Police, school get failing grade in sad case of Julie Amaro - USATODAY.com

I cannot begin to describe my disgust at the stupidity of everyone involved in this gross miscarraige of justice.

This shows that our system of justice only works when there are enough sufficiently intelligent people to operate it and that justice is rarely, if ever, dispensed, even then.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2007-02-22-julie-amaro_x.htm

Only an extremely self-centered prosecutor and anal-retentive police department would ever believe that a middle aged teacher would intentionally search for porn while being responsible for a class of 12 year-olds. Only a judge close to his dotage would exclude evidence from a computer expert who obviously spoke in tongues the judge couldn't understand.

And only Bush/Cheney types would ever get themselves into that position and then not have the balls to back out of it because of fear of losing face - the "stay the course" complex....................

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UN rights expert compares Israeli occupation violations to apartheid

The title comes from the JURIST - Paper Chase RSS feed.

Here is the link to the actual report by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard:

http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/4session/A.HRC.4.17.pdf

Israel and the United States (it's lackey) have dismissed his reports as one-sided (,of course).

Over 1000 Israelis have been killed by rockets and suicide bombers.
No one knows how many thousands of Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
Not to mention how much private property have been stolen from Palestinians by Israelis and Israeli settlers.

Try to imagine you live in Indiana and you are surrounded by a state that will not allow you access to any other part of the country, that will not allow you, for instance, to get to your job in Chicago and won't allow you to own property in, say, Illinois. Imagine further that, to relieve internal pressures and to fulfill some imaginary religious dream, citizens from the surrounding states are allowed to take YOUR property and build on it and, if you object or try to defend yourself, you are assaulted with military that you don't have. Supposed furthermore that the rest of the USofA supports these surrounding states to the tune of 2 billion dollars a year PLUS free rearmament and test weapons(cluster bombs, for instance).

THIS is the country (Israel) that has dismissed these reports as one-sided.

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ScienceDaily: Standardized Diagnostic Test For Learning Disabilities Developed

Just wait till this test gets to America. What happens if 30% of those children now getting supplemental benefits for disabilities suddenly discover they aren't disabled? Which black "leader" will be the first to say that it is racially biased?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070222102533.htm

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