Friday, September 01, 2006

Drug War chronicle

FEATURE: LIVING ON KATRINA TIME -- LOST IN LOUISIANA'S GUMBO GULAG
A national scandal is brewing in the Big Easy over thousands of people imprisoned without access to lawyers or the courts. (From: Stop the Drug War (DRCNet))

First Amendment: Kenneth Starr Joins Appeal of 9th US Circuit Ruling in "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Case (From: Stop the Drug War (DRCNet))

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

born March 8, 1841, Boston

died March 6, 1935, Washington, D.C.

Photograph:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

byname The Great Dissenter justice of the United States Supreme Court, U.S. legal historian and philosopher who advocated judicial restraint. He stated the concept of “clear and present danger” as the only basis for limiting free speech.

From the Transcendentalists

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