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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; rule_of_law</title>
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	<description>looking at the world through the eyes of faith in Jesus</description>
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		<title>just bullies</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/10/04/just-bullies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our nation&#8217;s psyche is shaped by two defining archetypes: the cowboy and the preacher; the macho hero and the principled idealist; the adventurer and the reformer; the Louisiana Purchase and the Bill of Rights; Christopher Columbus and Thomas Jefferson; John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart; Douglas MacArthur and Martin Luther King. The face we present to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>if at first you don&#8217;t succeed &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/16/if-you-first-you-dont-succeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/16/if-you-first-you-dont-succeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 22:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to see how this is just or fair by any definition. If this is the practice, why go through the bother of a hearing at all? Why pretend to adhere to any rule of law? The military system of determining whether detainees are properly held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, includes an unusual practice: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>disheartened, but not surprised</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/04/disheartened-but-not-surprised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 02:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human_dignity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Troops Say Torture OK is the title of an article posted at Military.com. The article discusses a report released today by the Army Medical Department detailing the results of a study of American service personnel in Iraq. Among the findings of the report: More than a third of those surveyed believe torture should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>some thoughts on terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/12/some-thoughts-on-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/12/some-thoughts-on-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts provoked by a lecture I heard last Monday evening delivered by Dr. Louise Richardson. Her latest book: What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat Dr. Richardson spoke of the importance of &#8220;following our own rules.&#8221; I agree. It is beyond foolish to jettison our highest principles &#8212; our esteem for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ten steps</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/21/ten-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/21/ten-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ucc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worth checking out: Ten Steps to Restore the United States&#8217; Moral Authority: A Common Sense Agenda for the 110th Congress This document posted on the Human Rights Watch website provides a good summary of the ways the conduct of the war on terrorism has undermined the consistent application by the United States of basic principles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>secret proceedings</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/08/trials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/03/08/trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a March 8, 2007 article by Andrew Buncombe in The Independent: Campaigners have condemned the Bush administration&#8217;s plan to proceed with secret proceedings [Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT)] against 14 &#8220;high-value&#8221; terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The suspects include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of organising the 11 September 2001 attacks. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ny times on torture compromise: a bad bargain</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/22/ny-times-on-torture-compromise-a-bad-bargain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/09/22/ny-times-on-torture-compromise-a-bad-bargain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the rule of law that protects citizens and nations from tyranny. When we agree together to adhere to a law that binds both of us/all of us then we have a standard to which both of us/all of us are held accountable, and a means to address grievances with each other. When one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>our nation&#8217;s greatness?</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/08/10/our-nations-greatness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/08/10/our-nations-greatness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human_dignity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article by R. Jeffrey Smith in the Washington Post, August 9, 2006: The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tipping the scales in &#8220;balance of powers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/26/tipping-the-scales-in-balance-of-powers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/26/tipping-the-scales-in-balance-of-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule_of_law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Boston Globe (Read the entire article) By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff &#124; March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON &#8212; When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>just say no</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/18/just-say-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2006/03/18/just-say-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule_of_law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Powers writes in The New York Review of Books: &#8216;The Biggest Secret&#8217;: In public life as in kindergarten, the all-important word is no. We are living with the consequences of the inability to say no to the President&#8217;s war of choice with Iraq, and we shall soon see how the Congress and the courts [...]]]></description>
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