How Bad Is It? EDITED

Medical testing on inmates could be allowed

“PHILADELPHIA — An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse…

…Until the early 1970s, about 90 percent of all pharmaceutical products were tested on prison inmates, federal officials say. But such research diminished sharply in 1974 after revelations of abuse at prisons such as the Pennsylvania Prison System in Holmesburg, Penn., where inmates were paid hundreds of dollars a month to test items as varied as dandruff treatments and dioxin, and were exposed to radioactive, hallucinogenic and carcinogenic chemicals.”

“Paging Doctor Mengle, Doctor Mengle to the phone please.”

American Citizens Stuck Bewteen a Rock and a Hard Place

(08-26) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in Pakistan, placing the U.S. citizens in an extraordinary legal limbo.
Muhammad Ismail, a 45-year-old naturalized citizen born in Pakistan, and his 18-year-old son, Jaber Ismail, who was born in the United States, have not been charged with a crime. However, they are the uncle and cousin of Hamid Hayat, a 23-year-old Lodi cherry packer who was convicted in April of supporting terrorists by attending a Pakistani training camp….

..."They've been given the opportunity to meet with the FBI over there and answer a few questions, and they've declined to do that," Scott said.

Mass said Jaber Ismail had answered questions during an FBI interrogation at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad soon after he was forced back to Pakistan. She said the teenager had run afoul of the FBI when he declined to be interviewed again without a lawyer and refused to take a lie-detector test…

"They can't be compelled to waive their constitutional rights under threat of banishment," Mass said. "The government is conditioning the return to their home on cooperation with law enforcement."

These are your rights the government is messing with people. If they had something on these guys, they would have filed charges and asked for extradition. As it is, they are arbitrarily revoking the Constitutional rights of American citizens. In a few years, it could be you or me.

And let's not forget that last year...

U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules

Is there any way this adminstration hasn't attacked our freedoms as Americans?



I tell you again, the greatest threat to American Freedom is sitting in the Oval Office.

EDIT: Last night the Stephen Colbert Report had Ramesh Ponnuru on touting his new book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life

During the course of the interview, he claimed that the Supreme Court had "given women the right to umlimited abortions at any point during their pregnancy".

One would think to write about about a SCOTUS ruling, an author would have bothered to actually read the ruling. Roe Vs. Wade does NOT give the right to volutary abortions at any time during pregnancy but limits it to the first trimester only. After that it is at the states discretion and most states have their own laws limiting volutary abortions to the first trimester only.

In fact, here's a pretty spreadsheet updated to 2002.

The argument over abortion is a legitimate one, but when the Right to Lifers and Neocons do things like this they just make their side of the argument look like a pack of idiots and liars.

But then, what can you expect from an author endorsed by Ann Coulter?