A SWAT team shot and killed a homeowner who tried to protect himself from a repeat burglary. He didn't know that the burglar claimed to have stolen drugs from him.

I don't see anything saying where this took place, except that it is in the US. Can anyone tell me?

Thieves do steal drugs and drug equipment. Perhaps it was reasonable to investigate the accusation against Hooks. The central problem is the repeating tendency of SWAT raids to kill innocent people.

For minors in the US, getting a judge's permission for an abortion is painful harassment, often followed by arbitrary denial.

Just getting out of school to go to a court in another town may be a struggle.

I don't understand how people who generally agree it is not a good thing for poor minors to have children come to support laws making it hard for them to avoid doing so.

Whaling interests in Japan paid a PR company in the 1970s to fabricate a "national tradition" of eating whale meat.

Even being wealthy graduates of prestigious schools doesn't enable US blacks to protect their children from racist insults.

What makes the most impression on me is how far blacks in the US have to bend over backwards to avoid being falsely accused or treated with prejudice. These precautions seem to have been mostly effective — being called a nasty name is not that bad on the scale of human injustice — but it's unfair for anyone to have to do that.

Meanwhile, think of all the people (black or not) who aren't in the families of wealthy graduates of prestigious schools. They don't deserve to be harassed either.

The UK plans to allow fracking companies to put "any substance" under people's homes, without informing them.