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- 13291: Should Drugs Be Made Legal? (Against)
- ... dollars. Despite common wisdom, the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because ... illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. The United States can not afford this problem. It has become a world power by strengthening its people not by killing them. Drug abuse has gotten worse, with its effects on crack babies, drug addicts, and the I.V user. There must be education for the survival of ...
- 13292: The Extradition of Nazi War Criminals
- ... the general location of such a conflict. But, when the conflict is over, and if war crimes have been committed, how then are criminals of war brought to justice? The International Military Tribunals held after World War II in Nuremberg on 20 November 1945 and in Tokyo on 3 May 1946 are excellent examples of how such crimes of war are dealt with. (Roberts and Guelff 153-54) But, rather than ... establish Israel's right to judicial processing of alleged Nazi war criminals. To understand the complications involved in Israel placing suspected Nazi war criminals on trial, lets review the history of Israel's situation. During World War II the Nazis were persecuting Jews in their concentration camps. At this time the state of Israel did not exist. The ending of the war meant the ending of the persecution, and when the ... S. to extradite Nazis for trial [in Jerusalem] is an important step. "This creates the opportunity for at least tacit admission of Israel's special position with regard to crimes against Jews anywhere in the world," he says.2 After much negotiations the United States arrested Demjanjuk in November of 1983. On April 15, 1985 United States District Judge Frank Battisti ruled in favor of Demjanjuk's extradition. After the ...
- 13293: Editorial Speech on the Death Penalty
- ... deeds still influences the cult today. In 1975 one of Manson's followers, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, made an assassination attempt on then president Gerald Ford, in Manson's name. Even now if you go to New York City you can find shirts with his picture on them, glorifying him. Songs have been written praising him. But together these have not yet touched the scariest thing about Charles Manson. The thing that you should be most frightened of is that Charles Manson, and many like him are alive, with chance of parole. Yes this murderous madman could yet again run rampant in the world. It is for this reason that the death penalty is necessary. Capital punishment is the system by which the people who have committed the most heinous crimes are executed either by electric chair, gas chamber ...
- 13294: Outline: Negative Debate on Effects of Hate Mongering
- ... would be outlawed? Doesn't it then follow that by passing such a legislation we would be giving our government the power to , with another such law, suppress another great idea which could improve the world by accidentally limiting the right of expression by someone who would think up such an idea? Possible inherency 4. Marches and other assemblies by these hate mongering groups encourage hate crimes. - First amendment makes any ... would be tremendous if your figures on the amount of people who belong to "hate groups" are true. Sources 1. Srillman, David Conpilation of Congressional Acts. 2. Lippman, Walter "Bans on Speech...the Implications" The New Yorker 12-22-92 3. Oxfard Dictionary of Political Quotations. 4. Grych, Peter Psycholgical Aspects of Prejudice. 5. Lane, Charles "Hate, A Problem of a Growing Democracy"
- 13295: Facts About Marijuana
- ... variations in potency and the irregularity in absorbtion. The time delay before the onset of the possible effects of marijuana lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did the introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine ...
- 13296: Shel Silverstein
- ... Silverstein makes an excellent attempt at dissuading children from continuing a bad habit, while at the same time amusing his readers. During the 1960’s, Silverstein was living around Chicago's Gate of Horn and New York's Bitterend, writing and performing folk music. Although that road did lead to some success in that several major recording artists used his work, he decided to make writing his focal point. In Sely ... delight his readers for years to come. Works Cited Friday, Sely. "Biography." Shel Silverstein Collected Information. 1999. http://195.114.233.19/Silverstein/bio.html (25 Oct. 1999). ( Silverstein, Shel (1974). Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York: Harper and Row. Silverstein, Shel (1981). A Light in the Attic. New York: Harper and Row.
- 13297: Case for Legalizing Marijuana
- ... of the Soviet Union, for example, regard individual privacy as trivial when compared to the needs of the state. If the United States is to be persuasive in promoting freedom in other parts of the world, it must respect the privacy of its own citizens. Sometimes it is hard to do this because what goes on in people's private lives may seem offensive. But, according to U.S. traditions, there ... 347. LEXICON PUBLICATIONS. Philippines, 1979 2. Lorimer, Lawrence; "Marijuana" Encyclopedia Year Book 1993. p214-215. GROLIER INCORPORATED. Canada, 1993 3. Snyder, Solomon. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs. Series 2. LEGALIZATION: A DEBATE. CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS. New York, 1988
- 13298: Should Drugs Be Legalized?
- ... dollars. Despite common wisdom, the U.S isn't experiencing a drug related crime wave. Government surveys show between 1980 - 1987 burglary rates fell 27 percent, robbery 21 percent and murders 13 percent, but with new drugs on the market these numbers are up. One contraversial solution is the proposal of legalizing drugs. Although people feel that legalizing drugs would lessen crime, drugs should remain illegal in the U.S because ... illegal in the U.S because there would be an increase of drug abuse and a rapid increase of diseases such as AIDS. The United States can not afford this problem. It has become a world power by strengthening its people not by killing them. Drug abuse has gotten worse, with its effects on crack babies, drug addicts, and the I.V user. There must be education for the survival of ...
- 13299: Firearms; Vital Tools for Self Defense or Deadly Killers?
- ... violate laws against robbery, assault and murder?"4 For this reason, many people argue, restrictive laws will not reduce crime because criminals will still have guns. And if criminals still have guns violence will continue. New York City, for example, has very tight handgun restrictions. To buy a handgun, city residents must apply to the police for a permit. Very few permits are given out. They primarily go to active duty ... anyone caught carrying a concealed handgun without a permit faces a felony charge and a mandatory prison sentence. Because of these restrictions, as of April 1991 there were only 61,497 legally owned handguns in New York City, a city of nearly 8 million people.5 Yet research indicates that there are at least 750,000 hand guns in the city and gun - related crime remains high. In 1989, 70 percent ... hundred homicides were caused by gunfire. The BATF says that 96 percent of all handguns used for criminal purposes come from outside the city. This means that criminals still obtain handguns for illicit purposes despite New York's tough laws. But should the government have the right and the power to take guns away from citizens? This will be discussed in the next section. The Second Amendment The second amendment ...
- 13300: Falsely Accused
- ... even trust a government legal authority? Who are we to go to at that point when the government agencies are falsely accusing us ? I guess that Richard Jewell was just lucky enough to have a brave lawyer that cared and new there was nothing right about the way this man was being treated. I just think that is a serious problem , there have to be some better laws or restrictions . So in my belief we the ...
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