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What is your opinion on this? (Constitutional Rights & Waterboarding)?
How is lying to a hostage taker within order to stockpile lives or shooting someone to save a friend any different than waterboarding someone to amass lives...many lives? I be determined isn't shooting someone more severe?Some opponents of waterboarding collaborate about preserving our constitutional rights...but what going on for the constitutional rights of those who lives are endanger? We forget about their freedom.
Would any of you not use waterboarding...if it could hold stopped 911?
Would any of you not use waterboading...if it could prevent someone from killing YOUR relations?
I think these are tough question that we need to ask. We don't necessarily hold to know right now...but I muse we need to dream up about it thoroughly formerly we discount it.
I agree with waterboarding if nearby is a strict criteria that justifies it (which I am sure within is...for legal means)
Why? Because I want to protect the constitutional rights of others.
Where am I wrong?
All points are reaction...I CAN TAKE IT.
Answers: I believe you truly believe in what you wrote, but I don't & here's why:
1. If we spend more money on truly organize our
Iintelligence" - updating to one (1) system instead
of many systems that don't communicate next to one
another, for example - our need for "stoolies" or
using torture on someone would incrementally
terminate as we perfected our info system. (We
should work on bettering plain, outdated communication
between the different intelligence agencies, too.)
2. Psychologically speaking, people who wallow in
torturing animals, let alone humans, are usually
referred to counselors to give support to them understand
what is driving their desire to do so.
3. As the first answerer posits - some of the ethnic group
incarcerated at Gitmo were picked up on the say-so
of one of their neighbors. Do you enjoy a neighbor
you don't get along next to? What if they reported you
to the police for kiddie porn? Would you have rights?
Should the cops simply lock you up with no legal representative, no
looking into the accusation, no you're innocent until
proven guilty?
4. If America is supposed to "role model" the road we
want other countries to behave - especially toward
our soldiers if they become incarcerated by another
country - what message are we sending by torturing
people lacking using any other recourse?
So, that's where I stand on the issue & why. A discussion going on for all points of panorama is a good article. Sure better than some of the tirades & language I've see on the site.
I'll answer your question by playing devils suggest. I agree that water-boarding, or any other form of torture is wrong and should not be practiced ever, especially by a country that prides itself on being a democracy and a supporter of human rights. I also believe that torture can do more damage than good. I believe a individual being tortured will confess to of late about anyhting if tortured adequate. History id full of examples of innocent relatives that were tortured for crimes they didn't commit (Agimet of Geneva and Johannus Junis). Torture is also unconstitutional.
The flip-side of the argument is that those man tortured are not American Citizens, so cruel and unusual punishment, and they aren't being tortured on American soil.
Sadly, if torture tape are or were self destroyed then here is no way to prove thus is stirring. Additionally, one can argue that we are involved in a time of war, and those detainees at gitmo aren't civilians and aren't subject to the laws of civilian prisoners.
Nonetheless, the practice is deplorable and should be abolish. The longer this practice goes on the more of a in one piece our country is digging itself. In the long run we are putting the lives of our troops in unnecessary hazard.
If we are discussing insurgents, they have NO constitutional rights. Read the Geneva Convention. It is on smudge.
From the dawn of time such combatants enjoy been lawfully faced near a bullet to the head or its current equivalent.
These society torture, maim and butcher their captive, then publicly display the mangled remains. They thieve pride in showing video of what they have done to their captive. Waterboarding (the old Chinese wet torture) does not bother me after this.
The biggest problem with waterboarding, as near any other form of physical torture, is that it is not a reliable method of extracting information.
Historically speaking, torture is used for one of two reasons: Either to net a person confess regardless of actual guilt or as cut of the punishment sentence. If you look at the laws of countries that practice torture, frequent express that a conviction cannot be passed without a confession from the prisoner.
Someone below torture is likely to confess to anything and a confession is almost other forthcoming under those circumstances...even from innocent inhabitants. So how is a false confession possibly of any use?
I'm certain that if I waterboarded my mother right very soon I could get her to confess to a plot to murder my family unit. I'd get alike results if I waterboarded my neighbor down the street, even though I've never met him.
I think that the citizens who argue against waterboarding by stressing "constitutional rights" might be confusing it with the Geneva Convention that forbids torture.
Waterboarding is torture since the Spanish Inquisition.
"Saving lives" ------How lots? Which ones? Where? Who? Give me specifics.
The information gained from torture is not valid, it is simply convenient to the subject of the torture to stop the torture.
As you express support of waterboarding if it could have prevented 9/11, does that tight you want to have George W. Bush "waterboarded" when he arranged to go on time off to his ranch contained by Texas rather than rate heed and due diligence to the August 6, 2001 memo from the intelligence agencies that Bin Laden be determined to do massive damage in the US?
Further, the argument is that waterboarding needs to be avoided base on human, not consitutional rights.
Should Joe Horn be charged with murder?
What is your view? Do you think it be racist?Personally, I would have done duplicate exact thing. I applaud you Joe Horn. Thank you for setting an example for the rest of the world.
Answers: No, but I believe that a collection should be taken up so that he can buy more shotgun shells.
He should be charged near a crime, but not murder. I would support manslaughter or some other lesser crime than murder.
I'm adjectives about self defense, and I am not sympathetic to the victims, as they be breaking the law. But I've listen to the 911 tape at lowest possible 5 times and what bothers me is that he sounds determined to kill them throughout the bid. He makes his intent clear. He be not in threat in his own home, and the hand told him to stay there and not to head off, yet he gone anyways. It sounded to me like Joe Horn be determined to kill someone that time. Then the autopsy report came out and said he shot them within the back, that basically made it worse for him (in my mind).
I don't think he should be charged near anything at all. We obligation to have the competency to protect our property. I know that the guys he shot were in actuality burglarizing his neighbors property. But the way I see it, he surrounded by a round about opening was protecting his property. If those guys be not stopped then, how do you get the impression comfortable sleeping, with the possibility that your house might be on the record.
The most important of the fundamental issues surrounded by my mind is the fact that canon enforcement is a power of the people first, ahead of those we hire to do it for us(police).
If more citizens defended their property, and their neighbor's in this demeanour, crime would take a dive.
Can I sue my Dad's "girlfriend" for mental anguish?
My father passed away in May of 2007 departing behind his live-in girlfriend. Since his destruction, she is now suing his children for his house, aphorism it was "promised" to her. There is no common-law contained by CA. and they were not married. Furthermore, he changed the creation to his house 3 months before his disappearance and she was not name. His will stated that his children where to obtain his assets. Fast forward 7 months . . .we have written up several lease agreements to her, adjectives of which has be rejected (mainly for items in the house that she claims are hers) Once the second agreement, she stated she wants to clutch the stove "because it was the concluding thing my father give her" We have the taking to prove he bought it with his own money out of his wall account! At any rate, she have continued to hold up the process and it has finally taken it's toll. I am so stressed at this point that I am have anxiety attacks as well as I hold a Dr's appt. to get put on Valium. Can I sue her for anguish?Answers: I doubt you hold grounds for a lawsuit.
She needs to be served beside an eviction notice, and the thought should order her to depart from all but her personal property surrounded by the house. This is a lengthy process, you should start as soon as possible.
You could, but you would be wasting your time. Personally, I don't see where on earth she has any legalized argument to gain possession of the house if the house was surrounded by your father's name. Since the will give the children all his possessions, you and your siblings very soon own the house and anything that is attached to it (like the stove). As for property within the house, some of it may very all right be hers like clothing, furniture, books, etc. She is entitled to hold anything that she brought into the house back. As for a lease agreement, you hold no legal duty to lease this property to her and I would have her removed from the house if she is unwilling to sign an agreement.
I imagine you have be more than nice to her and given her plenty of opprotunities to resolve this matter outside the courts.
How can I get a felony conviction reduced to a misdemanor?
I have a felony conviction in 2001 and I own been stale probation for three years. I would like to grasp my conviction reduced. Can it be done and any idea of what it would cost..also any referral on who can do it?Answers: you've already been convicted and its be 6 years!!! Not gonna happen. Sorry
Is this a felony lower than state law or underneath Federal law?
Which state?
Once convicted of a felony, you're guilty.
However, you may want to inquire nearly "expunging your record" as opposed to "reducing this crime to a misdemeanor."
In some states, close to here in Michigan, most criminal files can be expunged (wiped clean) after the sentence is completed, with the agreement of the sufferer & the Prosecutor of the county where the concern was judge.
Not so in Federal felony matter.
You'll need a well brought-up criminal defense attorney once you answer the questions above, so shop around. This is not a complex concern for a capable endorsed eagle.
Discuss costs & payment option before going ahead next to any attorney.
To find an attorney referral, check the Yellow Pages, referral from confidential friends, or the State Bar Association.
Best of luck!
If someone totals my car...?
If i buy a saloon for $8000, and someone vandilizes the car tothe point where on earth it's totalled and i descide to sue, are they obligated to pay me the $8000 i remunerated for the car, or with the sole purpose the amount the car would hold been worth? (assume lone owned the car for one year, but depreciated contained by value)Answers: If you had use of that sports car for a year, it would depreciate several hundred dollars. You will get the f¨ºte market importance of the car, not what you rewarded.
you wold be paid the replacement expediency of the car, unless you can settle for more.
I be once in an catastrophe, other driver clearly at fault.
Other driver's insurance took months to settle beside me, putting me in a nice rental coup¨¦ all along, because I did not agree that the sports car was totaled, and they didn't want to pay packet to repair it. I had newly mailed contained by the last expenditure jut before the happenstance.
Between the rental and the eventual settlement, they were out of pocket probably at lowest possible 6 times what it would have cost to repair the coup¨¦ on day one.
I terminated up buying a much nicer car near the cash.
I suggest suing simply if there is no insurance co to negotiate near and other driver is at fault undisputed. Then sue for far over the actual plunder, and settle for in between interrupt amount and suit amount before trial.
Take brass on the barrelhead, because you don't need collection problems latter.
Moving to a state where i'm reasonably an adult?
If i live contained by a state where you aren't properly an adult until age 19, can i justifiably move to a different state on my own at age 18 without parental concent?Answers: Yes. Laws contained by one state can't proscribe the application of laws within another state, and also cannot prevent the interstate travel of non-criminals. Thus, they can't keep you inwardly the state unless you're on probation/awaiting trial, and they can't do anything about it once you're within the other state.
as long as you live with your parents you are never an fully developed...so find some friends move out and your on your own way to becoming an mature!
Why should police cars have cameras on them??
I really stipulation help beside this.Answers: To also help protect the rights of the Police when performing their employment.
All the answers are correct. In addition, the video cassette is now man used for evidence in trial against the accuse.
Who can I go to roughly speaking a minor building complaint?
I have in recent times been screwed around by an independent tradey. He have recently "repaired" a railing of ours on a small veranda, and has done an curtailed job, (leaving after I remunerated and before I noticed) not to mention breaking some of my belongings in need mentioning it and leaving adjectives the offcuts in our motor park to dispose of ourselves! After calling him to come back, he have failed to show up, and very soon wont return my calls. Is within anybody I can o to with a complaint close to this? We live in Tasmania AU. I don't want to fork out for another builder!Answers: File a grip in the small claims court so that he will be ordered to finish the work or reimburse you.
Call your local better business bureau and the sue him. Make sure you cart pictures of the problem and the you will have to bid someon for an estimate.
Would this be an illeagal search by local authorites ?
the local authorites (state of California) be givin permission to force out a house (only the house) but then conducted a search out in the storage part away from the house, but on the same property. would this be a infringement of California Constitution, article I, section 13 provides or the 4th ammendment. the outcome of this sittuation is: The authorites search this storage unattended and (found?) a small amount of meth. they mailed my innkeeper a letter stating what they found. and presently by law the manager has to see my family and I out or she get sued by the city. Yes i believe there could be foul play, but thats besides the point. what im axiom is if they violated my 4th ammendment cant i use that to keep me and my ethnic group from moving? or am i gonna have to spend christmas trying to find another home.Answers: Thank your lucky stars, find another place to live, and obtain yourself into treatment for your drug problem.
The police who searched would probably know how to use the fruits of the search against you if you give them permission to force out. You could argue that the search be beyond the scope of your consent, but you would hold spent a bunch on a lawyer, and still promising loose, unless the consent were written, and recite exactly where the survey were to be conducted. As long as you stood by and tolerate them continue to furrow without withdrawing your consent, they be probably good to jump.
It may be that they feel they overstepped the survey consent, which is why they only sent the note to your landlord, and didn't forward the bag to the District attorney for prosecution. Be aware, however, they could still do that. If I were you I would not see up a fuss, threaten to sue for violations of constitutional rights, or even block the attention of the officers, for panic they will decide to travel forward with the criminal prosecution. Statute of Limitations especially from state to state, but could be 5 years or more.
The contraband (meth) they found would probably be inadmissible in a court of criminal imperative (under the 4th amendment).
What has happen between you and your landlord is NOT a criminal situation, but a civil matter and surrounded by a society where anyone can sue everyone for anything, the issue become an entirely different matter. All the hotelier has to do is show a preponderance of proof and not the actual evidence (the meth).
What do you do if the children's aid society has sued you?
Answers: Prepare a valid answer and defense to parry the allegations one thrown against you.
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