Live Under Grace
I talk about totalitarianism and how living under grace can help reverse the process in yourself and therefore in the world. More from Amazing Polly.
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Archive for the tag “laws”
The Never-Ending Hypocrisy
This video is about how people who create and enforce the laws are rarely the ones who follow them, mainly focusing on examples throughout November. More from Really Graceful.
Everyone’s A Criminal
You probably broke the law today. More from John Stossel.
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Some Pretty Dumb Laws
After festival revelers made a complete mess of a 1996 festival with Silly String in Southington, Connecticut, town officials clamped down in a hurry. The partygoers sprayed Silly String on police, marching bands and cheerleaders, prompting the community to ban the sale of Silly String in shops. This is just one of 15 dumb laws around the world uncovered by the adventurous Danger Dolan. Are they dumb laws, or just a bit silly? Check out the other 14 and decide for yourself.
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Spain’s Grisly Crime Reporting
It was just the next morning after the murder of volleyball star Ingrid Visser when the local Spanish newspaper La Verdad was able to publish an extremely detailed report about the find. So just where did this information come from? “That’s a million euro question that I will never answer”, retorts crime reporter Ricardo Fernandez. The Spanish press and police have a notoriously close relationship. The lawyer of the main suspect claims that his client has already been convicted in the court of public opinion, and that a fair trial is now impossible. In Holland relatives of Visser have been horrified by the intimate revelations about the case. Yet Fernandez remains defiant: “I have to protect my interests. And my interests are to inform society.”
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Who Decides How You Die?
You may have the right to control your own life, but what about your own death? This is a question facing several states across the United States, including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington for almost five years, other states have proved resistant to the idea. Reason.TV was on the scene as this legal and moral battle played out in a somewhat surprising place: Montana, where conservative Republicans dominate local politics.
“We have a certain tradition here, going back to frontier days, of saying there are certain areas the government ought to stay out of,” says Robert Connell, a Montana attorney who argued in the state’s landmark Supreme Court case, Baxter v. Montana. Connell’s client, U.S. Marine veteran and retired trucker Robert Baxter, suffered from a terminal illness called lymphocytic leukemia and wanted the ability to take medication that would hasten his death and end his suffering. He died before Montana’s Supreme Court could even issue the Baxter decision, which recognized a constitutional right to assisted suicide for all Montanans.
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Our Corporate Copyrights
Copyright is a good idea, but the way it is currently used is not. The laws, originally designed to protect artists and authors, now give corporations carte blanche to control intellectual properties for more than a century.
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Watch Out for Patent Trolls
They don’t make anything. They don’t sell anything. But patent trolls earn upwards of $29 billion a year, and that’s not even taking into account hush-hush, off-the-record settlements. How do these trolls operate, and how are they damaging the economy as well as stifling innovation? Zach Weissmueller from Reason.TV probes the issue with an assist from Julie Samuels, an attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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