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Like the Sixth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment deals with the administration of criminal justice. The Eighth Amendment reads as follows:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
This is how bail works: When federal officials arrest someone suspected of having committed a crime, they are required to take him promptly to a federal magistrate whose job includes the setting of bail. The bail must be “reasonable” in amount, which obviously depends on many factors, such as the seriousness of the crime, the defendant’s ties to the community, and the defendant’s financial condition. The magistrate’s decision is obviously a discretionary one but it can be appealed to the federal court of appeals.
If the defendant posts the bail, he promises to appear at trial. If he fails to do so, he forfeits the bail and is then subject to a new criminal charge for having jumped bail.
What is the rationale behind this ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005
According to the Pioneer Press, Dan Gartrell, a former Head Start teacher at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, said public-school student killer Jeff Weise
“would have been just fine if teachers ‘had time to greet students in the morning, easing them through conflicts since the previous day that may be getting them down.’ He went on to suggest that we need full-time mental health professionals in our schools, from preschool through college.”
A good place for those mental-health professionals to start would be to counsel public-student students on the psychological consequences of state compulsory-attendance laws, which force families to send young people into government-approved institutions to receive government-approved “education” from government-approved schoolteachers using a government-approved curriculum that follows a government-approved schedule of bells.
How can such a dysfunctional concept not have psychological consequences, not only with respect to aberrant behavior among students but also on adults, including those who propose such unreal solutions to school violence ...
Unfortunately, the CIA “success” in Iran, which produced the CIA’s ouster of Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, bred a CIA “success” in another part of the world, Latin America. One year after the 1953 coup in Iran, the CIA did it again, this time in Guatemala, where U.S. officials feared the communist threat even more than they did in Iran.
This time, the target was the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, a self-avowed socialist whose domestic policies were in fact modeled after the socialist New Deal policies of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
Arbenz’s socialist mindset had driven him to adopt an “agrarian reform plan,” a type of land-distribution scheme that unfortunately is all too common in Latin America. The plan entailed the confiscation of a portion of land owned by a major U.S. corporation operating in Guatemala at that time, United Fruit, and its redistribution to Guatemalan peasants. While the plan was an almost perfect embodiment of ...
