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indigenous
But it fails to stipulate the regulation of what is commonly referred to as ‘data retention’. For example, mobile operators maintain detailed records of subscribers’ movements based on the phone’s continuous communication with telecom towers.
Through these records it’s possible to pinpoint the geographical location of the subscriber at any time – reaching several years back – to within tens of metres. The citizen has no legislative protection in the face of this worrying capability to track him: there is no regulation of the information that the company can retain, nor the length of time it’s permitted to retain it. (Does the company have a record of my movements over the past decade?) There are no regulations governing who can see this information. Does the company sell it to marketing and advertising firms, for example? Will it
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law. So, the regime’s tailors cut and stitched the laws so that most of the Interior Ministry’s practices – even fatal ones – are tried as minor abuses, with sentences of ‘manslaughter’ or ‘wrongful death’ handed down in cases that should really topple entire security departments. The logical minimum requirement for this revolution’s constitution is to set out a definition of torture in compliance with its definition in the International Convention Against Torture, though our people’s aspirations go further.
Anyone reading a constitution that was drafted after the Maspero events would expect to see an article criminalizing the deployment of the Army against citizens, that protects soldiers who refuse to carry out criminal orders.
obfuscation
When the authorities insist that non-violent actions (roadblocks, institutional disruptions, strikes and rude chants) be treated as violent,
schism
Schrodinger’s
But the gods are fickle and in a fit of rage, Apollo cursed her. He didn’t take away the power of prophecy, but damned her never to be believed. She had a vision that Troy would burn and went around the city screaming her warning, and everyone ignored her.
every Cassandra, there is no prize for being first to make predictions, and there’s no use in saying I told you so. Cassandra’s tragedy isn’t that she was unable to convince others. Her tragedy, as in all Greek drama, was her failure to accept the limits of her condition.
They endured it with unprecedented nobility and with faith in a better future despite knowing that tomorrow still holds a lot of pain.
The Islamists will not understand – no matter how severe their grievance – the value of what burned today. You, children of Qutb, el-Banna, and Abd el-Wahab, have burned the last opportunity for toleration of the Islamist project. And were it not for the Christians’ call to love our enemies, there wouldn’t even be a chance for forgiving you as individuals.
retribution
Bureaucracy, incompetence, mismanagement and indifference to the safety of the prisoners meant they tried to transport them in packed trucks in the heat of the day.
The struggle to either turn on the fan or let us off to wait outside is a constant issue during prisoner transports,
so someone from the transport’s guard detail decided to fire a tear gas canister into the truck.
Firing gas into the truck is murder, and everyone who approved the decision is responsible. All those who did not intervene to save the prisoners after the gas was fired committed the crime of gross negligence, and all those
Sycophancy
bourgeoisie?
gentrification
