[The Hindu] The Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans, an openly gay Tory MP, was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the weekend over allegations of rape and sexual assault brought by two men he described as his "friends".
He was released on bail after being questioned all day on Saturday about the alleged offences which, according to the police, took place between July 2009 and March this year.
The arrest of the 55-year-old popular and high profile politician, who has been an MP for more than two decades and has held senior positions in the party, stunned Westminster with his colleagues saying they were "shell-shocked".
Mr. Evans came out as "gay" three years ago saying he was "tired of living a lie".
In a brief statement to news hounds outside his picturesque constituency cottage in the village of Pendleton, Lancashire, Mr. Evans described the allegations as "completely false" and said he had "socialised" with one of the complainants as recently as last week.
"Yesterday I was interviewed by the police concerning two complaints - one of which dates back four years, made by two people who are well-known to each other, and who until yesterday I regarded as friends. The complaints are completely false and I cannot understand why they have been made, especially as I have
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Considering this is coming from one of the biggest promoters of replacing all our freedoms with government choosing what is best for us you will forgive me if I cling to my gun harder and tell him to go to hell.
[MEDIAITE] South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick I don't want to buy the black vote. I just want to rent it for a day Harpootlian ...once and present chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Harpootlian is the man who, when he lost to a Publican in 1994, said The people have spoken. The bastards... is getting some heat today for a comment he made about that state's Republican governor at Friday night's Jefferson-Jackson dinner, shortly before Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... took the stage. Harpootlian's comment came during his introduction of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen. "In about 18 months from now," he said, "hopefully he'll have sent Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... back to wherever the hell she came from."
The comment drew cheers and laughs from the audience in attendance, but Harpootlian is now facing harsh criticism, given Governor Nikki Haley's Indian heritage.
"Unfortunately, this seems to be a trend coming from the South Carolina Democratic Party," Haley front man Rob Godfrey said in a statement. "Fortunately, the people of South Carolina are better than Harpootlian and his ilk, and we have faith that they will see right through their consistent attempts to play to the lowest common denominator."
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Harpootlian = Armenian - Buddy take you own advise ! Pack up the Harpootlian family and take'm back to Armenia or issue a sincere apology to Nikki Haley for your remark about her Indian heritage. Your remarks show you have saw dust for brains, Dick.
A little Donk history [which they hide like Lefty academics hide the fact that the National Socialists Workers Party were Socialist] -
the Democrats:
Supported slavery in 6 platforms from 1840-1860.
Opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution that successively wiped out slavery and gave both legal rights and voting rights to black Americans.
Supported segregation actively or by silence in 20 platforms from 1868-1948.
Opposed anti-lynching laws, specifically supported by the GOP in four platforms between 1912 and 1928.
Opposed the GOP-sponsored Civil Rights Acts of 1866, which focused on legal equality for blacks.
Opposed the GOP on giving voting rights to blacks in the District of Columbia in 1867. The legislation was passed over the Democrats objection.
Nominated an 1868 presidential ticket of New York Governor Horatio Seymour and ex-Missouri Congressman Francis Blair. The Democrats pledged they would declare the Civil Rights laws passed by the GOP null and void and would refuse to enforce them. They lost to Ulysses Grant.
Opposed the Enforcement Acts, three laws passed by the GOP between 1870 and 1871 targeting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and making it a federal crime to block the right of blacks to vote, hold office, serve on juries and have equal protection of the laws with whites.
Opposed the GOP Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination of blacks in public accommodations.
Used the Ku Klux Klan as what Columbia University historian Eric Foner calls a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party. Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Treleases description of the Klan as the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. Nor is there mention of the infamous 1924 Democratic Convention the Klanbake as it is known to history because hundreds of the delegates were Klan members. The Klan-written platform mixed the traditional Democratic message of progressivism and racism in the Klan-written platform.
Repealed the Civil Rights laws enacted by GOP Congresses and presidents, already damaged by the Supreme Court. When Democrats gained control of both Congress and the White House in 1892, the Democrats President Grover Cleveland signed the repeal on February 8, 1894.
With the special election between Mark Sanford and Stephen Colbert's sister for the SC1 Congressional seat coming up on Tuesday, state Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian promised to send Sanford back to the plantation. A Democratic fundraiser was held Friday night which Joe Biden headlined. At the party, Dick promised to send Sanford back to the plantation.
Were not the fools you think we are, Harpootlian said, and were gonna send Mark Sanford back to the plantation, or Argentina or wherever the hell he hangs out.
Dick is on a roll on 05/04/2013 he attacked Mark Sanford.
Were not the fools you think we are,
No Harpootlian you are serious village idiot, and you represent Democrats... well!/?
[CNSNEWS] To reduce the growing prison population and escalating prison costs, the U.S Bureau of Prisons says it is now revising its "compassionate release" rules so more ailing and aging inmates can be freed.
A report from the Justice Department's inspector general says the revised rules will expand the compassionate release program by making inmates with a life expectancy of up to 18 months eligible for consideration (versus the current 12 months).
The revised rules also will explain what level of functioning is "extraordinary and compelling" enough for inmates to be considered for release.
The OIG report notes that the Justice Department's FY 2013 budget request identified $3.2 million in savings to be achieved by expanding the BOP's compassionate release program.
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The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. At year-end 2009, it was 743 adults incarcerated per 100,000 population.
It is costing a lot of money to keep them in jail. A better solution is to experiment with other forms of penalties like fines, home arrest and internal exile.
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home arrest and internal exile
They can't leave their bodies?
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Shouldn't release the low level offenders, but permanently remove the high end offenders to make room. You know a lot of the low level will be politicians. Of course they want a precedent. Cost per day for Supermax vs cost per day for trustee level. A nation that yawns to the butchery of a Gosnell, should have no problem with removing real threats to its citizens and society.
Prisons, where in the most secure police state government has to offer, there are still assaults, murders and rapes...just no freedoms.
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A recent article quoted a prison psychologist as saying 1/4 of the prisoners in medium security prisons are sociopaths.
Given the percent of social predators that will be released, we should be concerned about who is being "compassionate" here.
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It's a good thing we have laws against released or probationary felons being able to have guns, or else all these new gun control laws restricting the law abiding citizens would really hurt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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