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To: SiouxPal who wrote (70895)	6/15/2006 7:19:24 PM
From: techguerrilla	Respond to of 362350

We'll have "permanent" bases, as well as troops, in Iraq so long as the public here believes that the chimp and his merry band of fascists are capable of leading the country or so long as right-wing f**ks control electronic voting machines in key States, whichever comes last. /john

To: SiouxPal who wrote (70895)	6/15/2006 7:32:40 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362350

"No Knock" Meet "Castle Doctrine" By Nathan Newman \| bio tpmcafe.com Two conservative legal doctrines are on a collision course. Today, the rightwing majority upheld the right of the police to enter homes without warning. But recently, states like Florida have been passing NRA-backed "Castle Doctrine" bills that give homeowners the right to assume an unknown intruder is there to do bodily harm and can therefore be shot without any obligation by the homeowner to establish that the intruder is actually a danger. Now, the text of such Castle Doctrine laws don't actually protect you if you shoot a police officer, but if the police don't identify themselves when they enter a home, it'll create a pretty bad legal tangle for juries when defendants can claim they thought the officer was an unknown intruder against whom they had the right to shoot on sight.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (70895)	6/16/2006 1:49:59 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 362350

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