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Showing videos filed under: constitutional rights
Vince Warren: Big Government But Failure to Restore Rule of Law Under Obama
October 13, 2010Ahmed Ghailani, the Guantanamo prisoner accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania goes the courts in NY this week but is being denied a fair trial as federal prosecutors recently rejected appealing a ruling by a trial judge that prohibits a key witness from testifying. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks, that presumably only an expanded state security and defense apparatus can save us from.Vince Warren, Video Games & Censorship, and Haiti
October 12, 2010GRITtv contributor Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights takes a look at what the failures in Ghailani's trial mean restoring the rule of law. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks. Then, 'Medal of Honor' is a video game out this week set in modern day, war-torn Afghanistan. The controversy? As a player you can choose to play on the opposing force - essentially as the Taliban. This has led to the game being banned at US Army base stores.Shayana Kadidal: SCOTUS Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
June 23, 2010While foreign terror is unspeakable, domestic infringements on constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, are necessary for national security. In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to, “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.”Humanitarian Law Project, Afghanistan & McChrystal, and Drones
June 23, 2010In Holder vs. Humanitarian Law project, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional law that it is illegal to “knowingly provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,” overturning multiple lower court rulings that the law was too broad or vague. This terror-inducing “material support” and “resources” includes, but is not limited to humanitarian aid and non-violent resistance tactics. Under this law, humanitarian assistance on the recent Freedom Flotilla to Gaza could feasibly be legally charged and President Jimmy Carter’s quest for Middle East peace, which involved some communication with “terrorists,” could have quite possibly landed him behind bars.The F Word: Pedophilia is Fine, but Hold the Abortion
May 20, 2010In another story from Arizona, but one that's attracting less attention than that state's check your documents anti-immigration law, a nun in Phoenix has been ex-communicated after approving a live-saving abortion. Sister Margaret McBride was excommunicated for approving an abortion without which, doctors say, both the woman and her 11-week-old fetus would have died. According to Thomas Olmsted, the Bishop of Phoenix, approving an abortion is an excommunicating offense -period
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