Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle praised ACORN. ``We've been very aggressive about a lot of these cases,'' she said. ``But we would not have known about these workers unless ACORN brought it to us.
ACORN reported voter registration fraud to the police, how corrupt of them!
How do you separate this
Now say a police officer walks up to your house and knocks on the door. He could be there for any reason. "Have you seen anything suspicious lately?" When you open the door, he sees several kilos of what appears to be drugs, and an uzi sitting on the coffee table, can he raid the house? Yes.
From this
If the warrant states that stolen TV's will be found in the back room, they can only (ONLY) search the back room for stolen TV's. If they see a darkened room full of people smoking hash, which is NOT the back room, they can't touch them. Not without a probable cause affidavit and a new warrant. They can't touch, arrest, etc, etc, those people, unless there is a direct threat to the officer(s).
I'm pretty sure that in both cases the officer is viewing illegal activity and can arrest the people.
I am not a lawyer, but I am a Criminology student at the University of Toronto, studying under one of the more prominent defence lawyers in the country (one of Maher Arar's lawyers) on legal procedure. Of course, if you're Bennett Hasleton though, that doesn't mean anything.
Why should it mean anything? It seems to me you inaccurately summarized what he said and used an appeal to authority to dismiss any need to engage with what he said. Unfortunately I've never studied under anyone famous, so what do I know?
So, when a company builds a school somewhere, sponsors a race, hires a speaker who climbed mt everest, invests in some wild technology, or any of the other things that corporations do, they do it because they think it is cool, and then they cover their rears to the shareholders and directors by inventing some elliptical story about profitability.
In fact, to many of the world's top business leaders, the whole point of the corporation is to exist to provide some social order and some revenue so that it can fund the private ambitions of its leaders. I mean, come on, do you really think if IBM funds something like a big art exhibit, they really sincerely think that doing so will yield a return? No, they do it because the board of IBM likes art, and that's that.
Are you saying that you believe every time a company does something that, in your opinion, doesn't add to the bottom line, they are just doing it for fun or because it is cool? Seems like a bit of an oversimplification to me.
I live in the city of Pittsburgh, and I loose three channels (including my only ABC and CBS options) as soon as the transition happens.
Why are you losing three channels?
The FCC has left it up to the stations to inform their viewers of the switch. They are allowed to still broadcast for up to 30 days over analog, strictly with emergency information and information related to DTV transition. Their is no requirement for stations to do this(at least in general, there may be more specific cases where stations are required to do this)
From January 15 FCC release
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-287915A1.pdf
This action is designed to aid consumers who are not able to receive digital signals after the DTV transition on February 17, 2009, to provide them with access to emergency information. This action is also intended to help consumers understand the steps they need to take in order to restore their television service.
The FCC Order lists 826 stations that are eligible to broadcast emergency and transition information in analog after the statutory digital transition on February 17, 2009. Stationsâ(TM) participation is voluntary, but the Order encourages stations to participate by adopting streamlined procedures and maximum flexibility for participating broadcasters.
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
