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  • Bono blames Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for "this reverse Robin Hooding" which he says hurts "the young, fledgling songwriters who can't live off ticket and T-shirt sales ...."

    Gigi Sohn: Bono's "One" Ignorant Idea 2010

  • The liberal establishment, Wurzelbacher points out, cannot grasp "why a guy like me, a bona fide member of the middle class and all, wouldn't embrace Robin Hooding my neighbor who has a few more bucks than I do."

    Joseph A. Palermo: Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp. 2009

  • Hooding the beam, she cast it on the floor as Lazrus drew the door closed.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 11.1 of 31.1 2009

  • Techniques also include the ... quot; Shoulder Slap, Stomach Slap, Hooding, Manhandling, Walling, "and a variety of ... quot; Stress Positions."

    Torture as Official US Policy 2008

  • Time to do a little Robin Hooding! by Bia Winter on Saturday, Apr 19, 2008 at 8: 32: 39 AM

    The *real* third-rail of politics 2008

  • That Report concluded that the following techniques were among those that are legally available: Hooding; “threaten to transfer to a third country that subject is likely to fear would likely subject him to torture or death”; 20-hour interrogations; “forced grooming”; sleep deprivation – not to exceed four days in succession; face or stomach slap; removal of clothing; and “Increasing Anxiety by Use of Aversions,” such as dogs.

    Balkinization 2006

  • Hooding, stress positions, extreme intimidation with ferocious dogs (for which a soldier was convicted on 3/21), and sexual humiliation are recurring images in the Abu Gharib pictures and are powerful examples of CIA torture protocol.

    Democratizing the World: 2006

  • Hooding someone is to overpower that person completely, to obviate any possibility of fight or flight, to torment, to terrify, to punish.

    Predator Cornwell, Patricia 2005

  • ¢ Hooding, used to prevent people from seeing and to disorient them, and also to prevent them from breathing freely.

    Torture and Truth Danner, Mark 2004

  • Hooding could last for periods from a few hours to up to two to four consecutive days ...

    Torture and Truth Danner, Mark 2004

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