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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 9. februar 2012 / Time Line February 9, 2012
Version 3.58. Februar 2012, 10. Februar 2012
02/09/2012
Amerikansk COP 15
erstatning / Chicago settles with war protesters for $6M
February 9, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Attorneys representing the City
of Chicago told a federal judge Thursday they have reached a
settlement with nearly 700 people detained by police during a
raucous 2003 anti-war protest.
The city has agreed to pay members of the class-action lawsuit a
total of $6.2 million.
Attorneys representing the City of Chicago told a federal judge
Thursday they have reached a settlement with nearly 700 people
detained by police during a raucous 2003 anti-war protest. The city
has agreed to pay members of the class action lawsuit a total of
$6.2 million.
"I hope it sends a message that they need to treat us like citizens
and not combatants," said Cheryl Angelaccio, one of the protestors
arrested near Chicago and Michigan avenues a day after the start of
the Iraq war in March of 2003.
Attorneys for the protesters say their lawsuit sends a message that
police must allow demonstrators to exercise their constitutional
rights and notify the crowd before mass arrests begin.
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The city's defense in the case was weakened last year when federal
appellate Justice Richard Posner ruled the arrests were unjustified
because police allowed the massive demonstration to take place
without a permit, but then decided to arrest people for
participating without giving them a clear order that it was time to
disperse.
Hundreds of people became trapped by police at Chicago and Michigan
avenues. Confused demonstrators who said they just wanted to go
home were instead arrested and held overnight. All of the arrest
charges were later dismissed in court, Posner noted, writes The
Huffington Post.
02/09/2012
Manglende dansk forskning i krig
Holger Terp, Hvidovre
Stor tak og ros til lektor Gorm Harste for kronikken i Information
9. februar 2012, hvori han argumenterer godt for, at nu
måbeslutningstagerne tage ansvar for Irak-krigens og
Afgahnistan-krigens menneskelige katastrofer og tragedier.
Fredsforskeren Jan Øberg var inde på samme tema i sin
bog forudsigelig fiasko allerede i 2004, men når det er sagt,
så skal det tilføjes, at det er min personlige
erfaring, at de fleste danskere kun kender til krigsrædslerne
gennem massemediernes rapportager.
Krig er ikke et seriøst forskningsobjekt i Danmark.
Således er der næsten ingen danske omtaler af Quincy
Wrights monumentale A study of war, University of Chicago Press.
(1942). xxiii 1552 s. og det samme gælder for Norman Dixons
fremragende On the Psychology of Military Incompetence fra 1976.
Dixon fortsætter, hvor Clausewitz slap. Krigshistoriens
uforudsigelighed frem til og med første verdenskrig.
Når det gælder international ret er vi stort set ikke
bedre stillet her til lands. Jacob ter Meulens omfattende
værker om retshistoriens historie og udvikling fra
mellemkrigsårene er stort set ukendte. Og når den
banebrydende forskning ikke er formidlet af forskere og
undervisere, så fortsætter de militære og
politiske katastrofer og tragedier i form af krige.
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