(2011/07/15) Too much power for anyone to have (Police State)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 July 2011
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Edition #508
Too much power for anyone to have
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Act 1: Texas and Capital Punishment for Foreign Citizens - Rachel Maddow - AirDate: 07-07-2011
Song 1: Remember Jonathan - Cyrille Verdeaux
Act 2: Executing An Innocent Man And Other Summertime Games - Lee Camp
Song 2: Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree
Act 3: Death penalty in chaos mixed with presidential politics - Rachel Maddow - AirDate: 07-07-2011
Song 3: I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
Act 4: Private Prisons Milk Cash Cow - The Progressive
Song 4: A Million Ways To Be Cruel - OK Go
Act 5: Hamburgler Urges Senate Subcommittee To 'Robble Robble Robble' - The Onion
Song 5: Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Act 6: Record A Cop Get Rapist Prison Sentence - Young Turks 06/08/11
Song 6: Gray Or Blue - Jaymay
Act 7: Support the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers - The Progressive Air Date: 07/06/11
Song 7: Bloodstream - Stateless
Act 8: Covert warnings about gov secrecy and power from some members of congress - Part 1 - Common Sense - Air Date: 06-03-11
Song 8: Fortunate son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Act 9: Patriot Act Renewed - Paul Vs Reid - Young Turks Air Date: 05/31/11
Song 9: Here it goes again - Ok Go
Act 10: Covert warnings about gov secrecy and power from some members of congress - Part 2 - Common Sense - Air Date: 06-03-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.5 | For details of visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com, now welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:10.0 | BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, Lee Camp, The Progressive, |
| 0:15.1 | The Onion Radio News, The Young Turks, and Common Sense with Dan Carlin, with a bonus |
| 0:19.2 | video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from The Onion News Network. |
| 0:30.0 | Today in Texas and in Washington, the White House and Rick Perry had a political fight to |
| 0:35.0 | the death, and a dramatic down to the wire final hour fight at the Supreme Court over whether |
| 0:40.1 | or not Rick Perry's Texas would be allowed to kill a foreign citizen who the state of Texas |
| 0:45.4 | was holding prisoner. |
| 0:47.0 | The man is the citizen of a foreign country who was convicted of a murder in Texas. |
| 0:51.2 | He was never allowed any assistance from his home country. |
| 0:55.7 | If you as an American are in a foreign country and you are picked up and arrested, you're |
| 1:01.0 | charged with a serious crime, the US government has the right to intervene on your behalf to |
| 1:05.2 | try to help you out. |
| 1:06.6 | You don't get immunity if you have done something wrong, of course, but you at least get help |
| 1:10.7 | from the United States because you are a United States citizen. |
| 1:14.1 | That's not only a principle that all Americans implicitly count on, if we ever even think |
| 1:18.2 | about leaving the country, it's also law. |
| 1:20.6 | Our country signs something called the Vienna Convention that says we expect to be able |
| 1:25.0 | to help Americans arrested in foreign countries. |
| 1:28.3 | And we will let foreign citizens arrested here get help from their governments too. |
| 1:34.3 | It is an international treaty. |
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