flakes of nuisance » the law http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTubehttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/16/an-intense-moment-of-truth-with-mainstream-media-youtube/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/16/an-intense-moment-of-truth-with-mainstream-media-youtube/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:41:20 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6649

An INTENSE moment of TRUTH with MAINSTREAM Media – YouTube.

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The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo.

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Shortly before Ronnie Lee Gardner was shot through the heart by a five-man firing squad at Utah State Prison, Mark Shurtleff tweeted: “I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner’s execution.”

“A solemn day,” Mr Shurtleff typed, “Barring a stay Utah will use most extreme power and execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.”

Gardner, 49–who spent 25 years on death row for gunning down a lawyer during a failed court-room escape–chose to die by firing squad, an option open to him because he was convicted before Utah adopted lethal injection in 2004.

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/11/how-to-die-by-firing-squad/feed/ 0 What would the Met get in return for not looking hard at News of the World phone hacking?http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/03/what-would-the-met-get-in-return-for-not-looking-hard-at-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/03/what-would-the-met-get-in-return-for-not-looking-hard-at-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:48:05 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=5847 You might not have noticed because most of the British press seems curiously reluctant to cover it, but earlier in the week, the New York Times produced some new evidence that the Conservative party’s chief spin doctor Andy Coulson knew much more about the phone hacking scandal of 2006 than he was letting on. Maybe they were too busy covering allegations regarding William Hague’s sexuality, and his emotional revelations about not being gay that came out at the same time, handily and totally coincidentally for the Conservatives’ spin doctor. Ahem.

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/09/03/what-would-the-met-get-in-return-for-not-looking-hard-at-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking/feed/ 0 ‘Hypocrisy’ of speeding middle-class motoristshttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/08/13/hypocrisy-of-speeding-middle-class-motorists/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/08/13/hypocrisy-of-speeding-middle-class-motorists/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:59:40 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=5558 Julie Spence, the outgoing head of Cambridgeshire police, says drivers consider speeding as acceptable and change their minds only if they lose a child in a road accident.

“Speeding is middle-class anti-social behaviour,” she says. “People think we should be able to get away with it. They wouldn’t tolerate lawbreaking by somebody else but they do it themselves without thinking.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she claims that the biggest problem perceived by the public in her county is speeding drivers in rural areas and illegal parking by parents outside schools.

‘Hypocrisy’ of speeding middle-class motorists – Telegraph.

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Don’t get mad, get even …

David Cameron has defended plans to use credit rating firms to “go after” people fraudulently claiming benefits.

He said the firms, [

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So Floyd Landis, having spent the last four years lying about his drug use and blood doping, now tells us he is telling us the truth and that we should believe him because he knows that Lance Armstrong is a liar on this score too. I personally don’t think Floyd is what our learned friends would call a credible witness. People will make their own minds up about Lance, most probably have already. My conclusion was that in his glory years he made the Tour de France boring. In this respect he redeemed himself significantly last year [

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The Olympics are coming to London, so our civil liberties are going out the window: because nothing epitomises the spirit of global competition and cooperation like corporate bullying and unfettered truncheon-waving.

Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.

“I think there will be lots of people doing things completely innocently who are going to be caught by this, and some people will be prosecuted, while others will be so angry about it that they will start complaining about civil liberties [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/03/23/london-olympics-police-powers-to-force-spectators-to-remove-non-sponsor-items-enter-houses-take-posters/feed/ 0 IP Alliance says that encouraging free/open source makes you an enemy of the USAhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/03/11/ip-alliance-says-that-encouraging-freeopen-source-makes-you-an-enemy-of-the-usa/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/03/11/ip-alliance-says-that-encouraging-freeopen-source-makes-you-an-enemy-of-the-usa/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:21:48 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=3834 The US-based International Intellectual Property Alliance has asked the US Trade Rep to add Indonesia to its list of rogue nations that don’t respect copyright. What did Indonesia do to warrant inclusion on this “301 list”? Its government had the temerity to advise its ministries to give preference to free/open source software because it will cost less and reduce the use of pirated proprietary software in government. According to the IPA, this movement to reduce copyright infringement is actually bad for copyright, because “it fails to build respect for intellectual property rights and also limits the ability of government or [

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The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earlier this week.

This would leave many organisations open to the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers, potentially including disconnection from the internet, leading legal experts to say it will become impossible for small businesses and the like to offer Wi-Fi access.

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