Hero/Hack: Pissing Off the United States Edition
The 9-11 family members who stood defiant against Moussauoi at this trial this week are heroes. Confronting an evil madman cannot be easy, especially when that person contributed to the deaths of 3,000 loved ones.
Lisa Dolan, who lost her husband, Bob, in the attack on the Pentagon, was one of three family members of victims allowed to speak at the brief sentencing hearing. She turned to Moussaoui and said, "There is still one final judgment day."
Moussaoui sat in his chair staring at Dolan and the other family witnesses, Rosemary Dillard and Abraham Scott, betraying no emotion as they spoke.
Wow, Mexico just wants to piss us off. First they send 12 million of their own to invade our country, and now they want to allow drug users to roam free:
Vicente Fox has sent the bill back to his Congress, but even so, this is pretty much insane. If they want drugs that bad, go to Holland.On Tuesday, Fox's spokesman had called the bill "an advance" and pledged the president would sign it. But the measure, passed Friday by Congress, drew a storm of criticism because it eliminates criminal penalties possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamines and PCP, as well as marijuana and cocaine.
Earlier in the day, the U.S. government expressed a rare public objection to an internal Mexican political development, saying anyone caught with illegal drugs in Mexico should be prosecuted or given mandatory drug treatment.
"U.S. officials ... urged Mexican representatives to review the legislation urgently, to avoid the perception that drug use would be tolerated in Mexico, and to prevent drug tourism," U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Judith Bryan said.
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