During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
So the original meaning of the first amendment, for example, is not the common law rights of free speech or the press in 1791 in fact there was no agreed set of such rights at the time but an abstract statement of the right to freedom of expression to be interpreted and reinterpreted as circumstances and society's attitudes change.
Faced with Islamist groups bitterly opposed to peace with Israel, he set about reining in the opposition, first with an electoral law that had the effect of reducing the number of Islamists in parliament and then with the draconian new press law.
"For the first time we would have crossed the Rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into the law of the land, " Mr. Cameron added.
But the real victims here are not the Muslim men of organizations such as CAIR that seek to press sharia law into the secular systems of the West.
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The new law will take into consideration the decriminalization of press offences.
He recommended the legislation enshrine freedom of the press in British law and suggested that Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator, ensure the new oversight body's independence and effectiveness.
Washington (CNN) -- No employees of NBC will face criminal charges over the display of a high-capacity ammunition magazine on a "Meet the Press" program in violation of local law in Washington, prosecutors told the network on Friday.
If Leveson recommends any form of new law to regulate the press the prime minister will face an unpalatable choice.
Mr Cameron told MPs that legislation backing a regulatory body could "cross the Rubicon" by writing elements of press regulation into the law for the first time.
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The revolving door between the Department of Justice and white shoe law firms is a phenomenon that deserves more attention by the press and other elements of civil society, and everyone citizens, defense attorneys, and even judges should take much more seriously the abusive tactics used to attain pleas of guilty under vague and impossible-to-understand statutes combined with highly coercive prosecutorial techniques.
She gave us a copy of a memo she'd prepared for him on the state of student press law.
The Tories who argued for no press law of any sort now appear to have conceded the need for a legal clause designed to give parliament the assurance that the new press regulator cannot be amended by a minister under pressure from the press without the agreement of MPs.
Brands and McDonald's, agreed to worker representation in 2007 after being slammed in the Chinese press for breaking the law in their payment of students (the charges turned out to be false).
He also said he supported a so-called media shield law to help balance the protection of press freedom against national security needs.
The Associated Press reported that Hasan attracted the attention of law enforcement authorities in recent months after an Internet posting under the screen name "Nidal Hasan" compared Islamic suicide bombers to Japanese kamikaze pilots.
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Among these benefits are the rule of law, a free press and a population not bubbling with resentment but willing to take risks in life and in business.
The proposed law is "capable of decontaminating the poisoned printed matters without restricting freedom of the press, " the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper quoted Aung Kyi as saying when he submitted the bill to Parliament on March 8.
The next one, coming soon, will pit the press against politicians who believe the law should underpin any new system of regulation.
The report has plenty of comfort for more serious-minded journalists, as well as for the campaigning groups, scientists and others who worry about the chilling effect of libel law on press freedom.
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It was springtime in Berlin and Eric Holder, a well-known "rule of law" devotee, was speaking to the German press.
One lawyer said the joke was at the expense of Yale Law School, where Justice Clarence studied, while another lawyer said Harvard Law School was the target of the joke, the Associated Press reported.
Because of Pakistani press censorship during the martial law years from 1977 to 1985 - and Murtaza's understandable reluctance to discuss his terrorist past - little was known of the activities of the Al-Zulfiqar group he set up in Kabul in 1979.
He says the new law would enshrine for the first time a legal duty on the government to protect the freedom of the press, and provide an independent process to recognise the new self-regulatory body.
Mr. Yoo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law who served in the Bush Justice Department, is the author of "Taming Globalization" (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Given that the Irish parliament just passed a blasphemy law that would not be out-of-place in Iran, Ireland is a reminder that freedom of the press is often easier to take away in supposedly civil societies where there is respect for the law than autocratic ones where there isn't.
Turning to the Press Law enacted by the Interim Administration of Afghanistan in mid-February, Dr. Raheen said that "this itself was an historical step in improvement of the national culture of our homeland".
Indeed, President Kirchner applied his influence on Congress to defeat "The Public Information Act" (Ley de Acceso a la InformaciC3n PC:blica), that would have enabled more transparency and access by citizenry to government activities.15 Cristina Kirchner became a vocal opponent of this law and a key player in the anti-press crusade.
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Regulation of the press is a matter either recognised in law or it is not.
Law officials in New York with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press the attack was to take place on the Canadian side of the border.
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