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Malcolm’s moment
As I read Paul Rahe’s recent Ricochet post “Rioting for fun and profit,” it occurred to me that events in England had made this Malcolm’s moment — Malcolm as in Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm. Professor Malcolm is a historian and constitutional scholar specializing in British and colonial American history who teaches on the faculty of the George Mason University Law School.

Professor Malcolm has devoted much of her scholarly career to the historical roots of the right to bear arms, on the one hand, and the link between the abrogation of the right to bear arms and the rise of criminal violence, on the other. Her pioneering work in To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (1996) contributed to the revivification of the Second Amendment in the Heller case. Her 2004 book Guns and Violence: The English Experience bears pointedly on the events of the past two weeks.
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Posted by: tipper || 08/19/2011 17:44 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:


Iran Judiciary slams UK brutal violence
[Iran Press TV] Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani censures the brutal crackdown of the UK police on protesters in the recent UK unrest, saying Western countries adopt dual attitude on human rights.
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...

The recent events in Britannia and remarks by British officials who called protesters "thugs and hooligans" were a clear example of the West's "contradictory" attitude to human rights issues, Larijani said on Wednesday.

He highlighted the significance of making a revision in ties with Western countries which oppose the Islamic Theocratic Republic and with those who adopt contradictory stance on political issues and human rights.

It is necessary for Mohammedan countries, particularly Iran, to reconsider their interaction with Western countries to establish wise relations with the West.

The unrest in Britannia broke out on August 6 in the north London suburb of Tottenham, after a few hundred people gathered outside a cop shoppe to protest against the fatal shooting and killing of a black man, Mark Duggan, by the police.

Thereafter, violent protests erupted in major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol, contributing to Britannia's worst unrest since the 1980s.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/19/2011 08:18 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  What 'brutal crackdown' are they talking about???
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/19/2011 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  And some people say that these dinks don't have a sense of humor...
Posted by: mojo || 08/19/2011 13:49 Comments || Top||

#3  IMHO they were too easy on the yobs. But then they don't have tasers and other fun non-lethal toys.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 08/19/2011 14:12 Comments || Top||

#4  The horrors: Foreign rioters will be deported from the UK
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/19/2011 14:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Foreign rioters will be deported from the UK

Can we keep getting our dole checks?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/19/2011 14:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Justice in ayatoiletistan? Last I heard, Basij elements disappear enemies in local forests. They also strike-break for ayatoilet companies. (The poorest of the top dozen "imams" holds $400,000,000 in personal wealth).
Posted by: Tyranysaurus the Younger6438 || 08/19/2011 15:43 Comments || Top||



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