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| Posts: 7508 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: February 02, 2003 |  |
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quote: Another Asylum Victory
Heller Ehrman's string of pro bono asylum victories continues, this time on behalf of a gay El Salvadoran man seeking to escape systematic discrimination, abuse, assault and death threats in his home country. Because of his feminine identity and behavior, the applicant was regularly beaten and sexually assaulted by the police, military units and private "death squads" for years. After one of the applicant's transgender friends was mutilated and murdered in her home and he began receiving constant death threats (one of which was written on the front of his house in the blood of a mutilated cat), he fled to San Francisco. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) referred the case to Heller Ehrman and San Francisco's Dan Slaughter prepared an extensive application detailing the past abuses, the climate for gays and lesbians in El Salvador and the applicant's specific legitimate fear of continuing physical and psychological harm if he were returned to El Salvador. LCCR's volunteer immigration attorney warned that the applicants' repeated travel between the United States and El Salvador would likely be viewed as evidence that the applicant did not fear returning, and that the case would likely have to be taken up through the appellate process to have any chance of success. However, after a three-hour initial interview before a Department of Homeland Security officer, in which we explained that the applicant simply wanted to exhaust every possibility before leaving El Salvador permanently, our client was granted asylum.
I love my new job.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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| Posts: 19198 | Location: my happy place. | Registered: February 17, 2004 | |
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quote: Dan Slaughter
And another great vigilante name!
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| Posts: 11809 | Location: Silicon Valley (not Japan) | Registered: May 28, 2003 | |
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| Posts: 19198 | Location: my happy place. | Registered: February 17, 2004 | |
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Not everyone will agree with me that this unequivocably belongs in the "good news" category, but if it means I get one less tearful call from Iraq from a woman whose heart in breaking because she can't get Iraqis to stop killing each other, then it's good news to me. 1-72 from Mosul is, to my knowledge, the best unit currently in Iraq, and moving it to Baghdad might really help with the sectarian killings. I worked a lot with the 1-72 in Mosul, and they did a tremendous job there at least on the technical intel side. Further, my other half who works technical intel in Baghdad already thinks that her shop is finally starting to really do its job. After almost two years of check-the-box-but-do-nothing, the US forces in Baghdad might start to actually do their job and help the Iraqi security forces provide real security.
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Secular humanism and nonsecular transhumanism can hopefully be friends
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| Posts: 3567 | Location: Central coast of California. | Registered: January 19, 2005 | |
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So cute! He looks so sentinent...  |
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"An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts." Ouch!!!  |
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quote: Originally posted by Pauline: Baby primates are always good news. 
Is that another fucking lemur already? Hesh's hanging on a teddy bear, isn't hesh? Sooooo cuuute.
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A loris, not a lemur, not a lemur, but a loris? (Sounds like a Rogers and Hart lyric.) You were right, it's the tiny little fingers that get me everytime. Though the huge dark eyes really wring my heart, too. And 'rejected by his mom'? Augh! So poignant!
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| Posts: 5068 | Location: TPA in the FLA | Registered: February 05, 2003 | |
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What exactly is TBO.org? The reporting on this seems to be using the language of the ID/creationists. quote: [...] science standards that were the most wide-reaching in the nation in challenging Darwin's theory of evolution
Science standards??? quote: [...] work swiftly to restore a science curriculum that doesn't subject evolution to critical attack.
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What? No one mentioned Joe Liebermann losing? That's pretty good news... For the video game creators. 
Was der hahn ?!?!?
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