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Stories from 2004-05-11

Lawn vs. Demonstrators

STAFF | New York Times | May 11, 2004

City Hall may want to declare Manhattan to be a no-free-speech zone for convention week, but critics have a right to gather in the same borough as the conventioneers they are protesting. [more]

Ralph Nader Wins Reform Party Nomination

Staff | Reform Party | May 11, 2004

"In 1992, founder and presidential candidate Ross Perot received over 19 million votes. Four years later, Ross Perot received over 8 million votes. Today, the Reform Party USA has over 1 million active supporters...This year, with your help, Ralph Nader can win the office of the Presidency, since over 80 out of every 100 registered voters did not vote for Democratic or Republican candidates in the 2004 Primaries." [more]

The Crimes at Abu Ghraib Are Not the Worst

Robert Higgs | Independent Institute: Center on Peace and Liberty | May 11, 2004

"Although no principle stands higher in military doctrine than that the commander bears full responsibility for the actions of his subordinates, neither Bush nor Rumsfeld, the two top military commanders, has the decency to resign — not just on account of the prison disclosures, of course, but also on account of the plethora of actions by which they have abused their constitutional powers and brought everlasting shame upon the United States." [more]

Torture in Iraq: Appalling. Politicians’ Reactions? Not Much Better.

Ivan Eland | Independent Institute: Center on Peace and Liberty | May 11, 2004

As for the members of Congress holding the hearings, they seemed more concerned about the release of the photos than with the barbaric behavior depicted in them. Would the behavior have been more acceptable if no photos or videos had been taken of it? Hardly. [more]

Tourists and Torturers

Luc Sante | New York Times | May 11, 2004

"The Americans in the photographs are not enacting hatred; hatred can coexist with respect, however strained. What they display, instead, is contempt: their victims are merely objects." [more]

Analysis: Why Does 'Al-Qa'ida' Point Its Spearhead at the United Nations?

Zhu Mengkui | World News Connection | May 11, 2004

"In the eyes of the Al-Qa'ida organization, the reason why the "Satan" can again tread on Arab soil is because the United Nations has failed to stop the United States." [more]

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