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50 Free Resources for Lawyers to Create Their Own Websites

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James Woods Takes Brother

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Unconstitutional Locked up for life at 13 - Only in America

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Bong Water Counts as an Illegal Drug? | DrugReporter | AlterNet

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Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer

The Associated Press tells the story of Michael Fiola, a former Massachusetts... more

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Restaurateur, pot-smoking patron take fight to court

Federal government lawyers will ask a judge today to throw out the case of an Ontario... more

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Update on kids-for-cash judge: Up to 6,500 juvenile convictions tossed out by Pa. Supreme Court

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20091030/NEWS01/910300316/1002/NEWS01 The... more

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Congressman gives a history lesson on marijuana prohibition

Rep. Steve Cohen discusses the harms of drug prohibition with other members of Congress.

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Scientologist Church convicted of fraud by French court

Paris, France — the Church of Scientology and six of its members were convicted of... more

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Man got salary from a company he never worked for

SOMERVILLE, N.J. — Anthony Armatys, 35, of Palatine, Ill. pleaded guilty for... more

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Karadzic court case due to resume

The genocide and war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is... more

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King Abdullah graces a journalist

Journalist Rozanna al-Yami was ready to get 60 lashes inflicted by the Saudi court.... more

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Polygamist sect focus of rare trial in Texas town

SAN ANGELO, Texas — The first jury trial in more than a decade in the sleepy West... more

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Judges can allow Twitter in court after iiNet movie piracy coverage

The Federal Court will leave it up to individual judges to decide if court cases can... more

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British Court Orders Release of Gitmo Documents Showing Torture by US

An American document that allegedly describes the torture of a former Guantanamo Bay... more

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Fake class action

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Why Is “Diversity” Good?

A "steel-eyed" look at how diversity, a hot-bed discussion before and after political... more

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Judge Blocks Public from Blackwater Hearings

"A federal judge Wednesday blocked the public from attending a critical set of pretrial hearings in the prosecution of five U.S. security contractors accused of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a 2007 shooting.

The hearings, which are expected to last through Friday, will examine whether the government improperly used immunized statements by the Blackwater Worldwide security guards in its investigation. The guards gave the statements to the State Department shortly after the controversial shooting Sept. 16, 2007, in a busy Baghdad square.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina said Wednesday that he was closing the hearings because he wanted to shield witnesses and potential jurors from pretrial publicity. He also cited concerns about the disclosure of grand jury material. Urbina said he wanted to ensure the guards received a fair trial.

The five guards -- Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Donald Ball -- are charged with voluntary manslaughter and weapons violations in the killing of 14 civilians and the wounding 20 others. The Justice Department alleges that the guards unleashed an unprovoked attack on Iraqi civilians in Nisoor Square while in a convoy. One guard, Jeremy P. Ridgeway, has pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against the others.

Blackwater, which has since renamed itself Xe, had a contract to provide security for the State Department in Iraq.

The proceedings underway in the District's federal court, known as Kastigar hearings, will probe how well investigators gathered evidence without being tainted by those immunized statements. If the judge finds the government's case is tainted, he might be forced to throw out the indictment."

Fair trial? Throw out the indictment?

Contractors are mercenaries under a contract, hence the name, and part of the contract is that they cannot be prosecuted for crimes that the average American soldier would be under United States and International Law. Essentially, the have immunity.

So, when Blackwater, Xe, Executive Outcomes, Halliburton, KBR, BAE Systems have their mercenaries shoot up villages and revel in the plunder of heroin and prostitutes, American soldiers get hit with the retaliation, and in the case of Afghanistan, they're about to hit back real hard. Think Vietnam was bad? Wait til he Taliban start their "Tet Offensive."

These "peacekeepers" are now patrolling the streets of the US as part of an international police force. Google 'G20 police pittsburgh' and click on images. Remember, contractor=mercenary and they have no allegiance to the United States or the Constitution. They work under a different contract and they get private trials."A federal judge Wednesday blocked the public from attending a critical set of... more