http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/justice/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:46:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420055/posts Top Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says the Justice Department made the decision to handle the case of Detroit terror bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal justice system. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Brennan was asked why the Obama administration did not choose to treat Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant. "He was arrested on U.S. soil," Brennan answered. "The Department of Justice makes that determination about what is the best tool to use." Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420055/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:46:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418697/posts “Grant, I wonder if you are a football fan? Just because, if so, I hope you're demanding to the team ownership that the whole team should be put to death immediately. After all, a literal reading of the Bible does tell us that anyone who works on Sunday should be killed, right? And you've apparently linked belief in Christ with blindly following everything in the Bible.” TruthInConviction http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418697/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418367/posts The US has released the leader of an Iranian-backed Shia terror group behind the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in January 2007.Qais Qazali, the leader of the Asaib al Haq or the League of the Righteous, was set free by the US military and transferred to Iraqi custody in exchange for the release of British hostage Peter Moore, US military officers and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. The US military directly implicated Qais in the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in January 2007. “We let a very dangerous man go,... Live War Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418367/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417176/posts The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina. Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler on Monday said that as a general policy, the department does not comment on personnel matters, but she said she could confirm that Mr. Coates continues to be a Justice employee and will begin an 18-month detail with the U.S. attorney's office in South... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417176/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:15:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416994/posts The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina. Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint's filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416994/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:21:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416921/posts The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year's elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the US attorney's office in South Carolina. Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint's filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month. The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416921/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:32:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415422/posts A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport, and believes at least one other person from the flight was arrested on Friday at Detroit Metro Airport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed he was on the flight by sending a picture of his boarding pass. He and his wife, Lori, were returning from a safari in Uganda when they boarded the NWA flight on Friday. Kurt HaskellLori and... mlive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415422/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:55:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415319/posts Father reported him to US Authorities six months ago The young man, who yesterday night attempted to ignite an explosive device aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan in the United States has been identified as Abdul Farouk Umar Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, former First Bank chairman. Mutallab, a former minister and prominent banker recently retired from the bank's board. The older Mutallab, as at the time of filing this report, had just left his Katsina hometown for Abuja to speak with security agencies, family sources say. According to the family members, Mutallab... This Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415319/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:45:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410420/posts When family members decided Monday's burglary of 75-year-old Frank Dusenka's home in Chisago City, Minn., was an inside-the-family job, they didn't wait for police to investigate, according to court documents filed this week. Instead, Dusenka's son, Bradley Anthony Dusenka, and son-in-law, Marcus Lee Clay, allegedly took matters into their own hands. Specifically, they're accused of taking an ax handle and a boat oar into their own hands, kidnapping their 25-year-old nephew and beating him so severely that he spent most of this week in the hospital. mpls star & sickle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410420/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:34:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409733/posts What is the Catholic social justice principal known as “subsidiarity”?If you’re an American and you’re unfamiliar with subsidiarity in this day and age in which the federal government is about the only segment of the economy that’s growing; you better find out in a hurry.In a nutshell, the principal of subsidiarity states that matters impacting the human person should be addressed by the smallest, least centralized, most localized, competent personal authority possible. The opposite situation is realized when personal affairs are managed by larger; more centralized and detached public authorities.At the heart of the matter lies a concern for the... CE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409733/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409097/posts A mysterous Muslim group with unknown sponsors has purchased a building steps away from Ground Zero. Hudson New York reported: An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood — to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques. At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill lifts every Friday afternoon for a little known Imam leading prayers a few yards away from where Osama Bin Laden’s airborne Islamist bombers killed nearly 3000 people back in 2001.... gatewaypundit.firstthings. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409097/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:54:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the US Commission on Civil Rights. The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought documents from the department to explain why the complaint was dismissed just as a federal judge was about to punish the New Black Panther Party and three of its members for intimidating voters. Joseph H. Hunt, director of the Justice Department's Federal Programs Branch,... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408663/posts Snitches get stitches. It’s a plot point you see all the time on television and in Hollywood — a witness to a violent crime testifies at trial, only to later suffer serious retribution, usually of the violent variety itself. But how much of a problem is witness intimidation — really — in our nation’s court systems? A chilling Philadelphia Inquirer story out Monday reports that, at least in the City of Brotherly Love, it’s a gigantic problem. “It’s endemic. People are frightened to death,” said District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham. “We’ve had witness after witness intimidated, threatened, frightened.” Indeed, the... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408663/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:59:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408295/posts An 8-year-old boy has been suspended from school and forced to undergo a psychological evaluation after he drew a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. A teacher at Lowell Maxham Elementary School in Taunton, Mass., said the second-grade student created a violent drawing, the Taunton Daily Gazette reported. The boy's picture portrayed a crucified Jesus with Xs over his eyes to indicate that he had died on the cross. The child's father, outraged at the school's action, asked to remain anonymous to protect his son. He said his boy drew the picture after returning from a family trip to... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408295/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:42:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408288/posts A battle over religion is brewing in central Indiana after a public school wanted second graders to sing a song declaring, “Allah is God.” The phrase was removed just before the performance after a national conservative group launched a protest. The principal of Lantern Road Elementary School in Fishers, IN, said they were trying to teach inclusiveness through their holiday production. It included references to Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Las Posadas and Kwanzaa. However, no other deity, other than Allah, was referenced in the show. “It went off…without a hitch,” Danielle Thompson told the Indianapolis Star. “Several families thought it was... Fox News Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408288/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407804/posts I find it interesting that the English folk hero Robin Hood is best known as a thief. Given his tendency to dispense loot to the poor, Hood’s thievery may seem iconic and exemplary to those who advocate the kind of “redistributive justice” spoken of by President Barrack Obama. However, when one delves deeper into the folklore, Hood seems far more iconic of something entirely different. We must acknowledge folklore is never definitive. There is no canon, so to speak. Folklore evolves, grows, and takes on new dimensions. The earliest known references to Robin Hood suggest him to have been a... Fightin Words http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407804/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:06:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407224/posts Our country is in big trouble ... huge trouble. It is time that Americans took a hard look at our values, our conception of justice, and our standards for truth. This piece is intended as a first step in that direction. 1) Values The story of Tiger Woods and his (now admitted) "infidelity" is everywhere. The Woods' story has piqued the prurient interests of America and the world. The story has dominated the mainstream media for days while the injustice being committed against our Navy Seals and the revelation of the computer code from the CRU (exposing the biggest hoax... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407224/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:45:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406671/posts Early in life, I decided that I would try to be a relatively honest person, so I never went to law school. I opted, instead, for early retirement and became a college professor. But, now, I'm not so sure I made the right choice. You see, I just saw the opportunity of a life time for even a midling grade defense attorney--taking on the defense of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ... and any other captured 9/ll terrorist. In fact, anyone who has just watched enough episodes of Law and Order could probably make out like a terr... err ... I mean... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406671/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406670/posts Early in life, I decided that I would try to be a relatively honest person, so I never went to law school. I opted, instead, for early retirement and became a college professor. But, now, I'm not so sure I made the right choice. You see, I just saw the opportunity of a life time for even a midling grade defense attorney--taking on the defense of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ... and any other captured 9/ll terrorist. In fact, anyone who has just watched enough episodes of Law and Order could probably make out like a terr... err ... I mean... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406670/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405722/posts The Land of Lincoln may still be licking its wounds–and certain real estate transactions–over Chicago’s losing the Olympics to Rio, but the Obama Administration has delivered up a small consolation prize: the state’s very own federal prison for terrorists. Big Government has received what is claimed to be a leaked DOJ memo that was allegedly sent yesterday from Eric Holder’s Department of Justice to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Memo below: Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405722/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403286/posts With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. "Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403286/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:20:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399523/posts Dyron HartA young African-American man from Mississippi who admitted in August to sending death threats over Facebook while posing as a white supremacist received three years of probation from a federal court judge in New Orleans on Wednesday. The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399523/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:54:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399331/posts Harold A. Fish, 62, convicted of second-degree murder in a Coconino County trailside shooting death of Grant Kuenzli, is no longer a convicted felon. The Arizona Supreme Court Tuesday declined a request by Attorney General Terry Goddard to review the state appellate court's overturning of Fish's conviction. "He's now a free man," said Fish's Flagstaff-based attorney Lee Phillips. "He's no longer convicted of an offense, and justice has prevailed." Fish was convicted in June 2006 for the May 2004 shooting death of Kuenzli on a National Forest trail in the far southeast corner of the county. He argued at trial... Arizona Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399331/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397834/posts Current law prohibits the community organization ACORN and its associated groups from receiving any federal funds from any federal law currently on the books. However, the Eric Holder Justice Department has interpreted the law as allowing federal agencies to pay ACORN for "binding contractual obligations" made before the current prohibition was enacted. This questionable interpretation may go a long way toward neutralizing ACORN's funding prohibition. The actual ban reads as follows: "None of the funds made available from this joint resolution or any other prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397834/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:20:18 GMT