On curtailing the constitution instead of prosecuting criminals or fixing our broken Mental Health system. Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin doubled down in the way only she can. You talk about the root of this problem, the disrespect that the people on the left have for the constitution, that thats at the core of this, that its about freedom versus tyranny. Vice President Joe Biden yesterday countered with that rare and prized thing, logic. Just as you dont have an individual right to go out and buy an f15 if you are a billionaire with ordinance on it, just like you dont have a right to go buy an m1 tank, just like you dont have a right to buy an automatic weapon, those judgments have been made that there are no societial reasonable societial justification or constitutional justification for owning that. Right now the Vice President is in virginia attend aing round table discussion on gun violence with Homeland Security secretary janet napolitano, and health and human southwests
Testified to war crimes committed in southeast asia. Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a daytoday basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. As president obama nominates Vietnam Veterans john kerry and chuck hagel to cabinet posts, we will speak with nick turse, author of an explosive new book, kill anything that moves the real american war in vietnam. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is preparing to unveil a comprehensive plan to address gun violence that is expected to include legislation tightening background checks on potential gun buyers as well as 19 separate actions obama could take using executive power. At a News Conference monday, obama confirmed he would support proposals for new assault weapons ban. He said a Task Force Led by Vice President joe biden had presented him with a list of common sense steps to prevent shootings like the one a
Committed in southeast asia. Not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a daytoday basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. As president obama nominates Vietnam Veterans john kerry and chuck hagel to cabinet posts, we will speak with nick turse, author of an explosive new book, kill anything that moves the real american war in vietnam. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is preparing to unveil a comprehensive plan to address gun violence that is expected to include legislation tightening background checks on potential gun buyers as well as 19 separate actions obama could take using executive power. At a News Conference monday, obama confirmed he would support proposals for new assault weapons ban. He said a Task Force Led by Vice President joe biden had presented him with a list of common sense steps to prevent shootings like the one at sandy hook and element
Is the freedom to connect like freedom of speech or like the freedom to murder . Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play
Today, we remember the pioneering Computer Programmer, social justice activist aaron swartz. At the age of 14, he helped develop rss, revolutionizing how people use the internet. By the time is 19, he co owned reddit, now one of the worlds most popular sites. He is now dead at the age of 26. On friday, he comes out just weeks before the start of a controversial trial. He was facing up to 35 years in prison for downloading millions of academic articles at mit. His parents the decisions made by prosecutors at mit contributed to his death. Today, we will hear aaron swartz in his own words. If we lost the ability to communicate with each other over the internet, it would be a change of the bill of rights, freedoms our country has been built on would suddenly be deleted. New technology instead of bringing us greater freedom would have snuffed out fundamental rights we had always taken for granted. We will play a speech aaron that blaster is the the Harvard Law School professor lawrence less