Quoted:In Fort Lauderdale a group of teenagers captured national attention in 2006 when a surveillance camera caught one laughing as he beat a homeless man with a baseball bat. The teenagers attacked three homeless men that night and face a murder trial in one man’s death. A year later in Daytona Beach, a 17-year-old and two 10-year-olds attacked a homeless Army veteran. One 10-year-old dropped a cement block on the man’s face, the police said.

It's almost as bad as the Larry Craig case. Only here you get shot in the head when you take the bait. Details not forthcoming...

Quoted: A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items.

Quoted: The classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed.

Quoted: In colonizing parts of Asia, Japan had merely aped the Western powers, he said. He rejected the charges of crimes against peace and humanity as ex post facto laws... While he fully acknowledged Japan’s war atrocities — including the Nanjing massacre — he said they were covered in the Class B and Class C trials...Judge Pal also described the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States as the worst atrocities of the war, comparable with Nazi crimes.

I'm a little surprised to learn that an Indian judge was part of the tribunal. He is being selectively quoted by Japanese war-crime deniers.

Quoted: Marc van Roosmalen is a world-renowned primatologist whose research in the Amazon has led to the discovery of five species of monkeys and a new primate genus. But precisely because of that work, Dr. van Roosmalen was recently sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison and jailed in Manaus...

Quoted: Julia and Manuel Moreno found themselves on the other end of a transaction involving a used lemon. After a series of problems, they discovered that in 2000 Kia Motors America had bought the vehicle back from its original owner as a lemon...

Quoted: Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips ...

And this is in addition to about 20,000 surveillance cameras on the streets of Shenzen.

Quoted: Drug companies can continue to make less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after an Indian court Monday rejected a patent law challenge.

Quoted: A 1956 article, “Communist Interrogation,” shows that methods embraced by the USA after 2001 were once considered torture that would produce false information.

Unfortunately, some of the parallels are striking.