Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2008

$90 Crude Oil: Law of Supply and Demand Trump Politics



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Crude Oil Prices Dropped to $90/Barrel
Is Big Oil Less Greedy Now?




"International oil prices have dropped about 10 per cent in two days, the biggest slide since 2004, with US crude down to a seven-month low of about US$91 a barrel."

Oil dropped to around $90 per barrel yesterday.

What has caused the drop in crude oil prices--from over $140 just weeks ago?

Are oil companies suddenly less greedy? Did a collective light bulb go on in the heads of Big Oil executives--perhaps, after listening to all the Leftie talk about how cold-hearted they were?

Maybe it was the US House of Representatives passing a "Don't Drill Now!" bill?

Will economic conspiracy theorists have to find a new whipping boy?

Or maybe it was that strangest of economic mysteries: the Law of Supply and Demand.

Economic problems around the world, exacerbated by this week's turmoil on Wall Street, had depressed expectations of demand and affected the oil price.


Talking about "the law of supply and demand" is not politically sexy for liberals.

Bashing Big Oil is.

With the price of oil down--by as much as $55/barrel--does this mean that Big Oil is 1/3 less evil?

Will liberals and House Democrats change their rhetoric?

Does a bear wear a beanie?


by Mondo
images: dbkp; dkimages


Monday, July 14, 2008

Christians Under Sharia Law: Forced Conversions, Beatings, Rape

Kidnappings, Rape, Forced Conversions:
The Depravity Of Islam




The disturbing and bizarre practices of Islam are hardly reported in the Western press. The Western Media, using equivocation, purposeful omission, and harboring an unvoiced premise that all cultures are superior to white, Western civilization, readily ignores the antics of Muslims behaving as themselves. One of the areas routinely passed over is the sexual depravity of Islam.

To cite one recent example:

PAKISTAN: GIRLS KIDNAPPED, ALLEGEDLY FORCED TO CONVERT

A Christian father in Pakistan is in a legal battle with kidnappers for the custody of his pre-teen daughters, who allegedly have been forced to convert to Islam.

Yesterday a judge in Pakistan’s Punjab province ordered further investigation into the kidnapping of Saba Younis, 12, and Aneela Younis, 10, who went missing on June 26 in the small town of Chowk Munda. The kidnappers filed for custody of the girls at the local police house on June 28, stating that the sisters had converted to Islam and their father no longer had jurisdiction over them.

When the father of the two girls, Younis Masih, was summoned to the police house to testify, police initially refused to file a case against the kidnappers – Muhammed Arif, Abjad Ali, taxi driver Muhammed Asraf and an unidentified fourth man – who are known to belong to a powerful human trafficking ring. Instead, human rights activists told Compass News, Masih was told to “remain silent,” as the officers said the girls had embraced Islam in a written statement.



The kidnapping, marriage and rape of Christian girls is, apparently, all the rage in Islamic countries. The girls are often sold to their new husbands. Sometimes they are picked out. In the vast majority of cases the authorities refuse to act because they agree with the underlying philosophy of wiping out Christianity by forced conversion.

“I’m trying to contact the District Police Officer about the registration of the criminal case,” said Tahir. “They have not yet registered the case. It is the duty of the DPO to register the case, but he’s failing to perform his duty, so I’m trying to contact him or else I’ll take it to the high court.”




Pakistan is by no means alone in this horrendous practice. It is equally common in Egypt and The Sudan. Unlike Pakistan and The Sudan, where Sharia Law reigns and hence the kidnapping and rape of Christians is no crime, Egypt theoretically has laws that protect all citizens.

But not in practice.

And, just as it recently legalized Female Genital Mutilation, it has also started to embrace other bizarre and cruel Islamic practices.

Christians protest kidnapping, forced conversion

-Wife of Coptic priest allegedly taken by Muslim extremists in Egypt

Over 3,000 Coptic demonstrators gathered yesterday and today in Cairo, el-Minia, el-Behara and Assiut provinces to protest what they say is the abduction and forced conversion to Islam of Wafaa Constantine Messiha, the wife of a Coptic priest based in Egypt. Demonstrators charged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been indifferent to Coptic pleas for protection from Muslim-led persecution, and called on the U.S. to immediately intervene.

Recent crimes cited by the demonstrators include an increased rate of kidnapping, rapes and forced conversion of young Coptic women."


[at left: Kidnapped 10 days before her wedding]

Egypt has made a business out of kidnapping Coptic Christian girls. If a boy in school sees an attractive girl he decides should be one of his wives, he has a gang kidnap her for a fee. The gangs operate with impunity, secure in the knowledge that the government tacitly approves--often performing the service for government officials.

The girl is beaten, drugged, starved, and tortured into conversion. The happy nuptial then takes place in the room in which she is held. He rapes the girl repeatedly to consummate the " marriage". There is every intention to impregnate the girl, no matter her age.

The girl is then held in the family home as a prisoner for months, with the women of the home--particularly the boy's mother--assisting in the subjugation.

Many are never seen again by their families.

An idiosyncrasy of law and custom work to ensure compliance. Legally, a Christian cannot be guardian over a Muslim, so the kidnappers raise the defense that the girl's family has no say in her whereabouts. The authorities then are stymied and refuse to accept the complaint of the victim's family.

As for custom, Coptics, like Muslims, put great emphasis on the virginity of a bride. Indeed, some Coptics even practice the Egyptian Muslim form of Female Genitali Mutilation--the most severe form--which results in the vagina being sewn closed. This forces some girls into submissiveness because of shame. They have no idea that their families are anxiously searching for them.



No one is immune.

Gaza Christian Kidnapped Forced To Marry A Muslim

Christian university professor in Gaza was kidnapped, forced to marry a Muslim professor at the same university and now her family is being told she wants no contact with them unless they convert to Islam.

Sana al-Sayegh, head of the Science and Technology Department at Gaza City's Palestine International University, disappeared June 24, according to Palestinian Authority officials and the woman's family. Five days later, she contacted her family to say she was being held against her will so she could be married to a Muslim man.


"Returning to Christianity is a crime worthy of death in many Muslim societies. The kidnapping, rape, "marriage" and "conversion" of Christian girls and women is a common occurrence in some predominantly Muslim countries."

So much for the authorities.


The Western mind has difficulty even understanding the lack of love between spouses in Islamic marriages. The degree of misogyny is beyond the comprehension of many in the West. Beyond extreme, it manifests itself to such a degree the Western Press for the most part assumes that the common practice must be anomalous.

It is not. It is the norm.



Sure.


by pat
Images:
* my christian blood
* jcdurbant
* western resistance
Sources:

http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=&backpage=&critere=&countryname=&rowcur=

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41805
http://halfthekingdom.org/coptic%20girls.html
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=26243
http://mychristianblood.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/09/01/kidnapped-an-sos-for-mona-yacoub.html#more
http://mychristianblood.blogspirit.com/egypt/
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hyscience.com/archives/Laurence%2520Wagih%2520Emil.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/10/egypt_christian.php&h=288&w=253&sz=28&hl=en&start=47&um=1&tbnid=BpXa8SWjCITwQM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchristian%2BMuslim%2Bforced%2B marriage%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=4573&backpage=

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Dog the Bounty Hunter:

Son Sold Tabloids Info Before,
Appears to Have Violated Law


Dog's Son May Soon Be In Doghouse

Dog the Bounty Hunter:
Dog's Son Punk Sold Info to Tabloids Before
Dog's Son May Be Guilty of Violating Taping Private Conversations Law

The Dog story keeps getting more bizarre. Gloss Lip and TMZ report that Duane "Dog" Chapman's son, Tucker, had sold information about his father to the tabloids before the tape incident.

It's also been reported that his son probably violated Hawaii state law by taping the conversation and releasing it in the first place.

Startling news from TMZ and Glosslip:
It would seem that Duane “Dog” Chapman’s son Tucker has a bit of a chip on his shoulder about his famous bounty hunter dad…because this isn’t the first time he’s sold information about his dad to the tabloids:

Meanwhile, a source tells TMZ that the revelation that Dog’s son Tucker was the one who sold his father’s rant to the National Enquirer isn’t so shocking — given that he’s done it before. We’re told that just a few months back, Tucker was paid by the tabloid for a story about his dad disappearing.

Tucker seems to be upset with his father because Dog disapproves of his girlfriend, who happens to be black:

Attorney Brook Hart told The Associated Press that Chapman’s son, Tucker, sent the recording to the tabloid for “a lot of money.”

“I guess because of whatever level of anger he had of his father, he felt the need to express it in that manner,” Hart said. […]

In the conversation, Chapman urges Tucker to break up with his girlfriend. He also expresses concern about the girlfriend trying to tape and go public about the TV star’s use of the N-word.

In a statement, the 54-year-old Chapman said he has “utmost respect and aloha for black people who have suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

“I did not mean to add yet another slap in the face to an entire race of people who have brought so many gifts to this world,” he said. “I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused.”

Hart said his client is not a racist and vowed never to use the word again.

“I have never seen anything that suggests he judges people by the color of their skin or racial background or anything but on their character,” he said. “Duane lost his composure and made very, very inappropriate remarks, for which he truly regrets.”

Chapman said he was “disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character. However, I should have never used that term.”

From what I’ve read about the incident, and heard on the recording, it isn’t the fact that the girl is black that upset Dog…it was her questionable character. He seemed to be under the impression that Tucker could have chosen more wisely in his choice of companion, considering the family profession. And you know what? He’s right. When you’re in that sort of job, you do need to be very careful about the company you keep.

It also seems that Tucker, 23, has just been released from prison after serving time on a 20-year drug charge. Perhaps he needs to take a closer look at his choice of friends.
Tucker violated the law in taping the conversation and then releasing it for money? More on this development.
The statute is a bit confusing. (Or maybe it’s just been too long since I’ve practiced law.) But from what I can tell, Tucker might have a problem. The Code seems to say that someone who records a phone conversation without the permission of both parties is criminally liable. On the other hand, the Code’s commentary says: “If one of the parties to the communication authorizes its interception or recordation (e.g., in an attempt to trace obscene or extortionary telephone calls), criminal sanctions ought not to result.”
More sad news for the Dog family. Meanwhile, the door might be left open for the Dog The Bounty Hunter Show to return to TV.

MORE DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER NEWS:

Al Sharpton Responds to Dog
For audio and video tapes, as well as a total recap on the whole n-word story and news about the possible return of the Bounty Hunter to TV:
Door Open for Dog the Bounty Hunter's TV Return?

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