Ley Entries

30 de Marzo, 2008

US Court Overturns Mumia Abu-Jamal's Death Sentence

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Ley , Raza , Xicanopwr | Tags: African Americans, Black Panthers, Criminal Justice System, Democracy Now, Justicia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Robert R. Bryan, Ronald Reagan

On Thursday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of the imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while upholding his conviction and rejected his call for a new trial. A three-judge panel ruled that Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for twenty-six years,...

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 XP's writing fuses an intense level of research with an instinctive feel for the zeitgeist and a sense of empathy that combines to produce commentary that is, in the literal meaning of the word, unique. This (unique) entry posted at 2:10 PM.   | | (1)

19 de Marzo, 2008

Tazing Eugene [MTV vlog 3-19-08]

Categorized under Artivism , Ley , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Violencia | Tags: Citizen Journalism, Criminal Justice System, Eugene, Iraq, MTV, Oregon, Police Brutality, Police State, Street Team 08, Veterans

MY LATEST vid for MTV Citizen Journalist Land is introduced here, and viewable here....

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 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 3:27 PM.  | | (7)

13 de Marzo, 2008

Four Days in the Hole

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Criminal Justice System, Immigration, migra

A STORY that makes you cringe. And really, only the tiniest sampling of how inhumanely those inside the "justice" system can be treated every day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with...

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9 de Marzo, 2008

Felons for Clinton?

Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: Clinton, Democrats, Obama, Ohio, Republicans

I KNOW SOME Democrats who get upset about appeal that Obama has for Independents and even some Republicans. One of the choices of attack they wield against the idea of his run is that "it should be Democrats who choose the Democratic nominee." Without resorting to more loaded adjectives, is...

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15 de Febrero, 2008

Defeating the Perverts

Categorized under Ley , Sexo | Tags: Alabama, putos, Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal appeals court has overturned a Texas statute outlawing sex toy sales, leaving Alabama as the state with the strictest ban on such devices. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene...

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12 de Febrero, 2008

Not a Republic, but a Corporatocracy

Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: AT&T, Corporations, Democrats, Justicia, putos, Republicans, Verizon, Wiretapping

WHEN IT DOES APPEAR that our government is useless at operating in a way that is in our best interests; when those times arrive that remind us that U.S. "justice" and "law" and government observance of those laws (the ones they purport to defend and protect) is but a...

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5 de Enero, 2008

The Executioner's Dilemma

Categorized under Drogas , Ley , Violencia | Tags: Criminal Justice System, Torture

SO...is torture okay under certain conditions? Or is torture, by nature, wrong? Because if torture is wrong, then why do we kill death row inmates with drugs that clearly provide torturous endings? And if we don't think torture is right, why is one of the drugs we inject them with...

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14 de Diciembre, 2007

Code Switching for the Masses

Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Corporations, hope, Impeachment Pie, Power to the People

THE USA'S selective loathing of foreign elements has always disturbed me. Almost 100% of our products are made elsewhere, (even the traditionally AMERICAN products, hola Chrysler users!), massive corporations join hands with no regard to politics or who our "enemy" is on any given day, and then here on...

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8 de Diciembre, 2007

Defending My Right to Blow You Away

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Ley , Violencia | Tags: ALIENZ

WHEN COPS ARE PRESENT and you shoot a burglar in the back, you can get off saying it was "self defense." One little stipulation: the corpses need to have been those of brownskinned ALIENZ. *Note for the Nuance-Challenged: I hope you don't think I'm advocating burglary. But when the...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

American Bullets, Mexican Blood

Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Mexican Cartels, Mexico

MANY PEOPLE, when arguing me and trying to convince me of how evil and ugly and degraded Mexico is, like to minus part of the equation from their awareness. Talk about crime in Tijuana, but don't talk about the culture of criminality that a border creates with its unnatural...

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Drogas , Ley , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: GOP, hypocrisy, Mota, Mother Nature, Power to the People

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with...

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26 de Octubre, 2007

Teen Jailed for Bad Reading Tastes

Categorized under Ley , Literatura | Tags: Fear, war on terror

AND TO SEND A MESSAGE. Remember the case I posted on, where a teenager (turns out he was 17) was arrested for owning a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook? Well, it turns out that while the judge claims the kid is "not radicalised" nor a "politicised Islamist," hizzoner felt...

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23 de Octubre, 2007

News Groups Seek Truth of Jena

Categorized under Ley | Tags: Jena 6

SHINE THE LIGHT on the Mychal Bell case. Let us see what's going on, if what's going on is Just. The Associated Press on Monday joined more than two dozen other organizations, including newspapers, television networks and network affiliates, in filing a court petition that challenges a judge's decision...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

Mychal Bell Freed on Bail

Categorized under Historia , Ley , Violencia | Tags: Hope, Jena 6, The Haunted Land, White Supremacy

MYCHAL BELL, of the Jena 6, has been freed on bail. JENA, La. (AP) - A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell's release...

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24 de Septiembre, 2007

A Safer and More Humane New York

Categorized under Ley | Tags: Immigration, New York

GOOD NEWS from New York: THE NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION Press Statement For Immediate Release, September 21, 2007 Contact: Norman Eng, 212-627-2227 x235 New Driver’s License Policy Is a Win for All New Yorkers Statement of Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition: New York State’s new...

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20 de Septiembre, 2007

Chota Kill Woman in Wheelchair, and I'm Not Shocked.

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Ley , Violencia | Tags: Police Brutality

SOMEONE HAS GOT TO TAKE those Tasers away from cops. It seems they just don't know how to use them. Now, granted: a person (in general) who makes it their career to be a weapon-wielding authority figure is bound to be operating with some issues. I'd venture a guess...

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17 de Septiembre, 2007

Gentle Loving Monsters

Categorized under Ley , Violencia | Tags: Evil, hypocrisy

NORMALLY I don't even want to know about this type of thing, let along focus attention on it...but this is just...I don't even know what to say about this. DETROIT -- A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to...

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7 de Septiembre, 2007

Murder is not Deportation.

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Latin America , Ley , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: Guatemala, Immigration, Justicia, migra

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y., Sept. 6 -- A village police officer was charged on Thursday with second-degree manslaughter in the death of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant four months ago that had shaken this community of 10,000 people. [...] The death of Mr. Perez followed at least two other suspicious and...

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26 de Agosto, 2007

The Character of the Region

Categorized under Historia , Ley | Tags: ALIENZ, historia, hype, hypocrisy, migra, The Haunted Land

or Blood in the Quill, Still. MANASSAS, Va. -- Ines Olivia Martinez wonders if her family will be denied medical care. Even her mentally disabled 13-year-old son has been anxiously pointing out police cars amid fears of a local crackdown on illegal immigrants. Resolutions to deny a potentially wide range...

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23 de Agosto, 2007

I Want You to Think About Your Clothing

Categorized under Gobierno , Ley | Tags: Locura, putos

ATLANTA - Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws. The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a 'major concern' around the country. 'Little children see it and...

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18 de Julio, 2007

QOTD

Categorized under Humor , Ley | Tags:

"To be confronted with a naked man is shocking for everyone."...

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8 de Julio, 2007

Let's Blow This Taco Stand

Categorized under Cultura , Ley , Raza | Tags: Mexicans, racism

WE KNOW THAT THERE HAS ALREADY BEEN FRICTION between some New Orleans officials and the Mexican American community that has stepped forth to utilize the work/labor/marketing opportunities opened up by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina—by which New Orleans was drowned due to American Government deciding the town didn't need to...

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31 de Mayo, 2007

CRIMEWATCH (Fair and Balanced!)

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Ley , Medios , Violencia | Tags: Fair and Balanced, hype, White Supremacy

ANYBODY WHO READS THIS PAGE regularly needs no further introduction to the following news item, nor any analysis of what it means to yours truly. A mob of 20 to 30 white teenagers beat and threw stones at two Latino men in an unprovoked attack at a park south of...

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30 de Mayo, 2007

Corporate Czars and the Beet Field Peon

Categorized under Frontera , Historia , Ley , Religión | Tags: hypocrisy, Mota, racism

AND WHILE WE ARE DISCUSSING the validity of "law," the morality of the "force" that fuels these laws, the agents who prosper from our swallowing them whole, and the hypocrisy therein that cannot withstand close inspection, I offer this:...

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24 de Mayo, 2007

In Memory of Mrs. Nueces

Categorized under Frontera , Ley | Tags: borders

I'M NOT SURE why it matters at this point...but the brief consideration, or appearance of respect for past treaties is—though quaint—a sweet one. HARLINGEN, Texas -- A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande river could skew the border and...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Immigration Reform Deal Struck

Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Migrant farmers

A DEAL first negotiated by Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz) has been has been accepted and agreed upon by a "bipartisan group" of senators. The deal attempts a broad reworking of America's immigration laws. In the details available so far, preference for attaining a green...

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3 de Mayo, 2007

The Right of Peaceful Assembly. Gone.

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Derechos Humanos , Ley , Violencia , día festivo | Tags: activism, Police Brutality, Police State, Power to the People, Support the Truth, YouTube

THERE IS NO RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA. There were signs earlier, it's true. But now it can be said to be official. File this along with what you read on blogs about habeas corpus and wiretapping, this latest display of contempt for our rights: here is a...

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27 de Abril, 2007

You Can't Deport the Truth

Categorized under Corazón , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Hipnotismo , Historia , Indígena , Ley , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: borders, Change, Chicanism@, False History, Fear, historia, Hutto, hypocrisy, indigenous, mexicans, YouTube

BIG GOLD-TOPPED PROPZ to mis amig@s sech as XicanoPwr and Marisa at Latina Lista and mi güero blo'migo at Mexfiles, and Migra Matters and No Más Muertes and all the other soldader@s who stare the border issue in the face day after day after day after day. I read...

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25 de Abril, 2007

Mexico City Passes Abortion Law

Categorized under Ley | Tags: derechos de mujeres

MEXICO makes an important step, recognizing the autonomy and needs of las mujeres: Mexico City legislators passed a ground breaking abortion legalization measure Tuesday that moves the nation´s capital into the vanguard of Latin America's nascent pro-choice movement. The law allows women in the Federal District - Mexico City´s...

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Toking About Truth

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Drogas , Ley | Tags: Hope

POPPING IN briefly to ask you please to read this story, and digg it. It would be great (and important, I think) if everyone also took the action JC suggests in the post. But you read it and do what you are moved to. Gracias....

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22 de Abril, 2007

Truth is My Law

Categorized under Corazón , Ley , Parenting | Tags: Soul of the World

IT IS EXPECTED that we take the laws seriously in this land. That we integrate them into our personal moral systems. We tell our children to do this, to trust us on our superior ability to filter out what is good and what is bad. And we hand them...

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7 de Febrero, 2007

Watada Case A Mistrial

Categorized under Ley | Tags: Watada

WATADA CASE ruled a mistrial. FORT LEWIS, United States - The court martial of a US army officer who refused to fight in Iraq was ruled a mistrial here after a dispute over a pre-trial agreement.Military judge Lieutenant Colonel John Head halted the case involving First Lieutenant Ehren Watada following...

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20 de Enero, 2007

Like Crack in the Ghetto, or Trading Booze for Furs

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Hipnotismo , Latin America , Ley , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: bush, familia, Farming, Fear, Format, hype, Mexican Cartels, Mexico, NAFTA, tortillas

WHAT MANY PEOPLE IN AMERICA do not realize is that the default information they have resting in they cabeza about México is well-shaped by a mighty messaging machine that has certain interests to promote. I know this now. I once did not, either. But as a regular reader knows,...

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15 de Enero, 2007

The Passion of the Cop

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Ley | Tags: hype, The Gibson

OH I KNOW it's hardly worth our attention, but here at MelWatch, we are sworn to track the happenings of this pinche cabrón, Mel Gibson. And we take our vows seriously, carnál. Rememba Señor G's ill-fated drunken drive recently? Pues, it seems that the cop who dared pull over...

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10 de Enero, 2007

Lou Consults La Raza?

Categorized under Ley , Medios | Tags: Lou Dobbs, migra, pundits

DOBBS WOULDN'T even let me vote! Anyway...who is this "La Raza?" Is the quickvote survey (below the cut) referring to La Raza or...is Louie baby referring to The National Council of La Raza? (NCLR) Seems a little sloppy to be jes callin' it "La Raza." Next thing, Lou'll be...

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16 de Diciembre, 2006

Blind

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Ley | Tags:

IF IT IS WRONG TO KILL; if you even have devised laws against it, what on Earth makes you think it's right when the State does it? Ending someone's life is wrong on this side of the border, it's wrong on the other. It's wrong when done by a...

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14 de Diciembre, 2006

Rights to the Left of me, Torture to the Right

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Guerra , Ley , Migra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: borders, Gitmo, malkin, migra

SOME BAD NEWS, SOME GOOD. And why would I think it bad news that the inmates of Guantanamo are denied the rights of Americans? Because I do not believe in this notion that when it comes to human rights, what is Wrong to do to human beings on our...

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Catch A Fire, Oaxaca Style

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: APPO, Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Election, False History, Hope, hype, Mexico, Ruiz

IT LOOKS LIKE HELPFUL MINIONS OF FLAME have smiled up at Oaxaca's Governor Ulisses Ruiz, for records kept in his offices that would most likely have shown many illegal exchanges are now...ash. Ruiz of course, claims it was the APPO's use of molotov cocktails, but there are many who...

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9 de Diciembre, 2006

Mexican Feds Chase State Cops

Categorized under Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Oaxaca, Ruiz

WHETHER CALDERON IS GOING AFTER THE OAXACA STATE POLICE and prosecutor so soon after his installment for purely political reasons or because he cares about those people and what happened to them is secondary to the fact that he is going after them. So let's see what the "evidence" shows....

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7 de Diciembre, 2006

The Dark Goldstein and Thinking Penally

Categorized under Chinga la Chota , Hipnotismo , Ley , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: The Dark Goldstein

I HAVE NOT INVESTIGATED THE INVESTIGATION that led to Jose Padilla being abducted by the United States Government. After all, hasn't it all happened in the dark? Using my own reasoning I have to say that if after years and millions of dollars and torture, acid spiking, temperature-rigged steel...

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