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- 1291: Catch 22: What’s Fair Isn’t Fair
- ... which is possible to honor the contract, which provides him with money. It is purely a matter of business. The purpose of any war is to preserve the nation. The government has no financial interest in the war—the military’s only purpose is to kill the enemy and leave. Why would the military want to gain money? The wars are ... s interests only. Money is not as important as suppressing the enemy. To test this assumption, we should again turn to Milo. He says, "I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry," (269). This statement makes sense, if one believes that the aforementioned statements are true. Why does not the government just leave the war to private industry? I am sure American private industries could do an equally adequate job at crushing the enemy as our military could. Of course, ...
- 1292: Sex Marriage
- ... Ms. Rovira and her partner, Ms. Forlini, formalized their relationship in a ceremony where the two women exchanged rings and vows. However, because this ceremony is not recognized by the government, Ms. Rovira was denied the benefits that would have been given to her if she was a man who had gone through the same ceremony. An AT&T spokesperson, Maureen ... lot harder to discriminate against homosexuals and deny them the benefits which heterosexuals can receive. If the innate sexual preference of any given person cannot be changed, the United States government can no longer keep homosexuals from the rights which they deserve(World Press Review, 1993). Though it may seem beneficial to the struggle for gay rights, if a "gay gene ... of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.' This means that a state government cannot make a law which denies someone his or her rights. It is a homosexuals right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness which is being denied by DOMA ...
- 1293: Gandhi
- ... the Indians to claim their rights, and their resistance to oppressive legislation and executive measures, such as the imposition of a poll tax on them, or the declaration by the government that all non-Christian marriages were to be construed as invalid. In 1909, on a trip back to India, Gandhi authored a short treatise entitled Hind Swaraj or Indian Home ... a Red Cross unit in the Boer War, and organised a commune near Durban based on the ideas of Leo Tolstoy. Gandhi finally returned to India in 1915, after the government of the Union of South Africa had made important concessions to his demands, including recognition of Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them. After travelling all over ... and middle peasantry, and youth, and giving it a truly national basis. Following the Amritsar Massacre in 1919, Gandhi led a nation-wide campaign of passive non-cooperation with the government of British India, including the boycott of British goods. He was never to leave the country again except for a short trip that took him to Europe in 1931. ...
- 1294: Ritalin
- ... in addition, the illegal side effect of abuse comes along into the picture. Classified as a Schedule II controlled substance, Ritalin comes under strict regulations and quotas from the federal government dictating the amount of the drug that can be manufactured (Bailey 2). Abusing the drug usually takes place by snorting or injecting Ritalin into the body which stimulates cocaine-like ... no larger than a tic found in the woods in size (Bailey 2). As ADD diagnosis increases, doctors' demand for Ritalin increases to distribute to the patient; however, due to government restrictions on manufacturing quotas, the amount of the drug available is limited and abuse of the drug hinders the number of pills on the legal market (Bailey 2). Hancock alerts ... on the school yards of America; enterprising children see the opportunity to make some money and neglect their parents' waste of money every time a prescription is written (56). Even government regulations cannot control Ritalin with policemen on every playground in the United States. Society reaps a harvest of malignant effects by the abuse of Ritalin and most people see ...
- 1295: Air Bags Can Kill
- ... But in order to have a switch installed, the driver must file a request for an air bag on-off switch. People shouldn’t have to seek permission from the government to disable a device that has been found to be responsible for many deaths from their vehicles. According to The Oracle, “Turning off the airbags”, (http://zephyr.oracle.usf.edu ... can cause chemical burns and even blindness. The dangers of airbags are so great that car manufacturers now put warning labels in vehicles explaining the dangers. Now, according to CNN, “Government announces rules for air bag switches,” (http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/18/airbags.presser/index.html), if the owner of a vehicle or a passenger has a medical condition ... a good start in saving lives, it is not enough. Everyone can’t have switches installed in their vehicles, just people who meet the requirements set by the NHSTA. The government shouldn’t have to decide whether or not air bags pose a treat to individual passengers and drivers. As Henry Thoreau says in “Civil Disobedience” Conversations p.642, “government ...
- 1296: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... on September 30th, 1991, history repeated its cycle once more as there occurred a military coup under the leadership of Lt. Gen. Rauol Cedras which overthrew the popularly elected civilian government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. What followed were a series of ineffective embargoes and failed negotiations led by the US, the OAS and the UN culminating in a US led invasion of Haiti. The US government has played a large, and at times indefensible, role in the events that took place and they were backed by groups such as the CIA, the Pentagon and US backed ... wars due largely to the fact that the new elites treated the rural peasants just like the French had before them. For example despite almost 200 years of independence "the government has yet to collect income tax from most merchants, civil servants or middle-class employees,"(6) The taxation primarily comes from the poor who have been totally politically and ...
- 1297: John Locke
- ... force was the power of the majority manifested through the creation of a sovereign. Problems can arise, when individuals cannot agree. For this reason there must be a ruler and government to decide disagreements, make and enforce laws, and govern man. The enforcement of rules is not as absolute as it may sound. Even with the existence of a limited monarchy ... have a just Power over the life of another, by Right of property in Land or possessions’ This, of course, would include the man of sovereignty and the men of government. Property sets the limit of sovereignty, in that no man has just power over another or another’s property. This right comes directly from God, because it is a God given right that a man should gain property through labor. This also sets the tone of the role of government, that of servitude instead of command. Locke believed that civil society existed to free individuals from the insecurity of the state of nature. He thought that men united voluntarily ...
- 1298: Life Of John Milton
- ... she died in 1652. In his writings, Milton supported the parliamentary cause in the civil war between Parliamentarians and Royalists, and in 1649 he was appointed foreign secretary by the government of the Commonwealth. He became totally blind about 1652 and thereafter carried on his literary work helped by an assistant; with the aid also of the poet Andrew Marvell, he fulfilled his government duties until the restoration of Charles II in 1660. In 1656 he married a second wife, who died two years later shortly after giving birth to a daughter who lived ... English Reformation. The first published of this group was Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England (1641); the one most deeply pondered and elaborately reasoned was The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty (1641-1642), which also contains an important digression in which Milton tells of his own early life, education, and ambitions. (Such autobiographical digressions are found scattered ...
- 1299: Plato Vs. Aristotle
- ... of governing that would be ideal for an actual state. Balance is a main word in discussing Aristotle because he believes it is the necessary element to creating a stable government. His less metaphysical approach to politics makes Aristotle more in tune with the modern world, yet he is far from modern. Plato's concept of what politics and government should be is a direct result of his belief in the theory of forms. The theory of forms basically states that there is a higher "form" for everything that exists ... to form, whether purposefully or coincidentally. For this reason, certain rules have to be enacted for the well-being of the state. The main way to institutionalize rules is through government and in the form of laws. Plato's The Republic is not an explication of laws of the people. It is a separation of power amongst three classes--Rulers, ...
- 1300: CIA Covert Operations: Panama and Nicaragua
- ... s. Central America was a major focus of U.S. attention during the 1980's. Through CIA covert and semi-covert operations, the U.S. tried simultaneously to overthrow the government of Nicaragua and to destroy the movement for revolutionary reform in El Salvador. In Nicaragua the means were terrorism and destruction through a 10,000 man paramilitary force, along with ... the majority of the deaths were killed to instill terror. The CIA in El Salvador used demonstration elections as public relations exercises to cover their atrocities. The military controlled civilian government could then be renamed a "democracy". In the 1980's, in both Nicaragua and El Salvador, the U.S. introduced a new way for exporting U.S.-style democracy, the ... NED allowed money to flow from the CIA to a bogus foundation, then to U.S. private organizations like the National Student Association(NSA), and from there to a foreign government. The money was to flow to foundations that were fighting the “global ideological challenge.” The projected beneficiaries were governments, political parties, media, universities, trade unions, churches and employer associations, ...
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