Tuesday, December 19, 2006
While on the injustice front..
Some somewhat dated links about possible instances of miscarriage of justice:
Here's a detailed article by Arundhati Roy on the seemingly dubious
death sentence meted out to one Mohammad Afzal for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
Here's a news report about how the charges against some Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, of deliberately spreading HIV among their Libyan patients, seem unfounded.
Here's a detailed article by Arundhati Roy on the seemingly dubious
death sentence meted out to one Mohammad Afzal for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
Here's a news report about how the charges against some Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, of deliberately spreading HIV among their Libyan patients, seem unfounded.
Labels: social issues
Friday, November 17, 2006
Cure for antisocial elements...
...make them policemen.
This is a scheme I thought was already being implemented, judging from the tales I have heard from friends and acquaintances about how rude and boorish some of the traffic cops they have encountered can be. The perceptive ones realize that some cops use such encounters to satisfy their primitive sadistic need of having another human being at their mercy. Now I know what career your average schoolyard bully should, when the time comes, choose--a job where he is required to make people experience fear. I don't think I would have written down this seemingly fantastic thought/insight had I not come upon this news report about rioting cop candidates.
This is a scheme I thought was already being implemented, judging from the tales I have heard from friends and acquaintances about how rude and boorish some of the traffic cops they have encountered can be. The perceptive ones realize that some cops use such encounters to satisfy their primitive sadistic need of having another human being at their mercy. Now I know what career your average schoolyard bully should, when the time comes, choose--a job where he is required to make people experience fear. I don't think I would have written down this seemingly fantastic thought/insight had I not come upon this news report about rioting cop candidates.
Labels: social issues
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