In light of last week’s Indiana Supreme Court decision, it is now highly likely that it is no longer legal to exercise the right of self defense, or defend one’s home or personal property, from a robber/assailant.
After all, the likelihood of violence is certainly great, and you can always vindicate you rights later on by suing the perpetrator for civil damages, if you can identify him or her.
Of course, if you don’t survive, your heirs or your estate can always sue for wrongful death.
Former President James E. Carter is being the diplomatic tourist, again. This time in Cuba visiting his old friend Fidel:
“We welcomed each other as old friends,” Carter said of the meeting with the 84-year-old former Cuban leader. He said Fidel Castro “seems to be in good health.”
The putative reason for Carter going to Cuba was the imprisoned American Alan Gross, for whome he failed to secure the normal get of out jail card.
Gross was arrested while working on a USAID-backed democracy-building project and convicted of crimes against state security earlier this month in a case that has blocked improved ties between the U.S. and Cuba.
Gross has said he was working to improve Internet communications for Cuba’s tiny Jewish community. Havana considers such U.S. projects to be aimed at toppling the government.
Of course, Jimma believes that
Gross is “innocent of any serious crime” and did not pose “any serious threat” to the Cuban government.
Note the phrase–innocent of any serious crime. As opposed to innocent of any crime, which is what common sense would say.
So Carter thinks trying to modernize the communications of the Jewish community in Habana=-or of anyone else in Cuba–is a crime; it’s just that it’s not a serious crime.
He also met with some dissidents while in Cuba. He did not call them old friends; on the other hand he did not tell them they were guilty only of a trivial crime, so let us be grateful for small favors.
It is deeply embarrassing that my alma mater continues to host this man’s Center on its campus, and treat him as a serious person.
AKA Snarking the Seventies in two different ways.
You can pick the Sears catalog or the Price is Right.
