Law and Disorder November 21, 2005

Updates:

  • Graham Amendment and the McCain Amendment
  • Intelligent Design Debate

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CFC – Combined Federal Campaign

Small victory announcement – Government Asking Charities to Check Donors With Terrorist List Without Consent.

Guest – Chicago Attorney Gary A. Isaac -Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw

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Orleans Parish Prison Update – In legal papers filed late last week by the American Civil Liberties Union, 45 men and women formerly detained at Orleans Parish Prison recount disturbing details of being abandoned without food or water and abused by guards after Hurricane Katrina struck.

The ACLU said that the scores of testimonials it has obtained from prisoners contradict public statements made by Sheriff Marlin N. Gusman that the prisoners had food and water and that the evacuation went as planned.
Guest – Eric Balaban – staff counsel representing all prisoners in the Orleans Parrish prison in a longstanding class action lawsuit.

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Dr Rafil Dhafir Selectively Prosecuted Because of His Muslim Faith and Arab Descent

Guest – Barrie Gewanter – Executive director of the Central New York Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

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Law and Disorder November 7, 2005

A Chicago man of Palestinian extraction is being prosecuted in Chicago for conspiracy to aid Hamas.

The prosecution is based on a confession extracted by torture by the Israeli’s when he was in Palestine. NY Times “journalist” Judith Miller in her stories supported tortured statements.

Guest – Michael Deutsch, of the Peoples Law Office and former Litigation Director at the CCR.

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Activists Arrested For Demonstrations At Universities: Dressing As Guantanamo Detainees.

Guest – Joey Steel, demonstrator with WorldCantWait.net

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Joan Mellen, author of the book on “Jim Garrison and the JFK Assassination.”

Joan Mellen has interviewed over 1000 people. She bases her book on papers secured by Oliver Stone thru an FOIA request subsequent to his movie JFK.. Mellen is giving lecutures in NYC at the Century Club and probably at the Ethical Culture Society.

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