Florida Supreme Court's chief justice has suspended guarantees of speedy trials and hearings in Miami-Dade during the time of the trade talks next week in anticipation of protests.
No. That's true.
Fallout Shelter News has an open letter from Al Crespo concerning the situation.
The level of fear and alarm within this community is astounding. Government offices and schools miles from downtown are being closed with references to demonstrations and riots being cited for these closures. Radio stations are broadcasting calls for people to salute and support the police because "bad people" are coming to Miami.
[T]he decision to suspend the right to speedy trials and court hearing in Miami-Dade County...does not only suspend these basic constitutional rights for the week of the expected protests, but suspends these rights for the last half of the month of November, since the 26th is the day before Thanksgiving, and the courts will not open again until December 1st.
And Miami is not in some banana republic, but God's isle of virtue and righteousness as well as the beacon of democracy and freedom for the whole world - America! America!
Sunday, November 16, 2003
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