Round-Up Of Blog Posts Regarding Prison Rape

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 2:33 PM PST

2007/02/13 · 14:33

"The opposite of compassion is not hatred, it's indifference."
--Anonymous prisoner quoted by Human Rights Watch

In response to Ezra Klein's two posts on prison rape yesterday (which themselves relied on an excellent 2001 Human Rights Watch report), a lot of bloggers are discussing prison rape today, and past posts are being linked again. A lot of them are quite good:

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Saturday February 10, 2007 · 12:24 PM PST

2007/02/10 · 12:24

From FIRE:

San Francisco State University (SFSU) is investigating its College Republicans for hosting an anti-terrorism rally on campus in which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags. After students filed a complaint claiming they were offended because the flags bore the word "Allah," SFSU initiated an investigation into accusations of incitement, creation of a hostile environment, and incivility. [...]

The College Republicans’ "offense" took place on October 17, 2006, when they held an anti-terrorism protest in SFSU’s Malcolm X Plaza. During the protest, several members of the group stepped on butcher paper they had painted to resemble the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah. Unbeknownst to the protestors, the flags they had copied contain the word "Allah" written in Arabic script.

All of this seems deplorable to me. Do I like the College Republicans' behavior? No. It's a pattern I've seen before: Public behavior, calculated to offend and cause a stir, followed by pretend-shock when people are offended. But they have a first amendment right to do that without official harassment by the University or the student government.

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 1:03 AM PST

2007/02/09 · 01:03

A group called The Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance is proposing to modify Washington state's marriage laws to better comport with a recent anti-gay-rights marriage ruling by the Washington state supreme court:

If passed by Washington voters, the Defense of Marriage Initiative would... require that couples married in Washington file proof of procreation within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage automatically annulled.

Initiative 957 is actually the first of three planned initiatives; "The second would prohibit divorce or legal separation when there are children. The third would make the act of having a child together the legal equivalent of a marriage ceremony."

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