The History of Labor Day
Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means"Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation."
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
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U.S. Land Border Search Authority
By M. Wesley ClarkLaw enforcement officials exercise broad search authority to safeguard American borders.
The need to safeguard U.S. borders has drawn more attention recently than ever before. The law traditionally has recognized that significant public safety interests are at stake when it comes to safeguarding America's borders. This has translated into a unique body of law that permits the government to exercise broad search authority at the border to safeguard the public. This article discusses the contours of land border search law, including a discussion of the role the actual site of the search plays, whether the site is at the actual border, at the functional equivalent of the border, at the extended border, or during the course of roving border patrols.
ACTUAL BORDER
The state of the law with respect to suspicionless searches conducted at actual, or "true," U.S. borders is the most straightforward and most easily understood. Such searches have been described as either exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant and probable cause requirements (leaving them subject only to the amendment's reasonableness standard) or as a species of search wholly outside the Fourth Amendment.1 A true border search can be made without probable cause, without a warrant, and, indeed, without any articulable suspicion at all.2 The only limitation on such a search is the Fourth Amendment stricture that it be conducted reasonably. Note that the reasonableness calculus is different at the border (i.e., looser) than it is inland.3 Of course, the experience and training of law enforcement personnel must be the lens through which all of the facts giving rise to concern on the part of the officer or agent at the border are viewed.4 The law has developed a sliding scale with regard to border searches-as the degree of intrusiveness increases, so does the requirement for indicia of suspicion
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2004/august04/august04leb.htm#page_23
Homicidal Poisoning
The Silent OffenseBy ARTHUR E. WESTVEER, M.L.A., JOHN P. JARVIS, Ph.D., and CARL J. JENSEN III, Ph.D.
Poisoning, of course, differs considerably from many other crimes, frequently committed in uncontrolled passion and in the heat of the moment. The innate character of the crime of homicidal poisoning demands subterfuge, cunning, and, what is equally important, usually a period of careful planning, and also not infrequently the repetition of the act of administering poison.... Its characteristic being one of premeditation, it is a method of murder, which, therefore, cannot be the subject of extenuation as some other forms of killing can."1 Given such a description, the crime of homicidal poisoning would seem a rich arena for research. Surprisingly, however, other than a few published reviews of some famous historical poisoning cases, the authors found little written material on the characteristics of poisoners and their victims.2 A further probe of the international forensic literature also failed to reveal any previously published epidemiological studies dealing with criminal investigative analyses, or psychological "profiles," of the homicidal poisoner. Yet, the potential for toxic substances becoming weapons of mass destruction has increased dramatically in recent years. Therefore, the authors wondered if empirical data concerning homicidal poisoners and their victims would reveal relationships, patterns, and characteristics that could help law enforcement professionals. Building on the few empirically based studies that exist, they examined recently reported poisoning homicides to find out
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2004/august04/august04leb.htm#page_2
Effective Search and Seizure
by Patrick FaganThe United States Supreme Court and a few U.S. Appeals Courts have adjudicated cases that revolve around the complexity of search and seizure. Proper knowledge of this issue will increase success in court for the law enforcement officer. Several judicial reviews have been coalesced in this article to form a guideline for the police who effect search and seizures upon individuals and vehicles.
http://www.totse.com/en/law/justice_for_all/1stamend.html
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Shot fired at Huntington GOP office during speech
A shot apparently was fired at the Republican Party headquarters in downtown Huntington while President Bush's speech accepting the GOP nomination for president was being televised. No one was hurt in the 10:30 p.m. Thursday incident.
http://dailymail.com/news/News/2004090320/
Fugitive kills pair at Alabama mini-mart
A fugitive killed a couple working at a convenience store, then kidnapped the woman's 14-year-old daughter and was holding her hostage Friday at a motel, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5906610/
Highway shootings suspect claims insanity
Schizophrenia said to prompt string of 20 shootings, 1 killing
A man charged in a deadly string of highway shootings in Ohio pleaded innocent by reason of insanity Wednesday.
Charles A. McCoy Jr., 29, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, according to court documents and his attorneys. They said psychiatrists found evidence McCoy did not understand right from wrong when the shootings took place.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5889470/
S. African charged with nuclear trafficking
Case said linked to that of nuclear pioneer in Pakistan
The head of a South African engineering company was charged Friday with trafficking in nuclear-related materials that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5908143/
Sixth Body Linked to Others in Kansas City
A body found in July behind a vacant apartment building in Kansas City has been linked to five others discovered since Thursday in the same part of the city, police said Sunday.
At a news conference, police Capt. Rich Lockhart said three of the victims had been identified, while the other three bodies were so decomposed that police have not been able yet to determine their race or gender.
The body of 42-year-old Anna Ewing was found July 14 by a man spraying for weeds, he said. Because her body was discovered in the same 18-square-block area, and because all six were found on or near a vacant property, police consider Ewing's death to be related.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040905/D84TPQ5O1.html
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Russian troops stormed a school in the country's south, after hostages started fleeing the building where armed terrorists had been holding as many as 1,500 people captive for two days in Beslan, North Ossetia.
More than 200 wounded were taken to hospitals, Interfax said, citing Lev Dzugayev, spokesman for North Ossetia's government. Russian broadcasters NTV and Rossiya showed children escaping and gunfire and explosions could be heard during the broadcasts.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a.CqbcnqTqsA&refer=top_world_news
Police officer killed in Saudi clashes
Militants clashed with Saudi police Friday in a town northeast of the capital Riyadh, killing one officer and wounding three, Al-Arabiya television reported.
The station quoted witnesses as saying one of the wounded was in critical condition from the clashes in al-Baradah, 50 miles northeast of Riyadh.
The region has seen frequent attacks linked to al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia. In April, four security officers were killed when a group of militants opened fire on a checkpoint in the region.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Saudi%20Clashes
In Iraq, they've sawed off people's heads in grisly executions shown on the Internet. In Israel, they've blown themselves up inside packed buses. Now, in Russia, they've turned a school into a slaughterhouse.
Extremists have become chillingly brazen in singling out so-called "soft targets" - and counterterrorism experts say they fear nothing is off-limits anymore to those intent on achieving maximum punch, publicity and paranoia.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Terror%20Soft%20Targets
U.S. Near Seizing bin Laden, Official Says
The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.
"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040904/D84T2OUO0.html U.S. Forces Raid Taliban Hideout, Kill 2
U.S. forces raided a suspected Taliban hide-out in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing two fighters and capturing at least one, officials said.
The hourlong battle occurred in Dewalak, a village in Zabul province along the Pakistani border, said Khial Mohammed, the provincial governor. U.S. troops attacked after surrounding the village and coming under fire from the rebels, he said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040905/D84TN6P81.html
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The (Imaginary) Glock 1911 Service Pistol
September 4, 2004Please recognize up front that while this review WILL contain some good information about various .45ACP pistols, it is (by-and-large) going to be a conceptualization of a non-existent pistol: The "Glock 1911" or G1911 for short. This idea may not be as far fetched as it seems. Within the past eighteen months major gun manufacturers have introduced their own variants of the Government Model 1911 pistol. Smith & Wesson - a historic competitor of Colt's - introduced a 1911 model that has been well received. SigArms has introduced the GSR; a 1911 pistol from a manufacturer notorious for their decocking system and no external safeties. There is no shortage of companies that manufacture the 1911 design: Kimber, Springfield Armory, Llama, and more. A GLOCK 1911? Well yes, and not quite...
http://www.blackwatersecurity.com/articles/0906frank.html
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5th Phoenix Officer Shot in 1 Week; Gunman Wounds Cop During Traffic StopFor the fifth time in six days, a Phoenix police officer was gunned down Thursday,
shot three times during a traffic stop. Officer Matt Morgan is expected to
survive the shooting which came less than two hours before police gathered for a
memorial visitation for Officer Jason Wolfe, who was killed with Officer Eric White
in a gun battle Saturday night and a third officer injured... ; Suspect Dead -
08/29/2004- [Phoenix, Arizona]
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