Archive for November, 2007
“Troublesome” due process issues noted in appeal decision
Having posted yesterday about circumstances in which due process can be ignored by the powers that be with impunity, I thought I’d post these excerpts from the appeal decision in my case, in which I prevailed against a raft of specious charges, and even non-charges. Read on, and you’ll see what I mean by “non-charges.”
29Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Innocent Until Investigated or Innocent Until Charged
Head of Rove Inquiry in Hot Seat Himself – WSJ.com Today’s Wall Street Journal carried a story about Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel who is investigating Karl Rove’s actions, and who is now being investigated himself at the behest of (surprise–not) the White House. In addition to pointing out the somewhat [...]
28Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
What Do Due Process and Swiss Cheese Have In Common?
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution is the one in which we are given a guarantee of due process of law. Well, sort of. What we learned in civics classes about having a right to due process of law before being deprived of life, liberty, or property has a lot of big holes in it. [...]
28Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
One of those too common stories…
Here’s another of those stories we see far too many of these days: Blackwater Probe Stifled by Conflicts – Politics on The Huffington Post RICHARD LARDNER | November 26, 2007 05:57 PM EST | AP WASHINGTON — The State Department’s acerbic top auditor wasn’t happy when Justice Department officials told one of his aides to [...]
27Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Too Easy to Believe
There is a way in which the country’s getting worse has made things a little easier for me. Back when state bureaucracy first got its hooks into me, average Janes and Joes were much more likely to respond to a story like mine with incredulity. That was a mere five years ago. In that time [...]
26Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Vermont Again: Battles with a Corporate Bureaucracy
I honestly did not set out to dig up more stories from Vermont today–this one about Ben & Jerry’s was just the first one I came across (click here for the story.) The story does at least end on a positive note, with the company saying it will take steps to help its embittered franchisees, [...]
25Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
The Disney Attraction That Thinks It’s a State
A friend who migrated to Vermont from NYC, with whom I’ve regrettably fallen out of touch, was very fond of referring to Vermont as “the Disney attraction that thinks it’s a state.” It’s an apt metaphor. Vermont is a beautiful place, and life here is free of of many of the ills that affect major [...]
25Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
It Starts
I resolved to get this blog going in October of 2007. That’s when I read Valerie Plame Wilson’s blog posts about how good it is for her to finally be telling her story of being outed as a CIA agent and living through the consequences of telling truth to power. I have also experienced betrayal [...]
24Nov2007 | Deborah Alicen | 1 comment | Continued
