PROJET AUTOBLOG


Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes

⇐ retour index

Missouri makes school fights a felony

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Missouri's insane new law requires schools to report all fights between students for prosecution, and makes fighting a felony.

Prosecutors will decide which students to prosecute. I suppose they will usually prosecute blacks and not whites. But it is vicious prosecute students for this.

Changing repressive institutions

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Progressive activists should focus their campaigns on changing powerful repressive institutions. Trying to silence right-wing speakers is wrong, and protesting them tends to be a distraction from substantive issues.

North Korea fires ballistic missile

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

North Korea fired another ballistic missile.

I get the impression that King Kim and the troll have the same approach to peace negotiations: act as bellicose as possible, hoping to get the "best deal". Unfortunately, that resembles a game of chicken.

Humpback whales organize for other species

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

Humpback whales sometimes organize to block orcas from hunting other kinds of prey.

Are they smart enough to realize this will indirectly protect the humpback whales from being attacked by orcas on other occasions?

Thugs snooping on past communications

mercredi 3 mai 2017 à 02:00

The Australian national thugs snooped on lists of journalists' past communication records without even a warrant.

A warrant should be required to start keeping records of anyone's communications.