#OTD in 1918 – Sinn Féin leaders arrested over alleged ‘German plot’.
#OTD in 1918 – Sinn Féin leaders arrested over alleged ‘German plot’.
In a dramatic midnight swoop, police and military authorities arrested leading members of the Sinn Féin movement. Among them were a number of MPs and the party’s president, Éamon de Valera, who was seized at his home in Greystones, Co Wicklow and taken to Kingstown Police Station. Constance Markievicz was apprehended in Rathmines. Party Secretary, Darrell Figgis, who was seized at his home a…
Lithuania, 2016. Conscription started again for the first time after independence.
In 2016 I went with my big love and expert reporter Prune Antoine #plumaberlin and Gil Skorwid on a research trip about the remilitarisation of the Kaliningrad region for #Mediapart and later won the #prixchaffajon for multimedia reportage.
After two days we got kicked out of Kaliningrad by the secret service who followed us all the time because we had no proper journalist Visa. So we went on to Lithuania and Poland who are direct neighbours to Russia / Kaliningrad. Both were afraid of what was coming after the annexation of Crimea.
Poland built surveillance towers along the whole border of Kaliningrad and has military units stationed near the border. Lithuania just introduced conscription under President Dalia Grybauskaitė.
The film maker Aleksandras Matonis restaged the battle of Kalniske between the NKDW forces and Lithuanian partisans after WW2 to reshape Lithuanian fighting spirit because history books said Lithuanian lost drastically which he thought to be a Russian myth. The US Army had a training center for the Lithuanian army and the NATO has their quick response air force stationed in the Baltic states. They reported daily flights from russian mainland to Kaliningrad without transponder so they had to scramble their fighters to check every flight. But nobody knew what’s inside Kaliningrad. And this enclave is in missile range of a lot of the mayor cities of Europe.
It has been 6 years now and all of a sudden all the fears become real in #Ukraine. Its horrible and i hope its over soon and Russian forces are withdrawing from Ukrainian soil.
The “If you were over 6 feet tall and living in Wellington in 2001 you didn’t have a choice my dude” is killing me, like I’m just picturing the LOTR casting directors running around Wellington with a measuring tape, black-bagging tall guys and shoving them into vans.
“You’re a Lord of the Rings extra now.”
“No! Please! I have a family! I’m supposed to work the closing shift at the Pita Pit tonight!”
“You serve at the pleasure of the Steward of Gondor now.”
Filed 28th of April, 1967 (illegible) By (illegible), Deputy
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION
MUHAMMED ALI, ET AL, VS. JOHN B CONNOLLY, Governor of Texas, et al Civil Action No. 67-H-333
Hayden C. Covington, of New York, New York and Quinnan H. Hodges, of Houston, Texas for Plaintiffs.
Fred Drogula, Assistant Attorney General, of Washington, D.C.
Martin L. Susman, United States Attorney of Houston, Texas
Carl Walker, Jr. Assistant United States Attorney of Houston, Texas, for all Federal Defendants
Honorable Crawford Martin, Attorney General of Texas and Hawthorne Phillips, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, of Austin, Texas, for all Defendants other than Federal.
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April 28, 1967
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Memorandum and order of Dismissal (underscore)
In connection with the Plaintiff’s Petition for Injunctive Relief against the defendants in this case, it is fundamental that the Selective Service Act Title 50, Section 451 et. seq. is and has
been adjudicated constitutional and finds its basis in the emergency and war powers of Congress. It is also axiomatic as demonstrated by numerous Supreme Court decisions on the subject, that
the scope of the Act does not provide for judicial review in the ordinary sense. The Orders of the Selective Service Board, after having run the gamut of statutorily authorized examination and re-
examination, must be deemed final although they may be erroneous. The Act does not provide for or
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The inconsistency in Petitioner’s claims and/or basis for exemption is self-evident.
3. Great care was taken by the Court in examining Petitioner concerning his present claim for ministerial exemption and the entire religious and ministerial question was thoroughly examined.
VI.
As pointed out by the United States Supreme Court in Witmer v. U.S., supra, and reiterated by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Wood v. U.S. , supra (page 7, slip opinion) United States District Courts such as this Court should not purport to and cannot sit as:
“… . super draft boards, substituting (our) judgments on the weight of the evidence for those of the designated agencies.”
The test which this Court has jurisdiction to apply, presupposing now reviewable Board action, is clearly stated in Wood v. U.S., supra, (slip opinion, page 5):
“Where the local Board has denied the claimed exemption, this Court has construed these cases to require that there be ‘some proof that is
incompatible with the registrants proof of exemption’”. Citing Wiggins v. U.S., 5 Cir., 261 F.2d 113, 115.
VII.
From the foregoing it follows, as a finding of fact and as a conclusion of law, that any Selective Service Board determination that Petitioner Muhammad Alis is not entitled to ministerial exemption cannot be, and will not be, disturbed by this Court.
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For the reasons aforestated in this opinion, the Respondents' Motion to Dismiss is granted and Petitioners’ prayer for injunctive relief is denied. This case is hereby dismissed with prejudice and Petitioners’ to pay costs.
The foregoing constitutes Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. This is and constitutes a final judgment.
