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Macon Telegraph | 11/10/2005 | Leak raises disturbing questions

This is a most interesting editorial.

The Telegraph on one hand supports the need for “secrecy” while also supporting a shield law that would prevent irresponsible journalists from being punished for leaking these secrets. It seems to me that the freedom of the press needs sane limitations much like freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms.
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I find it absolutely baffling that the Europe which hosted the worst act of genocide of modern times continues to deny the intentions of Iran. The rhetoric makes the goal of the Iranian leadership very clear.

Iran’s leaders seek the complete and utter destruction of an entire nation.

Yet Europe continues to belive that diplomacy can change the minds of zealots. There is little functional difference between Hitler’s “ultimate solution” and stated goals of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Here are his words to a conference on “The World without Zionism,” as quoted in Reuters; compare them with those of Adolf Hitler:
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The real solution is to have a Federal law that would allow local elected officials who fail to plan adequately or execute their plan effectively to be charged under Federal law with criminal civil rights violations.

After all if, by their inaction, they did deprive someone of their “life” much less liberty or pursuit of happiness should they not be as criminally responsible as the white collar criminals of the major corporations?

I say stop letting them hide behind excuses. If the Federal government can try executives of large corporations they should also be able to do the same of local officials when they have failed the people who relied on them.