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Chertoff: If We Inspect Cargo The Terrorists Win

September 14, 2006 John Cargo, Inspections, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Terrorists

Well that’s a unique argument, even from the always-creative Bush administration. You see, Osama’s goal is to bankrupt us –

Crime Legislature Politics Society

The Reddest Red State?

September 7, 2006June 2, 2009 John florida, Ohio, Sex Offender Registry

Who’s ahead in promoting Tom DeLay’s market-based legislative techniques? Is it Ohio’s Bob Ney, Bob Taft and Ken Blackwell, or is Florida whack-job Kathering Harris leading the way?

Crime Culture Society

Dog The Bounty Hunter Gets Rotten Bone

August 18, 2006 John AE, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Reality TV

It seems Simaile “Cisco” Lutu is suing the small-screen vigilante Duane “Dog” Chapman, the mullet-sporting criminal wrangler from A&E’s Dog the Bounty Hunter, his bail bond business, the cable net and local police for unspecified damages in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S District Court in San Francisco.

Congress Crime Politics Presidency Society The Courts War

Administration Seeks to Narrow War Crimes Act

August 10, 2006March 25, 2008 John Congress, Geneva conventions, Red Cross, War crimes

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a U.S. war crimes law “passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions.” The changes would mean interrogators would no longer face possible prosecution for committing “outrages upon [the] personal dignity” of prisoners.

Crime Places Society Tampa

Vigilante Justice or Murder?

August 3, 2006 John Lawrence Storer, Manslaughter, Robbery, Shantavious Wilson, St Petersburg Times

A jury on found restaurant owner Lawrence Storer not guilty of manslaughter for chasing down and killing a man who tried to rob him in 2003. Storer?s attorney John Fitzgibbons argued that he had committed an excusable homicide. Storer, testifying in his defense, told jurors that when Wilson pointed a gun at him, he was terrified of dying, and was acting in shock and instinct when he chased after him in his car. He hit Wilson, killing him on a downtown street.