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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Dick Cheney in hot water over support of waterboarding
What’s a little, er, waterboarding among friends?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is catching all sorts of flack on the internet for voicing his support of waterboarding as a tool to get information from accused terrorists.
During an interview Sunday with ABC’s reporter Jonathan Karl, Cheney said he opposed President Obama’s ban on waterboarding, an internationally recognized form of torture.
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding,” Cheney said. “I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Read transcript of interview here.
Some have gone as far as calling the former VP a war criminal.
“So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime,”Andrew Sullivan wrote earlier this week in his “Daily Dish” blog for The Atlantic. “There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life.”
What do you think?
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Court: Slamming a teacher on Facebook = free speech
A court ruling involving a high school girl who slammed a “lame” teacher online has ticked off opponents of cyber-bulling.
A federal magistrate in Florida ruled Friday that Katherine “Katie” Evans had every right under the First Amendment to diss one of her high school teachers online.
Now 19, Evans created a Facebook page about “the worst teacher I’ve ever met” as a high school senior in 2007. Evans took the page down after several other students defended the teacher.
When the school found out that there had been a page, Evans was suspended for three days and kicked out of her Advanced Placement classes.
She sued her principal in 2008, seeking to have the suspension ruled unconstitutional and reversed. She also wanted her legal fees paid and the suspension removed from her permanant record.
Magistrate Judge Barry Garber on Friday ruled that Evans, now a journalism student at the University of Florida, was right.
“Evans’ speech falls under the wide umbrella of protected speech,” Garber wrote according to the Associated Press. “It was an opinion of a student about a teacher, that was published off-campus, did not cause any disruption on-campus, and was not lewd, vulgar, threatening, or advocating illegal or dangerous behavior.”
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