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6451 Foreigners' Views of U.S. -- rank: 72

... was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (cia). 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Nov 20 10:51:04 PST 2000

6452 Paris Noir (was Re: Zero Tolerance: Metro Snack Patrol Puts Girl in Cuffs) -- rank: 72

Thanks for the revealing anecdotes. BTW, what are you doing in Paris? Actually, i'm in biarritz, a toute bougie haven in the south of france on the atlantic, about 20 minutes from espagne. i'm having a baby and writing--or course. paris is a lovely, outrageously expensive place. it ...

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Author:	Christopher B. Hajib-Niles
Date:	Sun Nov 19 13:03:56 PST 2000

6453 Paris Noir (was Re: Zero Tolerance: Metro Snack Patrol Puts Girl in Cuffs) -- rank: 72

... to washington, dc, i got much grief from an armed >police officer about taking out a stick of gum on the ... i was in >the middle of chowing down when a police office stepped onto the >train. i forgot where i was ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Nov 19 10:43:18 PST 2000

6454 Fwd: Alabama -- rank: 72

>From: Philip Klinkner <pklinkne at hamilton.edu> > >One little reported aspect of the recent elections was Alabama's >decision to remove the ban on interracial marriages in its state >constitution. The vote to remove the ban was 60 to 40 percent. > >According to exit polls, the Alabama electorate was 73 ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Nov 15 06:49:04 PST 2000

6455 neighbourhood watch (was Re: Chucking the electoral college) -- rank: 72

... the closest we've got to > community oversight of the police. there i can raise questions, etc. Hm. I'm interested ... forums' which are meant to put a check on the police. They've basically been toy telephones.

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Author:	Peter van Heusden
Date:	Wed Nov 15 00:02:12 PST 2000

6456 Why Gore will Win the Hand Recount -- rank: 72

>Is Michael Pollak, above, suggesting that the gap between exit polls and >the recorded result, which he says occurred only in Florida, substantially >due to underpunched ballots? Surely such equipment is also used elsewhere >in the USA. the butterfly ballot and punch machine are antiquated, as i understand it, and ...

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Author:	kelley
Date:	Tue Nov 14 00:39:45 PST 2000

6457 All is America, America is all! -- rank: 72

... in the north, the un-employed put on fire the police and the council houses, after one demonstrator was shot. The ... public services cut to bare minimum (except for security and police services receiving ever higher assignments), everyting possible privatized and the ...

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Author:	M.J.Medjeral
Date:	Sun Nov 12 02:44:06 PST 2000

6458 economic statistics (as if people mattered) -- rank: 72

>At 08:59 AM 11/11/2000 +0000, you wrote: >>In Theories of Surplus Value somewhere, Marx has a discussion, very >>witty,of how the criminal is productive of crime, gives a stimulus >>to industry in the form of encouraging innovation in locks, offers >>employment for cops and jailers, and ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 11 11:40:18 PST 2000

6459 Fwd: U.S. 2008 elections -- rank: 72

... smashed down ingloriously. It had been a bloody strike. The police had broken countless heads with their riot clubs; and the ...

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Author:	Hinrich Kuhls
Date:	Thu Nov 9 12:37:33 PST 2000

6460 Scalia -- rank: 72

... opposition to random drug searches conducted by the Indiana State Police at sobriety checkpoints. It seems that the ISP have been ... shot down the arguments of the prosecution as supportive of police-state measures. I read on this board of another case ...

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Author:	Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin
Date:	Fri Nov 3 11:18:50 PST 2000

6461 NYT on Bush judge appointments -- rank: 72

... An Illinois state appellate court ruled that "impounding" a home (police not letting someone enter their home) for the time needed ... in keeping with the horrific record of Clinton-Gore expanding police power justified by "war on drugs" and "anti-terrorism" spew ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Thu Nov 2 07:47:14 PST 2000

6462 Black Radical Congress forum -- rank: 72

... unqualified support for Mumia and other black victims >of the police the RCP won't dominate. And if they think they ... identical to or representative of "other black victims of the police"? There's no doubt that neither Amadou Diallo or Patrick ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 29 06:29:32 PDT 2000

6463 [fla-left] [action] Critical Times on Colombia-your phonecalls, faxes needed (fwd) -- rank: 72

forwarded by Michael Hoover > Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:46:14 -0400 > Subject: Fw: Critical Times on Colombia-your phonecalls, faxes needed > From: Carol F Mosley <fcpj at juno.com> > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dwight Lawton <dllawton at gte.net> > To: "\"L. V.\" Luis" <fdr224 at hotmail.com> > Date: Mon, 22 ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Tue May 23 12:47:51 PDT 2000

6464 Confusion -- rank: 72

>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 05/23/00 12:03AM >>>I agree with you that Afghanistan would be much, much better off had the U.S. never used it to try to inflict a Vietnam-in-reverse on Russia. But is that supposed to be an argument ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 23 10:30:51 PDT 2000

6465 Zimbabwe land grab reaches Ian Smith's farm -- rank: 72

Monday 15 May 2000 Zimbabwe land grab reaches Ian Smith's farm By Darren Schuettler HARARE: Rhodesia's last white leader, Ian Smith, said on Sunday his cattle ranch in Zimbabwe had been occupied by landless blacks, but he did not believe they were veterans of the liberation war that ended ...

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Author:	Ulhas Joglekar
Date:	Wed May 17 18:51:41 PDT 2000