February of 1999 and man named Amadou Diallo was unarmed when he was fired at 41 times by police officers, and even saying that the mayor of New York City, at the time, still were acquitted, stating that “ Probably until the day I die, I will always give the police officers the benefit of the doubt” (Progressive, 2000, p. 19) There continue to be frequent reports of unjustified police shootings, with officers firing at unarmed suspects, fleeing from non-violent crimes, at the end of pursuits, during traffic stops or in other circumstances. In Kansas City 1998 a 13 year old black child, Timothy L. Wilson was driving a friends pick-up truck, and was shot dead at the end of a brief chase. All the officers cleared of any wrong-doing. California in 1999 during a narcotics raid SWAT fired at an elderly man, and no drugs were found during the raid. In Chicago in 1998 police officers shot and killed 71 people and in the same year 7 people were killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Amnesty International, 1999, p. 23).
Current Event Piers Morgan: Gun Control CNN host Piers Morgan defended the ability of having gun-control on his show. Morgan couldn’t believe a story that he heard about a girl getting shot in the head. He thought coming from a country with such tight gun control, that everyone cared about it for a week and then carried on like nothing happened. He also said, “…And since then: massacre after massacre and something has to give. And I think the tipping point was Sandy Hook,” on CBS’s “This Morning”.
by Collins Under the Influence Scott Russell Sanders teaches literature at Indiana University. He is the writer of “Under the influence: Paying the Price of my Father’s Booze.” This story was written in 1989 and was published by HARPER`S. The main purpose of writing this story is to share with people how alcoholism or addiction of any kind destroys families and even the people around the alcoholics. Furthermore, he went ahead by using his experience with his father being an alcoholic as an example. This experience weighed them down in many ways, but made a great decision not to follow his father’s footsteps.
Vancouver BC Saturday, Oct. 10th, 2009 Spreading Gang Activities in BC Report by Stephen Li On Wednesday, Oct. 7th 2009, the Anti-Gang Organization (AGO) of BC has detected the spreading of gangs in British Columbia, the AGO has hinted that the gangs had tried to keep this as silent as possible, and it is also believed that the bigger gangs are ‘buying’ the smaller gangs. “This had to be stopped,” says the Chief Police of Vancouver. It’s been three days since the detection, and the problem is getting worse. Some police claimed that there are traces of gang activities on highways, small towns, and its gas stations; the activities includes gangs fighting another gang, damaging the properties of shop keepers,
Whether I like the guy or not, that’s not the issue. Canadians have a right under the Charter of rights under our constitution. You could be the most vile person on earth but if you are a Canadian citizen you have certain rights.” Knowing this, it is easy for Canadians to demonize Khadr all these years because he is a Canadian citizen. A country should protect their citizens, as soon as they are in danger. It is wrong that it took Canada many years to actually take action for Khadrs rights and protection.
Harper to meet with Toronto’s Mayor Ford to discuss crime Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet Tuesday with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to discuss federal anti-crime initiatives. A spokesman for the prime minister says Mr. Harper had already planned to be in Toronto, so he added a meeting with Mr. Ford to his schedule after the mayor requested one. The request followed a shooting at a community barbecue in east-end Toronto last week that left two dead and 23 wounded. • Ontario antes up $12.5-million to combat gun violence • Critic uses keyboard as a palette to give an opinion on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford • GUN VIOLENCE McGuinty calls for cops and social programs in wake of shootings Andrew MacDougall says the prime minister is always happy
For 40 years, people in New York thought they were governed by their elected officials—their city council, their mayor, their governor. But as Robert Caro revealed in The Power Broker , they were all wrong. Power in New York was controlled by one man, a man who had consistently lost every time he’d tried to run for office, a man nobody thought of as being in charge at all: Parks Commissioner Robert Moses. Plenty of sites on the Internet will tell you who your representative receives money from, but disclosed contributions are just the tip of the iceberg. As Ken Silverstein points out in his series of pieces for Harper’s (some of which he covers in his book Turkmeniscam ), being a member of Congress provides for endless ways to get perks and cash while hiding where it comes
Omar Khadr has been in Guantanamo since 2002 when he was 15, after throwing a grenade a Sgt. Chris Speer which killed him and wounded others. Omar Khadr has been raped, tortured and sexually harassed. And so Canada is multi-sided there is some people who agree with the majority of the Americans and there is the other side that believes that Guantanamo should be closed. On January 12, 2008 Barack Obama sign an Executive Order that will shut down the prison in Guantanamo Bay will be closed within the year....The only problem now is getting the prisoners back home because very few countries what the prisoners back.
“It’s had to take a protest fully seriously when it looks like a circus – some participants seem to have taken a chute straight from Burning Man – and when its organized by Canadian magazine and a computer hacking group (Weiss). Maybe the government doesn’t want citizens to know and be informed, and that way there is less of chance of conflict, and if that’s what they might have been trying to do, it didn’t work. now there are protest growing , an article writer in The Gaurdian, Esther Addley says “The Occupy Movement went from local action to a global howl of protest, a month after its launch, more than 900 cities around the world have hosted protests affiliated to the occupy cause” (Addley). So I guess you could say that not only America but the world is coming together for something they believe
While he works he smokes marijuana and talks about it as if it were something as normal as chewing gum. One could call this film a “stoner movie,” since the entire film is about people smoking marijuana and their adventures. Later in the movie Dale Denton is a witness to murder that involves city policemen and drug dealers. Dale Denton goes to his best friend to tell him everything that he saw, another drug dealer in the film named Saul; they go off to the adventure of their lives. They run from dogs, police, and even their own friends were involved in this tangle of drugs and murder.