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Last week when President Barack Obama raised the old tale of how Mitt Romney once put his dog in a car top carrier, the NBC Nightly News gave a sentence to how Obama "took a dig at Romney" and the CBS Evening News didn't mention it, but on Friday night both newscasts pounced on Romney for daring to make a birth certificate joke.
"Was it a joke?" fill-in NBC anchor David Gregory demanded, teasing a full story: "What Mitt Romney said on the campaign trail today that immediately erupted in controversy." Reporter Peter Alexander recalled Donald Trump's tie to Romney and highlighted how "the Obama campaign quickly cried foul, insisting 'Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.'"
Alexander tried to suggest Romney hypocrisy, pointing out: "In recent weeks Romney promised to elevate the tone of this bitter campaign, deriding the President and his team for its negative attacks."
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CBS anchor Scott Pelley charged Romney "seemed to go out of his way to bring up a discredited charge against President Obama." Interviewing Romney, Pelley scolded Romney for "a swipe at the President" and pressed: "I wonder why you took it?" Pelley charged "you threw a little red meat at the conservative wing of the party there" before insisting Romney affirm "for the record, you believe that Barack Obama is the legitimate President of the United States?"
Back on Tuesday, August 14, however, when Obama cited Romney's treatment of his pet dog decades earlier, the CBS Evening News ran a full story on Obama's energy policy speech in which the remark was made, but didn't utter a syllable about the shot at Romney.
The NBC Nightly News carried this short reference:
PETER ALEXANDER: Today he took a dig at Romney, who once took a family vacation with his dog riding on the roof of the car.
OBAMA: You can't drive the car with a windmill on it. Now I don't know if he's tried that -- I know he's had other things on his car.
(Friday night on PBS's Washington Week, the Washington Post's Dan Balz also chastised Romney: "It's baffling. The birther issue, of course, has been out there among a number of Republicans and for Mitt Romney, on the Friday before his convention is open, to make any kind of reference to it is shocking, frankly. I don't know what possessed him.")
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DAVID GREGORY: To politics now, and the campaign trail. Mitt Romney was in his boyhood home state of Michigan and stirred up a controversy with a remark about birth certificates the Democrats called a low blow. Here now, NBC's Peter Alexander.
PETER ALEXANDER: Returning to his native state with his wife and running mate by his side, Mitt Romney proudly touted his Michigan roots.
MITT ROMNEY: What an opportunity for us to be back home.
ALEXANDER: But then, in a seemingly off-the-cuff moment, instantaneously revived a highly charged and long-settled issue about the President's birthplace.
ROMNEY: No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
ALEXANDER: The Obama campaign quickly cried foul, insisting "Romney's decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America." It's the first time in 14 months of campaigning Romney has directly referenced the birther movement, but earlier this year, he enlisted as a surrogate Donald Trump, one of the President's loudest critics, who has frequently questioned whether President Obama was born in the U.S.
DONALD TRUMP, FEBRUARY 2: It's my honor, real honor and privilege to endorse Mitt Romney.
ALEXANDER: Team Romney immediately tried to defuse the situation. Senior adviser Kevin Madden told NBC News: "The governor has always and repeatedly said he believes the President was born here in the United States." While many in today's rally didn't make much of the remark-
MAN: I just think it's a little bit political rhetoric right now. It's just a little going back and forth on some small issues.
-It's an issue that still resonates amongst some on the fringe of the Republican Party.
WOMAN: No, that's a phony birth certificate.
ALEXANDER: In recent weeks Romney promised to elevate the tone of this bitter campaign, deriding the President and his team for its negative attacks.
ROMNEY: Mr. President, take your campaign of division, and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.
ALEXANDER: Now the Romney campaign is looking ahead to next week's Republican convention with its theme of a better future, where it hopes to redirect the political debate back to its central argument, Romney's private sector experience, which they say will help turn around the American economy.
Late this evening, in a network television interview, Mitt Romney said his birth certificate comment was not a swipe at the President, that there is no question that President Obama was born here in the United States, adding, David, that it was intended as a joke, saying we've got to have a little humor in a campaign.
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SCOTT PELLEY: Now to the presidential campaign. As we mentioned, we came to Birmingham, Michigan, today for an interview with Mitt Romney and his wife Anne. On Monday, at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, Governor Romney will become the party's presidential nominee. Just before our interview today, though, he seemed to go out of his way to bring up a discredited charge against President Obama, the old allegation that the President was not born in the United States.
MITT ROMNEY BEFORE CROWD: Now, I love being home in this place where Anne and I were raised, where both of us were born. Anne was born in Henry Ford Hospital, I was born at Harper hospital. No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
PELLEY: Why did you say that?
ROMNEY: We here in Michigan, Anne and I were both born in Detroit, and a little humor goes a long way. So it was great to be home, to be in a place where Anne and I had grown up and the crowd loved it and got a good laugh.
PELLEY: But this was a swipe at the President and I wonder why you took it?
ROMNEY: No, no, not a swipe. I said throughout the campaign and before there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S. This was fun about us and coming home and humor, you know, we've got to have a little humor in a campaign as well.
PELLEY: You threw a little red meat at the conservative wing of the party there.
ROMNEY: No, this was all about being home in Michigan, the place we were born and raised.
PELLEY: But once and for all, for the record, you believe that Barack Obama is the legitimate President of the United States?
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Time will tell how the relationship between Todd Haley and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will evolve. But for now, the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator is making his quarterback's eyes light up.
Entering his ninth season, Roethlisberger has long publicly campaigned to run more no-huddle offense in which he carries more play-calling responsibilities. Haley, in his first season with the team, said on Tuesday the no-huddle "will be... a big part of our offense."
"(Roethlisberger) has shown a propensity to do that at a high level," Haley said. "Ideally, if you have a quarterback like Ben and what he's done, when he's in full control, that's a good situation to be in because he's right in the middle of it and seeing what's going on."
The Steelers (No. 17 in the AP Pro32) spent a significant portion of their afternoon practice on Tuesday placing special emphasis on running the no-huddle.
As the players continue to assimilate themselves into Haley's system, Roethlisberger would seem to need to master an advanced understanding of the offense before he could be entrusted to run the no-huddle.
"It requires some attention, of course -- it's new," coach Mike Tomlin said. "But I like where the group is. It's obvious that we made good use of our offseason time. When I talk about that, I'm talking about (Organized Team Activities) and minicamp, but it's a process."
Roethlisberger was particularly close with former coordinator Bruce Arians, but Arians was forced out at the end of last season and now holds the coordinator's job with the Colts.
But even Arians -- despite repeated teases -- resisted handing over the play-calling reins to Roethlisberger on a regular basis. Other than the obvious late-in-a-half situations, the Steelers rarely ran a random series in the no-huddle over the past few seasons even though it was practiced often.
"Ben, I can tell through the spring, he's got his arms around it, he likes it," Haley said. "You can see his eyes light up a little bit when we get into that mode, and I think that's the sign of a great quarterback. The ones I've been around, they want it. 'Give me control, let me run this thing.' And he has the ability to do it, as he's shown in the past and through the spring."
Initially, the relationship between Haley and Roethlisberger, at least publicly, was viewed frosty. Each said he hadn't spoken with the other for days after Haley was hired -- even when both were in the same building at the Steelers practice facility. But as Haley and the Pittsburgh offense assimilate to one another, more of a mutual appreciation is apparent.
"I've heard people say that it's a quarterback's league, and having now spent 16, 17 years coaching, I believe that," Haley said. "You need a guy that can be the field general and move your football team up and down the field, control the battle with the defense. And Ben is in that group of top guys.
"He's proven it from day one in the NFL, so I'm having a lot of fun across the board with all the position groups and the guys up front. But Ben taking that football every snap, it makes it fun for us offensive coaches."
Arians was a mainstay with the Steelers staff. So, in effect, this is the first time in Roethlisberger's career he's had to learn a new offense.
"We're getting there. We're trying to get there," Roethlisberger said Tuesday. "I know we had just in the walkthrough today something where (tight end Heath Miller) and I were on the same page, which is always a good thing. But we were on the wrong page in the coach's book. So we're still getting there."
With Pro Bowl wide receiver Mike Wallace holding out, starting running back Rashard Mendenhall recovering from a torn ACL and three of the offensive line's five positions potentially manned by new starters, a comprehensive understanding of the offense by the players before the season opener would serve the Steelers well.
"We feel like there's been enough to feel good about the direction we're going," Haley said. "There's a lot of work to do, and we're still reinstalling a bunch of the things from the spring so they all hear it for a third time.
"But we feel good about where we are."
NOTES: The Steelers signed WR Paul Cox and waived OT Bridger Buche. Cox, a 6-4, 203-pound rookie free agent from Mississippi Valley State, was cut by San Diego last week. Pittsburgh just signed Buche last week. ... For the third time in five afternoon practices, a thunderstorm moved in almost exactly as the workout was ending. ... CB Keenan Lewis (shoulder) practiced fully after he had left practice Sunday. WR Emmanuel Sanders and rookie offensive linemen David DeCastro and Mike Adams likewise returned to practice after missing all or part of Sunday's workout. ... Miller (ankle) is getting closer to returning to full practice participation, Tomlin said. ... Rookie CB Terry Carter has a hamstring injury. ... Tomlin anticipates S Damon Cromartie-Smith (shoulder) to be activated from the physically unable to perform list Wednesday.

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Tommy Davidson is often on the bill as a comedian, but it is just one of the talents he brings to the stage. Yes, he's funny, but he also is a talented musician, impersonator and actor.
"I feel lucky to have all these talents," he said during a recent phone interview.
His family and friends long have been the beneficiaries of his work. Davidson, 48, said he can recall singing, joking and doing impressions since he was a child.
But he never thought about it as a vocation or something that would actually become his job. It was just what he was. It was just what he was happy doing.
His friends knew he was funny, and after one convinced him to go before a live audience, the rest of his fans got to learn that, too.
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He began his career as a stand-up comic in the 1980s, hitting venues throughout the Washington, D.C., area, where he grew up. He got noticed and became an opening act for Patti LaBelle and Kenny G. He made his way out to Los Angeles, performing in clubs there before getting a spot on Robert Townsend's HBO variety show, "Partners in Crime."
Another performer on the show was Keenen Ivory Wayans who would launch the show, "In Living Color," in 1990, whose cast included Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Davidson. It would run for four years. It was where many first got to see Davidson and witness his range.
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The default answer to nearly any question was "yes," even if it meant learning a whole new skill in a relatively short time.
"For instance, when I had to play Sugar Ray Leonard, they asked me `Tommy, can you do Sugar Ray Leonard?' and I said yes. I had never done it in my life.
"I was really lucky to be part of a hugely successful team effort," he said.
Over the years, there have been calls for a reunion, and the cast recently gathered for a segment on ABC's "Good Morning America."
A reunion is something Davidson would welcome. In the meantime, he has, as has many other members of the cast, kept himself busy with many projects.
He has starred in films ("Juwanna Mann," "I Am Comic" and "Just Like Us") and is part of the cast of the cartoon "Black Dynamite," which airs on Adult Swim and is adapted from a 2009 film spoof of the same name, in which he also was featured.
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In fact, he will be in Norwalk, along with other comics, on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Norwalk Concert Hall for a comedy night to benefit Keystone House Inc., a Norwalk-based nonprofit that works with clients with disabilities to find work, residential opportunities and social programs in their community.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — What happens when two proteins join together? In this case, they become like a power couple, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
API2 and MALT1 are two proteins that become fused together in a subset of lymphomas. The API2 part of the fusion connects with an enzyme called NIK. When it does, MALT1 comes in for the kill, splitting NIK in two, a process called cleavage.
The result? NIK is stronger than ever. It sheds its "conscience" by removing a regulatory region of the enzyme that forces NIK to behave and self-destruct. Consequently, NIK acts like a renegade protein, making cancer cells that grow, spread and resist traditional treatments.
This is the picture researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center uncovered in a study publishing in the Jan. 28 issue of Science. Led by a husband and wife team, Linda McAllister-Lucas, M.D., Ph.D., and Peter C. Lucas, M.D., Ph.D., U-M researchers coordinated an international effort that included contributions from laboratories in Great Britain and Belgium.
The API2-MALT1 fusion protein appears 30 percent to 40 percent of the time in a type of B-cell lymphoma called mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, or MALT, lymphoma. It's never seen in any other cells.
"NIK is a critical hub that's been implicated in other B-cell cancers. Cleavage of NIK by this fusion oncoprotein suggests a new way of activating NIK, and further supports that NIK represents a potential target for developing new therapies," says McAllister-Lucas, associate professor of pediatric hematology/oncology at the U-M Medical School.
The protein fusion itself is also a potential treatment target. Neither API2 nor MALT1 alone can cause a ripple effect on NIK. It happens only when the two fuse together, with API2 providing the access for MALT1 to cause the split. Without the fusion, NIK cleavage does not happen.
"A particularly exciting feature to this discovery is that the critical cancer-causing event involves a kinase — NIK — and a protease — API2-MALT1. Both kinases and proteases are considered druggable, meaning they are potential targets for developing drugs that block their activity," says Lucas, assistant professor of pathology at the U-M Medical School.
MALT lymphomas that carry the API2-MALT1 fusion protein tend to be more aggressive and more resistant to treatment. The result is larger tumors and increased spread throughout the body.
The researchers found that once NIK becomes stable, it triggers a series of downstream reactions that make cells more likely to metastasize and more resistant to current treatments.
These effects were reversed when researchers turned off NIK, suggesting that either blocking NIK or preventing NIK from becoming stable by blocking the protein fusion, could halt the growth and spread of MALT lymphoma tumors.
While NIK inhibitors are being investigated, these therapies are not currently available.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma statistics: 65,540 Americans will be diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma this year and 20,210 will die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. MALT lymphoma accounts for 8 percent of non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
Additional authors: Shaun Rosebeck, Lisa Madden, Xiaohong Jin, Shufang Gu, Ingrid J. Apel, all from U-M; Alex Appert, Rifat A. Hamoudi and Ming-Qing Du, from University of Cambridge, UK; Heidi Noels, Xavier Sagaert, Peter Van Loo and Mathijs Baens from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Funding: Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation, Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Fund, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leukemia and Lymphoma Research UK, Research Foundation-Flanders and National Cancer Institute
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CRADLEY Heath Market is set to close after its owners have hit hard times.
London based The Lee Baron Group, which handles assets of over £2.5 billion were tight lipped about the future of the market this week.
However, Councillor Ian Jones, cabinet member for jobs and economy, confirmed the market is closing.
He said: "It's a sad day for any business when this happens, particularly in the current economic climate.
"If market traders affected by this, or other businesses, are looking for an alternative they should get in touch by calling the council's markets manager on 0121 553 3074 and we might be able to help out with spaces at our indoor market in West Bromwich."
Cradley Heath and Old Hill Councillor John Tipper said: "These are hard economic times we are living in at the moment and it is a sad for the town and the wider Black Country that this once thriving market is having to close.
"Hopefully all the stallholders will find elsewhere to ply their trade and the owners Lee Baron steady their ship too."
He added: "We now need to turn this sad event into an opportunity as it would be a great place to set up a community based concern. We need new investment in the town and hopefully this will be the catalyst."
The Lee Baron Group provides "market-leading property management" and has over 33 years of experience in the sector.
Both the Lee Baron Group and the market manager Peter Bone refused to comment about the market.


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The Nairobi Smarter Cities Roundtable, organized by IBM, is one of the first gatherings of its kind in Africa. Discussions focused on how private and public sectors can work together to lay the foundations for transforming Nairobi into a smarter and more efficient city.
Tony Mwai, CGM IBM East Africa and other leaders from public and private sector at the Nairobi Smarter Cities Roundtable.
Nairobi's Growing Urban Challenges
As Nairobi continues to attract new inhabitants and investors alike, it is set to see its population double over the next decade bringing with it a wide range of challenges in key areas such as transportation, utilities, safety and security and urban planning.
- By 2030, 48 percent of Kenyans are expected to reside in urban areas (World Bank)
- By 2020 Nairobi's population is set to increase by over 65 percent (World Bank)
- 61 percent of Nairobi commuters believe traffic negatively affects their work, family and health (IBM Commuter Pain Survey)
- Traffic congestion currently costs Nairobi city residents Kshs 50 million a day (Ministry of Planning, Kenya Economic Survey)
- 9 out of 10 calls to emergency services in Nairobi go unanswered (KK Security)
- There are 18 car-jackings in Nairobi every week, most are never solved (KK Security)
- Every month, Nairobi suffers from 11,000 high voltage fluctuations and power outages (KENGEN)
"With half of Kenyans set to be living in cities by 2030, the single biggest challenge facing Kenyan cities is how to manage and harmonize our city systems," said Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Information and Communication. "Better functioning cities not only help to increase the standard of living for their citizens, but also increase their global competitiveness and support economic development."
According to Dr. Ndemo, while there are a number of innovative smarter city initiatives in Kenya at the moment like Konza and Tatu cities, the single largest urban challenge facing Kenya is Nairobi. "Addressing these challenges now is vital to supporting Nairobi's development as an important African economic and business hub," said Dr. Ndemo.
"A city is basically a system of systems, and can benefit from the latest technologies and processes from other areas such as manufacturing, supply chain management and the service industries to ensure that things function and flow as they should do," said Anthony Mwai, IBM Country General Manager for East Africa. "IBM has over 2,000 smarter city projects from the past two years to draw on and is keen to bring that experience to bear in Nairobi."
As an example, Mr. Mwai added that IBM is having early discussions with telecommunications companies in Nairobi about how mobile phone signal density could be used to pinpoint and predict traffic jams in the city and assist city authorities in re-directing traffic.
The round table session was moderated by noted financial analyst Aly-Khan Satchu and was attended by high level policy makers and CEOs from a number of sectors including: Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary for Information; Eddy Njoroge, Managing Director, KENGEN; Wolfgang Fengler, Chief Economist, World Bank; Steven Oundo, Architectural Society of Kenya; Christian Schlosser, Chief of Urban Transport Section, UN-Habitat, Lucas Ndolo, KK Security and local entrepreneur Esther Passaris.
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Irrational hysteria about Klaus' amnesty
One of the legal traditions in the Czech lands that have survived since the feudal era is the president's right to declare amnesty and to release prisoners. Amnesties are acts by which the king and/or the emperor could have shown his or her mercy and magnanimity – and the job of the Czech president emulates the emperor in various formal and informal ways and amnesty is one of them. Franz Joseph I of Austria declared the most famous general amnesty in 1857 (as famous one as Napoleon's 1815 amnesty and a few others).
During the imperial era, amnesties repeatedly took place and they had consequences that were not negligible at all. For example, on January 5th, 1917, almost exactly 95 years ago, Charles I of Austria, our last "kaiser" and the last Czech king, declared an amnesty that have changed the lives of many people. Amnesties were never vacuous formalities.
The Bory prison in Pilsen is famous – and quite a good piece of architecture, I would say. The first inmates moved in in 1878.
Among them were Mr Karel Kramář who would become Czechoslovakia's first prime minister on the following year, 1918, and Dr Alois Rašín, our coming first ingenious finance minister (also from 1918) who managed to organize the currency split and other key procedures, almost by himself. They had received nothing less than death penalties.
Just to be sure, Kramář and Rašín were convicted for spying and high treason. They would organize various pan-Slavic conferences and similar things. The death penalties were first reduced to 20 years before they were released altogether. For Rašín, the 1916 death penalty (also for his activities in the Czech independence movement during the First World War, "Maffie", which had about 200 members) wasn't his first contact with prisons and punishments. In 1894, as a politically active student of law (and a fresh holder of the degree), he received 2 years for his work for "Omladina" and the related Czech Young Party. He was jailed here in Pilsen (Bory) but was released during the 1895 amnesty.
Amnesties continued when Czechoslovakia was created. This institute played a special role during communism, too. And be sure that it has affected the lives of the most powerful folks including future communist presidents, too. For example, a young Slovak communist named Dr Gustáv Husák was sentenced (by his fellow but not friendly communists) for spying and high treason in a 1954 process with "burgeois nationalists" running since the early 1950s. He was arguably the most defiant "felon" so a death penalty was rather likely instead of the life in prison he had finally gotten. He may have been lucky that both Stalin and Gottwald died in 1953, shortly before the verdict, so the latter was softened.
Husák was freed by the comprehensive 1960 amnesty by communist president Mr Antonín Novotný. In 1963, he was fully rehabilitated. Ironically enough, he would become the boss of the communist party in 1969, a year after the "not too nationalist" Soviet occupation, and the president of Czechoslovakia since 1975. He kept this job until the 1989 Velvet Revolution so Czechoslovakia spent the last 25 years under a president who would be jailed for the whole life (or executed) if amnesties didn't exist much like it has spent the first decade or two with prime ministers and finance ministers whose death penalty was canceled by an earlier amnesty.
Needless to say, on December 29th, 1989 (I remember the day very well), he was replaced by another chap, Mr Václav Havel, who had been jailed just two months earlier (most often, Havel was arrested here in Pilsen-Bory, too; at some point, he was arrested – and playing chess – here together with the current Archbishop of Prague Dominik Duka whom I mentioned as a Klaus defender at the top). Of course, his own sentences were rather quickly canceled, together with those of other political prisoners.
Just a week later, in early January 1990, Havel made one of his first political decisions as the Czechoslovak president. We've talked about all these amnesties and their impact on the Czechoslovak presidents and you could already be bored by this stuff. You may guess what was Havel's first major decision. Yes, it was a major amnesty again. ;-)
About 1/2 of the 30,000+ Czechoslovak prisoners as of early 1990 were freed! Be sure that those extra 15,000 or so criminals that could suddenly run on the street did make some difference (these 15,000 people were only responsible for 9% of the crime in 1990). Some of them returned to the prison soon; most of them didn't. Havel was criticized by various people. But the gesture has improved the life of many people who sort of deserved it, too.
What I need to emphasize is that a vast majority of the prisoners who were released during various amnesties had been arrested for various "economic crimes". Of course that the political prisoners (but even the murderers etc.) were rather rare – they are just the most interesting tip of an iceberg to write about. But of course that most prisoners serve their time for some "more ordinary" crimes.
Czechoslovakia split exactly 20 years ago, in January 1993, and Havel quickly became the Czech president. During the ten years of his tenure as a Czech president, 1993-2003, Havel granted about 2,000 individual pardons (not to speak about two later amnesties which were negligible relatively to that of 1990: only hundreds of prisoners). Klaus hadn't liked this excessive activity too much and you may see this fact in the numbers, too. Klaus has only granted about 400 pardons during his 10 years. Quite a difference.
Klaus would never declare an amnesty but he always kept this option open, suggesting that an amnesty could take place at the end of his tenure. And that's what we're seeing these days. The amnesty was officially a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the separate Czech Republic (I don't claim that most Czechs would celebrate that we "lost" Slovakia in 1993).
Klaus' amnesty has freed about 7,000 people, between 1/3 and 1/4 of the 25,000- prisoners as of early 2013. So the prisons won't be this overcrowded. The amnesty also saved some people from "forced work" – let's say 20,000 folks won't have to clean the sidewalks. Some celebrities whose struggles with the law are always covered by media – e.g. the Slovak/Czech singer Dara Rolins, a perpetrator of a bad fatal car accident – were freed, too. Some trials were canceled, especially those that take more than 8 years or something like that. I think it's sensible because these super-slow trials cease to be about justice, the memory of the relevant folks is decaying so an accurate judgement is getting less likely. Also, lots of innocent people may be harassed by courts for 8 years which is just bad. Moreover, all such super-slow trials are symptoms as well as partial causes of the inefficiency of our judicial system. (We've been criticized for these "infinite trials" by the European Court of Justice, too.)
Klaus' rules identifying who is freed are very general. A condition is defined on a few general quantities such as the date of the verdict, the total sentence, and a few others. It was his very goal to describe the amnesty "macroscopically" and to avoid intrusion into special and individual cases – Klaus insists he hasn't studied any and hasn't thought about any.
Nevertheless, we see tons of speculations whom Klaus may have wanted to help. I am tired of it because there's no credible evidence – there's even no suggestive evidence of anything like that. People spreading these speculations only show that they are malicious and they have negative prejudices about Klaus (or all politicians?).
There is this special focus of the critics on the economic crime and "big corruption scandals", something they would never forgive (we hear). First of all, I don't think that the perpetrators of "economic crimes" in the most inclusive sense represent the most dangerous or most distasteful group of prisoners. Second of all, the linking of the amnesty to "big corruption scandals" is preposterous because the perpetrators of "big corruption crimes" were sentenced to so long sentences in prison that they're clearly omitted from the amnesty.
I am extremely far from believing that it's a "good thing" for every prisoner who was released that he or she was released. We're talking about 7,000, quite a large group of folks. It's likely that the number of folks for which I would say that the overall sign is "plus" is comparably large to the group of those for which I would say that it is "minus". The victims of some crimes whose culprits were just freed – and whose prosecution may have been stopped altogether – may be angry and they may suffer (usually financially).
But I see no reason to be sure about the overall negative sign of the whole event.
The amnesty has unquestionably been one thing: a somewhat surprising event. I think that it's a good thing. For amnesties to be sufficiently unpredictable (so that criminals can't plan the timing of their crimes), amnesties have to be somewhat surprising, uncertain, and their extent must be unknown in advance, of course. All these basic conditions were satisfied. If you agree that it's the right thing, much of the "excitement" comes from the "surprise factor". But I think it's just bad if someone hysterically reacts to any surprise.
I just don't understand any of the "big picture" criticisms of this amnesty. They don't make any sense to me whatsoever. It's good that Klaus hasn't tried to cherry-pick the crimes. And he has the right to grant pardons and declare amnesties. In fact, about 2/3 of Czechs in recent polls claimed that they want to preserve the president's right to declare amnesties. So the people who ultimately admit that they criticize the institute of amnesties itself really belong to a loud minority.
One may claim – and one is allowed to say – that amnesties are an obsolete institute that doesn't belong to a modern state. Fine. Think whatever you want. But the reality is that they're still a part of our laws and traditions. We have various traces of the feudal era and at least some of them make our nation's life better, at least sometimes.
Also, quite generally, I think that the critics don't understand the "division of labor and responsibilities". It's really none of their business. There are certain decisions that are made or may be made by the government; other decisions that may be made by the president. It's clear that when it comes to any decision, e.g. a decision by the president, you may find people who would disagree with that decision. They wouldn't decide in this way if they were the president themselves. But the matter of fact is that they are not the president. They were not able to win the relevant election etc. So why don't they just get used to the idea that it's up to someone else to decide about similar things?
The right to declare amnesties is really a "business as usual" part of our judicial and constitutional system – and one that has saved the lives of numerous future leaders of our nation in the past, as I have mentioned. So it's nonsensical to suggest that Klaus violated the law or morality by declaring an amnesty. It is exactly as nonsensical as if you say that a baker is a jerk or criminal because he bakes bread in his bakery. Bakers usually produce more than 1 bread per 10 years but that's just a quantitative difference – one that shows that the presidents' job operates with longer timescales than the bakers' job.
Needless to say, this anti-amnesty hysteria isn't an isolated phenomenon. It is a part of the "bad mood" and "anti-politicians bias" that started to spread in our society once again (if it has ever been suppressed at all). Quite generally, I think that all these moods are powered by demagogues and Hitler wannabes; they are intrinsically nothing else than an anti-democratic propaganda. All these opinions that politicians are morally worse people than the "good ordinary people" are just piles of rubbish, an artifact of decades of populism that flattered the "ordinary people" with many kinds of lies. A huge fraction of "ordinary people" just sucks. They are assholes, criminals, liars, hypocrites, but this very proposition has become politically incorrect because one is supposed to pretend that being "ordinary" means the same thing as being Jesus Christ (minus all His own defects, but let me omit the discussion about those).
But it surely doesn't. Politicians in a democratic country reflect the values of the population. They don't reflect it accurately – but if there is a systematic difference, I believe that the average politicians are less egotist and they care about the well-being of others (and the nation as an abstract concept) more than the average people do. So could the folks please stop hyping the idiotic separation to "us" and "them" and to stop waiting for new messiahs?
I won't thank because I know this is clearly too much to ask.
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- Usual ModelJan 6, 2013, 9:26:00 PM
Hey Lubo, any words of wisdom from the UCSC symposium? http://scipp.ucsc.edu/fundamental_physics/program.htmlReplyDelete
Hi! By this sentence, I am sending my congratulations to both celebrating physicists who are great (and whom I know well). I know about the fest but because I am out of the system (and wouldn't fight for the visas again), I haven't attended.ReplyDelete
- CasperJan 7, 2013, 12:31:00 PM
You are saying it is a Czech thing. I will therefore be careful in future and only commit my intellectual crimes in Czechia.ReplyDelete
- Smoking FrogJan 7, 2013, 12:45:00 PM
When I'd read about amnesties in kingdoms of olden times, I'd think amnesty was an odd idea, but I didn't think much about it. Insofar as I did think, I assumed that many prisoners in those kingdoms had been unjustly imprisoned, and the kings were crudely compensating for this because they found it impossible to reform the system so as to prevent the injustices in the first place.ReplyDelete
What actually was the reason for amnesties?
Well, I think that the monarchs just wanted to show their power, magnanimity, compassion, to make the prisoners grateful and to show everyone else that the monarch could help them at a later time so they should be respectful towards him.ReplyDelete
It wasn't necessarily about "unjustly imprisoned". Amnesty is about generic imprisoned - and in most cases, the imprisoning was "just", at least officially.
But the word "amnesty" is related to "amnesia", i.e. forgetting, so one simply forgets the crimes and the sentences as well. A thick line is drawn, some human capital is saved, the prison expenses may drop, the GDP may increase by the people who are now freed.
It's fashionable among many people today - especially in Czechia but also elsewhere - to be disrespectful towards everyone above them, as a matter of principle, so the positive feedback that used to increase the respect towards the king works in reverse for most people, I am afraid. They start with the assumption that everything that the politicians do is inevitably wrong, so every act - especially a big one-time act such as amnesty - reinforces this prejudices of theirs.
- anna vJan 7, 2013, 12:56:00 PM
From webster.com "Greek amnēstia forgetfulness, from amnēstos forgotten, from a- + mnasthai to remember"First Known Use: 1580ReplyDelete
Amnesties were given after civil conflicts so that the ones imprisoned because of rebellion could get justice.. Wiping the slate clean, so to speak.
I do not see the use of a general amnesty during peace times other than in government economies on the budget.
- Smoking FrogJan 7, 2013, 1:04:00 PM
Lubos, Anna v, thank you! Jesus Christ, those were quick replies. I was just sitting here staring at my message when they came through. You both must be divinely inspired. :-)ReplyDelete
Lubos, I see your point that by assuming that all pols are crooked, we reverse things in a bad way. I have always tried to correct people who say that they're all crooked, but I think more pols should cooperate with this by not being crooked. :-)
Anna v, yes, I forgot about rebellions.
- Smoking FrogJan 7, 2013, 1:19:00 PM
Lubos, speaking of sins and forgiveness, I understand that Hugo Chavez's ex-wife has published a letter of "farewell" (fare not well) to him. She tells him that he "dressed countless homes in mourning," he "persecuted without quarter," he put people in "dungeons undeserved, not an animal [not even an animal would deserve it], he "mocked," he "humiliated." Then: Where are the 5-star hotels now, the palaces, the parades, the honorary degrees? The evil spirits gather in your room. Do you sense them? And more.ReplyDelete
You believed the fairy tales of Fidel, Che, Bolivar, and you told people to read Marx, but [you yourself did not read him?].
(I doubt that Chavez is bright enough to understand Marx. Not that I praise Marx, but he was difficult.)
And more.
I think it's fine that she says these things, but as a Christian she should follow by praying for his soul.
I don't have an original URL. A commenter at the Belmont Club quoted it in Spanish. I put it through Google Translate, which did a very poor job, so I went over it and did some translating myself.
BTW, I still don't understand why Google Translate does not do a better job. It gets some very easy things wrong. As to what you said about case endings in Slavic languages, the case endings should make things easier for a computer, not harder.
- NovotnyJan 7, 2013, 1:26:00 PM
Klaus knew very well what is doing. His amnesty has actually one purpose - to stop criminal investigation for people who could help him after end of his presidency. Who is going to support his think tank "Vaclav Klaus institute"? (one would say "Vaclav Klaus corruption practices institute")ReplyDelete
This strong brotherhood of thieves will keep Czech political scene murky and corrupted as it is today.
I am convinced that anybody who agree with article 2 of presidential amnesty has strong reason to do so. Such person is ether thief himself or has strong relationship to thieves stealing for years on our taxes.
- anna vJan 7, 2013, 2:32:00 PM
As against amnesty I have to say that when Albania gave amnesty and opened the prisons, some very hard criminals inundated her neighbors. We got very hard crimes we had not thought possible for a few drachmae and later euros. Life in prison makes some real criminal prisoners put a low value on human life, and they kill for a few euros. Later we got the same effect from Afgans and Georgians. For some reason the criminals from there set very little value on human life.ReplyDelete
Your comment is severely insulting, untrue, as well as immensely childish.ReplyDelete
The idea that the people who leave some prison and/or investigation will be key for "helping Klaus after his presidency" is so insane that I should recommend you to find a psychiatrist.
I've attended the pre-Xmas event with Klaus at the Prague Castle and I can assure you that he has sponsors (Kellner just rented that "chateau" for the institute), contacts in between lots of rich men with hot partners, there's no simple way to "abuse" those things, and he's surely not looking for more of this stuff because it's useless for everything that Klaus cares about. Even if he were looking, he wouldn't find it among the amnesty-ready folks.
This strong brotherhood of thieves will keep Czech political scene murky and corrupted as it is today.
The main reason why tons of people like you love to believe in preposterous fairy-tales about brotherhoods of thieves who control all of us is that you would love any story whose message is a justification why you are such a loser. There aren't any brotherhood of thieves who matter for the functioning or malfunctioning of the country. All the criminal activity of this kind that occurs is a minor perturbation and it is in no way more serious than other types of crimes that occur.
Dear Smoking Frog, thanks for your interest but I didn't understand the Chavez wife's letter and/or its relevance for the topic of amnesties etc.ReplyDelete
Concerning your "More pols should cooperate". First, I don't believe that most politicians are participating in criminal activity or activity that should be criminal and I have already mentioned that.
Second, yours is still a different way of understanding how a modern political system should work than mine. It seems that you want to make some utopias true - they're not necessarily utopias but they're utopias. I don't know what would be the relevance of the wishful thinking that "all politicians should be super honest".
Maybe they "should", in some very abstract moral sense, but what's more important is that they obviously won't. The democratic system is programmed to deal with all such things. Unlike communism, democracy isn't exclusively designed for some superoptimized saints. Democracy is a system that deals with real-world people. The quality of life in a country will ultimately reflect the people's inherent moral values, abilities, wealth, as well as the refinement of the contacts between them. It seems obvious to me that none of those things may really change discontinuously so in my optics, any call for a discontinuous change of any of these parameters is a violent attack against democracy itself.
- CarboneJan 7, 2013, 3:04:00 PM
Many of the freed are comitting crimes again. It's actually the same crimes you'd read about all the time but crammed in a short time. But they'd happen anyway. Once their sentence is over they seem not to waste any time. In most cases it's not really a surprise, they spend years in prison, they're not particularly bright, they have no money, no job and nowhere to go. Prison is an upgrade or at least nothing to be afraid of. Making it a hell also doesn't work (all those third-world country prisons are always full). You'd have to divise a completely different system to correct the recidivists. The Norwegian way may not be such a bad idea after all.ReplyDelete
Dear Anna, the bias in your description is self-evident in almost every sentence. First, you pick some people in Albania and you generalize the behavior of these people as the behavior of all people who were freed from prison. To be sure that acronyms won't remain misunderstand: what the fuck???ReplyDelete
We're not Albanians here - although it seems that you implicitly assume that all people you're discussing with are politically correct loons and jerks who will claim that every nation is as good as the Albanians. Holy crap, we Czechs suck in many ways but we still suck qualitatively less than the Albanians. And we're also not idiots who must rely on some remote, almost unrelated anecdotal "evidence" cherry-picked to support a preconceived conclusion. We may look at actual numbers.
In 1990, Havel released 1/2 of the 30,000 prisoners. The freed prisoners only contributed 9 percent of the crime rate of that year in the whole Czechoslovakia. If the dependence were linear (it's not quite linear), freeing all prisoners would only change the overall crime rate by 18 percent, while saving lots of money for the running of prisons. So the crimes done by these people are clearly not the main consideration that is relevant (although we have already seen serious crimes done by the freed people, too).
Fine, most of those recidivists also repeat to the prison rather soon. What's the problem? Their contribution to the overall crime rate is still small while their contribution to the prisons' population is 1/3.ReplyDelete
Your comment, much like the comments of others, seem to be so obvious propaganda that I feel almost certain that you must realize that what you're doing is just propaganda. Of course that in any sufficiently large group of people, you will find some people who commit crime in a given period of time. What's so surprising about it? Indeed, it's not surprising. But it's also a bad litmus test to decide whether amnesty is a good thing or not.
To judge it fairly, you have to look at the overall group of people who were freed, who were given a second chance. Some of them don't use it too constructively. But most of them actually do. Why do you pretend that these folks don't exist at all? Why are you always cherry-picking the minorities and incidents that are helpful for your predecided conclusion?
- CarboneJan 7, 2013, 3:27:00 PM
I don't have any problem with the amnesty. It's just the inefficiency of prisons. I had 10000CZK stolen from me and 20 others on Aukro. The guy goes to prison, he spends few years doing nothing and then comes back with very little prospect. Also I will never see my money again. I'd much rather see him work and try to repay me. If anything his prospects to reintegrate back to society diminish in prison even if he doesn't commit any crime again.ReplyDelete
- DilatonJan 7, 2013, 3:58:00 PM
Oh Lumo,ReplyDelete
but this symposium looks cool and you should have been there to have fun too ;-)
- Eugene SJan 7, 2013, 5:35:00 PM
Dear Frog, what Google Translate does is actually quite impressive considering the enormity of the task, which is rewriting text in one natural language, with all its messiness, accreted gunk, intentional obscurity to keep strangers guessing, flowery metaphors, insider jokes, exceptions from exceptions to the rules, illogical grammar etc. etc. in another natural language, with an equal amount of baggage. (GT's performance varies, of course, depending on the language pair; however, Spanish to English is one of the most thoroughly researched language pairs in machine translation.)ReplyDelete
Your version, however, sucks, so better stick to your day job :)
- ShannonJan 7, 2013, 6:21:00 PM
I think it is more fair when the President gives individual amnesties rather than collective amnesties.ReplyDelete
Dear Shannon, an amnesty by definition applies to a group. ;-) The individual acts are called "pardons". ;-)ReplyDelete
- ShannonJan 7, 2013, 6:25:00 PM
Really ? Not in France.ReplyDelete
Hysteria? Have you heard of the rapings? Robbings that have occured immediately after the amnesty? And what about the police? What regard do we have for them? We don't care for your work, you're good enough to arrest them again I suppose.ReplyDelete
- Smoking FrogJan 8, 2013, 4:17:00 PM
Lubos - The relevance of Chavez's ex-wife's letter is very weak, I see now. It's just that you called Jesus the ultimate giver of amnesties, and the ex-wife's letter had a Christian religious theme but failed to take into account that Chavez might be forgiven.ReplyDelete
No, I don't believe in any utopia with non-crooked politicians. I just think we have more crooked politicians than we should; I think it's possible to do better. I'm using "crooked" not only in the sense of stealing money, but of neglecting important problems for the sake of political advantage.
- Smoking FrogJan 8, 2013, 4:25:00 PM
Eugene S - I have no idea of where to place Google Translate on the unimpressive-impressive spectrum, but it makes errors for which I see no excuse. For example, the headline of the article about Chavez's ex-wife's letter clearly says that the letter is from her to him, but Google reverses it. As for "[my] version," what I put in my message I only roughed in from memory.ReplyDelete
- Blazej PotmesilJan 8, 2013, 10:06:00 PM
I agree with amnesty. On the other hand, I strongly oppose abolition, since it breaks the very principles of theory of justice based on retribution. Not to forget that Jakl's arguments are at least problematic, if not a complete lie. If I should cite chair of the supreme court: "Rozkládá to právní vědomí společnosti." (sorry, can't translate this precisely). I'm very curious about decision of constitutional court.ReplyDelete
- NovotnyJan 11, 2013, 7:55:00 AM
Well, you have probable the reason why to defend it.ReplyDelete
I'll stop by one sentence:
"All the criminal activity of this kind that occurs is a minor perturbation "
Did you ever think about the victims? Can you imagine somebody's lifetime savings are gone because of "minor perturbation" happened? Bolsheviks were also focused at the crowd and did not pay attention to individuals. Those are only splinters when we are harvesting forest...
Dear Novotny, yes, I've often (and recently) thought about many victims.ReplyDelete
But when I am thinking about a nation-wide policy, I meticulously avoid being manipulated by individual anecdotes and focus on an overall, statistically robust, perspective.
So yes, when one is harvesting forest - introducing laws or actions that are valid in a whole big nation - it's inevitable that it will have some negative consequences i.e. splinters locally.
Wide range of three people is not probably wide enough to differentiate beams from splinters..ReplyDelete


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