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5641 [lbo-talk] Saint Ivan -- rank: 72

... who murdered his son, created the country's first secret police force and personally took part in its massacres. Even the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Nov 11 08:25:18 PST 2003

5642 [lbo-talk] Khodorkovsky refused bail -- rank: 72

... was above the law. "Everyone - businessmen, state officials and the police - must be responsible before the law," he said in remarks marking Police Day. "Equality before the law is the main condition that ...

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Author:	Simon Huxtable
Date:	Tue Nov 11 07:52:03 PST 2003

5643 [lbo-talk] Democratic Communism -- rank: 72

... difference between the garbage removal in a city > and the police department? In my city, otherwise known as the "Cradle of ... the wrong day, and issue tickets just like the parking police (even if your neighbor's trash strays over onto your ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Tue Nov 11 07:39:32 PST 2003

5644 [lbo-talk] Democratic Communism -- rank: 72

Replacing the army and the police with an armed > citizenry would be on the road to ... of 281 million+ has 560 million guns. Not that the police and all the other repressive apparati don't have tons ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Nov 10 15:13:32 PST 2003

5645 [lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty -- rank: 72

... client told me. he used to work for the DC > police: Fifteen or twenty years ago I read, in an extensive table of occupations in a magazine article, that police officers had a total on-the-job death rate of ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Wed Nov 5 19:01:57 PST 2003

5646 [lbo-talk] RE: San Jose cop... -- rank: 72

Kelley: > as for the police not showing up, last year a kid was wandering around ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Nov 5 09:26:08 PST 2003

5647 [lbo-talk] Zakaria: Iraqification: A Losing Strategy -- rank: 72

[Apropos Vietnam . . . ] [This guy is block-headedly wrong about the correct solution -- that all we need is more of what we're doing now -- but completely right about why Iraqification won't be it. If he went back and read his last paragraph, he would realize the necessary first step ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Nov 4 18:00:39 PST 2003

5648 [lbo-talk] Incarceration -- rank: 72

... This system makes the US, for all practical purposes, a police state. The law is not applied without fear or favour ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Tue Nov 4 17:28:15 PST 2003

5649 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: USA "best country in the world" -- rank: 72

I wrote: >How is our incarceration rate a function of our conception of rights? >You think countries that have *fewer* protections against unreasonable >searches incarcerate fewer people? You think all those guys in jail were >falsely accused? Doug wrote: "There's something deeply wrong with a society, esp one that thinks ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Tue Nov 4 13:35:33 PST 2003

5650 [lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty -- rank: 72

... client told me. he used to work for the DC police: The occupation one chooses and the industry in which one ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Tue Nov 4 11:31:59 PST 2003

5651 [lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty -- rank: 72

... calls are statistically among the highest risk of injury to police officers. Plus, although cops are supposed to want to protect ...

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Author:	DoreneFC at aol.com
Date:	Tue Nov 4 09:20:29 PST 2003

5652 [lbo-talk] Unusually frank perspective on the ground in Iraq from Newsweek reporter on CNN -- rank: 72

we go back to Baghdad now. We're joined by Joshua Hammer who is "Newsweek" magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief, good to have you with us tonight. How has the insurgency changed over the last couple of months? JOSHUA HAMMER, "NEWSWEEK" BUREAU CHIEF: Dramatically, I think at the very beginning the ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Tue Nov 4 07:31:26 PST 2003

5653 [lbo-talk] San Jose Cop Kills Vietnamese Woman and Found Not Guilty -- rank: 72

... the very least, I can say that the San Jose Police Dept is guilty...how can you send a policeman into ...

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Author:	Thomas Seay
Date:	Sun Nov 2 19:26:35 PST 2003

5654 [lbo-talk] Re: Black in the USSR -- rank: 72

BLACK ON RED My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union Robert Robinson with Jonathan Slevin Acropolis books, 1988 Robinson, Robert, with Jonathan Slevin. Black on Red: A Black American's 44 Years inside the Soviet Union. Washington, D.C., 1988. 436 pp. Robinson, a skilled machinist from Detroit, went to the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Nov 2 10:20:52 PST 2003

5655 [lbo-talk] Nye on empire -- rank: 72

Washington Post - May 25, 2003 Ill-Suited for Empire By Joseph S. Nye The military victory in Iraq seems to have confirmed a new world order. Not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others. Indeed the word "empire" has come out of the closet. Respected analysts of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 25 17:13:42 PDT 2003