AMAZON LOST TRIBE: HOAXEST WITH THE MOSTEST
Well, team, the Rain Forest pro-environmental effort just got set back twenty years.
The "Lost Tribe" depicted a few weeks ago as a huge socio-environmental development....uh, wasn't. They were a "found" tribe, known since at least 1910 (Thank God for GPS technology, so we could find 'em again.). The whole thing was a hoax.
Now every time a green person speaks, uncommitted folks will have reason to be skeptical.
Way to go, Ace Photographer. "The end justifies the means" never works, in the long run.
posted by UMRBlog @ 06:59
7 comments
7 Comments:
Another win for your side.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_child_rape
My side?
I've stood in front of a jury and asked them to kill an exceptionally heinous murderer. How 'bout you?
My side, indeed.
Those are the judges you support right? And that's why you support the Obama, right? So he'll appoint those two judges in their likeness. Or are you saying you support the minority in this one? They don't let people who aren't lawyers practice law. I'm surprised you didn't know that. I vote for people who appoint justices who will rule to kill child rapists. How about you?
How about this?: I'll read the full opinion and then tell you whether I think it's well reasoned or not.
TYFCB
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Well hop to it counselor.
In fact, there is no hoax at all. This is a non-story based on a serious media misunderstanding. From the moment the photos emerged, Survival International (the global movement for tribal peoples) and FUNAI (the Brazilian Government's National Indian Foundation), which supplied the photos, have not said that the tribe was 'unknown', 'undiscovered' or 'lost'. The tribe was and remains ‘uncontacted’: no outsider has been known to have any peaceful contact with its members.
This is true of about 100 tribes worldwide. Since the photographs were released, Peru has acknowledged the lands of uncontacted tribes on its side of the border, and sent a team to investigate the illegal logging that threatens their survival.
Find out more about the world's uncontacted tribes at http://www.survival-international.org/uncontactedtribes and read Survival's article on the supposed hoax at http://www.survival-international.org/news/3400
Matt
Survival International
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I have read the Kennedy v. Louisiana case. The dissent is better reasoned than the majority decision.
"In these cases the Court has been guided by "objective indicia of society's standards, as expressed in legislative enactments and state practice with respect to executions." Roper, 543 U. S., at 563; see also Coker, supra, at 593-597 (plurality opinion) (finding that both legislatures and juries had firmly rejected the penalty of death for the rape of an adult woman); Enmund, supra, at 788 (looking to "historical development of the punishment at issue, legislative judgments, international opinion, and the sentencing decisions juries have made"). The inquiry does not end there, however. Consensus is not dispositive. Whether the death penalty is disproportionate to the crime committed depends as well upon the standards elaborated by controlling precedents and by the Court's own understanding and interpretation of the Eighth Amendment's text, history, meaning, and purpose. See id., at 797-801; Gregg, supra, at 182-183 (joint opinion of Stewart, Powell, and Stevens, JJ.); Coker, supra, at 597-600 (plurality opinion).
Based both on consensus and our own independent judgment, our holding is that a death sentence for one who raped but did not kill a child, and who did not intend to assist another in killing the child, is unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments."
This is kind of sociology with legal clothes on. "Evolving conscience" is a little different from an improved understanding of some problem. Certainly the constitution is interpreted against different historical backdrops (See Brown v. Board) but just poll-taking minimizes the solemnity of the Great Document.
"My side" didn't win here. Psychobabble, or sociobabble, seems to have won.
TYFCB
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