Closing Arguments

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Closing Arguments

Postby Gouda » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:47 pm

No need to comment, really. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060327-100356-7854r">www.upi.com/NewsTrack/vie...0356-7854r</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Justice Scalia flips the finger in church</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics.<br><br>A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state.<br><br>"You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian."<br><br>The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper.<br><br>"Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said.<br><br>He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers' Guild luncheon.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4848834.stm">news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world...848834.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Judge 'rejects Guantanamo rights'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Justice Antonin Scalia Mr Scalia reportedly finds reaction in Europe to the camp "hypocritical"<br><br>A US Supreme Court justice has been quoted as saying that Guantanamo detainees do not have the right to be tried in civil courts.<br><br>Newsweek magazine said it had heard a tape of a recent talk given by Antonin Scalia in which he made these comments...<br><br>In a speech to Swiss law students at the University of Freiburg on 8 March, Justice Scalia dismissed the idea that detainees had rights under the US constitution or international conventions, Newsweek reported.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18616282%255E1702,00.html">www.heraldsun.news.com.au...02,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Communists boiled babies: Berlusconi</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>From correspondents in Naples<br>27mar06<br><br>ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fighting for re-election against a centre-left coalition which includes the hard left, said today communists have a history of boiling babies.<br><br>"I have been accused many times of saying communists eat babies," he told a rally of his Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party.<br><br>"Go and read the black book on communism and you'll find that under Mao's China they didn't eat babies but they boiled them to fertilise the fields...<br><br>Mr Berlusconi has often been accused of being obsessed with the "communist threat" in Italy, a country where during the Cold War the communist party was bigger than anywhere else in western Europe.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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