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The News Topic
by RawkHawk Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:55 am
In places such as the Skype chat, we have a lot of talk about news and current affairs. Due to this, I've decided to make a news topic where we can post and discuss news in detail. As long as the news is appropriate and follows forum rules, it's fine.
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Zombies_have_free_speech_rights_to_02252010.html
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Zombies_have_free_speech_rights_to_02252010.html
They're said to utter little more than an occasional groan, but zombies -- the blood-drenched monsters of Hollywood "B" movies -- still have a right to free speech, a US court ruled this week.
An appeals court in the northern US city of Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday allowed a group of zombies -- or rather, several protesters costumed as such -- to press ahead with their lawsuit against police who arrested them for disorderly conduct.
The appeals court overturned a lower court in finding that the group of seven "zombies" had been wrongfully detained during a 2006 shopping mall protest against consumerism.
The three-judge panel, by a two-to-one vote, ruled that Minneapolis police lacked probable cause to arrest the demonstrators for disorderly conduct.
At the time of the protest, the plaintiffs were wearing makeup that gave them a "living dead" look: white face powder, fake blood and black circles around their eyes.
They lurched stiff-legged through the halls of the mall urging shoppers to "get your brains here" and "brain cleanup in aisle five."
In various bags, the protesters carried audio equipment including loudspeakers and wireless phone handsets, which police had described as "simulated weapons of mass destruction."
The judicial panel upheld the lower court in dismissing the plaintiffs' claims of "false imprisonment" and "First Amendment retaliation" by Minneapolis police after being put in jail for two nights.
But the appeals court sided with the protesters in ruling that police had no reason to imprison them simply for "dressing as zombies, and walking erratically in downtown Minneapolis," the court decision said.
"An objectively reasonable person would not think probable cause exists under the Minnesota disorderly conduct statue to arrest a group of peaceful people for engaging in an artistic protest by playing music, broadcasting statements (and) dressing as zombies," the appeals court ruled.
The decision allows the protesters to revive their lawsuit against Minneapolis and its police, which according to the Star Tribune newspaper seeks damages of at least 50,000 dollars per person arrested.
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okaaay... in my opinion that is just weird
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Re: The News Topic
by Smudge Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:43 pm
Zombies, it's all about fucking Zombies nowadays....
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Re: The News Topic
by Darren Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:54 pm
The Earthquakes and Tsunami's have been a big news story, over 700 people dead now due to the earthquakes, and aftershocks measuring around 5.7 and 6.7 are still going on. I feel for them, I really do.
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Re: The News Topic
by RawkHawk Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:42 am
GhostAnime wrote:I expected earthquakes and tsunamis.
I wanted to start the topic on a positive note, but Ian has more info on them than me.
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Re: The News Topic
by Wido Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:12 pm
In further news today... Sony is slowly killing off the 'Phat'models of the Playstation 3. This could give Quantic Dream's another storyline for Heavy Rain but more like Heavy Rain 2: End of the Phat?
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by Pwiimus Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:39 pm
Hardly slowly killing by wiping them all out at the same time lol
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Re: The News Topic
by RawkHawk Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:29 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8546528.stm
James Bulger murderer Jon Venables returned to prison
James Bulger murderer Jon Venables returned to prison
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- One of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger is back in prison after breaching the terms of his release, the Ministry of Justice has said.
Jon Venables, now 27, and his friend, Robert Thompson, murdered James in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1993. Both killers were aged just 10 at the time.
They were given life sentences, but released in 2001 with new identities and under certain licence conditions.
The ministry did not detail the nature of Venables' breach of his licence.
Mother's 'anxiety'
It said in a statement: "We can confirm that Jon Venables has been recalled to custody following a breach of licence conditions.
"Offenders on licence are subject to strict conditions; if they breach those conditions they are subject to immediate recall."
Venables' solicitor at the time of his trial, Laurence Lee, told the BBC: "He could have been recalled on licence if he committed an offence, it could be that he returned to Merseyside, it could be he might have approached the family.
Jon Venables
Venables was released from custody in 2001 and given a new identity
"There is no evidence so far that he did any of these things."
Retired Det Supt Albert Kirby, who led the murder inquiry, said he was surprised Venables was back behind bars.
He added: "I've always thought, with regards to that particular boy, that from what we've heard over the years there was every possibility he would have avoided going back into prison."
A relative of Denise Fergus, James's mother, said the family had no plans to comment on Venables' return to prison at this time.
But Mr Kirby told BBC News he had spoken to James's mother and the news had brought "a whole load of anxiety" back to her.
He said: "There's always been a lot of anxiety as to where both boys are.
"To hear something like that this evening; it brings back to her a lot of the concerns, quite understandably, that she and any other parents in these sorts of circumstances would have."
'Unparalleled barbarity'
On 13 February 1993, Venables and Thompson abducted James from a shopping centre in Bootle and killed him on a railway line.
A week-long appeal followed, with CCTV footage being released of the little boy holding the hand of one of his killers as he was led out of the Strand shopping centre.
ANALYSIS
Dominic Casciani, home affairs correspondent
Dominic Casciani, BBC News
When Jon Venables walked out of prison in 2001, it was not as a free man. His release came because the Parole Board decided the public would be safe if he were allowed into the community on a licence that includes strict conditions.
A criminal's recall to prison is triggered by one of three circumstances. He either committed a crime, showed the signs that he was about to, or breached specific conditions imposed. Breaches can be technical, such as being out of the home at the exact start of a curfew, or far more serious, such as contacting a victim's family.
Venables will be told why he is back inside and he can seek a full oral hearing before the Parole Board. But with public protection being the top priority, the panel will start with the case for keeping him inside, rather than the argument for letting him out.
The toddler had been approached and befriended by the two boys while his mother was in a shop.
James's body was found by children playing on a freight railway line near Walton Lane police station.
He had been beaten to death with bricks and an iron bar.
The 10-year-old killers were arrested days later and became the youngest to be charged with murder in the 20th Century.
Eight months later they were convicted following a 17-day trial at Preston Crown Court and ordered to be detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Trial judge Mr Justice Morland told the pair they had committed a crime of "unparalleled evil and barbarity".
In 1999 the European Court of Human Rights decided they should not have been tried in an adult court.
Despite public outcry, two years later the parole board recommended their release as they "were no longer a danger to society".
More than 300,000 people signed a petition saying the sentence of eight years was too short.
Both Thompson and Venables were given new identities when they were released.
An order prohibiting the publication of details which could reveal their whereabouts has remained in place since their release.
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