Freed Poltical Prisoners
lundi 24 août 2015 à 02:00Belarus has freed some important political prisoners.
It is a step, but only a step, towards reduced tyranny.
Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
Belarus has freed some important political prisoners.
It is a step, but only a step, towards reduced tyranny.
US citizens: support the Revolving Door Act that would ban ex-congresscritters from becoming lobbyists.
The idea of "unworthy poor", who are poor through laziness, provides an excuse to harden hearts towards people that society has swept into poverty by piling on more obstacles than they can handle.
Reducing the human birth rate should be a global priority, and that calls for giving all women reliable birth control (which, not by coincidence, requires no cooperation from their lovers).
The Court of Appeals of the First Circuit ruled that corporations can't be required to inform people about their use of conflict minerals, or basically anything, because it violates their "human rights" .
We need to adopt the proposed constitutional amendment that human rights do not apply to corporations.
Activists of the Fully Informed Jury Association are suing to establish that they won't be charged with felonies for handing out the organization's pamphlets about jury nullification.
Jury nullification is the reason we have juries: to hamper the state from imprisoning people based on laws that most people disagree with. This can be used for ill — for instance, jurors can acquit a thug charged with killing a black person because they are racist, or even for killing a non-black person if they have swallowed the myth that thugs are our heroes. Nonetheless, jury nullification is a vital safeguard of liberty.