Meanwhile, most of the politicians who swear to "protect and defend the constitution" are, in fact, the surveillance abusers' chief defenders.
The body is the site of so many violations, starting with the chief one: Our abusers did not ask us for permission to use our bodies as they pleased.
I'd like to think that if you can get rid of people like [ex-CBS chief and accused abuser] Les Moonves and Harvey Weinstein, these people can be toppled.
He reappointed Hétor Iván Mejía, an alleged human rights abuser, as chief of operations for the national police, for example, and has a track record of supporting the coup and undermining the rule of law on multiple fronts.
If the Peruvian government is willing to let Vladimiro Montesinos, the disgraced Peruvian intelligence chief and a flagrant abuser of civil rights, flee to Panama and to drop bribery charges against him (news article, Sept. 27), how can it justify keeping Lori Berenson, the young American, in prison?
The United States attorney, Thomas P. O'Brien, convened a grand jury, which was reported at the time to include an investigation into the role of Cardinal Mahony and his chief lieutenants in protecting accused abusers.
"We're raising third and fourth generations of prescription drug abusers now," said Chief Charles Horner of the Portsmouth police, who often notes that more people died from overdoses in Ohio in 2008 and 2009 than in the World Trade Center attack in 2001.
"Some people argue it's just a piece of paper that doesn't provide a physical shield, but the hope is that judicial intervention will discourage an abuser," said Joy Watson, chief of the sex offense and domestic violence bureau in the Nassau district attorney's office.
Chief among these are the labels, "abuse" and "abuser". While intense rhetoric has persisted on this topic, little empirical information exists to inform this debate.
