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In an interview for the campus newspaper of the Catholic University of Louvain, Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, who is the university's Grand Chancellor, speaks about the future, which includes what may well be his last year as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
Archbishop Léonard will reach his 75th birthday on 6 May 2015, little over a year from now.
"The rule is that you tender your resignation to the Pope around your 75th birthday. It is up to him to decide what happens then. Sometimes, depending on the situation and your health, he will ask you to stay on a bit longer. The archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Meisner, is 80! In other situations you retire. I will do what will be asked, and enthusiastically so. It is a wonderful duty. I meet so many people, from soldiers to prisoners, from professors to young families. That gives an unimaginable wealth to life. If I am allowed to continue doing that a while longer, I would be very grateful. When I retire, I will also enjoy that very much. Didn't I say a priest had to be flexible?"
In a television interview, the archbishop said a bit more about his retirement plans.
"Once retired I would like to live near a shrine in Belgium or France, to hear confessions or give conferences. I do intend to leave the dioceses of Mechelen-Brussels and Namur, since I have already been active there for so many years."
André-Joseph Léonard was a priest of the Diocese of Namur from his ordination in 1964 to 1991, when he was appointed as that diocese's bishop. In 2010, he was appointed as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
The rest of the interview, which also touches upon the Catholic identity of the Catholic University of Louvain, science and faith, the archbishop's work as Grand Chancellor, priesthood in past and present, the future of evangelisation, Pope Francis and Archbishop Léonard not being made a cardinal, can be read in my translation here.
Photo credit: KU Leuven – Rob Stevens
A bit of alternate history, or a look at how things could have been if history hadn't gotten in the way…
A Church province of Mechelen covering what is now Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The Archbishop of Mechelen would have truly been Primate of the Netherlands: his archdiocese would have covered the provinces of Brabant (or modern Flemish and Walloon Brabant) and Antwerp. It would have had seven suffragan dioceses, some of which are similar to the ones we know today, while others would have been radically different in composition:
- Amsterdam: the provinces of Holland (modern North and South Holland), Utrecht, Overijssel, Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- Bois le Duc: the provinces of North Brabant, Gelderland and Zeeland
- Bruges: the province of West Flanders
- Ghent: the province of East Flanders
Liège: the provinces of Liège and Limburg (modern Belgian and Dutch Limburg)
- Namur: the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg (the modern Belgian province and the sovereign Grand Duchy)
- Tournai: the province of Hainault
Map of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as it existed from 1815 to 1830. Subdivisions depicted are provinces, not dioceses.
The bishops of all these dioceses would be appointed with royal consent and would swear and oath to the king upon their installation. Bishops and clergy would receive an income from the state.
All this could have been reality, had the Concordat between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Holy See of 1827 become reality. The Belgian revolution and subsequent independence prevented this of course, and while the Belgian dioceses continued to exist and develop according to the descriptions in the Concordat, the Dutch dioceses would never become reality. In fact, it wouldn't be until 1853 when a whole different set of dioceses were created.
In that plan, which did become reality, the massive Diocese of Amsterdam (at 18,521 square kilometers taking up about one third of the total territory of the kingdom) had no place. In fact, no cathedral would ever be built in the Dutch capital, which instead became a part of the new Diocese of Haarlem. I described the recent Catholic history of Amsterdam in an earlier blog post.
The failed Concordat of 1827, which was signed by Pope Leo XII (and not Leo XIII, as I mistakenly wrote earlier) (pictured) and King William I, sheds an interesting light on what could have been. Whereas the Church in what is now Belgium and Luxembourg was predominant in society and had dioceses which had already been established (with the exception of Bruges, which would be split off from Ghent in 1832, and Luxembourg, separated from Namur in 1840), the northern Catholics lived in mission territory (the Mission "sui iuris" of Batavia) and in four apostolic vicariates ('s Hertogenbosch, Breda, Grave-Nijmegen and Ravenstein-Megen), three of which were less than thirty years old. Since the Reformation there had been no hierarchy to speak off in the modern Netherlands. The (often Italian) superiors of Batavia frequently didn't even live in the territory they had pastoral responsibility, choosing Brussels or Cologne instead. The Concordat was, then, something of a diplomatic victory, especially since royalty and government were far from tolerant of the Catholic Church. Hence the oath to the king and the state control over clergy income. In fact, the creation of a mere two dioceses in areas where there were none yet (Bois le Duc and Amsterdam) would have helped as well: it meant there were only two extra bishops to contend with: in the southern part of the kingdom, there already were dioceses with bishops, so little would change there. The Concordat would simply solidify the relation between Church and state there.
If the Concordat had become reality, how would the map of the Dutch Church province look today? Assuming that Belgium would have become independent at one point or another, the province of Mechelen would be spread over two or even three countries (Luxembourg continued to exist in a personal union with the Netherlands through the same head of state, but since the Grand Duchy could not have a female head of state, the two nations would go their separate ways as soon as the first Queen inherited the Dutch throne). The Diocese of Liège as proposed in the Concordat could have gone both ways: split between Belgium and the Netherlands or wholly Belgian. The proposed Diocese of Bois le Duc would have been rather unmanageable, combining strong Catholic and Protestant parts of the country into one. The province of Gelderland would one day be split off, but to do what? Become an apostolic vicariate in its own right? Be merged with Amsterdam? The proposed Diocese of Amsterdam was also hard to control, split as it would be by the Zuiderzee: the part formed by Holland and Utrecht would be physically separated from the rest in the northern part of the kingdom. Perhaps the latter part would form a new diocese with Gelderland, with its cathedral in… Zwolle? Groningen? Deventer? Arnhem? Who's to say? And what of Utrecht? That oldest of all sees in the northern Netherlands, once established by Saint Boniface as his base of operations from which to convert the Frisians. Now just a part of a new Diocese of Amsterdam… The Concordat of 1827 may have appeased the state for a while, but for the Church it would have been quite unmanageable and unrealistic.
The present layout of dioceses in the Netherlands
Perhaps it is a blessing that it never became reality. Today there are voices that there are too many dioceses in the Netherlands, but for the major part of their history, they have worked well enough. A Church province limited to a single country, with its own metropolitan see in the oldest Christian centre of the nation.
On Thursday, the "upper church" of the Belgian Marian shrine at Beauraing was elevated to the dignity of basilica minor. The building, built in addition to the original chapel built on the site after the Blessed Virgin appeared there to five children in 1932 and 1933, will henceforth carry the name of Basilica of Our Lady with the Golden Heart.
The importance of Beauraing as one of Belgium's most important pilgrimage sites was reflected by the fact that seven bishops concelebrated the Mass with Bishop Rémy Vancottem, the ordinary of the Diocese of Namur, in which Beauraing is located. They were Cardinal Godfried Danneels (em. archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels) and Bishops Pierre Warin (aux. Namur), Aloys Jousten (em. Liège), Guy Harpigny (Tournai), Antoon Hurkmans ('s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Gérard Coliche (aux. Lille, France) and Pierre Raffin (Metz, France).
The new basilica is unique in several aspects. It is very young for a basilica, as it was consecrated only in 1960, and it stands out in its concrete barrenness. There are no decorations and statues (ony very subdued Stations of the Cross). The architect of the building wanted all attention to be on the altar.
Evidently, the vitality of the devotion and the faith displayed here is strong enough to overrule the other unofficial requirements for a minor basilica: that it be of a certain age (usually understood to be in the range of centuries) and of an outstanding beauty.
Our Lady with the Golden Heart is the 28th minor basilica in Belgium, and the fourth in the Diocese of Namur.
Bishop Vancottem's homily follows in my English translation below:
It is with joy that we are gathered in this in this upper church of the shrine of Beauraing, which was elevated to the status of basilica today.
When Mary appears to the children of Beauraing, it sometimes happens that she says nothing; but it is her attitude and her gestures that speak. Her smile. The arms that are opened. And how can we not be touched when she shows us her heart, as a heart of gold? A mother's heart which is an expression of the tenderness and the love of the heart of God. A golden heart which reflects all the love of Jesus – Jesus, who, as the mouthpiece of God's love for all people, goes to the extreme by dying on a cross -, and so one couldn't give this basilica a better name than that of Our Lady with the Golden Heart. With this, the basilica does not replace the chapel that Mary requested from the children. In a sense, it is an extension of it, and an invitation to answer increasingly better to that other wish of Mary's to come a pilgrimage here.
In the Gospel of the Annunciation we have just heard Mary pronouncing her "yes" to God. The Gospel ends with these words: "And the angel left her", which indicates that Mary, according to the Gospel, received no further special revelations. She continued "her pilgrimage of faith" through the dark moments and hardships of life. "[T]he Blessed Virgin," the Council states, "advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and faithfully persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross" (Lumen Gentium, 58).
For us, who are still on or pilgrimage in a world where our faith is often tested, the faith of Mary is an example. What was announced by the angel is impossible, humanly speaking. And yet the answer of Mary is a simple and clear: "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said". Mary trusts the Word of God and devotes her entire life to the service of the "Son of God". This is typical of the "Gospel image" of the Virgin Mary: Her initial "yes" will develop into lifelong loyalty.
At the moment of her Son's birth, faith was needed to recognise the promised Saviour in this child of Bethlehem.
- Of the many years of Jesus of Nazareth's hidden life, the Evangelists only remembered the moment when Jesus was found in the temple. That was a moment of darkness in Mary's faith. "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?", Jesus tells His parents. But, the Gospel adds, "they did not understand what he meant. … His mother stored up all these things in her heart" (Luke 2: 48-51).
- Mary suffers the most radical test at the foot of the cross. She stands there, and it is there that she becomes the Mother of all the faithful. It is there that she receives her mother's heart. It is there that we understand that we can entrust ourselves to her motherly protection.
How important it is to discover the mother of God. Our mother began her journey in faith, like us her children, through dark moments and the tests of life. Her "pilgrimage" is also ours. The "yes" of the Annunciation led Mary to the foot of the cross. But the cross has become a Glorious Cross, an elevated cross. The cross leads to the shining light of the resurrection.
Coming to Beauraing on pilgrimage, we meet Mary, but only to let her lead us to her Son. "Do you love my Son?" she asks. "Do you love me?""Pray, pray often, pray always."
In this Year of Faith, in the heart of this Eucharist, she achieves for us, through her prayer, that we advance in faith in Jesus, her Son, died and risen, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
"Oh Mary, teach us to weather the tribulations of life, to utter a yes to God without equivocating, as you did at the Annunciation by the angel. Be our guide on the way that leads to God, through our yes that we repeat every day."
The coming pastoral year will be especially dedicated to catechesis. The Catechesis Commission of the Bishops' Conference will issue a document in early September about the pastoral course concerning the sacraments of Christian initiation. We will have the opportunity to discuss that further later.
I wish you all a good start of the pastoral year!
Photo credit: [1] Notre-Dame de Beauraing, [2] Tommy Scholtes
A cardinal for only one year and five days, Julien Ries did not receive his red hat as the result of a succesful career in the hierarchy. The Belgian prelate rather received it for his work in the quiet of his study and the lecture hall. This morning he passed away at the age of 92.
Julien Ries was born near Arlon and ordained a priest for the Diocese of Namur in 1945. After a few years working as a parish priest and history teacher, Father Ries taught history of religion at the Catholic University of Louvain. After that university was split in a Flemish and a Walloon section in 1968, he remained at the latter. He remained there until his retirement in 1990.
A highly productive author, Fr. Ries was created a cardinal in the consistory of February 2012. Consecrated a bishop a week before the consistory, he held the titular see of Belcastro, and later became Cardinal-Deacon of Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia.
With more than 600 publications to his name, Cardinal Ries was convinced that those were the reason for being made a cardinal. Pope Benedict XVI studied his work closely, and in 2012, Cardinal Ries said in an interview: "He phoned me more than once to congratulate me, when he had read a book of mine."
Cardinal Ries's work was best know for its focus on religious anthropology and humanities. In 2009, he donated his library and all his notes and correspondence to the Catholic University of Milan.
Cardinal Ries was never an elector. With his passing the total number of cardinals drops to 208.
For a while now, I've seen people arrive on my blog via search terms like 'new archbishop Luxembourg'. Perhaps they knew things I didn't (not a very radical notion), because just today, the Vatican announced just that, a new archbishop for Luxembourg.
The archbishop emeritus, Msgr. Fernand Franck, was , at 77, already well past the retirement age, but for reasons we can only guess at, it took this long for a successor to be named. And that successor is Jesuit Fr. Jean-Claude Hollerich, pictured to the left with Msgr. Franck. Archbishop elect Hollerich is 52, and a priest since 1990. His biography mentions his education in Rome, Belgium, Germany and Japan, and indicates that Msgr. Hollerich is something of a language scholar, having extensively studied both Japanese and German. His list of publications, varying from writings about the origins of school grammars to European grammar in Asia, and with side excursions to the rise of national awareness of Luxembourg and the history of French Jesuits in Siam. Much of his experience, it would seem, he gained while working in the Archdiocese of Tokyo and as vice rector of the Sophia University there.
The archdiocese that Msgr. Hollerich will soon call his responsibility tends to be too easily forgotten. It wasn't until 1840, one year after Luxembourg's independence as a grand duchy was reaffirmed by the First Treaty of London, that it was split off from the Diocese of Namur as a separate apostolic vicariate. In 1870 it was promoted to a diocese, and only in 1988 was it elevated to the status of archdiocese. As the only diocese in Luxembourg, it's archbishop is not a member of a bishops' conference, although it does share a papal nuncio with Belgium.
There are an estimated 390,000 Catholics out of a total population of 511,000, served by some 250 priests and 550 religious.
Archbishop elect Hollerich will be consecrated to bishop and installed as Luxembourg's third archbishop on 16 October. at the cathedral of Our Lady in the city of Luxembourg.
"The main point we must consider is that a bishop isn't just a bishop on his own. He is a bishop of a Church and that Church must be somewhere. In ancient times there were very many more dioceses, which were effectively swept away either by invasion of Muslims or the erosion of demographics, etc. In more modern times, in the "propaganda" countries, Sees were sometimes established, but the town lost importance for one reason or another and it became impractical to maintain the see there."
Words from Father Z in this blog post, in which he answers a question about titular dioceses and the rights that bishops may or may not have in them. It prompted me to take a look at the titular sees in my neck of the woods, continental north western Europe. In nine countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden), it turns out, there are only seven of those. Compared to southern Europe, north Africa and the Middle East, that is very few indeed, but it does allow for an easy overview of which titular sees they are and who is appointed to them. In other words, who are the other bishops in these countries*?
Let's take an alphabetical look.
We start way up north, in Iceland, with the titular see of Hólar. Currently all of Iceland is part of the Diocese of Reykjavík, but in the twelfth century there were two others, once of which was Hólar. It was suppressed in 1550, after which the island fell under various ecclesiastical jurisdictions. The village of Hólar lies on Iceland's northern coast and nowadays is home to some 100 people. In the past it was the heart of Iceland's Catholicism and a major centre of learning. Today, it is the titular see of Bishop Stanisław Budzik, auxiliary bishop of the Polish diocese of Tarnów.
Next is one of the two titular sees located in Belgium. Ieper (in Dutch) or Ypres (in French) was one of the dioceses established in answer to the Reformation in the Low Countries. Unlike the dioceses further north, it existed for a fair amount of time. It wasn't until 1801, when it was suppressed to become part of the Diocese of Gent. The establishment of the diocese reflected its importance as a commercial trading city and also its origins as a French enclave in the Holy Roman Empire. Its current titular bishop is one of the three new auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, Msgr. Jean Kockerols.
Not far from there lies the third see on our list, and the only Dutch titular see: Maastricht. It can trace its origins to the first arrival of Christianity in the Netherlands. It was created in 530 from the Diocese of Tongeren and Maastricht and survived for almost two centuries. In 720 it was incorporated into the powerful Diocese of Liège, an indication that the centre of Catholic gravity in that area had moved south. Bishop Marco Pérez Caicedo is the titular bishop of Maastricht. In daily life he is one of the auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil in Ecuador.
From Maastricht we go back to Scandinavia, to Norway where, in 1070, a Diocese of Selja was established. Also know as Selia, the titular see is based on a tiny island near the city of Bergen and is the predecessor of the Diocese of Bergen. In fact, it was named so only 10 years after its establishment, and survived until the Reformation. It was suppressed in 1537. The current titular bishop is Auxiliary Bishop Pero Sudar of Vrhbosna in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Then back to Belgium it is, to the ancient titular see of Tongeren or Tongres. This is the oldest diocese in the Low Countries, established in 344 from Cologne. From here, the Diocese of Maastricht was established in 530, the same year that saw the end of Tongeren as a diocese. Later, it was one of the seeds for the powerful prince-bishopric of Liège. Like Belgium's other titular see, a Belgian bishop holds it. He is Msgr. Pierre Warin, auxiliary of the nearby Diocese of Namur.
That leaves only two titular dioceses on our list, and both are currently vacant. The first is Chiemsee in Germany, that country's only titular see. It's been vacant for a long time: it's last titular bishop was Bishop Sigmund Christoph, Count of Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg. His tenure ended in 1808.
The last diocese on our last takes us back to our starting point, Iceland. When Hólar was an important centre in the north, its equivalent in the south was the Diocese of Skálholt. It's history is very similar to that of Hólar, although it is a few years older. It is vacant, but it hasn't been for as long as Chiemsee. It's last titular bishop died in 2008, and he was Dutch: Bishop Alphons Castermans, auxiliary of Roermond.
*Not that these bishops have any rights or duties in their titular sees, as Father Z explains in the aforementioned post.
A little over a year since the appointment of a new archbishop, the Brussels episcopate returns to full force. As has become standard in the Belgian archdiocese, the three vicariates (Brussels, Brabant Wallon and Flemish Brabant & Malines) are headed by one auxiliary bishop each. When Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard started his job in succession of Cardinal Danneels, two of these vicariates still had their auxiliaries in place, but soon after a reshuffle which saw Bishop De Kesel switch vicariates, Archbishop Léonard was left with no auxiliaries at all. Bishop Jozef de Kesel went to Bruges and Bishop Remy Vancottem to Léonard's old stomping grounds in Namur.
Today, Brussels and Rome simultaneously announced the appointment of three auxiliary bishops. Pictured above with the archbishop they are, from left to right; Msgr. Léon Lemmens (56), who will be the vicar for Flemish Brabant & Malines; Msgr. Jean Kockerols (52) for Brussels; and Msgr. Jean-Luc Hudsyn for Brabant Wallon (63). The three new bishops will be consecrated at the National Basilica in Koekelberg on 3 April.
Non of the three new episcopal faces are that familiar, but the question unavoidable rises: what school of clergy do they represent? The one at odds with Catholic teachings and their own archbishop, or the small percentage who are firmly at home in the Catholic Church and their own archdiocese? That will remain to be seen. It is perhaps indicative that Archbishop Léonard welcomed the appointments: "The new auxiliary bishops have much complementary pastoral experience. […] We entrust them to your prayer so that the Lord may help them in their new pastoral mission."
Msgr. Léonard also plans to give them each a task beyond their responsibilities in the vicariates, based on his pastoral priorities and the individual competences of the bishops.
Bishop elect Lemmens is a priest of the Diocese of Hasselt, ordained in 1977. His titular see will be Municipa in modern Algeria. Bishop elect Kockerols was the dean of Brussels South and director of the Centre d'Etudes Pastorales. His see will be Ypres in Belgium. He was ordained in 1993 for the archdiocese. Lastly, Bishop elect Hudsyn already was the vicar for Brabant Wallon. He was ordained for the archdiocese in 1972 and will have the titular see of Apt, in the south of France, as that diocese's first titular bishop.
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He's been moved around a bit within the Archdiocese of Malines-Brussels, but now the news breaks that Bishop Jozef De Kesel will be the new Bishop of Bruges. Only in March did Archbishop Léonard name him vicar general for the vicariate Flemish Brabant and Malines. With this appointment, Léonard is left with no auxiliaries, despite his express desire to have a third one appointed. But then Bishop Vancottem was sent to Namur and now Bishop De Kesel goes to Bruges.
Seen from the archdiocese, it looks like stages in a new start. First the most orthodox bishop in the Church province is sent there and now the former auxiliaries are sent off to head their own dioceses. That certainly leaves Archbishop Léonard free to suggest his own candidates for the episcopate.
As for Bruges, it went unexpectedly fast. The previous bishop, Msgr. Roger Vangheluwe, resigned in April and the expectation was then that it would take at least a year before a new bishop was appointed. In the end it took almost exactly two months. Bruges has been left in shock by the unexpected news of Vangheluwe's abuse history, so I can imagine the diocese will benefit greatly with having a new bishop so soon. After all, a clear head of the diocese provides a sense of stability.
Msgr. De Kesel, then, was quite popular in his time in Malines-Brussels. He has been auxiliary bishop there since 2002. His recent appointments, first to a new vicariate and now to Bruges, may also show some measure of confidence in him from Brussels and Rome.
Some facts about the bishop-elect: Msgr. De Kesel is 63, born in Ghand, where he was also ordained a priest in 1972. His uncle was Bishop Leo De Kesel, auxiliary bishop of Ghand from 1961 to 1990. Between 1980 and 1996, Msgr. De Kesel was rector of the seminary in Ghand, where he also taught dogmatic and fundamental theology. He also taught at the Diocesan Religious Institute in that city, and taught Christology at the Catholic University of Louvain. An educated man, it would seem, with his theological roots firmly in the very basis of theology.
Despite all the bad news from Belgium today and yesterday, this is a reason to be glad, especially for Bruges.
At Dutch Catholic news website Rorate I read an announcement that a new bishop has been announced for the Belgian Diocese of Namur. Of course, said website offers no sources or links to other websites, and merely states that the official announcement will be made at noon today. One can only guess where. I have been unable to find any confirmation of it on the official websites of the Church in Belgium. It's quite annoying that a website like Rorate, which presents itself as a news source, limits itself to just stating such bare facts (if they are facts). I would have liked a bit more information, if only to find out where I can read or see the noon announcement.
Anyway, if true, it is of course welcome news for Namur, which has been vacant since Bishop André-Mutien Léonard became Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard if Malines-Brussels in January of this year. Namur has been headed by a diocesan administrator, Msgr. Jean-Marie Huet, since then. The diocese also has an Auxiliary Bishop, Msgr. Pierre Warin. Either of them could be appointed as the new diocesan bishop, or the choice could be for any other cleric from within or without the diocese. It will be interesting to see who it is and how he will compare to Msgr. Léonard.
Anyway, more at noon today.
EDIT: Well, it's past noon, and the name is known. The new bishop of Namur will be Msgr. Remy Vancottem, until now Auxiliary Bishop for Brabant Wallon in the Archdiocese of Malines-Brussels. For the archdiocese this appointment means that there are now two vacant auxiliary sees instead available: a mere relocation of the problem. Belgium is still expecting two more new bishops: an ordinary for Bruges and now two new auxiliaries for Malines-Brussels.
I'll devote a proper blog post to Bishop Vancottem tonight.

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- 1st (K1 500m), 1st (K1 200m) - 2012 National Championships (Penrith, Australia)
- 1st (K1 500m), 2nd (K1 200m) - 2012 Sprint Oceania Championships (Penrith, Australia)
- 1st (K1 500m) - 2011 World Cup 2 (Racice, Czech Republic)
- 2nd (K1 500m) - World Cup 1 (Poznan, Poland)
- Equal 4th (K1 200m), 5th (K1 500m) - 2011 World Championships (Szeged, Hungary)
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- Placing sixth in the women's K1 200m at my debut World Championships in Halifax, Canada in 2009.
- Recording a time of 39.7sec in the K1 200m at the Sunset Sprint Cup in January 2011. Champion Lakes is an official course in West Australia and the time was a personal best by 1 second.
- Winning the open mixed double ski in 2007 with my partner Heath Wright at the Surf Life Saving National Championships at my home club, Scarboro. We were hoping to just make the final at the time, then we won it which was truly one of the most memorable sporting moments.
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- Alana Nicholls' blistering surf-ski form at the National Surf Lifesaving Championships caught the eye of Olympic kayak medallist Ramon Andersson. The dual Olympian and 1992 Olympic K4 1000m bronze medallist persuaded Nicholls to try kayaking and Andersson still coaches her to this day.
- After two successful domestic seasons in 2008 and 2009, Nicholls took 2010 off to do 'absolutely nothing'! The West Australian returned to the boat with gusto after her year-long sabbatical. She had a sensational year on the international circuit in 2011, winning three World Cup medals and gaining selection for her first World Championship campaign.
- At Worlds she placed fourth (K1 200m) and fifth (K1 500m) in the two women's K1 Olympic-distance events, qualifying Australia a position in the K1 500m in the process.
- Nicholls dominated the Australian selection races to also win Australia a K1 200m position. This secured her Olympic selection in the only two female individual kayak sprint boats.
- At the 2011 London Test Event Nicholls won a gold medal in the K1 500m.
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Sky wins Now TV court case challenge
BSkyB has won a trademark dispute over the Now TV brand after a High Court judge threw out a challenge from Hong Kong-based telecoms company PCCW.
Now TV: BSkyB wins legal battle over the brand
In a judgement published today (2 November), the honourable Mr Justice Arnold dismissed PCCW's claims that Sky's Now TV brand infringed on PCCW's trademark and that it constituted "passing off" (or was benefiting from PCCW's goodwill).
PCCW claimed that because it has a trademark for an internet-delivered service called Now TV, Sky was guilty of infringing on its trademark as well as passing off, even though it did not operate the service in the UK.
In its reasoning, Sky argued that it was not possible to trademark the word "now" and Mr Justice Arnold accepted that this was the case and that "now" would be accepted as a description of an immediate service.
Mr Justice Arnold also found PCCW's trademark was invalid on the grounds it was "devoid of distinctive character".
Sky had appealed for the trademark dispute to be judged by the European authorities before the British High Court makes its own ruling, but in September, the High Court ruled that the case could be heard in the UK.
A Sky spokesman said: "We are pleased that High Court has confirmed our right to use the Now TV name and vindicated our position.
"Throughout this legal process our focus has been on delivering a fresh new choice for UK consumers and we look forward to continuing to innovate for our customers."
Sky announced plans to launch an internet-delivered film and TV service in January and confirmed in March that it would be called Now TV. The service launched in July.
PCCW Media launched the internet-connected TV service Now Broadband TV in Hong Kong in 2003. The service was renamed Now TV in 2006 and carries channels such as Sky's Sky News and News Corporation's Star TV.
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Always a winter staple, boots require some fashion savvy to pull off. Serisha Singh shows you how to work it...
Warm, gorgeous, and sexy boots are both functional and glam – proving that fashion need not always be painful! Unfortunately when it comes to footwear, a good boot can make or break your outfit.
Whether you prefer short boots, medium height, or above-the-knee styles, there is a perfect pair of boots out there for you!
Ankle boots
Ankle boots and booties were a huge trend in 2010, and it doesn't show any signs of cooling down. Ankle boots, like their name would suggest, sit at or slightly above ankle-height.
When it comes to boots, always choose your heel height wisely. While high-heeled, embellished ankle booties are the stylish, show-stopping choice of fashionistas, flat ankle boots will be a more practical option. These mink suede-style ankle boots from Foschini (R350) are perfect for dressing up an outfit.
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Ankle boots are a great option if you're trying to show off your legs, but look awkward with fuller silhouettes up-top (think a fuller skirt or wide leg pants).Wear your ankle boots with leggings, skinny jeans, short skirts and dresses. Add a cute pair of tights and a mini to your ankle boots for a surefire hit! Avoid wearing ankle boots with hemlines past the knee unless you're aiming for the frumpy look.
Medium-rise, mid-calf boots
A unique cut that looks great with skirts of all lengths, medium-rise styles accentuate your calf muscles and stand out from the crowd of knee-high boots.
Very sexy, indeed. From casual cowboy styles to dressy heels and slouchy boots, mid-calf boots are always in vogue: a true classic that never goes out of style!
Fit for the occasion
As medium-rise boots come in a plethora of different varieties, it is essential that the occasion be considered when wearing these versatile boots. Slouchy and cowboy styles are more casual, whilst luxurious leather or suede boots, heeled or flat, provide a more formal option.
Skinny jeans tucked into mid-rise boots are a firm fashion favourite. Another option is to wear your boots under your favourite pair of boot-cut jeans: totally chic and effortless.
Fit is essential when it comes to calf-length boots! These boots should fit snugly but comfortably around your leg. If you have athletic or curvy legs, stretchy, slouchy, or zippered styles are a great bet to slim down! Try these brown studded wedge boots from Truworths (R525).
Tall Boots: Knee and Thigh High
The thigh is the limit with these sexy, fashion-forward boots! This style of boot provides some extra coverage and warmth, so winter is the perfect time to try out a pair. When worn correctly, the boots add a trendy edge to your look, but get the look wrong and you'll end up looking more tramp than vamp. Always ensure that these boots fit snugly around your leg; if the boot gapes open you may need to have it altered for a more mod look.
Keep it simple
Because higher boots attract attention, it's best to keep the rest of your outfit simple and allow your boots to really make a statement. Minimal embellishment and detailing help to keep the look cosmopolitan, since the rise alone makes a huge impact. These dark chocolate brown tall boots from Nine West (R2 299) have minimal button detailing to keep it simple.
Although tall boots may appear daunting, they are incredibly easy to pull off and can really add sophistication to an otherwise basic outfit. If you would normally wear classic-rise boots with an outfit, then thigh highs are likely to look equally awesome.
Remember always to add tights or leggings if you're wearing something short, as higher boots are already super sexy! If you're worried about going too sexy, flat over-the-knee boots (like those sported by Serena in the series Gossip Girl, main picture) are a more understated option.
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If you remember nothing else: be seasonally consistent when putting an outfit together. Do not wear boots and a skirt with bare legs; tights, nylons, or even fishnet stockings help bridge the (temperature and style) gap between your knees and your hemline.
Don't buy boots without walking in them for a few minutes to be sure they are comfortable. Think twice about buying high vinyl or plastic boots, as these could cheapen a nice outfit and your feet may suffer, too!
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Reports of the death of the written word in marketing have been exaggerated: in fact, wordcraft has never been more important to brand communications.
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This month's launch of agency Holmes, Hobbs, Marcantonio prompted some warm smiles. It was the adbiz equivalent of those breezy postscripts you used to get at the end of News at Ten: 'And finally, in an industry obsessed with youth, a brand new advertising agency is formed by three partners boasting a combined age of ... 182!'
If that were the fledgling shop's only claim to fame, those pensioner partners would soon find themselves in a back-of-supplement ghetto of stair lifts, cruises, walk-in baths and beige, easy-care slacks.
In fact, it may already be heading this way, as the agency's inaugural client is Prostate Cancer UK. You can see how that one might have come about: 'Hey, this ailment afflicts older guys, so let's hire some older guys.'
It would be a pity, not just for the new agency but also for the wider marketing world, if age thus determines fate, as HHM has declared something far more important to stand for: the written word.
Since its founder line-up includes Adrian Holmes - one of the best copywriters of his, or any other, ad generation - this is no empty stance. Holmes was part of a gifted cohort that elevated the commercial writing craft, before art-school inanity took over in the late 90s.
The subsequent demise of verbal craft has been lamented by clients, so it is worth looking at the flawed logic that led to it.
Cue the Dave Trott school of reasoning: long-form copy is irrelevant in a fast-paced world; we need strong images and epigrammatic messages now, so I'll pair up two kids fresh from art school, and one of them can do the words.
Even if the ingoing hypothesis were defensible, the solution was not. Brevity doesn't require less writing craft, but more. Just as most of us can make a flavoursome casserole, but only a master-chef can produce flavour intensity in a jus, so it takes a verbal master to coax intensity of meaning out of a spare clash of words.
It is why the world's best aphorists were also some of the world's greatest writers: Shakespeare, Wilde, Twain, Shaw, Balzac, Erasmus, Anatole France.
The other thing the image-led, art-college crowd did not see coming was the predominance of words in the digital environment. From search to tweet, we are hooked in by phrases, winked at by playful fragments that lead us on to deeper content.
Not that it's all short. As it turned out, body copy refused to die. It's alive and well and living on the web. For example, one of Groupon's most significant costs is that of creating long, seductive online copy to encourage trial of the thousands of restaurants, spas and experiences it promotes.
Judging from the variability of the site's output - 'the place has it's (sic) own unique charm' - it clearly does not find it easy to recruit the talent. Are they looking too young down the scale?
This is the age of words. So my advice to marketers who like to keep abreast of interesting agency start-ups is simple: if you see one launching called Abbott, Brignull, Mayle, make a beeline for it, no matter how youthful your target audience may be.
Helen Edwards has a PhD in marketing, an MBA from London Business School and is a partner at Passionbrand. She is a former PPA business columnist of the year.
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It takes great writing to condense meaning into just a few short words. Here are some of the best commercial one-liners.
- '"My shout," he whispered.'
Stella Artois press ad, 80s.
Agency: Lowe Howard-Spink
- 'Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.'
Hamlet cigars, 1966.
Agency: CDP
- 'When an estate car goes from 0-60 in just 9.1 seconds, it had better be a Volvo.'
Press ad, 1982.
Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers
- 'Behind every great goalkeeper is a ball from Ian Wright.'
Nike poster, 1994.
Agency: Simons Palmer Denton Clemmow Johnson
- 'Say it with flowers.'
Florists' Telegraph Association, 1914,
- 'Labour isn't working.'
Conservative election poster, 1979.
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi
- 'If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde!'
Clairol press ad, 1958.
Agency: Foote, Cone and Belding
- 'Think small.'
Volkswagen press ad, 1959.
Agency: Doyle Dane Bernbach
- 'We believe in life before death.'
Slogan for Christian Aid, 1990.
Agency: BDDH
- '"I never read The Economist." Management trainee. Aged 42.'
Poster, 1988.
Agency: AMV
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Maple sugaring is a tradition in the Northeast that began centuries ago with the Native Americans and colonists. People of all ages are invited to see this tradition brought to life at the Environmental Education Center (EEC). You will see how trees are tapped, view sap-collecting methods past and present, and see the boiling process that produces delicious New Jersey maple syrup. This 90-minute program is conducted at our Sugar Shack, a ½-mile hike from the EEC. Please arrive at the EEC 20-30 minutes before the program start time. Organized groups (such as schools) may schedule weekday demonstrations by calling the EEC at 908 766-2489, ext. 332.
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CN Tower – Canada
The CN Tower or Canadian National Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall, it is the world's 5th tallest free-standing structure. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.
Empire State Building – United States
Another tall structure, the Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City, United States. It remained the world's tallest building for almost 40 years, from its completion in 1931 to 1972, when the north tower of the World Trade Center was completed and took its place as the world tallest building.
Channel Tunnel – United Kingdom & France
The Channel Tunnel also called the Euro Tunnel is a rail link under the English Channel between Cheriton near Folkestone, Kent, and Coquelles near Calais. The Channel Tunnel is 50 km (31 mi) long, out of which 39 km (24 mi) are underwater; it comprises two railway tunnels and a service tunnel. The tunnel is one of the greatest civil engineering projects of the 20th century and sees about 600 trains pass each direction every day.
Panama Canal – Panama
The Panama Canal is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Construction of the canal was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. The 50 miles long (80 km) international waterway known as the Panama Canal allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, saving about 8000 miles (12,875 km) from a journey around the southern tip of South America.
Eiffel Tower – France
The Eiffel Tower, or "La Dame de Fer" (the iron lady) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world. The tower stands 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, and was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.
Harbour of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Rio de Janeiro Harbour is located on the south-western shore of Guanabara Bay, which is surrounded by the city of Rio along a strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the mountains: Sugar Loaf Mt, Corcovado Peak, and the hills of Tijuca. The geology of this amazing place is admired by people who said: "God made the world in six days and on the seventh, he concentrated on Rio".
Leaning Tower of Pisa – Italy
The Leaning Tower of Pisa a.k.a Tower of Pisa is a free standing bell tower in the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. The top of the Leaning Tower can be reached by mounting the 294 steps which rise in the form of a spiral on the inner side of the tower walls. A popular tourist activity is to pose for photographs while pretending to "hold up" the leaning tower and preventing it from falling.
Mount Everest – Nepal
Mount Everest a.k.a Chomolungma (in Tibetan) is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. It attracts many well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers willing to hire professional guides.
Grand Canyon – United States
An awe-inspiring view, The Grand Canyon is a colourful, steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in northern Arizona, United States. It is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide. Aside from casual sightseeing from the South Rim (averaging 7,000 feet [2,100 m] above sea level), rafting, hiking, running and helicopter tours are especially popular.
Statue of Liberty – United States
The Statue of Liberty is one of the most renowned symbols of American freedom. It is located on Liberty Island in the middle of the Hudson River in New York City Harbor. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. The statue is an icon of freedom and a widely recognized symbol of the United States.
Moai – Chile
If you've read our article on the 25 most remote places in the world then you know about the Moai. Created by the early Rapanui people between the years 1250 and 1500, they are monolithic human figures carved from rock on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world. Though Moai are whole-body statues, they are commonly referred to as "Easter Island heads". It is also a popular World Heritage Site.
Hagia Sophia – Turkey
Hagia Sophia is an architectural beauty and an important monument both to the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. Once a church, later a mosque, and now a museum at the Turkish Republic, it has always been a symbol of its time. The city of Istanbul today carries the characteristics of these two different cultures and surely Hagia Sophia is a perfect synthesis where one can observe both Ottoman and Byzantium effects under one great dome.
Acropolis of Athens – Greece
The Acropolis is the one historical site you can't miss. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as The Acropolis without qualification. The building on the top is known as Parthenon. Built in 438BC, it is temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena.
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The Roman Colosseum a.k.a the Flavian Amphitheatre is one of Rome's most famous buildings and enduring monuments to the culture of the ancient Romans. The Colosseum was the Roman Empire's primary stage for gladiatorial combat for nearly 4 centuries. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Dodging the Death Penalty Bullet On Child Rape
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John J. Donohue III
"Over the last three decades, about 600,000 Americans have been murdered and roughly 1,100 have been executed. "
That might actually have some evidentiary value as to societal views on the subject, if it weren't the Supreme court's own efforts which caused the death penalty to be so infrequently applied.
For the record, I'm against the death penalty in these cases on a policy standpoint. But I don't think it's proper for the Supreme court to make that policy choice for everybody else, and pretend that they're just upholding the Constitution in doing so.
Since we have judicial review pursuant to Marbury, however, the 8th amendment is essentially a commitment of this question (the question being: what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?) to the judicial branch.
I'm not sure they're the best arbiters of this question either (and Supreme Court jurisprudence on this topic sure has been murky)--but it's not clear to me that the Supreme Court is doing anything out of bounds by trying to settle the policy question the constitution asks.
Speaking of overlooking, those pointing out the fact that the Court overlooked the sentences in the defense bill seem to have overlooked the fact that the defense appropriations bill in question actually makes death the maximum sentence for all forms of rape, not just child rape.
Like Brett, I am opposed 100% to the death penalty on policy and moral grounds. And like Brett, I think the Court is just pretending that the death penalty for child rape is unconstitutional. The constitution does not prevent it. And the blog post misses the mark by focusing on the denominator instead of the numerator, for 8th amendment analysis. The issue is not whether the 99% of similarly situated criminal defendants DID NOT get the death penalty, so therefore this defendant's deaht penalty violates the constitution. The issue is whether this defendant's deaht penalty is cruel and unusual based on what this defendant was convicted of doing.
Also, you cannot seriously think that the factual error in the supreme court's opinion is a no biggie. It is a huge error, and if the tables were turned and the court had struck down child rape executions and the minority opinion contained a factual error about the status of federal law, of course us anti-death penalty folks would be jumping up and down. How can Kennedy make such a mistake? He has a fleet of highly paid law clerks. He authors what, 10 opinions a year at the most? Seriously, anyone else would be fired for such a colossal screw up, given the amount of resources at his disposal and his extremely light work load, and tons of time to do the work with no distractions of any kind to keep him from doing the work. It's incompetence and carelessness. It's a huge mistake and, rightfully so, the dissenting opinion and its author are getting bashed for making it.
As to the fourth comment.
Arbitrary application of a penalty to a select few, while others equally guilty escape, IS a constitutional problem.
Likewise, if the state and federal gov't (with interest in upholding the law) didn't raise the point, nor did the dissent, why blame Kennedy in particular? Actually, judicial opinions are known to make bigger mistakes than this apparently obscure issue.
I second the second comment as to the "policy" issue not somehow different when the 8A is involved. Likewise, long before now, only a small number of murdererers were executed. True in 1920, true now.
I posted on this over at the California NOW blog (http://canow.org), because although I agree that the death penalty is unfairly applied, and terrible in the first place, I just don't see how one can use the prevalence of child rape as a reason not to give it a harsher punishment, and it seems like that's part of your reasoning here.
If one carefully reads the dissenting opinion by Justice Alito in KENNEDY v. LOUISIANA, 2008, they will notice that it answers all of the majors concerns raised in this particular blog post. I will highlight some of them below:
The Court is willing to block the potential emergence of a national consensus in favor of permitting the death penalty for child rape because, in the end, what matters is the Court's "own judgment" regarding "the acceptability of the death penalty." Ante, at 24. Although the Court has much to say on this issue, most of the Court's discussion is not pertinent to the Eighth Amendment question at hand. And once all of the Court's irrelevant arguments are put aside, it is apparent that the Court has provided no coherent explanation for today's decision.
The Court's final–and, it appears, principal–justification for its holding is that murder, the only crime for which defendants have been executed since this Court's 1976 death penalty decisions, is unique in its moral depravity and in the severity of the injury that it inflicts on the victim and the public. See ante, at 27-28. But the Court makes little attempt to defend these conclusions.
With respect to the question of moral depravity, is it really true that every person who is convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death is more morally depraved than every child rapist? Consider the following two cases. In the first, a defendant robs a convenience store and watches as his accomplice shoots the store owner. The defendant acts recklessly, but was not the triggerman and did not intend the killing. See, e.g., Tison v. Arizona, 481 U. S. 137 (1987). In the second case, a previously convicted child rapist kidnaps, repeatedly rapes, and tortures multiple child victims. Is it clear that the first defendant is more morally depraved than the second?
With respect to the question of the harm caused by the rape of child in relation to the harm caused by murder, it is certainly true that the loss of human life represents a unique harm, but that does not explain why other grievous harms are insufficient to permit a death sentence. And the Court does not take the position that no harm other than the loss of life is sufficient. The Court takes pains to limit its holding to "crimes against individual persons" and to exclude "offenses against the State," a category that the Court stretches–without explanation–to include "drug kingpin activity." Ante, at 26. But the Court makes no effort to explain why the harm caused by such crimes is necessarily greater than the harm caused by the rape of young children. This is puzzling in light of the Court's acknowledgment that "[r]ape has a permanent psychological, emotional, and sometimes physical impact on the child." Ante, at 24. As the Court aptly recognizes, "[w]e cannot dismiss the years of long anguish that must be endured by the victim of child rape." Ibid.
The rape of any victim inflicts great injury, and "[s]ome victims are so grievously injured physically or psychologically that life is beyond repair." Coker, 433 U. S., at 603 (opinion of Powell, J.). "The immaturity and vulnerability of a child, both physically and psychologically, adds a devastating dimension to rape that is not present when an adult is raped." Meister, Murdering Innocence: The Constitutionality of Capital Child Rape Statutes, 45 Ariz. L. Rev. 197, 208-209 (2003). See also State v. Wilson, 96-1392, p. 6 (La. Sup. Ct. 12/13/96),685 So. 2d 1063, 1067; Broughton, "On Horror's Head Horrors Accumulate": A Reflective Comment on Capital Child Rape Legislation, 39 Duquesne L. Rev. 1, 38 (2000). Long-term studies show that sexual abuse is "grossly intrusive in the lives of children and is harmful to their normal psychological, emotional and sexual development in ways which no just or humane society can tolerate." C. Bagley & K. King, Child Sexual Abuse: The Search for Healing 2 (1990).
It has been estimated that as many as 40% of 7- to 13-year-old sexual assault victims are considered "seriously disturbed." A. Lurigio, M. Jones, & B. Smith, Child Sexual Abuse: Its Causes, Consequences, and Implications for Probation Practice, 59 Sep Fed. Probation 69, 70 (1995). Psychological problems include sudden school failure, unprovoked crying, dissociation, depression, insomnia, sleep disturbances, nightmares, feelings of guilt and inferiority, and self-destructive behavior, including an increased incidence of suicide. Meister, supra, at 209; Broughton, supra, at 38; Glazer, Child Rapists Beware! The Death Penalty and Louisiana's Amended Aggravated Rape Statute, 25 Am. J. Crim. L. 79, 88 (1997). (KENNEDY v. LOUISIANA, 2008 )
Abu Hamza questions our focus on the ratio of the exceedingly small number of cases to receive the death penalty to the large number of child rapes that are committed. But the Supreme Court has consistently said for over 35 years that it is "cruel and unusual" to sentence someone to death when most similarly situated individuals would not receive a sentence of death--that is, it is highly unusual. This explains why a large denominator of death-eligible crimes (coupled with a very small numerator of executions) is precisely relevant to the constitutional question. As Potter Stewart wrote in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia: "These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual--they are capriciously, freakishly and wantonly imposed."
We agree with Hamza that the mistake about the 2006 revisions to federal law was embarrassing, but the error would only be relevant to Kennedy's decision to the extent that the revisions represent an expression of society's sense of the appropriate punishment for child rape. In thinking about this question, one might ponder over how many members of Congress were even aware that the revisions were in the bill they voted for. The National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2006 is a sprawling 423-page document (http://www.dod.mil/dodgc/olc/docs/PL109-163.pdf) that authorized appropriations for military and defense programs conducted by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, established new military detainee policies, improved pay and benefits in the military, and made numerous other revisions to existing statues. Even the detailed House summary (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-1815&tab=summary) of the act omits explicit discussion of the death penalty, but rather notes that the act "provides interim maximum punishments" regarding 13 sexual offenses, one of which is child rape. If one combs through section 552(b), however, the act does indeed hold that punishment for rape of an adult or rape of a child "may not exceed...death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct" (119 STAT. 3257, 3263). (Note that the apparent attempt to authorize the death penalty for rape of an adult clearly violated the Supreme Court's 1977 decision in Coker v. Georgia--unless one deems military justice to be inapposite to normal criminal prosecutions, in which case the Kennedy oversight was appropriate.)
In the Times story, Linda Greenhouse noted that the Solicitor General's Office, which represents the federal government before the Court, "did not even file a brief, evidently having concluded that the federal government had no stake in whether Louisiana's death penalty for child rape was constitutional." The mistake--made by all the Supreme Court Justices and their clerks, the Solicitor General's Office with all their fine lawyers, and all the attorneys supporting the Louisiana statute--becomes more understandable when one considers the real possibility that virtually no one in Congress had the slightest idea that the federal statute contained this provision.
In fairness, the status quo is that about 40% of murders are never caught, and the percentage of unsolved murders has never been less than 10% in modern history. So, the number of prosecuted murders is somewhere in the 360,000-540,000 range.
Also, in all likelihood:
(1) those numbers are actually for homicides, and many homicides involve crimes other than those for which a death penalty may even be considered;
(2) many of these homicides occur in states without a death penalty;
(3) many of these homicides are committed by juveniles, mentally retarded people, or mentally ill people who are legally ineligible for the death penalty;
(4) a significant percentage of murders (particularly those death penalty worthy) involve multiple murder for which there can be at most one execution, or involve a murder who dies in a suicide by cop or suicide situation, or die in prison while awaiting execution.
No one disputes that only a small percentage (in Colorado it is less than one percent) of people convicted of a capital murder for which a death penalty could be imposed are either not sentenced to death in the first plce, or have their death sentences finally commuted prior to their death. But, the numbers aren't quite as dramatic as a comparison of murders to executions would suggest.
The murder to execution rate may be relevant to deterrence, one supposes, but standing alone, it isn't relevant to arbitrariness evaluations.
Child rapists don't deserve the mercy of Death Row and a state execution, they deserve Life in Prison without parole and special protections. This way the other inmates will have many chances to gang-rape the scum every day, and then torture the vermin to death when they are sick of him.
Finally the Supremes got one right with the DC Gun Ban issue. Hopefully, knowing that more homes may have guns, more raping and home-invading monkeys will cease in this behavior or be blown away as they well deserve. The world will be MUCH better with more of this scum dead.
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KILL the raping monkeys
even if they prefer death
over life in prison
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you may not defend yourself
guns are for criminals
just hope police show in time
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God of the Universe says
prosecute citizens
when they kill home invaders
threatening their families
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women shouldn't carry guns
their attackers and rapists
don't deserve their brains blown out
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Andrew Koppelman, Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press 2006)
Brian Tamanaha, Law as a Means to an End (Cambridge University Press 2006)
Sanford Levinson, Our Undemocratic Constitution (Oxford University Press 2006)
Mark Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge University Press 2006)
Jack M. Balkin, ed., What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said (N.Y.U. Press 2005)
Sanford Levinson, ed., Torture: A Collection (Oxford University Press 2004)
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