Comments by Lori Welch
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Posted on July 29, 2008 at 4:32 p.m.
It's been a long wait for that store to open, meanwhile the Minyard's (it was a terrible place) is closed, so shoppers drive to Abrams and Mockingbird to the Tom Thumb, or to the Albertson's at Garland Road and Buckner (where you can't purchase wine or beer--back to Mockingbird and Abrams!). I think they are just impatient to see if any actual progress is being made, or if they are destined to keep staring at that boarded up building and closed off parking lot. Yet another guess might be that the Whole Foods chain has been telling the Advocate that they'll open a new store, but are still haggling over parking space or something.
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Posted on August 7, 2008 at 5:20 p.m.
While the Supreme Court did not weigh in on this one man's case, the justices did have a very similar situation in the Medellin case as it was presented, and decided that the State of Texas had the right to decide the case, which it would have decided if the case had been from Delaware, or Illinois, or Idaho.
As far as wishing for US justice while overseas, don't kid yourselves. As a tourist (not a government employee on a base, for example), you abide by the same laws as everyone else in that country--even the ridiculous ones. Know before you go. What happens when you vandalize property in Singapore? You get caned, even if everyone you've ever known stands up and says what a ding-dong you always were, that the laws really shouldn't apply to you, etc. Doesn't work there either, because we all know--that American kid got caned! The jails of Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Morroco are full of Americans who didn't know better, or who thought they could get out of it because they were Americans. This information is not secret or hidden. It's always been that way.
It seems to me that several of you are having a hard time deciding which issue is at hand: International agreements to extradite criminals, the death penalty itself, or the fairness of the court system regarding socioeconomic class, or race...or gender.
To the person who keeps using this "slippery slope" verbiage, I don't think it's at all that slippery. I doubt anyone here thinks it's ok for Saudi Arabia to execute rape victims as adulterers regardless of the country she is from, while the rapists go free (under Sharia apparently, there have to be at least four male witnesses for it to be considered rape and not adultery). Not a slippery slope, since that thinking won't fly with the Supreme Court.
And no matter how you stack it up on the death penalty line, Honduras and Mexico are not shining examples of humanitarianism or sophistication in action.
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