Formally it was the job of the police to murder defenseless black youths*, but numerous cutbacks have weakened public police departments. Much of law enforcement has been privatized. Rich men hire security guards to defend their co-op apartments and gated Shangri-La’s. Poorer neighborhoods have tapped a zeal for volunteering. Just as most of the Internet […]
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U.S. Shut Down 1677 Illegal Online Pharmacies Websites But India Still Indifferent
The problem with the online pharmacies is that a dominant majority of them do not follow the laws of various jurisdictions and they sell spurious and counterfeit medicines. For instance, online pharmacies in India are openly violating the laws of India and they have become a real health hazard. In fact, an official at the […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Chamber of Horrors
How and why the Italian Supreme Court got it wrong “It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” – J K Rowling Trial of the century On September 30th the eyes of the world will be on Florence for round four of the trial of the century following […]
Alycia Lane Lawsuit Thrown Out Because She Lied
Alycia Lane, infamous KNBC TV news anchor who hit a cop in New York City and sent bikini pictures of herself to married Rich Eisen of NFL Network, has had her lawsuit against CBS and former co-anchor Larry Mendte dismissed by a Philadelphia judge because she lied. Lane was suing Mendte for accessing her email […]
As Nelson Mandela passes, who will be the new imprisoned leaders in the internet age
Nelson Mandela has surely been one of the great leaders to have shaped history from a prison cell. Another great leader from history was Mahatma Gandhi the leader of nationalism in India prior to independence, imprisoned in 1942 by the British and assassinated in January 1948. In more recent times, Aung San Suu Kyi, the […]
Unraveling Justice
That portion of the public that follows the process of high-profile criminal trials has been gripped in recent months by the capital murder trial of 32-year-old Jodi Arias. Arias, who killed her lover, Travis Alexander, in June 2008, was convicted in May of first degree premeditated murder with aggravating circumstances, a conviction that “qualified” her […]