An empty casket with a military seal was discovered in a desert area south of Tucson, and sheriff's deputies were looking for the body. "Obviously it had the smell, and there was other evidence that it had been inhabited recently," Deputy Dawn Barkman said Sunday. Forensic investigators took DNA samples, and a nationwide alert was issued in hopes of finding out who was the casket, Barkman said. Deputies were called to a desert area near Interstate 10 around 5:30 p.m. Saturday after two people playing paintball found the casket, Barkman said. The casket was metallic silver with a U.S. Army insignia on it, she said. ...
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 Ukraine's Reunited Orange Coalition Faces Tough Tasks, Bad Memories |
They traded insults and accusations of corruption for nine months. Now with the team that led Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution reunited and aiming to govern together again, maintaining the peace may turn out to be the easiest task on their agenda. The pro-Western reformers have little time for a honeymoon, as their list of promises includes ending Ukraine's energy dependence on Moscow and earning Kiev an invitation to join the European Union. Good will has largely been depleted, and problems have been piling up over the 87 days it took them to set aside their mutual distrust and pool the 239 lawmakers needed for a majority in the 450-member parliament. "Very little government work was done," said Tammy Lynch, a Ukrainian expert at Boston University's Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy. "Reforms stalled. The economy has slowed even further. Gas debt has risen, and now Russia is saying it wants to raise the price of gas again," she said. ...
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| ID Backers Bemoan Decades-Old Defeat. Card Called Immigrant Solution. Its not just for Immigrants, it’s an ID Card that every Police State needs |
About 20 years ago, Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) & Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr. (D-N.J.) were 30 minutes away from passing a landmark immigration bill that would grant amnesty to more than 3 million illegal immigrants. The measure also carried one of the most controversial proposals in American politics: a national identification system. But moments before the deciding vote, Rep. Edward R. Roybal (D-Calif.) took the House floor and delivered a scathing speech that still rings in Simpson's ears. "We may face the danger of ending up like Nazi Germany," said Roybal, a Mexican American. "I do not say that we are going to go back to the Nazi regime, but . . . it will be the beginning of the violation of rights, & we . . . in this nation may be known by numbers." They tried a National ID then, the excuse was as it is today, they needed it to ID illegal immigrants, now they are trying again, but what they don’t tell you is, you need a card to prove your not one. But you knew that, right?...
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| Republican Candidate's Call for Forced Labor Camp for Immigrants Angers Two GOP Lawmakers |
A Republican gubernatorial candidate's call for creation of a forced labor camp for illegal immigrants drew rebukes Friday from two GOP lawmakers, who labeled it a low point in the immigration debate. Don Goldwater, nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, caused an international stir this week when EFE, a Mexican news service, quoted him as saying he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting." The article described Goldwater's plan as a "concentration camp" for migrants. Goldwater, a candidate for governor in Arizona, said in a statement Friday that his comments were taken out of context. He said he was calling for a work program for convicted nonviolent felons, similar to "tried and tested, effective and accepted practices" used by state and local jails. ...
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| Cameron 'could scrap' rights act |
The Conservatives would consider getting rid of the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights, leader David Cameron has said. In an interview for BBC One's Sunday AM, Mr Cameron said the Act hindered the fight on crime and terrorism. A US-style bill of rights would outline the rights of citizens, while the Human Rights Act incorporates European rules into British law. Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said Mr Cameron's plans were "unworkable". The Conservatives have long-pledged to look at the 1998 Human Rights Act, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. During the 2005 general election campaign, former leader Michael Howard pledged he would revise or scrap the act if elected, claiming prisoners' rights were being put before those of victims. ...
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| U.S. study examines police brutality complaints Justice Dept. report finds 8 percent of complaints justify discipline |
Eight percent of citizen complaints that police officers used too much force turned up enough evidence to justify discipline of an officer, a Justice Department survey of large state and local forces reported Sunday. The survey by department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 26,556 complaints of excessive police force were filed in 2002 with state and local law enforcement agencies that have at least 100 full-time officers. Taken together, police agencies of this size account for 59 percent of the nation’s law enforcement officers but only about 5 percent of law enforcement agencies in the country. You have to keep in mind that in most of the complaints it’s the police who investigate themselves, So you can count on the percentage to be much higher had honest investigations been done on all complaints. It’s kind of like trusting criminals to investigate themselves and finding themselves guilty. Properly about 8% would ...
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