Ah election time, the
things that happen. Via
wolfkit.
Arnie seems to
carry some weight with Californians.
What one
can learn from post-election comment. Via
razerwolf.
Actually, compared to those other 'programmatic North-East liberals', McGovern in 72, Mondale in 84 and Dukakis in 88, Kerry did relatively well, as one can see from this
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What about detention for asylum-seekers? I suppose it is not 'random', and one can get out if one agrees to leave, but I am not sure the US is being 'random' either.
I don't know that, in a spectrum of rights and legal processes, we would come out notably ahead. The provisions of the Patriot Act people were getting so worked up about are mostly already Australian law.
Mind you, both countries are lily-livered softies compared to the French: France has a strikingly harsh anti-terrorism policy. It has had no qualms in making the most of laws allowing the detention of terrorist suspects without trial for months on end. All four of its nationals repatriated from Guantánamo Bay were detained on a judge's instruction on their return to France. Dominique de Villepin, Mr Sarkozy's successor as interior minister, has been unyielding in his determination to expel imams guilty of hate crimes. When an expulsion order against Abdelkader Bouziane, an Algerian cleric based near Lyon, was overruled in the courts, Mr de Villepin changed the law-and Mr Bouziane was on the next plane out.
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Here, they are just a prerogative of the Executive. Mind you, Howard has been a pretty cautious appointer of judges. He goes for judicial conservatives (i.e. those who are likely to be pretty restrained in their judgements, and not change the law much), though of notable quality.
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