Rogel @ May 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This short video is a good example for the difference between bad choices, or at least odd one, and illegal choice. The fact that we might not approve of the practice of throwing babies from hight doesn’t make it illegal. Since there is no physical abuse the practice is, and should be, legal. On the […]
Rogel @ April 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If I was a Canadian I would be worry to learn what Human Rights Commissioner views are on ,hmmmm, Human rights:
In fact, for an organization that is supposed to promote “human rights,” the HRC’s agents seem curiously oblivious to basic aspects of constitutional law. In one famous exchange during the Lemire case, Steacy was asked […]
Rogel @ April 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You don’t need to be as extremist as I am, to see the problem with this court ruling:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Thursday that a website may be found liable for violating fair housing laws by matching roommates according to gender, sexual orientation and parenthood.
Federal law protecting websites “was not meant to […]
Rogel @ April 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since I already broke my rule about writing on UN issues I feel obligated to link to this post. It is always interesting to note what the UN Human Rights Mockery Council consider human rights. Freedom of speech isn’t one of them apparently:
So prohibiting dissemination of ideas based upon religious superiority “is compatible with the […]
Rogel @ March 19, 2008 # One Comment
I was never a big fun of the Olympic games. I resent the connection between sport and nationalism in principal, and it is practical applications. The importance that dictators, like Hitler and Stalin, gave to the Olympic games is the best example for the fallacy of tying between personal, or group, achievements and national, race […]
Rogel @ March 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
This is really an inspiring speech. Shamefully I did not know about Isabella Allende before watching this but now I’m anxious to read more of her writings.
Rogel @ May 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The last fashion in Tehran.
In the spirit of fairness, the woman was beaten because of her arrest resistance and not because of her dress code. However this doesn’t change the point that this is the natural development when state policing moral code - what you watch on TV, what web sites can you visit […]
Rogel @ April 5, 2007 # 7 Comments
I have written numerous times about the genocide in Darfur, and I have joined my voice to organizations that called the UN to send peacekeeping forces. This was a mistake!
The UN, as organization, was a mistake from the day it was established. pretending to created a democratic institute that will prevent wars, or at […]
Rogel @ April 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
One of the more interesting arguments dismissing my concerns, regarding the devastating effects of the Military Commission Act, was what I will call the cultural argument.
The basic idea was that law, any law, is not important outside the cultural context. Many countries wrote constitutions, some of them were very well written documents, but since […]
Rogel @ February 22, 2007 # 3 Comments
Although we didn’t have much hope we read today’s news about Kareem with sadness:
Dalia Ziada, a human rights activist and blogger, informs us that Kareem is sentenced to FOUR years in prison: three years for contempting religion, and one year for defaming the president.
His appeal will be launched on Saturday by his lawyers, but we […]