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March 14, 2006

Cruel and Unusual?

Posted by Eric at 3:23 pm. Filed under: Courts / Legal

Wow. Apparently sleeping on a mattress on the floor is cruel and unusual punishment.

Los Angeles County faces tens of millions of dollars in damages for bedding thousands of prisoners on mattresses on concrete floors.

The practice violates the Constitution and is symptomatic of serious problems in the crowded, riot-torn jail system, a federal judge tentatively ruled Monday.


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Is Hillary Above the Law?

Posted by Taste of Liberty at 9:05 am. Filed under: General, Politics

That’s the question Peter Paul is asking. Paul is the man who made over $1 million dollars in illegal contributions to Hillary Clinton’s senate campaign which were buried in several allegedly fraudulent FEC reports.

In an article written for WorldNetDaily, Paul outlines the process and the refusal by Hillary Clinton to answer questions surrounding these contributions. She apparently insulates herself by sending out surrogates to lie for her. When they get caught in the lie, then those surrogates are removed and new ones take their place. But Hillary? She seems to be living a life of special privilege…

But being Hillary Clinton means never having to personally go on the record for any of the wrongdoing or deceptions she is regularly caught in. She occupies that rarefied space, even above the president of the United States, where all accountability to the people she serves, and the Constitution she has sworn to defend, can be filtered through official spokesmen and legal mouthpieces. No one in the media has ever challenged her five-year refusal to personally respond to the election scandal she can’t shake.

Peter Paul continues…

Unlike any other public figure before her, she is never required to answer to journalists or justice officials. She can refuse to comment to the media on scandals that regularly swirl around her, and she can dissemble and deceive FBI investigators in sworn, as well as unsworn, statements with impunity. She has managed to elevate herself to a unique status of unaccountability, above the rule of law that governs all other Americans. House Impeachment Manager Dave Schippers made the chilling observation – in the documentary I am now producing about the fraud that elected Hillary to the Senate – that “Hillary may be indictable, but never convictable in an American courtroom.”

On another subject, but perhaps curiously related, Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, was scheduled to testify at the trial of the now deceased Slobadan Milosevic. Given the history of deaths surrounding those associated with the Clintons and the apparent above-the-law accountability of these people, is there some connection here?

Without accountability and a feeling of almost god-like status, those on a quest for absolute power begin to believe their own invincibility and ultimately do some very bizarre and evil deeds. Hopefully that’s not the case with the Clintons, but the dots keep appearing. Connecting them is a task for another day.


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Cool Alarm Clocks

Posted by Eric at 8:59 am. Filed under: Randomly Interesting, Tech

Some of these alarm clocks are pretty cool. Why a post about alarm clocks? I have no idea, but the jig saw and the hide-n-seek ones were my personal favorites.


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