As a pre-law/political science major, the majority of views that my professors take is fairly opposite of my own. The summer trimester just ended last Friday and I survived a class entitled "gender in politics'.

This class was basically a feminist perspective of just about everything - but that is a completely different story.

My final paper in my Econ class was titled Correlation of Democracy and Economy, basically my asking a bunch of questions and attempting to answer them :)

"... Initially, one must look critically at the system known as democracy. Is it an option that many developing nations can regard as a legitimate choice for their fledgling governments? Would they be better suited shedding the practices of the regimes of years past? Some would automatically answer “yes” to both of these questions, but is this merely a knee-jerk reaction or has civilization become so enamored with the idea of democracy that human nature is not taken into consideration? "

I just finished watching Ghosts of Rawanda in my Psych class. I was in total shock by the end of the movie.

Did we as a nation honestly NOT know what was going on over there? Is the UN so inept that they felt that tightening ROEs and ordering their 'soldiers' not to engage in force would make the problem disappear?

Were we as a nation so 'afraid of another Somolia' that we felt comfortable turning a blind eye to over a half million senseless deaths?

I know that the US isn't the world police, but to blatantly ignore and dance around terming it a "genocide"?

Bill Clinton pretended oblivion and people want to put him back in office? Madeline Albright 'wanted to do something'?

When a Senagalese UN officer and an American Missionary are some of the few that stood up against the evil that was being perpetrated, what does that say for the world as a whole?

People who stand by in time of need and do nothing, what goes through their minds? Are there none that see a need and try to fill it?

Are firemen, policemen and soldiers the only ones that are expected to help? Are civilians not expected to shoulder responsibility?

...(Disclaimer, sorry this has been eating at me since last Wednesday.)

Writing a 5-6 page essay/research paper on this lovely country - which I chose.

 wondering if anyone has any stories/insight.

thanks

We're in the process of moving to the other end of the state, lucky for us the state isn't very large. Anyway, Friday my brother and I were traveling at a high rate of speed down the turnpike. (We had foregone traveling with my mother which would have been deadly.) When we passed what used to be a Penske truck with a small nameplate attached to the side. On it were the words (insert hispanic sounding name here) bros. delivery service.  I sarcastically told my brother that instead of putting illegals into pickup toolboxes, (More on that shortly) they had put them into this box truck. He looked at me in mock horror and told me that was racial profiling. 

So, my comtemplation here today is, if one sees a box truck with an arabic sounding name on the side do we automatically think 'terrorists'? Probably not in middle America.But, if we see one with a Hispanic name on it, we might jump to a slightly logical conclusion. And, here is my partial reasoning for this.

My father is currently working on two Air Force bases. One is here in OK, the other in Tx. Last week, part of another crew try to bring two illegal immigrants onto the base by way of pickup toolboxes. Unfortunately for them, the base was in an elevated status AND one of the MPs just happened to see them stuff the guy in there while at a resturant.

I suppose it really sucked to be them. 

Reading through a friend's Federal Government book this afternoon, I realized something.

Our Nation's Constitution was written for the legal citizens of this country. Right to a speedy trial, the right not to be tried for the same crime twice (Double Jeopardy). The right to a trial by jury, right to fair punishment, etcetera ad nauseum.

So, why are we hearing about all of the illegal immigrants, whether they be natives of Mexico, or wherever, being bound over for trial, or simply released?

Technically, shouldn't they have no rights at all?

Made me stop and think.