Murtha’s Gitmo Invite Could Be Stimulus for Western Pennsylvania

January 24, 2009 Freedom, Legalization No Comments

Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha says he’d be willing to house Guantanamo Bay detainees in his district.

Rep. John Murtha’s invitation to house Guantanamo Bay detainees in his district has some local officials seeing dollar signs — even though Murtha’s comment was met with disbelief by others.

The Pennsylvania Democrat, chairman of the defense subcommittee for appropriations, is renowned for his ability to steer earmarked dollars to his district.

And after Murtha told FOX News that he’d be willing to take in terrorist suspects, some saw it as a job-creation opportunity. His district’s maximum-security prisons are full, according to the state Department of Corrections, so a new prison would likely be needed to house any of the 245 detainees now in Cuba. [More..]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/22/murthas-invitation-gitmo-prisoners-create-jobs-officials-say/

Human Rights

Supreme Court Finds Life Without Parole Unconstitutional for Some Juvenile Criminals

May 17, 2010

Justices Rule 5 to 4, Ban Life Without Parole for Juvenile Offenders Who Didn’t Kill
By DEVIN DWYER and ARIANE de VOGUE
The Supreme Court ruled today that the 8th Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment means juvenile offenders who haven’t been convicted of murder shouldn’t be sentenced to life in prison without any chance of [...]

Placebo effect beats God, Prozac

May 7, 2010

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This is the story of three drugs. Except one is not really a drug at all and is merely an illusion, a nifty construct, an intense belief that it might be a drug, even though, as mentioned, it is very much not. We just think it is. [...]

Torture Against Children and Adults with Disabilities in the United States

April 29, 2010

MDRI Alleges Torture Against Children and Adults with Disabilities in the United States
Files Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture in Geneva
Washington, DC – April 29, 2010 – Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) has found children and adults with disabilities tortured and abused at a “special needs” residential facility in Massachusetts and has [...]

Rebecca Riley’s doctor on the defense

April 26, 2010

During the past 20 years, the number of people on government disability due to “mental illness” has soared, rising from around 1.25 million people in 1987 to more than four million today. The number of children on the SSI rolls due to severe mental illness has increased more than 35-fold since 1987. Those numbers tell of an “epidemic,” and the book then asks this heretical question: Could our drug-based paradigm of care be fueling that epidemic?

Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?

April 26, 2010

By Evelyn Pringle, TruthOut.org. Posted December 14, 2009.
Psychiatric drugs are overprescribed and can even make mental symptoms worse in kids. They’re also a goldmine for drug companies.
Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 [...]

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