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The Raid on Entebbe In his article, “We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 years on”, Jonathan Freedland stated this quote from an unknown Israeli special forces operative “Lie down, don’t get up. The army is here, the army is here”, during an active hostage rescue mission. When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv bound for Paris, no one on board could foresee the flight being hijacked. As the plane stopped in Athens for fuel, 4 terrorists boarded. Eventually…

John Gotti On December 16, 1985, as John Gotti looked on, Paul Castillano and Thomas Bilotti boss and underboss of the Gambino crime family in New York, were ambushed and shot dead by assassins under John Gotti’s command. Nearly all of the family’s capos (chiefs) knew Gotti had been the one behind the hit, and at a meeting of twenty capos on January 15, 1986, Gotti was formally acclaimed the new boss of the Gambino family. At the time of Gotti’s takeover, the Gambino family, with an annual…

Remember History Repeats: Whitewashing of American history. If students of the United States learned what actually happened in our history, we would be one of two things: terrified or open minded and know about whitewashing. Whitewashing is defined as the cover up of crimes, vice, or scandals to perfunctory investigation. The students deserve to know what really happened years ago. How come we don’t get to learn about the $5 Indians? How come history books don’t really say how bad slaves…

Eyewitness testimony is critically important to the justice system. Undoubtedly, it is necessary for every single criminal trial to reproduce facts from past occasions, and eyewitnesses are usually very important to this effort. First, to establish what is an eyewitness testimony. It refers to a statement given by a person of an event they had witness. The most important foundation for eyewitness testimony is a person's memory - all things considered, whatever testimony is being accounted for is…

Question One Corporation Person hood is an interesting notion, when it comes to white collar crimes. In the YouTube video called the “The Corporation,” it is then stated that there is a term called Corporation person hood. This term corporation person hood is basically the rights that the corporation has, just as every individual person in the United States. An example of this is the first amendment, this amendment has many realms, such as the freedom of speech., freedom of religion. So, a…

Introduction In 2011, well known Pakistani politician and businessman, Salman Taseer, was killed by his own bodyguard in broad daylight. Taseer was governor of the politically-influential Punjab province of the South Asian country, when Mumtaz Qadri showered him with bullets. According to Qadri, he had murdered Taseer for the governor's opposition to blasphemy laws in relation to the Christian woman Asia Bibi's case, who had been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court in 2010 for desecrating…

Opponents against torture will argue that the right of an individual against the practice of cruel and inhumane punishment is unequivocal, but proponents of torture could argue that the right of an individual to be free from the act of cruel and inhumane sufferings at the hand of a terrorist is unambiguous. How, then, do the government draw a fair balance between torture and liberty? Should the government forego effective interrogations of a terrorist suspect in the ticking time bomb dilemma…

Naked In Death, written by New York Times best selling author Nora Roberts under her pseudo-nym J D Robb, introduces the reader into the futuristic world of 2058, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas fights to capture murderers on the streets of New New York. 2058 ushers in an era of flying cars, voice operated everything, and a whole new set of laws and regulations. Everyday things like microwaves or cell phones which, in addition to following voice commands, have knew names like autochefs or telelinks…

Surveillance: A Tale Told By An Idiot It is true people do hate America but the entire world is hated and distrusted by someone. There are times that I myself have found reasons to look at America as nothing more than an enemy that looks to hold me down, but the true question is why do groups that are defined as terrorist organisations hate America as much as a Star Wars fans hates the Prequels. The United States may not be the best nation on earth but by the view of the people that live here…

Atul Gawande’s Look on the Normalcy of Terrorism in The United States in His Article “Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready” Atul Gawande, a literary writer and doctor in Boston, portrays the devastation of the bombings at the Boston Marathon and the heroic acts performed by emergency medical teams, nurses, and doctors alike. However, there is one primary element that Gawande focuses on throughout the article: terrorism is becoming a normalcy in The United States. To explain further, since 9/11…