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Los Angeles Judge Lance Ito has requested former White House official Scooter Libby be asked to serve additional “sleep time” on top of the already hefty thirty month sentence imposed by Ito’s California court.
Citing “occasionally successful correctional findings” spotlighted in a Swiss study on sleep penalties, Judge Ito ordered the Libby jury, which has officially recessed, to reconvene at his Bel Air home this Friday evening to discuss the imposition of sleep penalties in the Libby case.
“I think it’s certainly bizarre, said Austrian skier Heinz Twist, who had intended only to visit Hollywood for a three day vacation before a sherrif’s deputy requested he serve on the Libby jury. “I don’t dislike America, or Judge Ito, but I’d really rather get back home to my family in Austria.”
Other jurors expressed similar frustrations. Lawrence Libby, who is the defendant’s brother, and was also forced to serve on the jury which convicted the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff of nineteen counts of perjury, said “I don’t want to go. But I will go. I want to see Judge Ito’s house.”
Regarding the odd choice of sleep penalties in the Libby case, Judge Ito commented, “The Swiss don’t send people to jail; they send them to sleep. The end result is there’s far less prison-overcrowding, and generally when people wake up, so much time has gone by that they forget they’ve committed crimes altogether.”
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December 18 2007 | George Bush | No Comments »
Well, I like the rest of the world, have long wondered what could possibly bring an end to the endless spiral of violence in Iraq. At long last a solution has appeared. No, it is not the Bush administration pulling out and leaving the Sunni’s and Shia’s to fight it out amongst themselves, it is not a troop surge, or even an attack on Iran. It is something much more simple, something people do every day all over the world (Japanese people exluded), the simple act of hugging! continue reading »
March 22 2007 | Iraq and George Bush and Foreign Affairs | No Comments »
New reports released this week show that the White House is already in the process of searching for a replacement for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as his support among republicans quickly erodes. This comes following the revelation that US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was given poor standing on the now infamous ranking list Gonzales had made of US District Attorneys, despite Fitzpatrick’s spotless record and widely praised performance as a top attorney, even winning the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service back in 2002.
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March 20 2007 | 2008 Elections and Republicans and George Bush and Alberto Gonzales and Patrick Fitzgerald and CIA Leak Scandal | No Comments »
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales remains in the firing line over the firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys, a move Washington insiders say was politically motivated. Sen. Patrick Leahy has called for subpoenas against White House officials involved in the firings, including Bush strategist Karl Rove and ex-White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers. Leahy has vowed to get to the bottom of the scandal saying he will settle for nothing less than public testimony from those involved. continue reading »
March 19 2007 | Iraq and Republicans and George Bush and FBI and Scandals and Karl Rove | No Comments »
As the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war approaches tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched in a rally at the Pentagon. Saturday’s rally was organized by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) who led the march with chants of “US out of Iraq Now.” Demands for immediate withdrawl of troops were made by Ramsey Clark, former US attorney general and well known anti-war advocate Cindy Sheehan. continue reading »
March 18 2007 | Iraq and 2008 Elections and George Bush and Anti-war and Pentagon | No Comments »
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier this week in a newspaper article sent warnings to the US not to attempt to divide Europe into ‘New’ and ‘Old’ following US announcement of plans to deploy missiles into Poland and the Czech Republic as part of their unpopular Missile Shield program. Steinmeier warned such a move could lead to a new arms race in the region, a development which would run counter to Germany’s policy of increasing disarmament. continue reading »
March 17 2007 | Republicans and George Bush and NATO and Foreign Affairs and Condoleeza Rice | No Comments »
In a speech given Thursday night at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner President George W. Bush pledged to recover the Republican party’s control of the Senate and the House by 2008. He touted tax cuts, a strong economy and the creation of 7.5 million jobs as proof that his policies are strong and correct. continue reading »
March 16 2007 | 2008 Elections and Republicans and George Bush | No Comments »
In the annals of human conflict there is no more disturbing aspect than the practice of terrorism. Contrary to what the Bush administration would have you believe, terrorism is not an enemy, it is a technique. Declaring a war on terror, to paraphrase a U.S. military commander who’s name I have now forgotten, is the same as declaring a war on night raids. It is a war which cannot be one as there is no clearly defined enemy. This is indeed true, and I would add that further, using the method of terrorism is a guarantee that your cause will not prevail. continue reading »
January 30 2007 | George Bush and Anti-war and Terrorrism and Chechnya | No Comments »