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Police Jury to pay most of jur
The Ouachita Parish Police Jury will pay the legal bills for a police juror whose indictment was dropped by state prosecutors because of lack of credible evidence.
It voted 3-2 Monday to pay King Dawson's legal fees at the rate recommended by the state attorney general's office — about two-thirds the rate requested by attorney Charles Jones for work done over almost 3 1/2 years.
He had asked for $225 an hour, a total of $56,770. The figure approved was $175 an hour, or $38,342. It also paid him for 219 hours of work, rather than the 244 he billed the parish for.
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Turkish Daily News - Ankara,Tu
11 June 2007
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Emergence of a police state
If Sezer signs into law the legislation enhancing the powers of the police, we are afraid Turkey will become a police state
Yusuf KANLI
As it was ending its term and going into recess, the Turkish Parliament legislated in great haste a draft that considerably increases the powers of the police. Turkish police , under that text, was given the power to finger print everyone – even those Turks applying for any reason to the police – or to ambush and search houses with orders from the local administrator, or stop people on the road and conduct body searches on them... You imagine what else!
It has not yet been endorsed by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and thus has not yet become law. We hope the president will veto it and ask the new Parliament that will be established with the votes of the nation on July 22 to reconsider it. Otherwise Turkey will become a police state where freedoms are seriously curtailed for the sake of increasing the powers of the police so that it can wage a more effective struggle against terrorism. Compromising democracy for the sake of battling terrorism more efficiently cannot be an acceptable attitude in any democracy.
Perhaps the outgoing Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and parliamentary majority was of the opinion that since the U.S. can curtail individual rights for the sake of achieving a better “homeland security” Turkey can do it as well. How unfortunate it is that they just turned a deaf ear to the screams of democratic people in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world against such anti-democratic applications by the George W. Bush administration.
Individual rights and liberties in this country were achieved at such a huge expense that we should not let them be curtailed so easily. Right, the administration of the country and the security network of the country must be vigilant against terrorism. This country and its people are fed up with mourning for the brave sons who have fallen to land mines or heinous ambushes by separatist terrorists. We are so mad with separatist terrorism that we may even agree to Turkey entering a comprehensive campaign against the dens of terrorism in northern Iraq even if the cost of such an action leads to a full-fledged war with the local sponsors of terrorism there. But, how can we agree to convert Turkey into a police state just for the sake of empowering our security network to stage a better fight against terrorists? We believe the fight against terrorism can and should be done through better intelligence and within the limits of the rule of law rather than introducing police state norms once again in this country.
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