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MARENC Speech Notes

Mr. Ross Cameron, MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services
To Open the Marriage and Relationship Educators' National Conference (MARENC)
Lincoln College, Adelaide
Friday 26 September 2003

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MARENC Speech Notes

Mr. Ross Cameron, MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services
To Open the Marriage and Relationship Educators' National Conference (MARENC)
Lincoln College, Adelaide
Friday 26 September 2003

Read more... )
Mood:: 'crappy' crappy
Music:: Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who (Original Titles Music)
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:25pm on 15/08/2005 under , , ,
Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:
If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.
Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.


http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php



wonder if we have a human rights industry here? and what kind of bling does it have?

i want the bling.
Mood:: 'bitchy' bitchy
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:25pm on 15/08/2005 under , , ,
Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:10 AM ET
Former London police chief says human rights "industry" has stranglehold on UK
Alexandria Samuel

[JURIST] Former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord John Stevens slammed British human rights groups [on] Sunday for their efforts to block the controversial new UK policy of deporting persons preaching violence or hatred or posing a threat to national security. Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the policy changes earlier this month following the July London bombings, and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke subsequently announced plans to deport 10 foreign Islamists arrested last week under the antiterror measures. In an article for the News of the World weekly, the outspoken Stevens wrote:
If the human rights industry hadn't managed to secure its stranglehold on Britain, they would have been kicked out years ago. Now, hand-wringing civil rights lawyers and like-minded judges will go into top gear to keep them here.
Best known for his role in chairing investigations into collusion between security forces in Northern Ireland and loyalist paramilitaries, Stevens retired as London Police Commissioner in February 2005. AFP has more.


http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/former-london-police-chief-says-human.php



wonder if we have a human rights industry here? and what kind of bling does it have?

i want the bling.
Mood:: 'bitchy' bitchy
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 01:52pm on 25/07/2005 under , , , , ,

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Real ID Act ruling [US DC]
10:20 PM ET

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real ID Act, their authority to hear deportation cases]. Excerpt:
For 217 years, through boom and bust, insurgency, civil war, and terrorist attack, this Court--the oldest United States District Court in America--has carefully and prudentially administered the Writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the rights of the individual against overreaching by the executive.

Mr. Enwonwu commenced his action in this Court on March 17, 2005, had an initial hearing 25 days later, and a full evidentiary hearing two weeks after that. This Court took the matter under advisement and commenced a detailed and reflective analysis of an evidentiary record both complex and deeply disturbing.

Then on May 11, 2005, the Congress stripped this Court of jurisdiction to act in this pending case and all others like it. Though such direct congressional interference in a pending case is virtually unprecedented in all our history, this surprising mandate has gone utterly unnoticed by our people. Evidently, only where an American jury sits to validate the separation of powers among the three branches is trial court jurisdiction immune from such peremptory congressional action.

How can this be in modern day America?
Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.
Music:: Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Mood:: 'indescribable' indescribable
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 01:52pm on 25/07/2005 under , , , , ,

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Real ID Act ruling [US DC]
10:20 PM ET

Enwonwu v. Chertoff, et al., US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, July 13, 2005 [ruling chastising Congress for a "virtually unprecedented" attack on judicial independence and for putting a "chokehold" on federal courts by removing, via the Real ID Act, their authority to hear deportation cases]. Excerpt:
For 217 years, through boom and bust, insurgency, civil war, and terrorist attack, this Court--the oldest United States District Court in America--has carefully and prudentially administered the Writ of Habeas Corpus to secure the rights of the individual against overreaching by the executive.

Mr. Enwonwu commenced his action in this Court on March 17, 2005, had an initial hearing 25 days later, and a full evidentiary hearing two weeks after that. This Court took the matter under advisement and commenced a detailed and reflective analysis of an evidentiary record both complex and deeply disturbing.

Then on May 11, 2005, the Congress stripped this Court of jurisdiction to act in this pending case and all others like it. Though such direct congressional interference in a pending case is virtually unprecedented in all our history, this surprising mandate has gone utterly unnoticed by our people. Evidently, only where an American jury sits to validate the separation of powers among the three branches is trial court jurisdiction immune from such peremptory congressional action.

How can this be in modern day America?
Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST’s Paper Chase here.
Music:: Adam Ant - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Mood:: 'indescribable' indescribable

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