This weekend, news reports were full of finger-wagging over the death by trampling of a temporary worker, Jdimytai Damour, at a Wal-Mart store in Long Island on Friday.
"We will push every button, we will use every strategy, we will appeal to any fair court to redress this trampling of a fair and independent process," Israel pledged.
Following 83 on-site arrests, the death of 21-year old Adonis Escoto, and the trampling of a security guard, Ultra Music Festival narrowly avoided a ban from Miami's Bayfront Park in early April.
When opponents of the government's bill to allow "marriage for all" gathered on the Champ-de-Mars, in the shadow of the Eiffel tower, on 13 January, the normally pristine lawns were destroyed by the trampling of an estimated 350,000 of pairs of feet.
Of unchecked government tyranny, of some boogeyman trampling on a vague notion of "freedom," of the inability to defend their families from... well... bad guys.
Some of Tippett's works had been coarsely dismissed by both conductors and orchestral players (I remember one player even trampling on a copy of his part after a rehearsal), but Colin made this a thing of the past.
Which doesn't magically erase his constitutional rights, Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill points out: jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) This exchange between Feinstein & Brennan is a perfect example of a trampling of due process in the US.
His campaign has been characterized by bellowing, bullying, unpredictable and erratic charges against others, the verbal trampling of more than a dozen adversaries in the primaries, not to mention the spewing of bull so relentlessly and unashamedly that The New York Times broke with its tradition and began to call his utterances "lies" rather than the more genteel "misstatements".
Perhaps mass surveillance — a tech-powered dystopia we are living through right here, right now — is not just a massive trampling of our human rights, but also a giant red flag reminding humanity of the importance of moderating our consumptive impulses.
"This is a harsh blow to the sanctity of the Sabbath and a trampling of the status quo, which has been upheld since the establishment of the state" in 1948, Effi Eitam, leader of the party and the housing minister, told Israel radio.
To her son, the appeal to expediency spells utter betrayal, a trampling of the very values by which she has taught him to live his life.
