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The Statue of Liberty is very green

February 23, 2010 – 9:34 am

It is likely impossible to say anything new about New York so I am not going to try. This post is a placeholder and an apology for not being around the blog very much, something likely to continue for the rest of this week while I see the sights.
Briefly, I attended a conference in Washington [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in General, Personal liberty | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)

You wouldn’t read about it

January 12, 2010 – 5:14 am

A Muslim protester accused of calling soldiers murderers at a parade claims he did not intend to upset anyone. Munim Abdul told Luton magistrates he did not expect to cause offence because his group had spoken “the truth”.
Seven men deny using threatening, abusive or insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress. [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in England, Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, History, Law, Politics, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)

Fancy an Indian?

January 11, 2010 – 1:51 am

An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang. It comes a week after an Indian graduate student was stabbed to death in the city, prompting a travel advisory from the Indian government.
Melbourne police said the latest attack appeared to be random and [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Australian internet filter, Funnies, Law, Politics, Society | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

The other stolen generation

November 16, 2009 – 6:16 am

Gordon Brown is to apologise for the UK’s role in sending thousands of its children to former colonies in the 20th century, the BBC has learned.
Under the Child Migrants Programme – which ended just 40 years ago – poor children were sent to a “better life” in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. But many were abused [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Funnies, History, Human/Civil rights, Politics, Public Policy | Comments (16)

Indiscernible Immigration

April 26, 2009 – 6:00 am

British National Party (BNP) chairman Nick Griffin has defended a party leaflet which says that black Britons and Asian Britons “do not exist”.
The BNP’s “Language and Concepts Discipline Manual” says the term used should be “racial foreigners”.
In a BBC interview, Mr Griffin said to call such people British was a sort of “bloodless genocide” because [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Australian internet filter, England, Free Speech, Funnies, Politics | Tagged , , | Comments (64)

Economics v Islam: a cage match

June 8, 2008 – 7:31 am

“We’re the ones who will change you,” the Norwegian imam Mullah Krekar told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet in 2006. “Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every Western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Feminism, Free Speech, Skeptics | Comments (30)

Of good character

June 3, 2008 – 10:19 pm

The requirement of being “of good character” is one with which lawyers are familiar. After all, we have to show that we are fit and proper persons before we can be admitted to practice (as outlined in this post about plagiarist law students). Generally, when I think about someone being “of good character”, I think [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Free Speech, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Politics, Terrorism | Comments (8)

Can religious discrimination be justified?

May 29, 2008 – 8:20 am

James Farrell’s thought-provoking post at Club Troppo got me chewing over this question, and to that end I thought I’d share one of the papers I wrote last term for Oxford Jurisprudence. In brief, it’s a serious engagement with the ideas of John Finnis, who argues (among many other things) that discrimination on the basis [...]

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Reflection on good fortune

January 6, 2008 – 11:37 am

Last night, I went to a friend’s hen’s night, and after dinner, we went out dancing. I am not sure how many years it is since I have done something like that…a long time, to be sure. Anyway, I caught a taxi home, and my driver was a Somalian man of about my age. He [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Personal, Society | Comments (1)

Playing the race card

October 5, 2007 – 1:27 pm

Last night when I was driving home, I saw a large group of boys standing on the pavement outside the Housing Commission flats. The boys were predominately of African descent. I was thinking about it when I got home. The boys had been dominating the footpath. Would I have felt nervous if I had been [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Australian internet filter, Law, Media, Politics, Society | Comments (14)