Confiscation

The KKK or otherwise known as the Ku Klux Klan were an organized group of white supremacists that would terrorize innocent African American lives, and would violently forbid them to enjoy basic civil rights. They would go to the extremes by using brutal violence to intimidate others in ways such as burning black churches or schools, shootings, etc. In a way, they gained some attention to reach their goal across, but it actually backfired on them and harsher laws were set in place. The original…

According to US-based analysis firm IHS(73) part of the money terrorist organizations make comes from “taxation and confiscation and a mixture of other avenues including drugs. The money that is received from the drugs trade comes indirectly through the system of taxation of “food, transport, fuel, drugs and raw materials that are bought and sold within their area of control.” The analysis states. The connection established between drug trafficking and terrorism has also been a justification…

The introduction of Christianity impacted greatly of Māori Society. Pre-European Māori religious beliefs and practices did not orientate with the western values and so missionaries such as Samuel Marsden sought to use the introduction of Christianity as a tool to align Māori with the rest of the expanding European world (Walker 1990:85). Retrospectively, we can understand how the core beliefs of Māori differed from those of Christianity, however it was in the initial failings of Europeans to…

Similar to North Korea in the way of government corruption, is Cuba due to a man named Fidel Castro. In Cuba, Castro was inspired by previous revolutions to lead a coup against the current government at the time. It was majorly successful. After the rebellion, he worked his way up into the high ranks and was elected a Prime Minister, a position of extreme influence and power in Cuba, and later became President, executing all enemies and anyone who opposed his rule. He implemented policies and…

Davidson begins his article with the recent events of a mass shooting to hook in his audience. Then he goes on to lay out some interesting statistics regarding the annual number of shootings and how much of the American population is in favor of gun control. After this, he moves onto an interview of the director of Center for Research in Crime and Justice at New York University School, James Jacobs of Law who is also a professor of constitutional law where he brings up most of the main arguments…

slavery. When the war began slaves begun to liberate themselves but Union leaders had no policy of dealing with them. The Union military commanders showed more concern for the Confederate slave owners. On August 6, 1861, Congress passed the First Confiscation Act, which allowed federal forces to seize the property that belonged to Confederates used in war efforts. Following this act, General Fremont freed all the slaves belonging to Confederates in Missouri, President Lincoln was not happy with…

Americans’ participation was a huge debate, but the congress was convinced by the abolitionist’s argument on why colored men should be allowed to help out in the civil war. In 1862 the second confiscation militia act was passed which allowed black men to fight in the civil war and bear arms. The second Confiscation Militia Act also, “for any military or naval for which they may be found competent.” Due to this act, African Americans were ready to enlist and be part of the Union army. African…

The empirical findings in the first paper reflect the theory for which excessive bureaucracy is built upon. The paper ultimately confirms the positive relationship between increased confiscations and an increased police budget, which the paper seeked to prove. It also identifies that the correlation becomes more positive as the jurisdiction size increases. This relationship shows that through reallocating resources the police bureaucrats are capable of benefitting from larger budgets, as well…

sometimes police may seize someone’s private property, even if they did not commit any crimes. According to the webpage ACLU (2013), 130 CAID patrons were innocent, but were detained by the police at an Art Institute in Detroit which resulted in confiscation and the impoundment more than thirty cars and citations. However, there were no drugs or any weapons found. The American Civil Liberties Union decided to file a lawsuit because their cars were confiscated and they the police raided the…

deal of Bosnia. As a component of its ethnic cleansing operation, Bosnian Serb army used strategies such as systematic maltreatment through the use of things such as torture, murder, rape, harassment, unfairness, threats, displacement of people, confiscation and destruction of property, as well as the destruction of cultural objects such as churches. During the fall of Srebrenica and Cepa, Bosnian Serb forces had virtually achieved the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia. The fact that the mistreatment…