The US Government’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has relented and “eased” its ban on editing foreign work. (For background see this post on the attempt to control the work of the IEEE.)
Showing again that when pressured by bad publicity, the goverment sometimes does the right thing.
The Miami Herald's best columnist, Carl Hiassen, The An arbitrary deportation campaign writes about the Aschroft Justice Department's assinine campaign to deport productive, legal, US residents:
So this is the new America. Our government wants to deport an Oregon woman who was convicted 11 years ago of growing six marijuana plants.
Kari Rein, a Norwegian citizen, had never been in trouble before, and hadn't been in trouble since. That changed Dec. 30.
She, her husband and two children were returning from a vacation to Norway when she was questioned at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport by officers of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
They had run Rein's name through a computer and found the old marijuana conviction. They asked her to step into a private room.
''And that,'' says her husband, James Jungwirth, “was the last time we saw her for three weeks.''
The sentencing judge didn't even think six pot plants for home use merited a jail sentence. But the loonies in Main Justice don't care. The husband and two kids are US citizens. But Main Justice doesn't care.
Remember folks, all this is being done in your name by your government. Be proud. Or throw the rascals out.
And, as Karl Hiaasen says,
Don't think it couldn't happen to someone you know. This is the new America.
It's a little short, but Federal Judge Pulls His Suit From Courts Run by State sure makes it sound like something seriously wrong happened here: a “federal judge in Louisiana has taken control of an accident case involving his car and issued an order transferring evidence about his medical condition to a sealed federal court file.”
The Economist almost never comes on Friday. It sometimes comes on Saturday. It often doesn't make it out here until Monday, leading me to grumble that they get better service in Cairo (they do). But this week's came today, and the cover is just perfect. My kids loved it too.
It seems we now have two, count them two, student bloggers at UM, both first year students. Welcome Barsk to the aether! (His first substantive post, on Mel Gibson's movie and the UM shuttle bus is certainly true to life. (Except maybe for the part where the grocery store is not out of matzah.)
Prosecutors Are Said to Have Expanded Inquiry Into Leak of C.I.A. Officer's Name. Seems the prosecutor thinks someone might have been lying to him.
I love the smell of justice in the morning.
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