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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Monday on CNN’s “NewsNight” that she had concerns about Israel using “collective punishment” in Gaza. Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think what is important, in terms of response, is Israel does have a right to self defense. I think what we need to take a look at in this situation is, if collective punishment qualifies as defense. If the blockade on water, food, electricity, if the dropping of white phosphorus, which is an indiscriminate weapon, qualifies. So I do believe that there is a discussion to be had here. I don’t believe that, in either or approach...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Pre-Trial Fairness Act, part of the SAFE-T Act that eliminates cash bail, goes into effect Monday morning. Many local elected officials plan to celebrate the elimination of cash bail which takes effect Monday after extensive delays and legal challenges from some prosecutors and law enforcement leaders who sought to keep the existing system in place. Under the existing system, a judge can set bail as a means of ensuring the defendant will show up for court hearings. However, starting Monday, that will no longer be the case. If a judge decides a defendant does not pose...

I always seek to help any person I meet to get to heaven, trying to adapt my words to each person. Recently I found myself in a car with my car mechanic who does not frequent the Church, the Sacraments or prayer, as do the great majority of Italians today. I said to him: “Giampaolo, when your children were small, did you give them advice and guidance for their good or for their harm?” Giampaolo responded: “For their good”. (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold,...

Election integrity advocates have been warning that the trend of light sentences for those convicted of election fraud will not result in any actual deterrence from further election fraud crimes being committed in upcoming elections. As reported by Just The News, while prosecutors have been going after those accused of perpetuating voter fraud, the final sentences are often produced as a result of plea deals, and thus often lead to little or no jail time. “The good news is [prosecutors] seem to be more aggressive about going against these kinds of cases,” said Ned Jones, deputy director of the Election...

Louise Peete died in the Caliornia gas chamber on this date in 1947. Stock of “cultured, educated people” — her words — she turned teenage delinquent, got kicked out of her private school, and commenced a colorful career as an itinerant prostitute and scam artist. Her gallantries — and larcenies — are supposed to have driven two early husbands to suicide, though given her subsequent career one can’t help but wonder. Lofie Louise Preslar (as she was born) or Louise Gould (as she came to style herself) got the surname by which she is best known from a Denver salesman...

DES MOINES, IA — A local couple has discovered the perfect deterrent to help them handle rowdy children. The exasperated mother and father warned their overly rambunctious kids that if they didn't start behaving, they would take them to Applebee's for dinner. "Worked like a charm! They quieted down right away!" said relieved dad, Michael Tucci. "They have been acting up all day long, whining, bickering, misbehaving…but we fixed that real quick with a simple threat of taking them to a God-forsaken hellscape of greasy, tasteless food guaranteed to cause indigestion." Michael returned home from work to learn that the...

Ideally, the process of the judicial system would be free or cheap and painless. Unfortunately, it is expensive and painful, with long delays, expensive lawyer fees, and much uncertainty. The process of the judicial system has become a punishment in itself. A bill which would help alleviate punishment by process in self defense cases in North Dakota, has passed the North Dakota House by 50 to 40 on January 20, 2023. The bill, HB 1213, would allow a judge to provide reinbursement of costs to people who are prosecuted by the State for self defense, and are then found not...

@YouGov Should the death penalty be reintroduced for... cases of multiple murder: 52% support / 36% oppose terrorist murder acts: 49% / 38% the murder of a child: 49% / 39% the murder of a police officer: 37% / 46% in all cases of murder: 30% / 51%

Those who see the madness for what it is have only one escape: go to ground, fade from public view, become self-reliant and weather the coming storm in the nooks and crannies. A great madness sweeps the land. There are no limits on extremes in greed, credulity, convictions, inequality, bombast, recklessness, fraud, corruption, arrogance, hubris, pride, over-reach, self-righteousness and confidence in the rightness of one's opinions. Extremes only become more extreme even as the folly of previous extremes wearies rationality. Imaginary sins are conjured out of thin air to convict the innocent while those guilty of the most egregious fraud...

The murder rate has fallen by two thirds since 2018, and crime has fallen by 75%, in El Salvador as it has imprisoned large numbers of criminals. The country has put nearly 2% of its adult population in prison. This is due to the anti-crime policies of its current president, Nayib Bukele. … Harsher penalties discourage crime. Crime in California fell significantly after California voters adopted Proposition 8, which mandated longer sentences for repeat offenders who kill, rape, and rob others. A study found those longer sentences deterred many crimes from being committed. Similarly, a 2008 Santa Clara University study...

The jailbird sister who helped Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz cheat the death penalty is a hellraiser who enjoys moonshine, phone sex and lesbian romps behind bars, according to a former inmate lover. Danielle Woodard, 36, has spent the past two years locked up in a Miami detention center awaiting trial for terrorizing an old lady in an alleged carjacking - her 17th felony charge. But the heavy-set redhead has continued to break the law even while behind bars, according to a former inmate who had a months-long fling with Woodard that turned violent and abusive Lifting the lid on Woodard's...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented a five-point “formula for peace” between him and invading Russia during the United Nations General Assembly debate on Wednesday, identifying the first step as “punishment.” Zelensky addressed the forum from Kyiv, a move that the Assembly voted to allow by 101 members to seven. Zelensky named and shamed the seven — the communist nations of Belarus, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Nicaragua, plus Russia and Russian proxy Bashar al-Assad’s Syria — accusing them of fearing his words.

A Missouri school district has reinstated corporal punishment after parents reportedly called for their kids to be spanked with a wooden paddle, the superintendent claimed. Cassville R-IV School District, located near the Arkansas border, has implemented corporal punishment as a 'last resort' going into the 2022-23 school year. 'It shall be used only when all other alternative means of discipline have failed,' the policy reads. 'It should never be inflicted in the presence of other students.' The punishment technique - which is legal in 19 states - will only be administered in front of a witness and will not cause...

“The prophet of Allah took off his gown and put it on Om Ali and slept with her in her grave and they kicked dirt on him, saying: ‘Oh messenger of Allah, we saw you do something no one else has ever done.’ He said: ‘I dressed her in my gown, so she can wear the gowns of paradise and I slept with her in her grave to relieve her of the torments of the grave.'” (Kanz al-‘Ommal in Sunan al Aqwal wa al-Af’al, vol. 16, p. 158) “There is no need to rewash a dead woman if her husband...

SHANGHAI, April 13 (Reuters) - China's commercial capital, Shanghai, warned on Wednesday that anyone who violates COVID-19 lockdown rules will be dealt with strictly, while also rallying citizens to defend their city as its tally of new cases rebounded to more than 25,000. The city police department spelled out the restrictions that most of the 25 million residents are facing and called on them to "fight the epidemic with one heart ... and work together for an early victory".

A Black Lives Matter organizer in Memphis was sentenced to prison after she was convicted for illegally registering to vote. Pamela Moses, described by some outlets as the founder of a BLM chapter in Memphis, was sentenced to six years in prison last week after she was convicted in November 2021 for illegally registering to vote in Tennessee, according to prosecutors. Moses had felony convictions in 2015, making her ineligible to register to vote. Judge Mark Ward, while handing down her prison sentence, accused her of making false statements to the probation department to register to vote. “You tricked the...

Video feed that doesn't work or link to You Tube. Demonstrators call on government to increase punishment against terrorists and increase sense of security for Israelis. Dozens of young people demonstrated on Saturday night at the Chords Bridge in Jerusalem following the terrorist attack in Samaria this past Thursday night. The protesters tried to block the road. 13 of them were arrested. According to reports from the scene, one of the demonstrators, a minor, was arrested with police using serious violence. The police used a water cannon to disperse the demonstrators. A woman was injured by the water cannon and...

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Monday highlighted the sentencing differences given across the country based apparently on political ideology. Speaking with Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, Carlson said the QAnon Shamam will get three years behind bars for entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6., but a criminal who smashed a GOP senator’s office with an axe faced a relatively light punishment. Fox News’ Bill Melugin tells Tucker Carlson about TPM’s report by @MrAndyNgo and @MiaCathell that revealed a man with ties to Antifa only received probation after attacking a Republican Senator’s office with an axe.Read more: https://t.co/gOdPJMVMb0 pic.twitter.com/PXIsp4iNzw— The...

Lt. Col. Scheller was issued a letter of reprimand and a forfeiture of $5,000 worth of pay for one month after pleading guilty to all charges in his Court Martial hearing at Marine Base Camp Lejeune on Thursday.

School punishment such as push-ups, squats and sit-ups are commonplace, but what happens when it is taken too far? An incident of a junior high school student in Sichuan, China, becoming disabled after punishment resurfaced in late September as the principal told reporters that student leaders have no right to punish students who violate the rules. They are only allowed to correct them and report them to the teachers. Although the school has yet to come to an agreement with the injured student's parents, the institution has forked out a total of 110,000 yuan (S$23,000) to cover her medical expenses....