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19.09.07. Adeblog. In the wake of the tasering of Andrew Meyer the University of Florida student who asked Skull and Bones Kerry the wrong question. Emil Steiner writing for the CIA’s favorite newspaper the Washington Post advises that “free speech is a good thing—up to a point.”20.09.07. J. Joyner outsidethebeltway. Washington Examiner columnist Melanie Scarborough believes the recent tasering incident at a John Kerry speech at the University of Florida and particularly the students’ passive reaction to it is a sign of something truly depressing. This year’s freshmen were 12-year-olds on Sept. 11. 2001 which means they have only a vague recollection of life in a free society. To them it is normal to be stopped and searched before entering public facilities. They think nothing of police officers capriciously demanding that they produce identification. They have been trained not to question their government. … Like good little boys and girls we put our toiletries in 6 ounce bottles in plastic bags of government specification to facilitate more easy searches and then like sheep we strip off our belts take off our shoes and empty our pockets while hoping that the TSA agents don’t single us out for extra special scrutiny. All the while we dare not complain or make a joke. Yet few seem to think any of that is problematic because well. “Everything changed after 9-11.”Since 2001 the United States has undergone a subtle but tragic transformation from a nation where citizens were free to do as they wished as long as they broke no laws to one where they are free to do only what their government expressly permits. And unfortunately one of the things the government most discourages is dissent.21.09.07. Independent Florida Alligator. Student newspaper containing stories by Jessica daSilva. Kim Wilmath and Editorial and. Comment under video: Tasers are powerful weapons delivering extremely painful electric shocks. Amnesty International considers them inhumane and has said that they have been linked to more than
21.09.07. J. Conaston. Salon com. Defending Chris Matthews is not exactly a preoccupation of mine -- in fact we've had our sharp disagreements from time to time -- but on Tuesday evening he spoke an important truth for which he is now under attack. Appalled by the Tasering of student Andrew Meyer during an appearance by Sen. John Kerry at the University of Florida. Matthews said on "Hardball" that he regards that incident as "an iconic moment" in the degradation of free speech during the Bush years. (Click to see Kerry response. )UPDATE25.10.07.. AP. Some had questioned the use of force in using the stun gun against Andrew Meyer leading to the investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. A summary of the agency's report was released Wednesday. [
10.07 publicnewsservice. Students trying form a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at Piedra Vista High School in Farmington were turned down after the school received complaints from some parents. However the school may have to re-consider. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has sent a letter to the school principal about the decision. The ACLU’s Whitney Potter says seven recent federal court cases in similar situations make it clear: schools must allow GSAs as well as other non-curricular clubs.
10.07 publicnewsservice. Students trying form a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) club at Piedra Vista High School in Farmington were turned down after the school received complaints from some parents. However the school may have to re-consider. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has sent a letter to the school principal about the decision. The ACLU’s Whitney Potter says seven recent federal court cases in similar situations make it clear: schools must allow GSAs as well as other non-curricular clubs.
24.09.07 donna Lieberman ny metro us. This spring. 13-year-old Chelsea Fraser scribbled “okay” on her school desk. In another time or another city she might have been sent to the principal’s office. Instead she was arrested and held at a police precinct for more than three hours. And Biko Edwards a junior at one of the city’s worst schools stayed to speak to a teacher after class and ran off late to chemistry lab without a pass. A school official ignored his plea to go to class and when Biko kept going a police officer grabbed Biko threw him up against a brick wall maced him and put him under arrest. Biko ended up in the emergency room — and spent over 28 hours in jail. Two Harlem teens were stopped by police who refused to believe that they were on their way to a Manhattan private school to take exams. The girls the cops said must instead be truants. They were held at a truancy center for two hours and missed their exam. Just as black and Latino men are routinely stopped by police without evidence of wrongdoing youth — especially youth of color — are being unfairly and unlawfully treated. Since 1998 the NYPD has assumed complete control over school safety and installed a massive police presence. Readers might also like to learn about. "According to the Campus Watch web site. "Campus Watch a project of the Middle East Forum reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures the mixing of politics with scholarship intolerance of alternative views apologetics and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds." [1]Further research on Campus Watch can be found. Those who financially support Campus Watch can be read. Pipes has recently been in conflict with New York’s which was aired on aljazeera net/English but probably not shown in America.
02.10.07 biz journals. The Texas Youth Commission said a recent unannounced audit raised questions about the safety of the youths at the Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte. Texas and on Oct. 1 the organization determined "the facility was in an advanced state of disrepair that programming and rehabilitation efforts were not being pursued and the overall health and safety of the youth housed there were in jeopardy."03.10.07. Alternet. Pete Palmer a sophomore says he didn't think he was doing anything wrong wearing the political shirt to school.04.10.07. Rob Boston. Church and State / Truthout. "In mid-August. Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed something called the 'Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act' into law. Although the new law has an innocuous-sounding title it's really a ticking time-bomb opponents say. … "This law is fundamentally at odds with the principle of religious freedom," said Kathy Miller president of the Texas Freedom Network. "It will force public school students to participate in public events that promote religious views - through prayer or even proselytizing - that they and their families may not share or may even find deeply offensive. So rather than protecting religious freedom this law represents a grave threat to it. … "Rather than providing schools with training and appropriate guidelines for protecting First Amendment freedoms," Miller said. "legislators decided to play politics with our children's faith.
19.09.07. Amy Goodman. King Features Syndicate / Alternet. The Jena Six face discrimination from the school the law and the town at large.21.09.07. J. Flaherty. Indypendent. “The highest crime in the Old Testament,” he declared. “is to withhold due process from poor people. To manipulate the criminal justice system to the advantage of the powerful against the poor and the powerless.” (Alan Bean).21.09.07. Telegraph. Black American leaders hailed the beginnings of a 21st century civil rights movement as tens of thousands of demonstrators descended on a tiny town in Louisiana to support six black teenagers arrested over the beating of a white classmate.21.09.07. Earl Ofari Hutchinson. AlterNet. Mychal Bell the most well-known of the Jena Six has languished in jail since last December. So why didn't civil rights leaders black celebrities and marchers pony up the cash to get him out?21.09.07. AP / legitgov. A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager [Mychal Bell] whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana.
21.09.07. Jordan Flaherty. Left Turn/Alternet. On the ground at the Jena protest on Sept. 20 one got the sense that Jena could be the beginning of a larger movement for racial justice. [Also read comments]. There wereJena protests22.09.07. Pam Spaulding. Alternet. White supremacist William A. White is trying to stir up violence by posting addresses and phone numbers of the Jena 6 family on his website. He also listed some of the defendants telephone numbers. 24.09.07. H. Witt chicagotribune / legitgov org. No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena. La. last week after protesting perceived injustices [Uh nooses hanging on a 'Whites Only' tree?! NOT 'perceived' injustices - *actual* injustices!] than white supremacists flooded in behind them... "There is a major white supremacist backlash building," said Mark Potok a hate-group expert at the Southern Poverty Law Center a civil rights group in Montgomery. Ala. [
] Video. 26.09.07 commonsense. This week is the 50th anniversary of a seminal American event --- the desegregation of Central High in Little Rock Arkansas. It's a different world. (Link with “Vanity Fair about Little Rock). But not different enough. … It's hard to imagine isn't it? But it's even more hard to believe that the echoes of this exact behavior are still heard -- loudly -- down in Jena. Louisiana today where they didn't scream "lynch her" or "send that nigger back to the jungle" -- they just hung symbolic nooses under the "white tree" where African Americans aren't allowed to sit and posted the addresses of black students on web sites calling for their followers to "lynch the Jena 6". And once again as those who have followed the story know the authorities are complicit at best and active perpetrators at worst.27.09.07. AP. ‘a black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed. Mychal Bell's release on $45,000 bail came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he would no longer seek an adult trial for the 17-year-old. Bell one of the teenagers known as the Jena Six still faces trial as a juvenile in the December beating in this small central Louisiana town.’03.10.07. AP. About 80 protesters chanting "No justice no peace" gathered outside the Justice Department on Tuesday to demand that federal authorities aggressively investigate the racially charged "Jena 6" case.
30.09.07. What local officials are calling an isolated event that led to charges against a high school student in Gurnee is apparently the latest in a series of incidents across the country causing heightened concern in the racially explosive aftermath of the Jena 6 case in Louisiana. In
last week four nooses were found dangling from trees and a flagpole at a North Carolina high school a local newspaper reported. On their own the incidents might not have garnered much attention. But against the backdrop of the Jena 6 case in Louisiana where nooses found hanging from a tree set off a chain of events that polarized the town local officials and experts say similar occurrences -- even if they might be unrelated -- can be especially troubling.
a historically black college are under fire for a lesson on racism that included a mock lynching of at least one student according to The News Star. The a student newspaper posted a story and photos of the incident last week. School officials later ordered the paper to remove these items from its website according to The News Star.01.10.07. Alternet. In a disturbing trend since the incident that sparked the Jena Six case noose incidents are popping up all over the country.
22.09.07. Bloomberg. Bush dismissed an agreement reached yesterday by congressional leaders to expand the government's children's health insurance program and said he will veto the measure.25.09.07. CBS /legitgov org. Measure Would Expand Insurance For Children But President Bush Promises Veto. The House voted Tuesday to expand health insurance for children but the Democratic-led victory may prove short-lived because the margin was too small to override President [sic] Bush's promised veto.27.09.07 commonsense.01.10.07. AP. Several states said Monday they would challenge the Bush administration in federal court over its new rules that block the expansion of a health insurance program for children from low-income families. Arizona. California. Illinois. Maryland. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New York and Washington are joining in the litigation either as plaintiffs or by filing supporting briefs.02.10.07. Eliot Spizter. Huffington Post / Truthout.: "after months of negotiation and countless attempts at compromise the Bush administration is still refusing to let New York and other states across the country expand their State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). The president is refusing to back down from destructive new rules his Administration has imposed - the sole purpose of which are to curb bi-partisan state efforts to insure more of our nation's children. The reason? As the president himself put it: 'I mean people have access to health care in America. They can just go to the emergency room.'"03.10.07 businessweek / ICH. President Bush in a sharp confrontation with Congress on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.03.10.07. B. Scherr commonsense ourfuture. This morning. President Bush stood for bad government insurance companies and cheaper tobacco and vetoed expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover 10 million kids. In the words of the White House the plan was to "veto it quietly," so not to draw attention to such an unpopular act. The latest poll from ABC and the Washington Post says 72% of Americans support expanding kids' health insurance by increasing tobacco taxes. Republican voters support expansion nearly as much as Democratic voters. The House members whom Bush is counting on to sustain his veto do not want to do it under a white hot spotlight. Too bad. This veto will not be quiet.03.10.07. B. Scherr commonsense ourfuture org. Perhaps the only thing going for conservatives in the SCHIP debate is complete journalistic incompetence from the Washington media.04.10.07. R. Perlstein commonsense ourfuture. …
NOW. THEREFORE. I. GEORGE W. BUSH. President of the United States of America do hereby proclaim Monday. October 1. 2007 as Child Health Day. I call upon families schools child health professionals faith-based and community organizations and State and local governments to reach out to our Nation's young people encourage them to avoid dangerous behavior and help them make the right choices and achieve their dreams. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have hereunto set my hand this first day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-second. GEORGE W. BUSH
“No you can't make this stuff up.”UPDATE28.01.08. MICHAEL GOULD-WARTOFSKY. The Nation. From Harvard to UCLA the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization the university. Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission: 1. Target dissidents. 2. Lock and load. 3. Keep an eye (or hundreds of them) focused on campus.4. Mine student records. 5. Track foreign-born students; keep the undocumented out. 6. Take over the curriculum the classroom and the laboratory.7. Privatize privatize privatize.
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