C'est tout le paradoxe américain je crois, cette solidarité incroyable en cas de coup dur et cet individualisme dans la vie ordinaire...
mais pourquoi n'ont-ils pas délogé Sadam lors de la "guerre de Golf 1" .
Floride : attention à ne pas tirer plus vite que son ombre !
Crée le 05/10/2005 à 8 h 00
Une loi vient d’autoriser les habitants à braquer les individus perçus comme « menaçants ».
« Tirez le premier » ; « défendez votre espace ». Il ne s’agit pas de l’annonce du dernier jeu vidéo de combat japonais, ni de la mise en garde d’un lieutenant à son soldat, mais des termes exacts de la loi entrée en vigueur samedi 1er octobre en Floride. L’idée est simple : autoriser les citoyens de l’Etat à viser avec une arme toute personne perçue comme une menace dans un lieu public. Une consigne relevant du « bon sens » selon les partisans des armes à feu, au premier plan desquels on trouve le gouverneur Jeb Bush, frère de George W., et la puissante National Rifle Association (NRA), mais qui n’est pas au goût de tous. Ainsi, un groupe appelé « La campagne Brady » a entrepris de contre-attaquer par le biais de publicités mettant en garde les touristes. Publiés dans des journaux ou distribués sur les autoroutes, des tracts publicitaires expliquent les premiers gestes de survie aux visiteurs : « faites en sorte que vos mains soient visibles », « ne criez pas » ou encore « gardez une attitude positive » face au « résident nerveux ou effrayé » qui peut « utiliser une arme s’il se sent menacé ».
Mieux que « Survivor » ou « Boot Camp », avec la nouvelle loi de Floride tous les coups sont permis !
Gun control group warning tourists about Florida's deadly force law
MIAMI (AP) — Clark Ramm sees shades of the Wild West in Florida's new law giving greater legal protections to people who shoot or use other deadly force when threatened or attacked.
At Miami's airport: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gives tourists information on what it calls "Florida's shoot first law."
Wilfredo Lee, AP
"It seems like everybody ought to be packing a piece," said Ramm, a visitor from Ukiah, Calif., who found out about the law Monday from a gun control group handing out leaflets at Miami International Airport. "I don't know if that's the right thing to do."
The leaflets begin with the words "An Important Notice to Florida Visitors" in bold red type by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
"Do not argue unnecessarily with local people," it says. "If someone appears to be angry with you, maintain to the best of your ability a positive attitude, and do not shout or make threatening gestures."
Florida's "stand your ground" law, which took effect Saturday, removes a duty on the part of citizens to retreat in the face of an attack as long as they are in a place they have a legal right to be, including a public street or their place of business.
It also gives immunity from criminal or civil charges to a shooter as long as the person shot is not a police officer.
Proponents of the measure, pushed by the National Rifle Association, say it will make Florida a safer place, not more dangerous. Gov. Jeb Bush has repeatedly pointed to a 34-year low in state crime statistics to demonstrate that Florida is not a haven for violence.
"It's pure, unadulterated politics," Bush said last week of the Brady Campaign's tactics. "Shame on them."
The Florida tourism industry, however, is taking the campaign seriously, with Visit Florida — the state's official tourism marketing arm — issuing a statement calling Florida "a very safe and secure destination that excels in caring for its visitors."
"We believe that Americans and international visitors are smart enough to understand that the Brady Campaign is one group's political agenda and not a real safety issue," the statement said.
Florida hosts more than 1 million visitors on any given day, with nearly 80 million tourists visiting the state in 2004, according to Visit Florida.
The Brady Campaign leaflets, which the group intends to hand out for about a month at the Miami and Orlando airports, call the measure the "Shoot First" law and urge people to "take sensible precautions" while visiting the state.
"There is no other state in the nation — and no other civilized nation on Earth — that has a law like this," said Brady Campaign spokesman Peter Hamm. "It could cause the most aggressive people in society to overreact."
The group also has taken out ads in major Detroit, Chicago, Boston and London newspapers about the new Florida law.
Several people who got the leaflets at the Miami airport on Monday appeared taken aback by the new law.
"It's a little scary," said Melissa Vosberg, on her way home to the Chicago area after a cruise in the Bahamas. "It's 'shoot first, ask about it later.'"
Je suis catho ( bouh le naffreux)
et je sais bien que l'homme ne descend pas du singe mais que certains y remontent.
Je n'ai jamais cru autre chose que l'évolution, ce qui ne m'empêche pas de croire que Dieu y est pour quelquechose.
Je citerai quelques règles de base de la foi chrétienne ( la FAQ pour ceux qui ne suivent pas):
tu ne tueras point
tu ne voleras point
et que les septs péchés capitaux comprennent l'envie la colère et l'orgueil.
Succès démocrates à un an des élections américaines à mi-mandat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Le parti démocrate a infligé deux sévères défaites aux Républicains, un an avant les élections de mi-mandat aux Etats-Unis, en remportant les fauteuils de gouverneurs du New Jersey et de Virginie au terme d'âpres batailles.
En Virginie, Etat traditionnellement républicain, le démocrate Tim Kaine l'a ainsi emporté mercredi face à Jerry Kilgore, malgré le soutien du président George Bush.
Le sénateur Jon Corzine a quant à lui été élu gouverneur du New Jersey, plutôt acquis au camp démocrate, en battant son adversaire républicain Doug Forrester au terme d'une campagne coûteuse et exceptionnellement virulente.
Le républicain Michael Bloomberg, maire sortant de New York, a en revanché été aisément réélu pour un deuxième mandat.
DOVER, Pa. — Voters came down hard Tuesday on school board members who backed a statement on intelligent design being read in biology class, ousting eight Republicans and replacing them with Democrats who want the concept stripped from the science curriculum.
The election unfolded amid a landmark federal trial involving the Dover public schools and the question of whether intelligent design promotes the Bible's view of creation. Eight Dover families sued, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Dover's school board adopted a policy in October 2004 that requires ninth-graders to hear a prepared statement about intelligent design before learning about evolution in biology class.
Eight of the nine school board members were up for election Tuesday. They were challenged by a slate of Democrats who argued that science class was not the appropriate forum for teaching intelligent design.
"My kids believe in God. I believe in God. But I don't think it belongs in the science curriculum the way the school district is presenting it," said Jill Reiter, 41, a bank teller who joined a group of high school students waving signs supporting the challengers Tuesday.
A spokesman for the winning slate of candidates has said they wouldn't act hastily and would consider the outcome of the court case. The judge expects to rule by January; the new school board members will be sworn in Dec. 5.
School board member David Napierskie, who lost Tuesday, said the vote wasn't just about ideology.
"Some people felt intelligent design shouldn't be taught and others were concerned about having tax money spent on the lawsuit," he said.
Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some kind of higher force. The statement read to students says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps."
A similar controversy has erupted in Kansas, where the state Board of Education on Tuesday approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. The 6-4 vote was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards.
Dites, quand vous citez des trucs dans la langue de l'avaleur de bretzels, vous traduiriez pas ?
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