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I don't understand why both officers weren't arrested for assault & battery, especially since it was reported AT THE TIME on 911, with an eye witness... why the hell are they still getting paid on the city budget by the assaulted victims taxes??? What the FUCK is wrong with this picture.

Tim Flannery: Because America has a LONG history of bigotry. Every story I read that ends like this one makes me lose any hope that this country will actually make any meaningful change in that arena.

Thank you ACLU for supporting free speech.

Jeff, you only support organizations that you agree with one hundred per cent of the time? Maybe you should run for office; that way you would have a candidate for whom you could vote.

^grammar fag with realll bad english

After reading some of the previous comments, it seems that republicans are horrible people. I find them to be much like deomcrats. As one who is neither republican nor democrat, I see little difference between the two parties.

Rule of law: We have a system, we use it; if it doesn't work, we change it. We don't just ignore it and make something up. There should be no debate on this point.

I sent my letter to Google.

letter sent

I thought we had a no assassination policy going back to the 60's. Who is we aren't supposed to kill? And as a former military intelligence linguist I received many briefings on how we were not even allowed to listen to a U.S. citizen's conversations anywhere at any time, without a special warrant or something at least. The idea of having U.S. ... See Morecitizens killing other U.S. citizens abroad is either a shocking truth or just technical legal mumbo jumbo to stir up controversy. We don't know that Obama has signed any such orders, do we? Sure, though, the ability to fly a fairly small quiet remote controlled airplane hundreds of miles from a safe place and launch an anti-tank Hellfire missile at any target, moving or stationary, with very high accuracy and kill probability is quite an improvement over having to infiltrate a human to do the job personally. It's about as complicated and personal as a video game.

Well help me out. Aren't enemy combatants subject to the laws governing a legally declared war?

Got two cases filed in fed. Court this day same issues... Could use your assistance over here???

Are you guys working on the new info that has come out about the ACTA treaty? It sounds like all sorts of rights will be denied if/when nations accept it's allegedly anti-piracy measures.

@Preston McDonald, I think the tribe wasn't trying to claim rights to their knowledge about the natural world per se, but to knowledge concerning the medicinal properties of the plant. From what I read, American scientists relied on tribal Shamans to help them focus on plants with medicinal properties they were interested in exploiting. Who knows, ... See Moremaybe this knowledge came at a great cost to the tribes, through experiments performed eons ago on fellow tribe members. Regardless of how it might have been developed, it's knowledge that didn't exist anywhere else in the world and I suspect would have been eligible for an intellectual property patent in the US.

@Preston McDonald, A good example might be PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). Both the process and the naturally-occurring enzyme that made the process work were awarded patents and earned the inventor a Nobel Prize in chemistry. It was the knowledge about how the enzyme was able to function at near boiling temperatures that allowed the process to be... See More developed. Personally, I don't think a patent should have been awarded to the enzyme, in part because it tended to limit the research that could be done by academic laboratories with limited funding. And the patent holders still made an immense fortune.

I'll be sure to keep my eyes open going through Lamar County, thanks for the warning! This case should be run up the flagpole - and where is the news media on cases like this? Hiding under their biased covers - go figure. The ACLU does great work like this every day, and that's why I'm a supporter. Thanks for all you do - the people need it badly!

Great work ACLU.

Now what's the best way to amend these laws or have them torn down altogether?

Thank you ACLU, for bringing this information to the fore-front. Please keep on doing so!

Mr. Hidalgo-Acosta- I certainly agree that the military is a reflection of our society with a great diversity of backgrounds and, likewise, reasons for serving. My point is merely the enlisted ranks, as a whole, have a statistically higher incidence of individuals with working-class poor background, one of the portions of our society. At least I... See More presume that is statistically correct from my observations. However, you have caused me to really think about this. I will now proceed to fact-check myself, if any reliable statistics are available. Thank you for the exchange.

Mr. Michael Sharkey, I also thank you for the exchange as well. I don... See More’t know if there is any statistical data too but one fact has shown that the influx of recruits into the military is sometime driven by the health of our economy. When the job market is bad in the civilian world, the miltary benefits from it but when it’s good, sometimes it lower its standard to meet its recruiting goals. In either case, recruits form all sectors of our society join the ranks. Again, thank you. I’ve enjoyed the exchange and the courteousness in which we carried it out.

Now if we can get rid of DOMA, as it stands now the hospital I worked for will keep 25 years of my pension, because of DOMA. It is just wrong of them because it was a compensitory benifit.they paid me less per hour because they paid my pension!

I can only hope that one day in the future we can all look back and see this DADT & DOMA laws as something of a collective mental sickness that we have grown out of. How else does one explain such insane stupidity

Great but what about all the ones that have been fired? The Farsi Linguist , especially.

Well, I always say, no sex with genetic engineers!

Whenever there is big business involved, there will be a problem with who benefits. The same goes for the drug industry. The only problem is that you don't have to give them a part of yourself as a life or death decision.

Come on people...President Obama has TONS of stuff that he's concerned about...and it would not surprise me that much of what we are worried about, he is too...but he is in the game of politics, dear friends...he has to walk a very fine line sometimes, especially when meeting with, say, other world leaders, let alone members of Congress.

People expect him to work miracles, especially after the fiasco that was the Bush "presidency." He's not only having to clean up his predecessor's mess, but having to be firmly aware that what choices he makes in cleaning up the mess can make or break his election chances in 2012.

So I make the motion that we cut this guy some slack--and pray, meditate, etc on how we can help our president!...after all, he has one of THE toughest jobs in the world...making some of THE toughest decisions. Ever. ... See More

I would NOT want to be in his shoes right now. Not at all!

He is supposed to look better than Bush, but he is working for the same people, and it ain't us.