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Rights & Liberties

Goons With Guns, Sheriff Edition

April 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Peyton Grinnell playing a sheriff on TV. See the video below.

A Florida sheriff’s ISIS-like video warning to drug dealers and the brutalizing of Dr. David Dao on a United flight in the same week are no coincidence, but symptoms of a re-emerging authoritarianism.

The Legislature’s Mullahs Threaten
Religious Freedom in Florida Schools

March 31, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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The Florida Legislature is about to approve a bill that would give religion preferential treatment in public schools, destroying a balance between secular rights and already inviolate personal expression.

For Florida’s Troubled Death Penalty, Prosecutor’s Refusal to Enforce It Is Latest Challenge

March 27, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Recent studies have provided additional evidence to bolster criticism of the death penalty in Florida, which leads the nation in Death Row exonerations.

A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage

March 25, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Detail from Jean-Pierre Raynaud's 'Human Space' (1995)

Nationalism evident since Trump’s rise–calls for mass deportations, Muslim bans, economic nationalism–intensified intense media coverage of emboldened white supremacists, attention the groups seem to be enjoying.

Bill Vastly Diminishing Separation of Church and School Passes Florida Senate, 23-13

March 24, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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The proposal would allow religious speakers and messaging at school-sponsored events, and would allow students to engage in organized prayer groups during the school day and with the participation–though not the sponsorship–of school personnel.

Ousted In Cop Case, Prosecutor Who Won’t Seek Death Penalty Challenges Scott

March 21, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

State Attorney Aramis Ayala with attorney Benkamin Crump in an image she posted to her Facebook election account last June. The caption Ayala wrote read: 'I was proud to interview Benjamin Crump, Esq., and to receive his endorsement tonight. Mr. Crump has represented the families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, and he knows how important state attorneys are to maintaining an equitable justice system.'

State Attorney Aramis Ayala is accusing Gov. Scott of abusing his authority by ousting her as prosecutor in the case of alleged cop-killer Markeith Loyd.

As 1st Brick In Wall Goes Up, An Accounting of the Cost of a Single Installment ($2.8 Billion) to U.S. Taxpayers

March 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

It won't look that pretty. The border fence on the Mexican side in Nogales, bordering Arizona. (Jonathan McIntosh)

That first $2.6 billion will not go toward the permanent wall Trump has committed to (that’s forecast to be around 10 times the $2.6 billion) but to a bunch of smaller walls and patch holes in the assortment of fences that now exist.

In Stunning Move, State Attorney Ayala Won’t Pursue Death Sentences in Orange and Osceola

March 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Aramis Ayala at a campaign rally in October. (© FlaglerLive)

Ayala’s decision infuriated Gov. Scott, Attorney General Bondi and police organizations, but drew praise from others who see the position more in line with a growing national trend by courts, some governors and legislatures.

Stetson University Hosting Immigration Forum on April 1

March 15, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Attorney Arturo R. Rios. (Rios Law Firm)

In light of many recent convulsions in immigration law, Stetson University is hosting an open forum discussion with St. Petersburg immigration attorney Arturo R. Rios on recent changes in immigration actions and law.

A Country Unbecoming In the Age of Trump

March 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Immigrants targeted for prosecution or removal could be the people who built your house, picked the fruit for your breakfast, and tidied up the hotel room where you last stayed.

Florida’s Lethal Injections Ready to Stab Again As Gov. Scott Signs Death Penalty Bill

March 13, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Grim wheels: The van that takes the corpses of inmates who have just been executed at Starke state prison, above, may soon be rolling again. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida is again poised to begin executions and prosecute death penalty cases after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law Monday aimed at fixing flaws in the state’s capital sentencing procedure.

An Outbreak of Anti-Semitism in an Angry and Fearful America Since Trump’s Election

March 12, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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“Documenting Hate,” an attempt to document hate crimes and bigotry from a divided America, has recorded more than 330 reports of anti-Semitic incidents during a three-month span from early November to early February.

Florida Senate Backs Unanimous Juries in Death Sentences

March 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Thursday’s Senate vote — on the third day of the 2017 legislative session — would ostensibly fix the weaknesses identified by the majority of the Florida Supreme Court with the current law.

Revealing Look at How Flagler Beach Commission, in Closed-Door Meeting, Settled Wrongful Arrest Claim

March 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Vassili Mironov had sued the Flagler Beach Police Department for $89,000. He got $6,000. (© FlaglerLive)

Vassili Mironov had sued the Flagler Beach Police Department for $89,000 after his arrest at Finns for a fight he says he did not start. He got $6,000 in a settlement that revealed how divided city commissioners arrived at their 3-2 vote.

Lawmakers Back Secrecy for Murder Witnesses

March 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Witnesses’ identifying information would remain secret for two years after the date of the incidents, except to prosecutors and police.

Felons Seeking to Regain Right To Vote Look to Constitutional Amendment

March 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The constitutional change, if approved, could open up voting rights for more than 700,000 Floridians, although fewer than 300,000 could be expected to apply, at least initially.

Gov. Scott Names Political Loyalists To Constitutional Revision Commission

March 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Scott’s selections included a number of Republican political allies, including influential insurance lobbyist Fred Karlinsky, a major Scott political fundraiser, and Brecht Heuchan, a key player with the governor’s “Let’s Get to Work” political committee.

Florida Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Openly Carrying Guns in 4-2 Ruling

March 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Justices, in a 4-2 ruling, said the state law “regulates only one manner of bearing arms and does not impair the exercise of the fundamental right to bear arms.”

Guns at Florida Airports, Colleges, Government Buildings: House Speaker Says “Let’s Try It”

March 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler County Tax Collector Suzanne Johnston practicing shooting at the county's gun range last June, as part of her getting a concealed-carry permit. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 39 bills, resolutions and resolution-like memorials have been filed in the Legislature so far that include language that would make gun possession and carrying more permissive in Florida.

Don’t Fall For False Tone of Moderation in Trump’s Fact-Challenged Speech to Congress

March 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

President Trump addressing Congress Tuesday, with Vice President Mike Pence behind him.

Some pundits and lawmakers applauded Trump for this “presidential” moment. Tone aside, however, the substance of the speech doesn’t diverge from Trump’s radical nationalist extremism, argues Peter Certo.

Legislating Free Speech on Florida’s College Campuses? Not So Fast.

February 27, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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A Legislative committee pondered on proposed legislation called the Campus Free Speech Act. Stanley Kurtz, a conservative academic, told lawmakers the measure would defend the right for people to speak their minds at the state’s universities.

I Am An Enemy Combatant

February 25, 2017 | Pierre Tristam | 44 Comments

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The media has been the enemy since the earliest days of the Republic. But to be an enemy in America is what all of us at one point or another have been or will be. It is an American responsibility. It’s proof of our beloved American citizenship.

Donald Trump’s New Deputy CIA Director: a Torturer Who Destroyed Evidence

February 23, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Gina Haspel was deeply involved in the illegal torture of a prisoner at a secret CIA site, and when questions arose about the brutality, demolished 92 tapes that had documented the abuse.

Sanctuary Cities Brace For Trump Order Targeting Undocumented Immigrants for Deportation

February 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Erendira Rendon, national projects director with The Resurrection Project in Chicago, goes over the influx of questions from local residents with Guadalupe Raymundo, who represents undocumented immigrants in their deportation appeals. The Project has been briefing fearful immigrants ahead of Donald Trump's order cracking down on sanctuary cities. (Tanla Karas, IRIN)

Many cities, counties and college campuses nationwide are pledging to limit cooperation with immigration enforcers in the face of President Trump’s pledge to quickly deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants.

Congress Signals Opposition to Assisted Suicide; Proponents Fear State Laws in Jeopardy

February 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Henry Moore's 'Reclining Figure' (1951) (Wikimedia Commons)

A congressional committee voted to overturn an assisted-suicide measure in Washington, D.C., last week, signalling more willingness in Congress to possibly reverse more liberal state laws.

Protesters, True Patriots

February 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

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Freedom for the thought we agree with is as cheap as a Facebook click on the like button. Freedom for the thought that we hate is what separate Americans from thuggery.

1st Amendment Trumps 2nd: Court Says Doctors Have Right To Ask About Guns at Home

February 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

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Major portions of a controversial Florida law restricting physicians and other health-care providers from asking patients about guns is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled.

Florida House Moves to End Participation In Federal Refugee Resettlement Program

February 16, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The bill sponsor acknowledged there is no evidence terrorists have used the refugee program to enter Florida and that the withdrawal wouldn’t halt the federal government from locating refugees in the state.

Spate of Bills Would Allow Floridians to Carry Guns at Colleges, Airports, Bars, Courthouses, Stadiums

February 14, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A series of gun bills introduced at the Florida Legislature would expand gun owners' rights under the law to more broadly and openly carry guns. (christopher sebela)

One of the proposals would decriminalize the penalty for people who briefly display a firearm in public, others would allow concealed carry permit holders to carry guns in courthouses, jails and government meetings, among other places.

Travel Ban Sham By The Numbers: Trump Is Inventing Refugees’ Threat to National Security

February 12, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Contrary to President Trump’s factually misleading claims, a rational evaluation of his travel ban indicates its measures would have virtually no effect on improving U.S. national security.

Judge Rules No Discrimination In Bakers’ Refusal to Call Gays “Abomination” on a Cake

February 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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A customer had accused an Orlando bakery of religious discrimination when the owners refused to make a cake with the words “Homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord.”

Proposal to Require Unanimity from Florida Juries in Death Penalty Cases Advances

February 6, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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But efforts to broaden the legislation to address other issues involved in a series of court rulings that prompted this year’s measure appear, at least for now, to be doomed.

Don’t Play Into Trump’s Hands on the Muslim Ban

February 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

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Dina El-Rifai, a Muslim woman, writes of being terrified, heartbroken, and outraged by Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” But, she notes, The Obama administration’s wars were often justified through the demonization and dehumanization of Muslims.

After NY Cop Salutes Violence Against Anti-Trump Protester, His Online Post Comes Under Review

February 3, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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An anti-Trump marcher got punched in the face. A Port Authority cop posted “Grow up bitches and get a job.” The department’s inspector general gets a referral.

Cops’ Dash-Cam Video Evidence Gets Big Boost in 5-2 Ruling By Florida Supreme Court

February 1, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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“We cannot expect officers to retain information as if he or she were a computer,” the court ruled, granting power to judges to review video evidence when available.

Federal Judge Dubious of Florida Law Requiring Abortion Counselors To Register

January 30, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle repeatedly challenged an attorney fpor Attorney general Pam Bondi over the seemingly prosecutorial intent of the law, which penalizes those who don’t register.

Trump Order Blocks 500,000 Legal U.S. Residents from Returning to America

January 29, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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In banning newcomers from seven countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days, the president has used language that will affect those who are in the U.S. already on visas and green cards.

President Fake

January 27, 2017 | Pierre Tristam | 92 Comments

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We’ve been worried about fake news from all the wrong places. The most promiscuous peddler of fake news is the president himself, Donald J. Trump. That’s dangerous for media, for America and for democracy.

Lawmakers File Bill to Ban AR-15-Like
Weapon Used in Orlando Massacre

January 10, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Sig Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifles

Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Fort Lauderdale, and Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, announced they are sponsoring a proposal (SB 254) that would ban so-called assault rifles and “large capacity” ammunition magazines.

Teacher May Be Disciplined But Not Fired Over Disparaging Transgender Student

January 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Gender-neutral, ideally. (xMizLitx/Flickr)

An administrative law judge reversed the decision of the Lee County School Board, which had moved to terminate Angel Villanueva, a Junior ROTC instructor at East Lee County High School.

Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites
Issue of Hate Crimes Against Whites

January 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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As Chicago authorities waited before filing hate-crime charges against four young adult blacks for an alleged attack on a white disabled man, the Internet raged.

Israel’s Suicide Mission

January 7, 2017 | Pierre Tristam | 20 Comments

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Israel’s right-wing government never seriously considered the two-state solution, which it has now abandoned as it imposes a de-facto annexation of the Palestinian West Bank, enshrining apartheid.

In Bizarre Move, Court Stops Prosecutors From Seeking Death Penalty, Then Rescinds Order

January 5, 2017 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The release of the Florida Supreme Court order, a mistake, according to a court spokesman, further muddled Florida’s embattled death penalty, on hold for nearly a year following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last January.

Pot Amendment Goes Into Effect Amid Mass Confusion and “Dangerous Legal Area”

January 4, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Proponents of Amendment 2 as well as some marijuana operators are demanding that the state health department provide adequate guidance to the industry about the proposal approved by more than 70 percent of Floridians in November.

Striking at Balance of Powers, Florida Lawmaker Files Measures to Nullify Court Decisions

December 28, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Florida Rep. Julio Gonzalez

Gonzalez’s bills are a reflection of the Legislature’s latest assault on judicial power. But taking aim at separation of powers considered fundamental, if not sacred, to American government may be more of a partisan than a realistic exercise.

Trump Effect: A Reporter on the Hate Beat Finds Stories Too Close to Home

December 26, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

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Something profound appears to be changing in American life as a wave of ugly incidents has washed over the country in the weeks since Donald J. Trump was elected–agains minorities, but also at times against Trump supporters.

Justice James E.C. Perry’s Last Dissent Denounces Florida’s Death Penalty

December 23, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Justice James E.C. Perry has been on the Florida Supreme Court for 16 years.

Justice Justice James E.C. Perry in a blistering condemnation of the death penalty in general rendered a blistering analysis of the manner in which capital punishment is carried out in Florida.

3 Flagler Death Sentences Among More Than 200 Invalidated By Florida Supreme Court

December 22, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The invalidation of 55% of death sentences affect those of two Flagler double-murderers–William Gregory, of Flagler Beach, David Snelgrove of Palm Coast–and Cornelius Baker, who killed a woman in Flagler.

Flagler School Board Finds New Way to Recite The Pledge: With Pixels and iPhone For All

December 20, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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In a retreat at Cattlemen’s Hall on the county fairgrounds today, the Flagler School Board faced a dilemma: there was no flag to which to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. A minor debate ensued, then Superintendent Jacob Oliva found a solution.

Palm Coast Man Falsely Arrested Sues Sheriff, Saying Deputies “Did Not Act Reasonably”

December 19, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Palm Coast Precinct Cmdr. Mark Carman, right, speaks with deputy James Gore at the scene of a 2013 wreck involving Gore and a Palm Coast driver. Gore was found to have been careless in a case that led to the false arrest of a 19-year-old Bunnell man earlier this year. (© FlaglerLive)

Dakota Ward, 19, was arrested in March when he was mistaken for a man called De’Coda Ward, and was booked at the jail. A Sheriff’s internali investigation faulted a deputy’s carelessness for enabling the error.

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