It’s really amusing that everyone is suddenly a human rights expert because they watched an Invisible Children documentary about Joseph Kony. What else do they know?
Every attempt to capture Kony has been unsucessful and led to further hostility towards the US and any NGO that gets themselves involved. Let’s set aside Kony for a moment.
What about development tactics? What about poverty? What about Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, sex trafficking in Latin America, child prostitution in India, the fact that the slums are located mere miles away from these sprawling, luxurious hotels. Watch THOSE documentaries. Spread THAT around social media. Read something else other than what you see on Twitter.
It’s a little upsetting that this is becoming yet another “bandwagon” issue. If you want to see something done, it’s going to take more than a reblog.
Boumediene v. Bush , 555 U.S. 723 (2008) (Kennedy, J.).
How about challenges to the authority of the Executive to unilaterally order the death of someone on a secret assassination list?
Bueller? Bueller?
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This reminds me of another case. In Hamdan v. US, a driver to Osama Bin Laden was sentenced to imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay because he was considered a terrorist. He was considered a threat, except he wasn’t. His best friend sold him out in a documentary entitled The Oath, where he presents his anti-American rhetoric and discusses the widespread call to Westernization that we encompass in this country. It’s true, and it was never truer than during the George W. Bush presidency. The United States Supreme Court had to decide whether or not the federal courts had jurisdiction over foreign nationals that were detained outside of the US, and additionally, whether the president went too far by detaining someone without presenting habeas corpus. Hamdan was eventually relieved, and the ruling ended up being 5/3 in his favor; however, he still spent 9 long years away from his family in solitary confinement in Cuba. The Executive alone should not be able to supersede the judiciary.
Okay, number one, LOL. In the words of a native New Yorker, no one likes Times Square because it’s full of tourists and irrelevant ads- THIS BEING ONE OF THEM.
First of all, this whole “liberal media” topic is so dumb; “the media” is extremely general, being that media is made up of a whole…
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Why we should be glad we didn’t let Detroit go bankrupt (like Mitt Romney wanted).
What’s better than a chart showing how President Obama’s reduced our dependence on foreign oil? How about three of them?
