Tag archive for ‘war on drugs’
The weekend roundup: habeas schmabeas
Last Friday, hot on the heels of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to challenge their imprisonment in the US Court System, Sen. John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”
Really, John? Was that hyperbole, like when your mom orders the Monte [...]
automaton for the people
Another of the million daily reminders that we humans have to take back control of the government is the fact that that other failure of a war, the one on drugs, continues without an end in sight, a war hinged on a strategy that simply arrests black folk randomly in greater numbers every day—a plan [...]
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