Leopoldo Lopez Quotes
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
James, Ian. "Venezuelan Court Upholds Ban on Chavez Foe." The Associated Press, 17 Oct. 2011.
This was his reaction when he was criticized for encouraging over 1000 extrajudicial murders of accused drug addicts and drug dealers with no trial at all and no due process.
Most Northerners knew little about Southern Slavery and its abject cruelty. The institution was so horrendous that most Northerners tended to think of them as aberrant, unusual occurrences. Speakers fanned out throughout the North disclosing the reality.
Description of the Berlin Peace conference and its treaty of Berlin 1878
He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement which flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Many saw this movement as more dangerous than Communism and some even saw it as Communism. In America there have always been left and right wings of religion and one or the other tends to make the most noise at a particular era.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
He had been reporting from Egypt at the time. There was no judicial independence, and the judges were generally corrupt and incompetent. The system operated as a tradeoff. The government would not investigate and punish the corruption and bribery in the private cases if the judges would always rule for the government in the cases they brought. The system was particularly pernicious in that Egypt did not depend on the jury of peers system so the judges had great power in judicial proceedings.
As an admitted White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi, Spencer had been banned by 26 different coutries as a "persona non grata"
Leopoldo Eduardo López Mendoza is a Venezuelan opposition leader. He co-founded the political party Primero Justicia in 2000 with Henrique Capriles and Julio Borges and was elected mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas in the regional elections held in July 2000. He is the National Coordinator of another political party, Voluntad Popular, which he founded in 2009.
