Steve Gunn: Fine-tuning can only improve how judicial system works
28.07.11
But time has allowed me to see the case clearer, and now I can admit that I'm a bit comforted by the controversial verdict. It proves that our judicial system still functions properly, and the state must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to gain a conviction.
Remember, someday any of us could be at the mercy of the courts. We would want to know they are functioning correctly if our fate is on the line.
By functioning correctly, I simply mean the following: If the state is going to accuse someone of murder, the state had better know what it's talking about.
It's pretty clear that the prosecutors blew this case. They offered a lot of circumstantial evidence, but never presented one clear theory of how Anthony killed her daughter, let alone proof to support it. Therefore she deserved to walk free.
The Anthony case makes me wonder about the pressure on local prosecutors to gain quick convictions in high-profile cases. I think they sometimes jump the gun in their zeal to solve horrible crimes and their need to appear competent in the eyes of local voters.
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The Re-emergence of Chinese in Jakarta
Andre Vltchek
Introduction by Geoffrey Gunn
As Andre Vltchek observed in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Chinese New Year offers a window on such questions as cultural identity, tolerance or lack of it on the part of the host community, and even the state of well-being, as measured by the passing of red envelopes stuffed with cash. Chinese in Indonesia have long been vulnerable, whether at the hands of the colonial Dutch administration or as scapegoats at the hands of the Suharto dictatorship, as suspected communists in 1965-66, or as too successful entrepreneurs, as in the May 1998 military-militia attacks upon the Jakarta Chinatown along with cukong-crony capitalist partners of Suharto himself. Vltchek describes a kind of “protective assimilation” response on the part of Indonesian Chinese. Actually historians have long distinguished laugeh (long time settlers from Hokkien, some of whom might also have embraced Islam) from singeh, or newer arrivals who, in turn, were also subject to assimilationist pressures. But few diasporic global Chinese communities have had to face the kind of repressive assimilation imposed by the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia. In the late 1960s, tens of thousands of Chinese fled to China then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution only to be reviled as bourgeois opportunists, while most sought to melt into Javanese culture. Such appeared to be the final solution to the Chinese business community of Solo in central Java, when I visited in the 1980s. Not one Chinese character or feature (or face) remained on the main street in Solo, once a “typical” Chinese commercial street. But more than most “native” Indonesians would admit, Chinese cultural elements have also been assimilated into the Indonesian mainstream, from food (tofu products) to lion symbols, to Hokkien pronouns and expressions which enter Jakarta dialect. More than once in recent times I have observed big spending Indonesian Chinese tour groups visiting Hong Kong, speaking not Chinese but a standard form of Bahasa Indonesia among themselves. Matters are deceptive, as the same group may well reserve their native Hokkien for other destinations and private occasions. The assimilation question is a real-life problem as even newer waves of Chinese immigrants arrive in Pacific island countries from Tonga to East Timor. In 2009, for example, Papua New Guinea was the scene of week-long anti-Chinese riots, triggered by resentment that Chinese migrants displaced indigenous business. (Tonga had earlier experienced anti-Chinese riots in 2006). Typically, and Papua New Guinea was no exception, senior politicians and ministers were complicit in the illegal recruitment of mainland Chinese migrants.
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Listed below are the names of the runners and walkers who have registered for the Dec. 31, 2011, Resolution Run in Ottawa. (See pictures, 2011, 2010 & 2009).
The race is run in 56 North American locations. Ottawa's race has the largest number of participants, and it sells out every year....
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See also:
a) 2010 Army Run results for Ottawa & area runners;
b) 2011 Army Run results;
c) 2011 Army Run photos by a runner.
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Sept. 14, 2011. For the 21.1 km (13 mile) half-marathon race, the following...
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For the Ottawa Race Weekend half-marathon race (May 27, 2012), local runners (listed below) have registered with the Running Room. The total race registration is over 11,000 runners.
Note: The Ottawa Half Marathon event sold out on Feb. 7, 2012. Some charity (fundraising)...