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- Gag orders in a Facebook age
  Posted by Shemuses from Toronto Star
  For 24 hours, newspapers, TV and radio stations were legally forbidden to release Stefanie Rengel's name, but on the Internet tributes to the slain teen – and the names of her accused killers – sprang up almost immediately, including on the social networking site Facebook.
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- Vultures (presidential and otherwise) descend on Pakistan’s chaos
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Never one to pass up an opportunity to make himself look good using others’ deaths as the backdrop, Rudy Giuliani was quick to post a statement that the Terrorists ™ must be stopped from continuing their War On Us (caps are his, not mine). And he wasn’t the last...
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- West Virginia Torture Case a Legal Circus
  Posted by Shemuses
  What started out as one of the most horrendous racial rape/torture cases in recent memory, has now devolved into a legal circus, as the prosecutor in charge of the Megan Williams case, and the West Virginia State Attorney General, are engaged in a very public power struggle not only over the issue of whether hate crime charges should be leveled, but which office will actually try the case if it ever goes to trial.
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- Songs of Love and Murder, Silenced by Killings
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  Mexico’s country music stars are being killed at an alarming rate — 13 in the past year and a half, three already in December — in a trend that has gone hand in hand with the surge in violence between drug gangs here.
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- MyFox Chicago | Chicago Cop Says He Was Beat by Other Cops Because He's Black
  Posted by Shemuses
  Are African American Chicago police officers facing racial profiling by white officers? That’s the complaint filed by a Black, fellow officer who says he was pulled over for no reason Monday night. The off-duty cop says he was roughed up and harassed even after showing his badge.
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- Australia Rape Prosecutor Suspended
  Posted by Shemuses from Al Jazeera
  The Australian prosecutor involved in the controversial trial of nine males found guilty of gang raping an Aboriginal girl has been suspended from duty amid widespread anger over the fact they were not jailed.
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- Mountie to be disciplined for using Taser on double-parked senior
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  An RCMP officer in Kelowna, B.C., will be disciplined for using a Taser stun gun on a 68-year-old stroke victim over a parking violation. Supt. Bill McKinnon said the incident grew out of a simple traffic stop that escalated when John Peters drove away. John Peters, 68, says he raised his arm to try to protect himself before an RCMP officer shot him with a Taser gun.John Peters, 68, says he raised his arm to try to protect himself before an RCMP officer shot him with a Taser gun.
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daveuser87843 comments on:
Gag orders in a Facebook age

hmm

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11:14 pm 1/10/08
Jeff comments on:
Cheney gets violent reception in Sydney

Obama’s comments on Australia’s prime minister were hilarious. I doubt Cheney will absorb much feedback. He’s not that kind of guy.

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7:29 pm 2/22/07

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