Since nigger is used all the time in Urban music I do not think people find it so offensive. But you must understand that people say such things just to get a response out of you. They live for it, just ignore them (this goes triple for/.)
Your marriage is doomed unless you lighten up. He was joking. Damn, don't go off so quick next time or your wife will just leave your ass and take 50%+ of your stuff...
And ending that charade may be their downfall. It appears to have 'upset' quite a few people in Iran and perhaps they will take matters into their own hands.
With so many people not being allowed to run in their elections because the hardlines disqualified them it make take more than 4-5 years. Hell, revolution could breakout anytime in Iran.
Do the programmers you know have anything to say about that?
No, you can go to the fed aid sites and see what programs are offered. 100-200+ per month in food stamps, medical care for your kids, aid from community/religios orgs, Goverment housing assistance and other related programs.
In the past I have been rather poor so I know what it is like? How about you, every been there?
Because that public money you are talking about doesn't come from the toothfairy, it comes from the entire base of US taxpayers and companies pay taxes.
Or did you think Santa brought the goverment money for Christmas?
Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, supposedly plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb." He is a U.S. citizen. Yet he's being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Yaser Esam Hamdi is also a U.S. citizen. He, too, is being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Meanwhile, Zacarias Moussaoui, purportedly the 20th hijacker, is not a U.S. citizen. Neither is Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber. Both have attorneys. Both have been charged before federal civilian courts.
The fucking Geneva Convention DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US!
If this was Clinton or the D's doing this everyone on the R side would be damn near rioting over this shit. But since Bush has an (R) in his name it makes it OK!
Yes it does. The exec branch made the decision to detain an US citizens and ignored their oaths. What makes you think they will do what they should in regards to the USA PATRIOT act?
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July 1, 2002
Citizen Padilla: Dangerous Precedents
by Robert A. Levy
Robert A. Levy is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute.
Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, supposedly plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb." He is a U.S. citizen. Yet he's being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Yaser Esam Hamdi is also a U.S. citizen. He, too, is being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Meanwhile, Zacarias Moussaoui, purportedly the 20th hijacker, is not a U.S. citizen. Neither is Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber. Both have attorneys. Both have been charged before federal civilian courts.
What gives? Four men: two citizens and two non-citizens. Is it possible that constitutional rights -- like habeas corpus, which requires the government to justify continued detentions, and the Sixth Amendment, which assures a speedy and public jury trial with assistance of counsel -- can be denied to citizens yet extended to non-citizens? That's what the Bush administration would have us believe. Citizen Padilla's treatment is perfectly legitimate, insists Attorney General John Ashcroft, because Padilla is an "enemy combatant" and there is "clear Supreme Court precedent" to handle those persons differently, even if they are citizens.
Ashcroft's so-called clear precedent is a 1942 Supreme Court case, Ex Parte Quirin, which dealt with Nazi saboteurs, at least one of whom was a U.S. citizen. "Enemy combatants," said the Court, are either lawful -- for example, the regular army of a belligerent country -- or unlawful -- for example, terrorists. When lawful combatants are captured, they are POWs. As POWs, they cannot be tried (except for war crimes), they must be repatriated after hostilities are over, and they only have to provide their name, rank, and serial number if interrogated. Clearly, that's not what the Justice Department has in mind for Padilla.
Unlawful combatants are different. When unlawful combatants are captured, they can be tried by a military tribunal. That's what happened to the Nazi saboteurs in Quirin. But Padilla has not been charged much less tried. Indeed, the president's executive order of November 2001 excludes U.S. citizens from the purview of military tribunals. If the president were to modify his order, the Quirin decision might provide legal authority for the military to try Padilla. But the decision provides no legal authority for detaining a citizen without an attorney solely for purposes of aggressive interrogation.
Moreover, the Constitution does not distinguish between the protections extended to ordinary citizens on one hand and unlawful-combatant citizens on the other. Nor does the Constitution distinguish between the crimes covered by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and the terrorist acts Padilla is suspected of planning. Still, the Quirin Court justified those distinctions -- noting that Congress had formally declared war and thereby invoked articles of war that expressly authorized the trial of unlawful combatants by military tribunal. Today, the situation is very different. We've had virtually no input from Congress: no declaration of war, no authorization of tribunals, and no suspension of habeas corpus.
Yet those functions are explicitly assigned to Congress by Article I of the Constitution. It is Congress, not the executive branch, which has the power "To declare War" and "To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court." Only Congress can suspend the "Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus... when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Congress
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
6th:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
I have, and it isn't my fault that they do not apply for all the private and public assistance they can get. It is their fault and they should do something about it. In the USA most of them live that way because they want to, not because they have to.
The Constitution is the fundamental law of the state.
The existing Constitution was adopted for implementation by the 5th Session of the 5th National People's Congress on December 4, 1982. Amendments were made to the Constitution respectively at the 1st Session of the 7th National People's Congress on April 12, 1988, the 1st Session of the 8th National People's Congress on March 29, 1993 and the 2nd Session of the 9th National People's Congress on March 15, 1999.
I. Major stipulations in the Constitution in regard to China's political system
1. Major political principles in China
(1) The Communist Party of China is the country's sole political party in power.
The People's Republic of China was founded by the Communist Party of China which is the leader of the Chinese people.
(2) The socialist system
The socialist system led by the working class and based on the alliance of the workers and farmers is the fundamental system of the People's Republic of China
(3) All rights belong to the people
All the power in the country belongs to the people who exercise their power through the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels.
The people manage the state, economy, culture and other social affairs through a multitude of means and forms.
(4) The fundamental task and goals of the state
To concentrate on the socialist modernization drive along the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics; to adhere to the socialist road, persist in the reform and opening up program, improve the socialist system in all aspects, develop the market economy, expand democracy, and improve the rule of law; to be self-reliance and work hard to gradually realize the modernization of the industry, agriculture, national defense, science and technology so as to build China into a strong and democratic socialist country with a high degree of cultural development.
(5) Democratic centralism
The organizational principle for the state organs is democratic centralism.
(6) The armed forces of the people
The armed forces of the People's Republic of China belong to the people.
The tasks of the armed forces are to consolidate national defense, resist invasion, defend the country, safeguard the people in their peaceful work and life, take part in the country's economic construction and strive to serves the people.
(7) To govern the country through the rule of law
All individuals, political parties and social organizations must abide by the Constitution in all their actions and shall not be privileged to be above the Constitution or the law.
All acts in violation of the Constitution and law must be investigated.
The rule of law is practiced to build China into a socialist country with the rule of law.
(8) The system of ethnic regional autonomy
All ethnic groups are equal.
All prejudice and oppression against any ethnic group is forbidden. All behaviors harmful to ethnic unity and aimed at ethnic separation are forbidden.
2. The position and rights of the citizen in the political life of the country
(1) All citizens are equal before the law.
(2) The right to vote and stand for election
All citizens who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of ethnic status, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law.
(3) The freedom of speech and thought
All citizens enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, or assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration
(4) The freedom of religious belief
Citizens enjoy the freedom of religious belief.
No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion.
The poverty line in the US isn't set as the same level as most other countries. It is set at a much higher level. Most people under the poverty line in the US have phone service, cable and a place to live (rent or own). Food can be provided by our food stamp program.
Private property among changes China's leaders to debate By Associated Press Published October 12, 2003
BEIJING - Promising economic and political change, China's new leaders opened a meeting Saturday to debate reforms that will move the country closer to capitalism, including the first guarantee of private property under communist rule.
President Hu Jintao and communist party leaders at the four-day meeting also were expected to consider a more stable legal system and measures to encourage private investment, diplomats and foreign analysts said.
The meeting coincides with final preparations for China's first manned space mission next week and reflects the party's desire to link itself to the nationalistic fervor of a historymaking triumph, helping to repair a reputation battered by corruption scandals.
Details of the agenda of the plenum of the 16th Communist Party Congress weren't immediately released. But the official Xinhua News Agency said it would push ahead economic reforms that have let millions of Chinese lift themselves out of poverty.
It marks "another turning point and a new starting point in China's reform process," Xinhua said.
The meeting comes as Hu, little understood after nearly a year as party general secretary, tries to establish himself as China's leader after the 13-year rule of Jiang Zemin.
Hu, 60, has moved cautiously as he tries to consolidate power, sharing control with Jiang allies on the party's ruling nine-member Standing Committee. Jiang, 77, remains influential as chairman of the commission that runs China's military.
Though Hu has called for a more accountable and responsive government, he hasn't offered a detailed vision.
As the plenum began Saturday, Xinhua said the 24-member ruling Politburo would present a report on its work to the lower-ranking, 356-member Central Committee - the first time the closed, secretive elite has submitted to outside scrutiny, even by another party body.
Party leaders who with Hu took office in November also face a wide array of other problems: rural poverty, banks mired in bad loans and job losses at state industry.
Though incomes have risen sharply, the average Chinese earns only about $700 a year. Communist leaders worry that anger at poverty and official abuses could spin out of control, threatening the party's monopoly on power.
The proposed constitutional change that outsiders say would protect private property comes after a 1999 amendment that declared private business an "important component" of the economy.
The amendment could enshrine the thinking of Jiang, the former leader who invited capitalists into the party, according to earlier reports by state media.
Jiang's ideology is aimed at keeping the party relevant and entrenching its control amid a growing private economy by drawing entrepreneurs into its ranks.
It is more safe to assume that those in positions of power who authorized the spending of 40+ million of Tax Dollars wish to look like it was well spent.
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Since nigger is used all the time in Urban music I do not think people find it so offensive. But you must understand that people say such things just to get a response out of you. They live for it, just ignore them (this goes triple for /.)
Your marriage is doomed unless you lighten up. He was joking. Damn, don't go off so quick next time or your wife will just leave your ass and take 50%+ of your stuff...
And ending that charade may be their downfall. It appears to have 'upset' quite a few people in Iran and perhaps they will take matters into their own hands.
One can hope.
Excuse the spelling, I am very tired and I am cutting back on my caffine input.
It sucks.
With so many people not being allowed to run in their elections because the hardlines disqualified them it make take more than 4-5 years. Hell, revolution could breakout anytime in Iran.
Do the programmers you know have anything to say about that?
For how long? The 'rulers' overthere just banned several THOUSAND canidates from the elections because they where too 'progressive'.
Once the hardliners regain control there is a good chance this trend will reverse itself.
CVS is a major drugstore chain! :->
No, you can go to the fed aid sites and see what programs are offered. 100-200+ per month in food stamps, medical care for your kids, aid from community/religios orgs, Goverment housing assistance and other related programs.
In the past I have been rather poor so I know what it is like? How about you, every been there?
Because that public money you are talking about doesn't come from the toothfairy, it comes from the entire base of US taxpayers and companies pay taxes.
Or did you think Santa brought the goverment money for Christmas?
If their isn't a war then the Constitution of the US should be in full force. Bush can't have it both ways.
They do not take the code from you that you helped pay for as you can still get it from NASA. But why should the changes they make be public?
That war had a formal declaration of War. This 'war' doesn't.
Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, supposedly plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb." He is a U.S. citizen. Yet he's being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Yaser Esam Hamdi is also a U.S. citizen. He, too, is being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Meanwhile, Zacarias Moussaoui, purportedly the 20th hijacker, is not a U.S. citizen. Neither is Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber. Both have attorneys. Both have been charged before federal civilian courts.
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Please read my post above.
The fucking Geneva Convention DOES NOT OVERRIDE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US!
If this was Clinton or the D's doing this everyone on the R side would be damn near rioting over this shit. But since Bush has an (R) in his name it makes it OK!
Yes it does. The exec branch made the decision to detain an US citizens and ignored their oaths. What makes you think they will do what they should in regards to the USA PATRIOT act?
... when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Congress
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July 1, 2002
Citizen Padilla: Dangerous Precedents
by Robert A. Levy
Robert A. Levy is senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute.
Jose Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, supposedly plotted to build and detonate a radiological "dirty bomb." He is a U.S. citizen. Yet he's being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Yaser Esam Hamdi is also a U.S. citizen. He, too, is being detained by the military -- indefinitely, without seeing an attorney, even though he hasn't been charged with any crime. Meanwhile, Zacarias Moussaoui, purportedly the 20th hijacker, is not a U.S. citizen. Neither is Richard Reid, the alleged shoe bomber. Both have attorneys. Both have been charged before federal civilian courts.
What gives? Four men: two citizens and two non-citizens. Is it possible that constitutional rights -- like habeas corpus, which requires the government to justify continued detentions, and the Sixth Amendment, which assures a speedy and public jury trial with assistance of counsel -- can be denied to citizens yet extended to non-citizens? That's what the Bush administration would have us believe. Citizen Padilla's treatment is perfectly legitimate, insists Attorney General John Ashcroft, because Padilla is an "enemy combatant" and there is "clear Supreme Court precedent" to handle those persons differently, even if they are citizens.
Ashcroft's so-called clear precedent is a 1942 Supreme Court case, Ex Parte Quirin, which dealt with Nazi saboteurs, at least one of whom was a U.S. citizen. "Enemy combatants," said the Court, are either lawful -- for example, the regular army of a belligerent country -- or unlawful -- for example, terrorists. When lawful combatants are captured, they are POWs. As POWs, they cannot be tried (except for war crimes), they must be repatriated after hostilities are over, and they only have to provide their name, rank, and serial number if interrogated. Clearly, that's not what the Justice Department has in mind for Padilla.
Unlawful combatants are different. When unlawful combatants are captured, they can be tried by a military tribunal. That's what happened to the Nazi saboteurs in Quirin. But Padilla has not been charged much less tried. Indeed, the president's executive order of November 2001 excludes U.S. citizens from the purview of military tribunals. If the president were to modify his order, the Quirin decision might provide legal authority for the military to try Padilla. But the decision provides no legal authority for detaining a citizen without an attorney solely for purposes of aggressive interrogation.
Moreover, the Constitution does not distinguish between the protections extended to ordinary citizens on one hand and unlawful-combatant citizens on the other. Nor does the Constitution distinguish between the crimes covered by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and the terrorist acts Padilla is suspected of planning. Still, the Quirin Court justified those distinctions -- noting that Congress had formally declared war and thereby invoked articles of war that expressly authorized the trial of unlawful combatants by military tribunal. Today, the situation is very different. We've had virtually no input from Congress: no declaration of war, no authorization of tribunals, and no suspension of habeas corpus.
Yet those functions are explicitly assigned to Congress by Article I of the Constitution. It is Congress, not the executive branch, which has the power "To declare War" and "To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court." Only Congress can suspend the "Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
With our unprotected borders the US is a better place for terrorists.
5th:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
6th:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
How about that US CITIZEN that is currently being held with out trial and who has been denied a lawyer?
The USA. And I know of what I speak.
I have, and it isn't my fault that they do not apply for all the private and public assistance they can get. It is their fault and they should do something about it. In the USA most of them live that way because they want to, not because they have to.
I. The Constitutional System
The Constitution is the fundamental law of the state.
The existing Constitution was adopted for implementation by the 5th Session of the 5th National People's Congress on December 4, 1982. Amendments were made to the Constitution respectively at the 1st Session of the 7th National People's Congress on April 12, 1988, the 1st Session of the 8th National People's Congress on March 29, 1993 and the 2nd Session of the 9th National People's Congress on March 15, 1999.
I. Major stipulations in the Constitution in regard to China's political system
1. Major political principles in China
(1) The Communist Party of China is the country's sole political party in power.
The People's Republic of China was founded by the Communist Party of China which is the leader of the Chinese people.
(2) The socialist system
The socialist system led by the working class and based on the alliance of the workers and farmers is the fundamental system of the People's Republic of China
(3) All rights belong to the people
All the power in the country belongs to the people who exercise their power through the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels.
The people manage the state, economy, culture and other social affairs through a multitude of means and forms.
(4) The fundamental task and goals of the state
To concentrate on the socialist modernization drive along the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics; to adhere to the socialist road, persist in the reform and opening up program, improve the socialist system in all aspects, develop the market economy, expand democracy, and improve the rule of law; to be self-reliance and work hard to gradually realize the modernization of the industry, agriculture, national defense, science and technology so as to build China into a strong and democratic socialist country with a high degree of cultural development.
(5) Democratic centralism
The organizational principle for the state organs is democratic centralism.
(6) The armed forces of the people
The armed forces of the People's Republic of China belong to the people.
The tasks of the armed forces are to consolidate national defense, resist invasion, defend the country, safeguard the people in their peaceful work and life, take part in the country's economic construction and strive to serves the people.
(7) To govern the country through the rule of law
All individuals, political parties and social organizations must abide by the Constitution in all their actions and shall not be privileged to be above the Constitution or the law.
All acts in violation of the Constitution and law must be investigated.
The rule of law is practiced to build China into a socialist country with the rule of law.
(8) The system of ethnic regional autonomy
All ethnic groups are equal.
All prejudice and oppression against any ethnic group is forbidden. All behaviors harmful to ethnic unity and aimed at ethnic separation are forbidden.
2. The position and rights of the citizen in the political life of the country
(1) All citizens are equal before the law.
(2) The right to vote and stand for election
All citizens who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of ethnic status, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law.
(3) The freedom of speech and thought
All citizens enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, or assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration
(4) The freedom of religious belief
Citizens enjoy the freedom of religious belief.
No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion.
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The poverty line in the US isn't set as the same level as most other countries. It is set at a much higher level. Most people under the poverty line in the US have phone service, cable and a place to live (rent or own). Food can be provided by our food stamp program.
NEWS HEADLINES: 8 Ki-
Private property among changes China's leaders to debate
By Associated Press
Published October 12, 2003
BEIJING - Promising economic and political change, China's new leaders opened a meeting Saturday to debate reforms that will move the country closer to capitalism, including the first guarantee of private property under communist rule.
President Hu Jintao and communist party leaders at the four-day meeting also were expected to consider a more stable legal system and measures to encourage private investment, diplomats and foreign analysts said.
The meeting coincides with final preparations for China's first manned space mission next week and reflects the party's desire to link itself to the nationalistic fervor of a historymaking triumph, helping to repair a reputation battered by corruption scandals.
Details of the agenda of the plenum of the 16th Communist Party Congress weren't immediately released. But the official Xinhua News Agency said it would push ahead economic reforms that have let millions of Chinese lift themselves out of poverty.
It marks "another turning point and a new starting point in China's reform process," Xinhua said.
The meeting comes as Hu, little understood after nearly a year as party general secretary, tries to establish himself as China's leader after the 13-year rule of Jiang Zemin.
Hu, 60, has moved cautiously as he tries to consolidate power, sharing control with Jiang allies on the party's ruling nine-member Standing Committee. Jiang, 77, remains influential as chairman of the commission that runs China's military.
Though Hu has called for a more accountable and responsive government, he hasn't offered a detailed vision.
As the plenum began Saturday, Xinhua said the 24-member ruling Politburo would present a report on its work to the lower-ranking, 356-member Central Committee - the first time the closed, secretive elite has submitted to outside scrutiny, even by another party body.
Party leaders who with Hu took office in November also face a wide array of other problems: rural poverty, banks mired in bad loans and job losses at state industry.
Though incomes have risen sharply, the average Chinese earns only about $700 a year. Communist leaders worry that anger at poverty and official abuses could spin out of control, threatening the party's monopoly on power.
The proposed constitutional change that outsiders say would protect private property comes after a 1999 amendment that declared private business an "important component" of the economy.
The amendment could enshrine the thinking of Jiang, the former leader who invited capitalists into the party, according to earlier reports by state media.
Jiang's ideology is aimed at keeping the party relevant and entrenching its control amid a growing private economy by drawing entrepreneurs into its ranks.
It is more safe to assume that those in positions of power who authorized the spending of 40+ million of Tax Dollars wish to look like it was well spent.
Some people just have trouble with giving the state the capability to monitor its citizens so close.
Gee, I wonder why?