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Censorship pressure in the EU

jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 13:00

There is pressure to ban a broad collection of unsavory political positions and historical views in the EU.

I don't like those positions, and I don't agree with those views, but this censorship violates basic human rights.

The UK Green Party leader condemned criminalization of membership in terrorist organizations.

Certainly having sympathy with the aims of a terrorist organization should not be a crime — because that is thoughtcrime.

Membership in an organization that uses criminal means is a borderline case, because it accepts in a way responsibility for that organization's actions, not only its aims.

However, organizations should never be banned by decree. That should require a trial.

Everyday harassment provokes mental illness

jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Everyday harassment and danger of violence provoke mental illness, among blacks and among women.

Reporter flees Argentina

jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 13:00

A reporter has fled Argentina due to death threats. He was writing about the recently murdered prosecutor.

Severance pay for Target CEO

jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Target in Canada fired 17000 workers and its CEO. The severance pay for the CEO equals the severance pay for 17000 workers.

Belfast Project interview tapes

jeudi 29 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Prosecutors in the UK are trying to get the interview tapes which the Belfast Project made, promising confidentiality until the subjects are dead.

I think the historians of the Belfast Project are honor-bound to destroy these interviews so as to carry out their promise, for the sake of future historical projects — even though they would be imprisoned for this.

This has nothing to do with the IRA's cause, which I don't support even slightly.