J'écoute : Le gloria magnificat de Vivaldi Je lis : le passage de la nuit de Haruki Murakami Je bois : de l'eau, du thé vert (mis à jour jeudi 3 avril 2008 à 01:45)
Wendy Whitaker, une jeune Américaine de 29 ans, est fichée comme “délinquante sexuelle” pour avoir, à 17 ans, fait une gâterie à un camarade de classe de 15 ans (voir Fichée à vie à cause d’une fellation librement consentie). Harcelée par les autorités, elle était repartie chez sa mère, sans prévenir les policiers… qui l’ont donc incarcérée. Elle risque 30 ans de prison.
Wendy Whitaker n’a vraiment pas de chance.
En 1997, à 17 ans, elle était surprise en train de faire une fellation à un copain de classe, qui, trois semaines plus tard, allait avoir 16 ans.
Il était donc mineur, et Wendy a été condamnée à 5 ans de sursis avec mise à l’épreuve pour sodomie (qui, dans le droit américain, désigne tout acte sexuel n’impliquant pas de procréation), et fichée au registre des délinquants sexuels.
En 1998, la Cour suprême américaine, modifiait la loi afin d’autoriser les fellations (qui étaient interdites, même entre époux), mais son effet n’est pas rétroactif, et Wendy continue d’être fichée.Le fichier est accessible sur l’internet afin que tout un chacun puisse identifier les délinquants sexuels de son quartier. Mais sa fiche ne mentionne que la “sodomie“, sans plus de précisions.
Elle n’a pas le droit d’habiter ni de travailler à moins de 300 mètres de tout endroit susceptible d’accueillir des enfants (écoles, parcs, bibliothèques, piscines…).
L’an passé, un juge a découvert que l’église du quartier où elle avait acheté une maison avec son mari accueillait occasionnellement une garderie.
Wendy a été contrainte de déménager, son mari a perdu son emploi dans la foulée. Le prêt ayant été pris au nom de son mari, ils ont depuis été autorisé à y revenir, à titre temporaire.
Fin août, lors d’une ronde de routine, la police s’est aperçue que Wendy n’y habitait plus, et a lancé un mandat d’arrêt.
Le 24 août, des policiers l’ont interpellé au domicile de sa mère.
Faute de pouvoir réunir les 10 000$ de caution, elle reste incarcérée.
Sa fiche, qui indiquait qu’elle n’était pas incarcérée lorsque j’avais écrit mon article cet été, a depuis été mise à jour : “INCARCERATED: YES
ADDRESS: ***INCARCERATED***.
Il y a quelques années, pour avoir raté quelques rendez-vous, et donc pas scrupuleusement respecté les conditions de son sursis, elle avait déjà passé plus d’un an en prison.
Pour n’avoir pas déclaré aux policiers qu’elle était repartie habiter chez sa mère, Wendy Whitaker risque aujourd’hui entre 10 (”au moins“) et 30 ans (”pas plus“) de prison…
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3/ CSS - Let's Make Love... (Dan Carey remix) (Sub Pop)
4/ Von Sudenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It (Domino)
5/ Bjorn B - 20 Hz (Spinnin)
6/ Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (EMI)
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12/ Sinden and Count of Monte Cristal - Tamborzuda (Man)
13/ Bass Clef - Opera e.p. (Blank Tapes)
14/ Luke Eargoggle - I Belong To The Past (Stileben)
15/ Radar - War Out There (Tomboy dub) (EMI)
16/ Oliver Huntemann - Scary Love (Confused)
17/ Bondo De Role - Office Boy (Domino)
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20/ Yo Majesty - It's A Warning (Out There Recordings)
Ségolène Royal et Nicolas Sarkozy ont voté à la mi-journée
Les deux candidats qui disputent le second tour de l'élection présidentielle française ont voté peu après midi dans leur fief électoral respectif, à Neuilly-sur-Seine pour Nicolas Sarkozy (photo Keystone), à Melle pour Ségolène Royal .
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A midi, le taux de participation s'élevait à 34,11%, soit trois points de plus que lors du premier tour à la même heure (31,21%). Le scrutin du 22 avril avait enregistré un taux de participation final de 83,77%, proche des records de 1965 et 1974.
Candidats
Voix
Nicolas Sarkozy
(UMP)
xx,x %
Ségolène Royal
(PS)
xx,x %
Participation à 12h00: 34,11%
Le président élu, qui succédera à Jacques Chirac, entrera en fonction le 16 mai pour un
mandat de cinq ans.
Voilà les nouvelles que j'ai sur internet, je suis à Tokyo. Ici Il est déjà 23H10.
Je connaitrai les résultats vers 3h00 du mat.
Je sais que les sondages sont dégeus mais j'espére toujours.
Je rentre en France mercredi,
J'espére que cette putain de France restera encore une pute au grand coeur,
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday
3 May 2007 14:00
Royal wins round one in 'boxing ring' debate
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 03 May 2007
A pugnacious and impassioned Ségolène Royal scored a points victory over an often-rattled Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential television debate last night.
The two presidential contestants sparred live for two and a half hours, exchanging flurries of sharp verbal blows without landing any knock-out punches.
In a studio designed to resemble a boxing ring, the Socialist candidate, Mme Royal, 53, gave a fluent, gutsy performance which may go some way towards drawing undecided voters.
It remains to be seen whether she did enough to alter the dynamics of a campaign which appears to be heading towards a comfortable victory for the centre-right candidate.
In an often bewilderingly technical debate, Mme Royal and M. Sarkozy, 52, assaulted each other with batteries of pre-digested statistics. Mme Royal refused to be browbeaten by the confident sometimes overconfident front-runner. She accused him at one point of "political immorality" for talking about policy for the handicapped, after his centre-right government had dismantled programmes for handicapped children.
"Calm down," he said. "I have a right to talk about the handicapped. I don't challenge your sincerity. Don't accuse me of immorality. I wouldn't talk to you like that..."
"Yes," she replied. "But I don't lie."
Mme Royal also attacked M. Sarkozy on his favourite ground of crime and security. She pointed out that he was part of a government which had promised "zero tolerance" for violence five years ago but had seen an increase in violent attacks in schools of 26 per cent.
She also drew attention to the rape of two female police officers in the Paris suburbs in recent weeks. If elected, she said, she would make sure that women police were protected leaving work late at night.
It was the pair's first face to face encounter for 12 years, and over 20 million people watched it half of all French voters. The candidates sat either side of a two-metre square table, with Mme Royal on the left and M. Sarkozy on the right.
Mme Royal looked like a female barrister in a black skirt and jacket and high-collared white blouse. M. Sarkozy wore his usual dark suit and stripy tie.
The stakes were especially high for Mme Royal. The latest opinion polls place her four to seven points behind M. Sarkozy with only three days before the second round of voting.
To have any chance, she needed to put on a performance competent enough, and attractive enough, to bring hundreds of thousands of "undecided" centrist voters into her camp.
In her final statement, she urged French voters to have the "bravery" to choose a woman for the first time.
M. Sarkozy tried to paint Mme Royal as an old-fashioned, state-interventionist Socialist, who wanted to increase public spending and spread the 35-hour working week. He said that no other country in Europe had tried to increase employment by reducing working hours, as the last Socialist government did.
"Look at your friend, Tony Blair," he said. "Look at Scandinavia. They are removing obstacles to people working, not stopping them from doing so." In reply, Mme Royal presented herself as a modern, pro-business Socialist. "I will be the President of what works," she said.
M. Sarkozy said that the key to reviving the French economy was to " revalue" work: to encourage more French people into the work force and allow longer working hours with overtime pay.
The candidates launched into a series of lengthy one-on-one arguments on education, labour law, pensions, taxes and trade. M. Sarkozy took on a patronising edge at times but Mme Royalheld her ground. And he often seemed more on top of the details, but she came over as confident and capable of thinking on her feet: something which has not always been evident during her campaign.
"Mme Royal is trying to cover every subject at once. She risks skimming over things and not being precise enough," M. Sarkozy said. But she shot back: "Let me be responsible for my own words, if you don't mind." And she managed to get under his skin too. At one point, he suggested that women had a right to go to court to demand a place for their child in a creche.
"Is that the kind of society you want?" she asked. "Where busy women have to go to court to get a place in a creche?"
What they said
Royal
"For now I don't think Turkey should be part of the EU, but this may change. But, M. Sarkozy, I think it is very dangerous to slam the door in the face of an entire country and its people. You can't lock Europe."
"I will be the president of what works."
"Two days ago a female police officer was raped, five years ago, exactly the same thing happened. What did you do for five years? For five years, you had all the power."
Sarkozy
"I will focus on results and take responsibility."
"The 35-hour week was a catastrophe for the economy. People who want to work more should be allowed."
"You jump off the rails very easily. To be president... one must be calm... I don't know why Mme Royal has lost her calm."
Orlando
Yoko Ono
