Category Justice
CFS seizes a Manitoba newborn a day, First Nations advocate says
Manitoba’s First Nations children’s advocate says social workers are seizing an average of one newborn baby a day and “shoving them anywhere.” Source: CFS seizes a Manitoba newborn a day, First Nations advocate says
Native Americans will ask Pope Francis to rescind ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ during his U.S. visit – U.s. – News – Catholic Online
The 84-year-old Lyons has represented Native Americans before the United Nations since 1977. Lyons helped achieve the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The last major country in the world to support that declaration was the United States. The World Council of Churches, the United Methodist Church and the Leadership Conference of Religious […]
▶ WikiLeaks Leaks Controversial Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Documents – YouTube
“The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents.” Remember NATFTA? […]
If you’re a CIA employee it’s ok to torture people, but talk to a reporter? Go to jail. – Boing Boing
The Sterling case – – especially in light of Obama’s complicity in the cover-up of torture during the Bush administration – sends a clear message to people in government service: You won’t get in trouble as long as you do what you’re told (even torture people). But if you talk to a reporter and tell […]
S.F. jail inmates forced to fight, public defender says – SFGate
“I don’t know why he does it, but I just feel like he gets a kick out of it because I just see the look on his face,” said Ricardo Palikiko Garcia, one of the inmates who said he was forced to fight. “It looks like it brings him joy by doing this, while we’re […]
Prosecutors criticize D.C. crime lab’s handling of some DNA evidence – The Washington Post
Officials at the Department of Forensic Sciences, which is located in a $220 million facility that opened in 2012, defend their work and say disagreements among scientists in the field are not uncommon. The dispute has essentially created a standoff between the city-run lab and federal prosecutors in the nation’s capital. U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen […]
Cops Say ‘It’s Not Fair’ They Were Forced To Resign After Being Busted For Sexual Abuse of a Minor
The Chief pointed us to a statement released from attorney Blaise Rogers of Gullbert, Box & Worby, LLC, who said he represents Bonynge. It said that the victim was “slightly under the age of 17.” In other words, she was 16. But Steven Bonynge later seemed to want to distance himself from the case, saying, […]
The Lawyer Who Represented Terrorists Heads to Prison, as Unapologetic as Ever | Village Voice
“I’m busier than ever,” he says, and with the wave of a hand proceeds to tick off a list. “I’m in the final draft of an appeal on U.S. v. Amina Ali, which is due August 23. I’m preparing for a trial on a significant drug-and-gun conspiracy in the Northern District of New York sometime […]
Tarek Mehanna’s Powerful Statement As He Received a 17-Year Sentence Despite Having Harmed No One | Andy Worthington
She continued, “No evidence was presented in court directly linking him to a terrorist group. He never hatched a plot — indeed, he objected when a friend (who went on to become a government informer and has never been charged with anything) proposed plans to stage violent attacks within the United States. He never had […]
Jimmy Mubenga’s widow shocked as security guards cleared of manslaughter | UK news | The Guardian
Terrence Hughes, 53, Colin Kaler, 52 and Stuart Tribelnig, 39, worked for G4S on contract to the Home Office, and were accused of manslaughter by forcing the 46-year-old father’s head down and restricting his breathing as a British Airways flight prepared to take off at Heathrow airport on 12 October 2010. A jury at the […]
Tea Party Army: Self-Dealing Officers Prey on Small Donors | OpenSecrets Blog
“This horde of new Muslims may be quiet for now,” the fundraising e-mail cautioned. “But they are simply doing what the mullahs in their mosques are telling them: Keep quiet, keep your heads down, collect your welfare checks, have lots of babies and try not to chop off your daughter’s head in an honor killing […]
CODEPINK Condemns Decision Not to Indict Darren Wilson – CODEPINK
“It has been said that ‘a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich,’” said Nathan Sheard, the leader of CODEPINK’s campaign to demilitarize the police. “But what has been proven today in St. Louis County, as it was weeks ago in Ohio, is that what cannot be indicted is a police officer who has killed a […]
Virginia prosecutors will do just about anything to execute Justin Wolfe updated | a public defender
The prosecution’s case rested on the testimony of a single key witness, Owen Barber, who admitted that he shot and killed the victim but told the jury that he had done so at petitioner’s behest. It was later discovered that prosecutors intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence that could have been used to impeach that testimony […]
Revealed: FBI attempted to drive MLK to suicide — RT USA
On Tuesday, Beverly Gage wrote for the New York Times about the history of the letter which, until then, had been largely shrouded in secrecy, as have other clandestine FBI operations that sought to discredit alleged opponents of the United States government under the helm of then director J Edgar Hoover through a covert campaign […]
While FBI Finds Police Killings on the Rise, Real Number of Killings Remains Uknown | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which collects data voluntarily submitted by police departments, looked only at killings which police considered “justifiable homicide,” defined by the bureau as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.” There were 461 justifiable homicides reported last year, up from 426 in […]
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