LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.
Khalid Adem, a 30-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children.
Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice.
Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/27/female.circumcision.ap/index.html
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
http://towardfreedom.com:80/home/content/view/911/
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Written by Frank Morales
Thursday, 26 October 2006
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision
which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually
encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by
revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's
ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10
U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18
U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in
domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking
to undo those prohibitions.
For complete text, see:
http://towardfreedom.com:80/home/content/view/911/
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Written by Frank Morales
Thursday, 26 October 2006
In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision
which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually
encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by
revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's
ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10
U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18
U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in
domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking
to undo those prohibitions.
For complete text, see:
http://towardfreedom.com:80/home/content/view/911/
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
State high court upholds forfeiture law
From Register-Guard
and news service reports
Published: Friday, October 20, 2006
The Oregon Supreme Court upheld a voter-passed law Thursday that requires a criminal conviction before police can seize and sell property tied to illegal activity.
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and news service reports
Published: Friday, October 20, 2006
The Oregon Supreme Court upheld a voter-passed law Thursday that requires a criminal conviction before police can seize and sell property tied to illegal activity.
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Judge takes father's side in circumcision feud
October 24, 2006
BY CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press
A Cook County judge has sided with a divorced father who did not want his 9-year-old son circumcised, in a case that has drawn attention from groups opposed to the medical procedure.
Circuit Judge Jordan Kaplan's ruling, issued Tuesday, said the boy can decide for himself when he turns 18. Until then, there will be no circumcision, a surgery that removes the foreskin of the penis.
The boy's parents had feuded over the procedure in court. The couple's 2003 divorce decree gave the father the right to offer advice on medical decisions. When the two disagreed, he sued to block the circumcision.
The father believed circumcision could cause the boy long-term physical and psychological harm. The child's mother wanted the procedure to prevent recurring infections.
For complete text, see:
BY CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press
A Cook County judge has sided with a divorced father who did not want his 9-year-old son circumcised, in a case that has drawn attention from groups opposed to the medical procedure.
Circuit Judge Jordan Kaplan's ruling, issued Tuesday, said the boy can decide for himself when he turns 18. Until then, there will be no circumcision, a surgery that removes the foreskin of the penis.
The boy's parents had feuded over the procedure in court. The couple's 2003 divorce decree gave the father the right to offer advice on medical decisions. When the two disagreed, he sued to block the circumcision.
The father believed circumcision could cause the boy long-term physical and psychological harm. The child's mother wanted the procedure to prevent recurring infections.
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Bradenton Police Department bypassing courts in forfeitures
Heral Tribune, BRADENTON -- For years, the Bradenton Police Department has quietly, without judicial review, confiscated hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and property from people they arrested for drug possession and other crimes.
The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form called the "Contraband Forfeiture Agreement." By signing it, a person agrees to relinquish their property to the police and waive any rights they have to try to get it back through the courts.
In some cases -- including one last year where police seized more than $43,000 from a man during a traffic stop -- people have signed over cash and other property without ever getting charged with a crime.
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The police bypass the courts and confiscate money and property on the spot through a department-created form called the "Contraband Forfeiture Agreement." By signing it, a person agrees to relinquish their property to the police and waive any rights they have to try to get it back through the courts.
In some cases -- including one last year where police seized more than $43,000 from a man during a traffic stop -- people have signed over cash and other property without ever getting charged with a crime.
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How to ‘make’ news - spin, spin, and more spin
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-make-news-spin-spin-and-more.html
By showing raw uncut footage of REAL news before and after its spun, these excerpts from the movie SPIN, by Brian Springer, present the most concise and damning indictment of the mainstream media's 'news-making process' that I've ever seen.
[Y]ou'll never look at TV reporting the same again.
* * *
[Not surprisingly,] this extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown.
Hopefully, the Internet will change that.
If we do our job, it will.
Pass it on!
By showing raw uncut footage of REAL news before and after its spun, these excerpts from the movie SPIN, by Brian Springer, present the most concise and damning indictment of the mainstream media's 'news-making process' that I've ever seen.
[Y]ou'll never look at TV reporting the same again.
* * *
[Not surprisingly,] this extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown.
Hopefully, the Internet will change that.
If we do our job, it will.
Pass it on!
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