tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post3232312999632710810..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Plumbing of Israeli Democracy: An Acceptable McCarthyite Law?Yaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-1509384447824602612010-08-21T10:43:50.103+03:002010-08-21T10:43:50.103+03:00last night I had an epiphany
Israel should start a...last night I had an epiphany<br />Israel should start an NAF-Fund aka New America Fund its goal of course being to help the US's democracy to live up to its own ideals and language.<br /><br />the revelation that there is an urgent need came to me when I read this (the piece is from 1997 and April 1 to boot, but to the best of my knowledge Harper's Magazine is a serious magazine and Michael Pollan has by now become a revered food guru who even by my standards has often something sensible to say about the subject.)<br /><br />Silke<br /><br /><i> It seems that Washington, like many states, has a law under which tenants charged with drug crimes may be summarily evicted; after the bust, someone from the sheriff’s office had paid Hogshire’s landlady a visit, notifying her of her “rights” in this regard and urging her to serve the Hogshires with an eviction notice. It sounded to me like a <b>violation of Hogshire’s right to due process</b>—after all, he hadn’t been found guilty of anything. This was my first introduction to what civil-liberties lawyers have taken to calling <b>“the drugs exception to the Bill of Rights”</b>. </i><br />http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/opium-made-easy/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-91266805431024723152010-08-18T17:11:22.430+03:002010-08-18T17:11:22.430+03:00Here's a sensible column on the issue (hat tip...<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3938723,00.html" rel="nofollow">Here's a sensible column</a> on the issue (hat tip: Martin Kramer).<br /><br />http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3938723,00.htmlBarry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-27516260087149503692010-08-17T21:11:01.079+03:002010-08-17T21:11:01.079+03:00"It's a very odd place, our far left.&quo..."It's a very odd place, our far left."<br />It seems an awfully lot like our American left, ie, rules and regulations are for thee, not for me.ShrinkWrappedhttp://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com