The one or two things you should know from this week's Harper's Weekly.
Officials in Los Angeles disclosed that they had infiltrated Occupy LA on suspicions that protesters were stockpiling bamboo spears and buckets of human feces.
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Congress passed a $662 billion defense spending bill that allows for indefinite detention of terror suspects. "And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,'" said Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), "you tell them, 'Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.'"
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How does a defense spending bill allow for the indefinite detention of suspects?
"You can only use this money, if this suspect is deprived of all human rights and detained indefinitely."
Also, "Shut up. You don't get a lawyer.", seems to disclose the diminishing influence of the lawyers' lobby. Also, isn't the necessity for that sentiment the beginning of the end for pretty much all empires?
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