berlin germany has told the united states it will withhold evidence against sept. 11 conspiracy defendant zacarias moussaoui unless it receives assurances that the material won't be used to secure a death penalty against him, germany's justice minister said in remarks released saturday.
just seen this on the news.
i know that european countries won't extradite anyone to the us if they could face the death penalty, but this seems a very different kettle of fish somehow.
Well, I'm very skeptical. It doesn't seem to be the right opportunity to make a point against the death penalty.
OTOH: whenever it comes to law enforcement on US citizens abroad, the US government wants to dictate the terms (ranging from the usual "human rights concerns" to direct military threats). So it's not like the Germans are setting a precedent here. They're just acting the way the US has been acting for many decades.
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this i suppose is to those who are still "in".
what sort of response have you had in the field ministry?
i've just informed a friend of mine about the panorama program and asked about dateline.
Here's something I just found (not sure if this has been posted yet), a JW's response to the Dateline programme:
http://www.kevinsblog.com/chadness/archives/000521.htm
Edited by - fodeja on 10 July 2002 8:19:42
is this man totally unnaccountable?
yeesh, bush and his administration are beginning to distinctly resemble ye olde governing body, if you ask me!.
bush says u.s. must prepare for preemptive action .
Those waiting for 2 or 3 years tied up in litigation while pursuing Social Security Disability because they are physically handicapped I am certain do not find it as humorous. All the while visas and financial aid are granted for total foreigners to enter the United States to be research scientists or engineers, while the government in some cases neglects its own born-and-raised citizens.
Hm. Do you realize where US science (and therefore, the nation's economic and military power) would be today without scientists "imported" from other countries? It's only in the best self-interest of the US to get foreign researchers into the country. Research scientists are a HUGE asset, not a burden.
Plus, I find it quite comical that people seem to think US foreign policy is too altruistic, or altruistic at all. The US is primarily acting in its own interest, short-term or long-term. Which is quite fine with me, as long as I don't happen to be in the gunsights of the US military. Or as long as I don't happen to work in an industry that's being sanctioned by trade restrictions of the world's self-proclaimed champions of free, unrestricted trade :-)
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another day in israel, another terrorist bombing kills 16 innocent civilians on their way to work.
another day where the critics of israel are silent in the face of the violence and hatred of the arabs.
another day when amnesty international and all the other left wingers ignore the fact that innocent israelis are dying.
So, Yeru, what's your point? Do you believe that Israel's current strategy of military retaliation - which you apparently support - works? Do you see a decrease of terrorist attacks, or any hope for it?
Note that I'm not asking whether it's morally acceptable or not, or who's really responsible for the current mess. I'm just wondering why doing something that has not had ANY success for months or years should suddenly help the situation? Israel's only *real* successes against Palestinian terrorist leaders have been accomplished by cooperating with Palestinian authorities (as dubious as some of them may be), not by destroying them. Yet, that's what Israel is doing, and what the US is supporting.
"More of the same" is rarely a useful strategy.
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now, when i grew up in the religion, i was taught that we were like a plague of locusts fullfiling prophescy.
well, where i live, i never see them.
they don't work my street, not in the last 5 years.
It's been three years, at the very least, since I've seen an elderly JW couple in door-to-door service <i>anywhere</i> in the areas where I live and work, which represent a range from "small, but lively town, perfect for door-to-door witnessing" to "big city". Please note I saw them on the street (anyone without JW experience probably wouldn't have noticed they were JWs), it's not that they actually ever knocked on my door.
There's just this one guy that I've known since I was a little kid, standing alone on the same street corner every day for an hour or two (he used to be there longer, but he's obviously having health problems due to his age). Without my JW experience, I'd probably think he's just a beggar or something.
So I have to agree: where are those locusts? Where is the spectacle to the whole world?
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i guess you know who invened television.
a russian who later went to work for rca.
btw i studied at the rca institutes.
And what the hll is a "SYN cookie"???? LOL!
http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html
Some BSDs have already implemented this.
once upon a time there was an evil antagonist of god named ha satan.
this evildoer thought of many ways to make worldlings oppose god's covenant people.
he finally got a bright idea.
Meanwhile you share in the promotion of a pedo culture.
A culture of children? Or a culture of feet, or foot soldiers?
i must be a glutton for punnishment or something, but here i go again, broaching the subject of speaking english in america.. apparently a law was recently passed in austria that people must satisfactorily pass a basic german language skills test in a few months or they will be fined.
if they do not master basic german in 4 years, they can be kicked out of the country.
many people interviewed in the article mentioned that they are too poor to afford the classes.
Princess-
We should at least have a law that to own a business you must speak the language of your customers, but I do agree with you Adam.Er, excuse me - is anyone forcing you to buy your ice cream there, or is there some kind of amendment to the US constution that you have a right to buy your ice cream there? If a business doesn't speak the language of its customers, it will fail, end of story. If your local Baskin-Robbins succeeds even though the guys selling ice cream only speak Baha Indonesia, then it's obviously a good business, and it's contributing to the country's wealth by providing jobs and paying taxes. That's capitalism. That's how free markets are supposed to work. And that's the heart and soul of the American way as preached throughout the whole wide world, isn't it?
(Unless we're speaking of protecting a structurally deficient steel industry from too much international competition, but I digress ;-))
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i must be a glutton for punnishment or something, but here i go again, broaching the subject of speaking english in america.. apparently a law was recently passed in austria that people must satisfactorily pass a basic german language skills test in a few months or they will be fined.
if they do not master basic german in 4 years, they can be kicked out of the country.
many people interviewed in the article mentioned that they are too poor to afford the classes.
Your headline is very misleading -- the proposed law cannot be considered a move towards "German only" in any way. There are still three official languages in Austria, as guaranteed by constitutional law. There are still bilingual road signs in certain parts of the country, bilingual schools, bilingual forms for all sorts of government business. This won't change. It shouldn't, as it's a fundamental part of the country's cultural heritage. Just like Italy shouldn't move to "Italian only", or -- as more extreme examples -- Switzerland to "Swiss German only", or Belgium to "French only". It wouldn't make sense at all. You might as well restrict American sports to baseball only.
The mentioned proposal just means that foreigners applying for citizenship should have a basic knowledge of the predominant official language in Austria, and that they will have to pass exams proving that. I think that's generally a fine idea, although the proposed implementation hasn't been well thought-out. For instance: if you've come to the country as a refugee, you probably didn't bring your savings account with you. As a refugee (or someone applying for that status - it can take years until things are decided), you are not allowed to work. So, if you like to stay and apply for citizenship: how are you supposed to pay for the language course? You'll have to depend on handouts -- which, of course, means that some right-wing idiots will blame you for exactly that.
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swamp their server.
i can tell you the subject email address went through.
i didn't get a rejection anyway.
*cough*
All you hotshot hacker wannabes could find out in a second that watchtower.org is a FreeBSD box, hosted by Verio.
Chances are, nobody's ever reading root's mail.
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