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6076 No more Miranda? -- rank: 72

... case context, where a plaintiff, shot and paralyzed by the police, made an unfortunate admission (that he'd grabbed for a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Dec 2 13:24:43 PST 2002

6077 Arab frustration -- rank: 72

... odd things > > missing from it. For instance, Foley was a police officer > > during the first part of his career, was he not? Carrol Cox: > Back in the '70s a former police chief from (I believe) Terre Haute, > Indiana, was kidnapped and ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Mon Dec 2 12:54:08 PST 2002

6078 Arab frustration -- rank: 72

... odd things > missing from it. For instance, Foley was a police officer > during the first part of his career, was he not? Back in the '70s a former police chief from (I believe) Terre Haute, Indiana, was kidnapped and ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Dec 2 10:30:28 PST 2002

6079 the new surrealism -- rank: 72

Some yawn, some hope, some rage, some despair. The summit goes on How the real action takes place away from the conference John Vidal in Johannesburg Saturday August 31, 2002 The Guardian Mark Malloch-Brown, head of the United Nations development programme, gave his first speech to the main UN conference ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Aug 30 19:25:25 PDT 2002

6080 Chechen slave trade (and query for all) -- rank: 72

> >Most of the captives in Chechnya are used for forced labor on a small >scale, doing work for whatever clan captured them. > >I would guess there probably is Chechen involvement in sexual slavery, but >only insofar as the Chechen mob is part of the same criminal net the >extends across ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Aug 30 14:53:05 PDT 2002

6081 war and the state -- rank: 72

Todd wrote: "Since he and Marx, who must have drawn on first-hand sources, were the ones closest to the event, don't their observations hold even more weight than Lenin's? Is that where Lenin got his information on the character of the Commune? I haven't read enough Lenin ...

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Author:	Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Date:	Mon Aug 26 18:51:22 PDT 2002

6082 Hichens: Hawks in the dovecote -- rank: 72

``..as should be clear at this point, the hawks are able to mobilize when they have consensus, while the lack of forthright moral analysis by the Left just undermines its one key asset, its moral authority...'' Nathan Newman --------- If there were ever a laundry list of issues where moral indignation ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Aug 25 13:37:53 PDT 2002

6083 Rubber Bullets in Portland anti-Dubya Protest? -- rank: 72

From an acquaintance in Portland, Chris Lowe, "Our police chief used to be high up in LAPD, is a candidate to be their new chief there, thinks police should be military, and was part of a right-wing ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Aug 25 08:35:15 PDT 2002

6084 war and the state (was milton, etc.) -- rank: 72

... because it tries to impose its will on the boss, police or scabs? It depends how it tries to do that ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Sun Aug 25 10:10:02 PDT 2002

6085 war and the state (was milton, etc.) -- rank: 72

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: > <<The myth of the "good state" is a popular one among > leftists, but in reality every state has been founded on the blood of > the poor (even "socialist" ones. > Liberalism and Authoritarian Socialism both share a common theme in > that they establish systems of minority rule ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Sat Aug 24 12:25:34 PDT 2002

6086 war and the state (was milton, etc.) -- rank: 72

Gordon: > It probably wouldn't hurt, but it doesn't have a lot to do > with pacifism -- you can love your enemies while you torture > them to death. It would be very godlike. But I digress. I > would agree with the pacifist label except that people mean > many different things by ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Thu Aug 22 17:56:20 PDT 2002

6087 From Empty to full Auditoriums -- rank: 72

[The following probably exhibits the fallacy of mistaking a maillist for a printed journal -- it's too long to be a conversational comment on just one aspect of a huge issue and far to short to even begin to develop any of the theses it throws out. Hence it's ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Aug 16 07:04:45 PDT 2002

6088 Negri on Italy today -- rank: 72

Le Monde diplomatique - August 2002 WHAT HAPPENS BEYOND DEMOCRACY? Italy's postmodern politics by ANTONIO NEGRI * _______________________________________________________________________________ A year ago the Genoa demonstrations against the G8 summit shocked Italy: they upset the plans of Sylvio Berlusconi, who had thought, with the overthrow of the traditional left, that he had carte blanche. By ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 12:08:21 PDT 2002

6089 No justice, no peace corp? -- rank: 72

China's use of 'political' psychiatry grows By Richard McGregor in Shanghai Published: August 12 2002 20:26 | Last Updated: August 12 2002 20:26 The use of psychiatry by China to detain and institutionalise dissidents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, according a ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Tue Aug 13 06:58:34 PDT 2002

6090 Seem tjhe cover of Time this week? -- rank: 72

China's use of 'political' psychiatry grows By Richard McGregor in Shanghai Published: August 12 2002 20:26 | Last Updated: August 12 2002 20:26 The use of psychiatry by China to detain and institutionalise dissidents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, according a ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Mon Aug 12 23:11:49 PDT 2002