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...City Duma, said the plaintiffs were digging into the pockets of average citizens. "Sue the Chechen guerrillas and their backers," suggested Andrei Rastorguyev, legal adviser to the Moscow government, reflecting his bosses' position. Under antiterror legislation, the region (or federation unit) in which an attack occurs must pay victims "moral and material damages." If a court awards compensation beyond the capacity of the region to pay, the central government can be tapped. But citizens cannot sue for punitive damages and the leaders of counterterror operations are exempt from liability. While the Moscow city government has paid each victim...
...outraged Muslim cleric last week denounced the inspections, claiming that their civil and religious rights had been violated. Anwar Mohammad, 59, said that the inspectors looking for biological weapons insisted on breaking open a sealed warehouse containing obsolete equipment. They found nothing, and now Mohammad is demanding "material and moral compensation from the UN," and an apology to him and his country. One scientist has already gone public with accusations of bribery and rudeness. When the inspectors visited 55-year-old Faleh Hassan's home in a posh Baghdad suburb, he says they were intrusive, even examining the personal belongings...
...can’t keep good conservatives down. We elected Woodrow Wilson as president when Roosevelt tried to run again in 1912. Wilson, a man after my own heart, showed real moral character when he had the courage to have the film Birth of a Nation screened at the White House. This film, a celebration of pure-bred American conservatism, was a moralistic fable that exposed black men’s carnal desire for white women and celebrated the Ku Klux Klan’s protection of the innocent white slaveholders...
Roosevelt #2 came in and did something that, until then, I never thought I would see a Democrat do; he made appeals to black voters. However, the conservative South, the moral compass of the nation, successfully kept the meddling federal governments from outlawing their Sunday afternoon lynchings and allowing clearly undeserving blacks to benefit from New Deal programs...
...headlines. The policies themselves are often not entirely baked. A case in point: Frum's "axis of evil" and its accompanying doctrine of pre-emption, which Bush announced at West Point last June and discarded in Korea this January. The revised doctrine: Caveat Pre-Emptors. We have the moral responsibility to pre-empt evildoers...unless they have the ability to empt back (as North Korea does). This is an embarrassment, and a rather dangerous one at that. There should be a lesson in it for the President. A diplomacy of quiet strength and careful words, and the rigorous parsing...