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Disgusted and furious with the lawlessness of looters who have put fear into citizens, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared Martial Law in the city and directed the city's 1,500 person police force to do "whatever it takes" to regain control of the city. Nagin said that Martial Law means that officers don't have to worry about civil rights and Miranda rights in stopping the looters. Amid the chaos Wednesday, thieves commandeered a forklift and used it to push up the storm shutters and break the glass of a pharmacy. The crowd stormed the store, carrying out so much ice,...

The Register's opinion pages constantly seek to find total freedom when there's no such thing ["An indecent power grab," discussing legislation to increase FCC fines for broadcasting "indecent" material, Editorials, Feb. 20]. Total freedom would hurtle us over the cliff of anarchy on which the Register keeps teetering in the misguided belief in the viewpoint that "anything goes." Sexual perversion on the screen or foul language screamed in public are not speech. They're acts that bottom-feeders of our society have insinuated into our Constitution. When we say what we think, thougn prohibited from using foul language or indeceny, we do...

"Throughout the year, Democratic politicians have been trying to split the difference with the military — saying they support the troops, while opposing the war. But that kind of sophistry won't stand. "The military wants to fight this war. Democrats don't. How long before Democrats decide that our men and women in uniform are just extensions of the president and party they detest — a bunch of warmongering, bloodthirsty and stupid imperialists? "Democratic Party bottom-feeders — like the odd and unpleasant people who inhabit the comments sections on Web sites like dailykos.com and democraticunderground.com — have already long since started...

Some persuasion techniques are more sinister. A recent scam involved 19,000 emails a day sent to innocent internet users, threatening to inform police that their computer had child pornography on it, installed by the spammer, unless a payment of around £50 was made.

Prominent San Antonio civil rights lawyer Judith Sanders-Castro was hauled to jail Wednesday, charged with contempt of court after mishandling an application for a judge's order. The 54-year-old lawyer was sentenced to three days in jail "for making willful and intentional false statements" to obtain a temporary restraining order allowing her daughter to participate in O'Connor High School graduation ceremonies May 29 at the Alamodome. The sentence was handed down by 57th District Judge Pat Boone. Sanders-Castro could be freed on appeal to a higher court. Prior to graduation rehearsal May 27, the lawyer's 17-year-old daughter, Laura Castro, was summarily...

NEW YORK TIMES, June 2, 2004 Accenture Is Awarded U.S. Contract for Borders By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JOHN MARKOFF WASHINGTON, June 1 - The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday named Accenture as the prime contractor for a multibillion-dollar project aimed at creating a "virtual border" around the country to head off would-be terrorists entering the United States. Asa Hutchinson, the under secretary in charge of border security, said the project, called U.S.-Visit was "a significant milestone in the history of the department" and in the bolstering of border security since the Sept. 11 attacks. "I really don't think you...

NEW YORK -- They weren't exactly playing dice at the foot of the cross. But here in the media epicenter of the Jesus question over the "greatest movie controversy ever manipulated" there were these lawyers, equally divided between Jewish and Christian, looking at San Francisco as their new cash cow. On the tellys high above the smoke-varnished back bar of the tavern in which they were drinking, the news screens were divided between cable talking heads discussing topic A: Mel Gibson's Jesus movie; and topic B: San Francisco's gay-marriage parade and George Bush blowing the battle trumpet against it. The...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - The Whitehouse.com Web site, one of the best examples that the Internet isn't always what it seems, is getting out of the pornography business. Its owner says he's worried what his preschool-age son might think.</p> <p>"He'll be going to kindergarten next year,'' said Daniel Parisi, who started the Web site in 1997 that is frequently confused with the official government site, www.whitehouse.gov. Parisi, 44, said he worried that his son's classmates might taunt him about the family's business.</p>

In an effort to improve its corporate reputation, adware company Gator has launched a legal offensive to divorce its name from the hated term "spyware"--and so far its strategy is paying off. In response to a libel lawsuit, an antispyware company has settled with Gator and pulled Web pages critical of the company, its practices and its software. And other spyware foes are getting the message. "There is this feeling out there that they won the lawsuit, and people are starting to get scared," said one employee of a spyware-removal company, who asked not to be named. "We haven't been...

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that the Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. cannot be held liable in the death of a 19-year-old woman who was murdered while trying to change a flat tire. The court ruled in a case stemming from the 2000 murder of Amy Stahlecker, a Wayne State College freshman who became stranded on U.S. Highway 275 west of Omaha because of a blown tire. Prosecutors said Richard Cook, 36, of Omaha, picked up Stahlecker and later shot her. Her body was found under the Elkhorn River bridge at Waterloo, about 15 miles west of Omaha....

"The scene yesterday at a drained pond in Frederick was less reminiscent of the underwater adventures of Jacques Cousteau than it was of plodding Mike Mulligan, the outdated but determined steam shovel. After three days spent diverting 1.45 million gallons of water from the one-acre pond -- a process made more taxing by occasional downpours -- yesterday's work was the more important step in the much-discussed anthrax hunt. The operation is top secret, but law enforcement sources have said that the FBI hopes to find evidence that could have been left behind by the ingenious killer who mailed out a...

<p>For illegal aliens, lawyer Javier Lopera offered an enticing promise: permanent residency.</p> <p>But those promises were false, said the federal authorities who arrested Lopera on Thursday. In approximately 1,500 cases since July, they said, he lied to officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as his clients.</p> <p>Lopera, 36, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Miami on 11 counts of conspiring to make false representations in INS petitions. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each charge, along with a $250,000 fine.</p>

MIDI - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE Please vote at least twice…McAuliffe cried One absentee and…one where you reside Please vote at least twice…or I am done Then where will I go…I'm under the gun If you have a friend…who's recently dead Take him to the polls...and prop up his head Please vote at least twice…get on the bus You are, after all, dependent on us Please vote at least twice…and then report If we do not win, we'll take it to court (That is how RATS always do it…that is how RATS always do it That is how RATS...

Business Group Seeks Relief from Trial Lawyers By Christine HallCNSNews.com Staff WriterJuly 02, 2002 (CNSNews.com) - Hammered by a growing number of costly class-action lawsuits, American businesses are asking Congress to make changes that would rein in trial lawyes. The reforms advocated by the National Association of Manufacturers -- consolidating redundant lawsuits and re-directing damage awards to injured plaintiffs rather than their lawyers. -- will help "lift one more burden off the beleaguered American business sector that finds itself in the most intensely competitive world marketplace the world has ever seen," said Michael Baroody, NAM executive vice president. He made...