote placing Sirleaf in the lead.
"For us there will be a second round" between Sirleaf, this year's Nobel Peace Prize co-winner, and former diplomat Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change, Mr Bility said. "It will be the CDC and the UP."
On Thursday, Mr Tubman complained that 800,000 fake ballots were ''fraudulently'' introduced into the polling stations on Tuesday and called for an immediate investigation.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Rajshahi court yesterday awarded life imprisonment to 24 members of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party ...the Proletarian Party of East Bengal, a Maoist party that has seen better days. It supported independence in 1971 and has periodic shootouts and fisticuffs which the Bangla Jamaat-e-Islami, but has fallen on hard times, with many of its leaders rubbed out by the RAB or indignant citizenry. It is also subject to factionalism, to the extent that it may have more factions than it has actual members... for killing a constable and looting arms at Taherpur in 2008.
The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each. In the event of a default on the fine, they will have to serve another six months in jail.
Twenty of those convicted were present in the dock when the judge of Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal delivered the judgment. The remaining four were tried in absentia.
Constable Mizanur Rahman of Taherpur outpost in Bagmara was killed when a group of PBCP operatives attacked a police patrol at Taherpur market and snatched five firearms on May 2, 2008.
"What'll we do today, guys?"
"I know -- let's ambush a police patrol! That's always fun, and they'll never catch us if we run really fast!"
Four other cops were also injured in the attack. The gang first stabbed the coppers and then opened fire on them. Police in return fired two shots.
Police pressed charges against 29 outlaws in connection with the attack. Of the charge-sheeted accused, five were exempted from the case following their death in "shootouts" with law enforcers.
Innocent by reason of failure to exist?
Of the 24, Bachchu Islam, Gopal Dev Sharma, Feroz Uddin Boltu, Nazrul Islam, Tota, Chandu alias Matin, Jonab Mia, Osman Ali Mondol, Yasin Ali Mondol, Babul Hossain, Borhan alias Shanto, Rafiqul Islam, Badsha, Abdul Matin, Shahjalal, Gulzar Hossain, Jalal Uddin, Masud Mondol, Saiful Islam and Abu Bakar are behind bars.
Elahi alias Mithu, Mamun alias Bullet and Shafique alias Pradip are on the run.
Ratan alias Titas, who was killed in a "crossfire" with Rab in Bagmara on September 9 last year, was shown runaway convict in the judgment as the court was not informed of his death, said Entajul Haque Babu, public prosecutor of the tribunal.
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So what's that make the score? Cops:26,567 Purbo Banglar Commies:1 ?
[Dawn] Nearly 300 people rallied in London's financial heart Saturday amid a heavy police presence as part of world protests against corporate greed and budget cutbacks.
Remember back in 2003, when a million people marched against the invasion of Iraq? The current effort is just embarrassing.
The demonstrators, some of them masked, were pushed back by police as they tried to march from Saint Paul's Cathedral to the London Stock Exchange, and minor scuffles broke out.
The marchers, bearing banners reading "Strike Back", "No Cuts" and "Goldman Sachs Is the Work of the Devil", were ringed by three police cordons while mounted officers also stood by.
Organisers in a group calling itself OccupyLSX were hoping for thousands of participants after some 15,000 people expressed support on Facebook and Twitter.
Clicking "Like" is easy.
Ben Walker, 33, a teacher from Norwich, eastern England, was carrying a rolled-up sleeping bag and said he planned to spend one or two nights in the area.
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States and Spain's "Indignants", people began taking to the streets across the world Saturday, targeting 951 cities in 82 countries.
It was the biggest show of strength yet by a movement born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central square of Puerta del Sol sparked a protest that spread internationally.
Dominated by anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite, the protests coincided with a Gay Paree meeting of G20 financial powers preoccupied by the eurozone debt crisis.
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Wow! 300. That's nearly as many as deliver sandwiches for the financial district.
The DA finds this laughable, as the court system routinely hears about 90,000 cases a year, or 1,730 a week.
I think the DA should take them seriously, and move their court cases to the bottom of the docket, meaning that the protesters can look forward to a minimum of six months in Rikers Island before their cases are even heard.
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The astounding number of "about 100" showed up for the Occupy Johnson City, Tennessee rally. That same day 1200 showed up in Rogersville, Tennessee to hear Herman Cain speak.
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And I'll bet the 100 got all the publicity from the MSM, Deacon. :-(
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BEIJING (AP) -- China's foreign ministry said Monday the Occupy Wall Street movement highlights issues that are worth considering, but that debates generated by the protests should promote global economic growth.
The movement began a month ago in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park with loosely organized protests against what demonstrators consider unbridled corporate greed. It has swelled to include demonstrations on Saturday elsewhere in the U.S. and in Europe involving hundreds of thousands of people. In China, online calls for similar protests did not appear to elicit any responses.
"We feel that there are issues here that are worth pondering," said Liu Weimin, a foreign ministry spokesman during a regular briefing in Beijing.
"We have also noticed that in the media there has been a lot of commentary, discussion and reflection. But we think that all of these reflections should be conducive to maintaining the sound and steady development of the world economy," Liu said, without elaborating.
The state-run Global Times newspaper said in an editorial that the Chinese should "calmly observe the protest movement and the global situation, and not be confused by extreme points of view." Now is the time to establish an extensive, detailed list of the occupiers and their supporters by America's right wing blog community as the FBI under Socialists Holder and Obama will certainly not do this.
[Dawn] Italian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday in Rome as protesters turned a demonstration against corporate greed into a riot, smashing shop and bank windows, torching cars and hurling bottles.
The protest in the Italian capital, which left dozens injured, was part of the 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations against capitalism and austerity measures that went global on Saturday.
Tens of thousands dubbed 'the indignant' marched in major cities across Europe, as protests that began in New York linked up with long-running demonstrations against government cost-cutting and failed financial policies in Europe.
Heavy smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group broke away from the main demonstration and wreaked havoc in streets close to the Colosseum.
Clad in black with their faces covered, protesters threw rocks, bottles and incendiary devices at banks and Rome police in riot gear. Some protesters had clubs, others had hammers. They destroyed bank ATMs, set trash bins on fire and assaulted at least two news crews from Sky Italia.TV footage showed police in riot gear charging the protesters and firing water cannons at them. Several police forces and protesters were maimed, including one man trying to stop the protesters from throwing bottles. Television footage showed a young woman with blood covering her face, while the ANSA news agency said one man had lost two fingers when a firecracker went kaboom!.
In the city's St. John in Lateran square, police vans came under attack, with protesters hurling rocks and cobblestones and smashing the vehicles.
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A great blow was struck against Civilization when spanking was made illegal.
We could use some reforms to a system that seems to have some excesses. It's hard to argue that 14Million unemployed in our country isn't a real problem.
But being a stinky hippie living in a public park and chanting socialist slogans on the evening news isn't what I had in mind.
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As far as I know, the Occupy Madison protests have not turned into this. In fact, protests in general seem to be far lighter on the carbecues and vandalism here in the States.
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...maybe because 1:13 happens in the States. While the merchants in the New York area may be S*** up the Creek as they're disarmed, all the other 'Occupies' might find life interesting in their cities.
Spains center-right opposition Peoples Party (PP) is on track to win a convincing absolute majority in the Nov. 20 general election, two newspaper polls showed on Sunday.
If the election were held tomorrow, the PP would get 45.5 percent of the vote, 15.8 percentage points ahead of the ruling Socialists, the PSOE, a poll published by the center-left El Pais showed. A poll published by the right-leaning paper El Mundo put the PPs lead at 17.2 percentage points, the partys biggest lead since January.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been in power since 2004, but his popularity has plummeted as a result of a recession which has seen unemployment rise to the highest level of any industrialized nation.
The Spanish socialists have been beneficiaries of some 'fortunate' terrible events just before the polls in the last couple of elections. Not that we're cynics at the Burg, but I'd ask the police to be extra-careful these next few weeks...
According to both polls, the PP, led by Mariano Rajoy, would secure 185 to 196 seats in the 350-seat parliament, handing the party a strong mandate to govern.
Rajoy is better able to tackle the economy and markets and inspires more confidence than Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the veteran PSOE politician running for the Socialist ticket, according to those polled by Metroscopia on behalf of El Pais.
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Zapatero is a far left pinhead - good riddance. He was a huge green energy / green jobs proponent which failed miserably and put Spain even deeper in debt.
[Dawn] Three young sisters, two of them handicapped, were on Saturday killed in their Orangi Town residence and their bodies were found in a pond set up for their father's cattle, police said.
While Sherlocks have yet to find a link that could lead them to those involved in the triple murder case, they were sure that the three girls, aged between 16 years and eight years, were either poisoned to death or strangled before their bodies were thrown into the pond to make the killings look like a drowning.
The Mominabad police said that the victim girls -- 16-year-old Uzma, 11-year-old Sumera and eight-year-old Nisha -- were living with their father Sher Muhammad, a dairy farmer, in Mairajun Nabi Colony in Orangi Town's Sector 10.
The victims' father had set up a small dairy farm in his house.
They said the area people informed the police about the incident in the morning and by the time the police reached there the three bodies had been fished out from the pool. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... an initial examination of the crime-scene cast doubts over the drowning story, as the pond was merely two feet deep and it was not possible even for the youngest sibling to get drowned in such a shallow pool.
The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination.
The initial findings of the medico-legal examination suggested that the girls died from suffocation and not by drowning.
Doctors also did not find any resistance mark on any of the body.
Victims Uzma and Sumera were physically handicapped while their sister Nisha was said to be suffering from some mental ailment.
Mominabad SHO Inspector Nisar Lodhi told Dawn that Sher Muhammad told the police that he was sleeping along with his two sons and a daughter in a room, while his three elder daughters were sleeping in the veranda.
When he got up in the morning, he found the bodies of his three daughters in the pond.
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Dad (Sher Khan Muhammad) and the boys better work on their alibi. The remaining daughter better watch her back.
...It just got easier to lay off full-time faculty members in Washington State, thanks to a declaration of financial emergency last month by the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. But some faculty leaders say the boards move is more about a power grab than saving money.
Either way, faculty members are worried about the possibility of layoffs. And some observers say other cash-strapped states could try similar maneuvers.
A Washington law enacted in 1981 enables the board to declare a financial emergency if the states contribution to the two-year system is reduced compared to the previous budget. (Washington operates on a biennial budget cycle.) The declaration allows districts that oversee Washingtons 34 community and technical colleges to empower the campuses to dismiss tenure-track faculty members more quickly and easily -- essentially the same way the colleges can currently lay off adjuncts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An Nahar] Police in China arrested a man 28 years after he was accused of hugging a woman against her will -- a serious charge at the time -- only to find he had married his "victim", state media said Friday.
Three young sisters, two of them handicapped, were on Saturday killed in their Orangi Town residence and their bodies were found in a pond set up for their father's cattle, police said.
