Armando Aguilar, the president of Miami's Fraternal Order of Police was widely cited as claiming that Eugene must have been under the influence of drugs, probably some kind of "bath salts." (Sullum). Paul Adams, a local emergency room physician, does not seem to have explicitly blamed Eugene's crime on bath salts; however, WFOR used him to confirm and amplify Aguilar's unfounded speculation, treating the two as interchangeable experts. As the story picked up, so did America’s fear of a street drug so bad it would turn users into flesh eating killers. Almost overnight, the attention to a ‘drug’ with nearly no research on it became the new evil of the drug world.
After this Harrison verbally agreed to let the investigators search his apartment. During the search a gun was found hidden under a sink. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment is not a guarantee against all searches and seizures, but only those that are deemed unreasonable under the law. The Exclusionary Rule prevents the court from using any evidence collected after an unreasonable search and seizure.
Lily says, "What can they do to you with the policeman right here?’ That was when the dealer lifted the flashlight over his head, then down, smashing it into Rosaleen’s forehead."(35). This is a big moment for Lily because this is where she first sees racism happening. It is not directly happening to her, but she is experiencing it for the first time. Also Lily realizes here just how racist some people are, and that just because of a law that is passed people will not change their ways easily. At the end of the novel Lily shows that the race of a person does
The Destruction of the American Freedom An instruction memo, discarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states, “under certain circumstances, the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law and impinge upon the freedom of others”. Federal counter-terrorism agencies like FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) protect citizens and the constitution of the United States of America.. However, what happens when these agencies stop believing in the laws they are to enforce? In the novel, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, the DHS, turns San Francisco into a police state and break the law they are to preserve. The DHS is so determined to protect society from terrorism that ultimately they destroy the freedom that they are striving to protect.
The book then goes on to disqualify many of common myths about marijuana and uses scientific studies along with logic and expert opinions to give weight to their claims. Afterwards the authors explain that with the current system of penalties we have for drinking alcohol versus consuming cannabis, the law is driving us to make the unhealthier choice of drinking alcohol; they then explain the consequences of this action.
• Hyperbole-The counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect. o There are a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar energy. • Understatement-Deliberately expresses an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact. o The 1906 San Francisco earthquake interrupted business somewhat in the downtown area. • Litotes-A particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used.
A Summary of “Lights Out!-A Faxlore Phenomenon” In the article “Lights Out! A Faxlor Phenomenon,” Jan Brunvand reveals that due to the modern communication technology and news media reports the “Lights Out!” warning was spread nationwide, making people consider the gang initiation ritual to be true when ultimately the warning was based on poor grammar, minor details, and no evidence of any kind. Rumors of the “Lights Out!” spreading throughout the country like an airborne virus by the means of fax, which Brunvand considered a faxlore phenomenon, concerned numerous civilians about the gang initiation ritual, even though police officials denied any involvement with faxing the warnings (20-21). Brunvand stated that most of the flyers he received had been distributed to major cities across the nation from Los Anglos to New York by the help of many companies and institutions. Indiana University students at Kokomo learned that the rumor had been spread by word of mouth through the use of telephones and radio broadcast (21-23).
The problems caused by the Patriot Act are affecting ordinary civilian, especially legal immigrants. This law authorizes of indefinite detentions of immigrants; law enforcement officers search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s permission or knowledge; allows the FBI to search telephone, e-mail, and financial records without a court order. Most of the Act only affects to the immigrants. Martin Luther King Jr. writes, “An unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself” (par. 15).
1994,When Technology Fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century, Gale Research, Detroit, pp.81-86. This article assesses the causes and consequences of accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii (1989). The authors enlighten two other accidents which were connected severely with this accident which are Pan Am 747-100(1987) and Kennedy International Airport 747-200 (1991) . Schlager, Neil (ed.) 1994 conclude that the real causes of this disaster were weak locks of the door and the stray signals produced by some pair of wires which made the opened itself without any command.
Lindsey Bustos Ms. Paulson CO-150: College Composition 2/13/13 “Privacy Strikes Back” Summary: In Jeffery Rosen’s article, “Privacy Strikes Back” published on November 11, 2010 in The New Republic he talks about recent issues of one’s privacy invasion online and the legal troubles surrounding it. The author’s thesis is that when someone’s sexual surveillance privacy is invaded they should have the right to sue but without interfering with anyone’s freedom of speech. Rosen states in his article that, “…as evidence that personal surveillance technologies have spun so far out of control that nothing can reign them in.” Rosen provides many examples of cases that have happened recently that have ended scandalously and tragically.