This just seemed irrational. The judge should have never allowed the story of Minichello’s boss being a Nazi German National to be told. This caused the jury to get worked up and diverted their attention away from the case at hand. The jury was worked up about a case and situation that had nothing to do with the one that was being tried. 7.
The FBI and The Bureau of Tobacco and Fire Arms failed to recognize the nature of millenarian beliefs because David Koresh viewed his delusions as reality of life. I think that the government didn’t think the beliefs are real because the beliefs were bizarre. Also, another reason the government didn’t take the Davidians serious because they were in cult. The ATF contributed that this event was a lot of troubles that caused a lot of people to die for a good purpose. Likewise in the First Amendment people want the government to take religious beliefs very serious in order to not cause another epidemic from happening
The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes. People in Montag’s society have been conditioned to think the suggestion of reading is a laughable subject as expressed in the quote, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That's against the law!’ ‘Oh. Of course.’” (8). The people in Montag’s society are banned by their government to read anything that has any philosophies or intellectual thought.
Overall, “McCarthyism” did nothing but hurt the United States. It made the government act like a paranoid schizophrenic for years to come, and ended up wasting time, energy, and effort by the American people that could have been used in some other area of war. McCarthy wasted time with “—the social reforms that were never adopted, the diplomatic initiatives that were not pursued, the workers who were not organized into unions, the books that were not written, and the movies that were never filmed (Schrecker,
The intelligence agencies failed to link critical fragments of information that could have revealed Al-Qaeda’s plot and prevent the attacks. It was the intelligence agencies job’s after all to detect and intercept attacks on American interests at home and abroad. CIA’s officials failed to do everything possible to confront terrorism and also failed to share information with the FBI. The 9/11 commission that looked into the intelligence failure concluded different intelligence agencies had different bits of information that no one put the pieces of the information together. The aftermath of 9/11 forced Congress to make significant changes in the intelligence community to improve and prevent future attacks.
King points out, “I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all” (218). An unjust law, to Martin Luther King Jr., is not a law that people should follow. Martin Luther King Jr. disobeyed the laws and protested did sit-ins and even spoke against the white people. Although he felt he was exercising his right to freedom of speech, everyone else felt he was breaking the laws by speaking out and not obeying the segregated areas. This led to the assassination of King in
english Analysis- Bianca Gomez On the front page of the Heraldsun newspaper, published on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. The main article titled “Treasurer has mounted an outrageous assault on free speech”, written by Terry Mccgrain. The article is placed towards global warming, the prime minister Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan. Mccgrain’s tone towards the issue of global warming and the carbon tax that was placed by Julia Gillard and how the treasurer mounted an outrageous assault on the freedom of speech, lead to it being abusive and attacking the prime minister and the treasurer. The persuasive techniques that Mccgrain used in the article to grab the attention of the readers and to explain the issue to the audience, as well as show them the a different side the representatives.
Understaffed, high pressure, 12 hour shifts with no breaks” When challenged by a reporter that this was no excuse for their behaviour he apologised for what had happened. BBC news reported that Judge Neil Ford QC had said that the acts of abuse were “vile and inexcusable” and what had happened was “a gross breach of trust” with the staff at Winterbourne View making “no attempt to provide a caring environment” and “if the BBC had not uncovered the abuse then it would have
Martha Z. Ocana 01/10/2012 GOVT 2305 Reaction Essay #1 Today I watched several videos of de Westboro Baptist Church. This people should be banned from the media in my opinion, this should not be freedom of speech. Freedom of speech should be when you’re defending a point but not hurting anyone else. It should be when you fight against people like these. I don’t know how the government allows these people to even live, they are causing damage and pain to soldier families and to gay people, the words are so hurtful and damaging that it can even lead someone to commit suicide or kill one of their members, which they’re putting themselves and their children in danger too.
It claims that after the September 11 tragedy, Bush didn’t call to have the writ of habeas corpus law suspended and the surveillance and security polices were widely attacked which only showed Bush’s weakness when it came to leading this country into the right directions. And the safety of this country was put in the wrong hands because not much went forth into picking this country up and protecting our liberty and security rights.