Column The 1979 award-winning film 'The Tin Drum' has been classified in Oklahoma as a child pornography film. The state bans possession of copies in video shops and private homes. Confiscation of film copies and arrest of violators are legal because of the state's broad definition of child pornography.
I was dismayed that Bruce Fein ("Eminent domain, eminent nonsense," Commentary, Tuesday) is encouraging the Supreme Court to sanction government confiscation of private property so local governments can increase tax revenues. Although Mr. Fein is correct that constitutionally "the hovel is as protected as the chateau," it's illogical to argue that because the hovel is unprotected from government confiscation to serve an ever-expanding definition of a public benefit, the chateau should be similarly exposed. What Mr. Fein describes amounts to a violation of property rights from the Berman v. Parker decision, which sanctioned taking property to fix "urban blight.
During the anti-Apartheid movement, the PLO was aligned with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress. Israel sided with the Apartheid regime. In 2001, 30,000 to 50,000 South Africans took to the streets of Durban to speak out in support of the Palestinian people. Nobel Prize winner and famed anti-Apartheid activist Desmond Tutu wrote articles demonstrating how similar the experiences of South Africans and Palestinians are. Tutu wrote, "If I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa. As the organizers of the PSM conference point out, the "apartheid formula" has long been understood as "control plus territorial confiscation plus separation equals apartheid." Israel's separation wall puts...
... Palestinian do - this is apartheid by definition. The conference will offer practical skills traini...
... destination, expropriation, or confiscation, or other like action by the government of the eli...
... force, military detention, property confiscation, or other coercion were U.S. citizens or resident ...(137) The definition of guerillas was reasonably clear under the laws o...
... of such proceeds, like the confiscation of money stolen from a bank, does not punish respo...Applying the definition of "punishment" given above, the Court first held ...
...The rights of defendants subject to confiscation proceedings, and indeed the basis of prosecution i... fall into the general public's usual definition of criminality. Legitimate assets (perhaps obtaine...
Clause 1. Definitions and Limitations. Clause 1. Treason against the Un...The Confiscation Act of 1862 "to suppress Insurrection, to punish T...
... of crime, and secondly, it expands the definition of "tainted gifts" to include any transfers of pro...
... protecting against war risks or confiscation. Examples of Compliance With Import and Shipping D...The definition of ?specifically identifiable goods? is the same u...
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