Mafia Solved Civil Rights Case!

It took unlawful tactics to solve the case of the missing civil rights
workers in the 60's. Read the article below and let us know your
thoughts about this case.


The Associated Press is reporting that a woman has testified in open court that her former boyfriend, Mob enforcer Gregory Scarpa Sr., was recruited by the FBI in 1964 to help find the bodies of three civil rights volunteers who disappeared in Mississippi.

Monday's testimony from Linda Schiro confirms a story that has been underworld lore for years, according to the AP. Schiro said Scarpa told her he put a gun in a Ku Klux Klansman's mouth and forced him to reveal the whereabouts of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who were beaten and shot by a gang of Klansmen and buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss.

The FBI has never acknowledged that Scarpa, nicknamed "The Grim Reaper," was involved in the case.

Schiro took the stand as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of former FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, who is charged in state court with four counts of murder in what authorities have called one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in U.S. history. Prosecutors say Scarpa, who died behind bars in 1994, plied DeVecchio with cash, jewelry, liquor and prostitutes in exchange for confidential information on suspected rats and rivals in the late 1980s and early '90s.

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Homicides Becomming A Thing Of The Past In Compton

Compton known for it's hard-gritty get down is
having a face lift thanks to the L.A. Sheriff's
department. All the bad guys are either in jail
or have left town. Most of those in jail will eventually
be released someday and return to their old stomping
grounds. Will it be business as usual again? Well
that would depend on what kind of rehabilitation these
people get inside. But for right now the residents of Compton
are sleeping a little easier at night and having a lot less
funerals to attend.


Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies used to brace for trouble each time they pulled into a cluster of apartment buildings on South Grandee Avenue near the Compton airport. It's a cul-de-sac where they could be easily cornered by gang members

But on a recent Friday night, deputies Jose Sandoval and Larry Waldie spotted only a few teenage girls who didn't appear to be causing trouble. There were no gang members in sight.

Gang violence has plummeted in Compton in the nearly two years since Sheriff Lee Baca assigned a team of deputies and detectives to turn back a menacing tide of crime as part of the department's contract to patrol the mid-county city. With 29 homicides to date, the city is on pace to have the lowest number of killings in more than two decades.

"Six months ago when we'd go in there, it was wall-to-wall knuckleheads," said Lt. Paul Pietrantoni, who supervises the Compton antigang task force. "Now they're all in prison."

Baca's decision to beef up the Compton policing effort was unusual. As a city that contracts for sheriff's services, Compton gets only as many deputies as city officials are willing to pay for. And they couldn't afford the cost -- which would have run millions of dollars a year -- that would have accompanied the 28 sworn personnel Baca sent to the city. So the sheriff decided not to charge for the additional resources, pulling deputies out of other assignments within the nation's largest sheriff's department.

At the time, gang violence in Compton was rampant, with 65 homicides in 2005. Baca said he viewed the violence as "an emerging social disaster."

"It's our responsibility to not let any part of the county deteriorate," Baca said. "I see this as a social responsibility."





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Too Sensitive?

Are we becoming a world that can no longer laugh
at ourselves. We spend way to much time apologizing
for trivial remarks that were made in good gesture.
Take Halle Berry's joke on the Tonight show. She was
not trying to offend anyone, she was using the Jews as
a reference. Many Jews have outstanding noses just as
black folks have big butts. So come on people there's
way to much drama in the world and not enough laughter.

A simple appearance on "The Tonight Show" to plug her new movie "Things We Lost in the Fire" turned disastrous for Halle Berry after a joke she told was viewed as anti-Semitic, reports the New York Post.

During the Friday afternoon taping, Berry was showing photos of herself using the Mac program Photo Booth, which distorts images like a carnival fun-house mirror.

Commenting on the first picture showing her nose as oversized, Berry reportedly said: "Here's where I look like my Jewish cousin." A source in the audience told Page Six an awkward silence followed before Leno nervously said, "I'm glad you said that and not me." Berry, 41, followed with: "Oh my God, have I just like ruined my career?"

The show aired that night with Berry's "Jewish" comment edited out and a laugh track added to fill the silence. [View clip below.]

Another guest in the audience told the Post: "If you watch the clip, you can see Halle saying the word 'Jewish,' though obviously there is no audio. NBC covered her ass. Ms. Berry should know how unbelievably inappropriate her comment was . . . She should be ashamed of herself."

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Georgia Shows Some Justice

After serving two years of a ten year sentence the
Georgia Supreme Court ordered the release of a
youth held for having consensual oral sex with a
slightly younger teenager. Read the article below
and then ring in on the subject.


Georgia's Supreme Court today ordered the release of a young man who has been imprisoned for more than two years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.

The court ruled 4-3 that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence was cruel and unusual punishment.

Wilson, 21, was convicted of aggravated child molestation following a 2003 New Year's Eve party at a Douglas County hotel room where he was videotaped having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. He was 17 at the time.

Wilson was acquitted of raping another 17-year-old girl at the party.

The 1995 law Wilson violated was changed in 2006 to make oral sex between teens close in age a misdemeanor, similar to the law regarding teen sexual intercourse. But the state Supreme Court later upheld a lower court's ruling which said that the 2006 law could not be applied retroactively.

Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears wrote in the majority opinion that the changes in the law "represent a seismic shift in the legislature's view of the gravity of oral sex between two willing teenage participants."

Sears wrote that the severe punishment makes "no measurable contribution to acceptable goals of punishment" and that Wilson's crime did not rise to the "level of adults who prey on children."





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D.C. Inmates Get Little Respect!

Don't get into any trouble in the nations capitol cause
if you do you'll do time in North Carolina. You would
think that inmates in D.C. would have it rather nice
since the federal government is running things but no,
it's just the opposite they get no recpect. Check out the
article below and see how Uncle Sam is no uncle at all.


WINTON, N.C. On the surface, Rivers Correctional Institution is much as District leaders imagined a decade ago, when they asked the federal government to take control of its prisoners: a safe, well-maintained facility that doesn't cost the city a penny.

The deal sent inmates, once sequestered at the Lorton complex in Northern Virginia, anywhere the Federal Bureau of Prisons could find space. Today, the District's nearly 7,000 inmates are spread across 75 institutions in 33 states.

Rivers, however, was built specifically to house inmates from the District. They typically fill at least two-thirds of its 1,400 beds. Many are in on drug and parole violations. The average stay is two years.
Busloads of wives, mothers and children trek here on a four-hour drive passing fields laden with watermelons, pumpkins and rows of cotton.

The rural North Carolina prison, run by the private GEO Group, has become a symbol for what inmates, their families and city leaders say is harsher treatment of D.C. inmates in federal prisons compared with other inmates. Drug treatment and job training options are inadequate, critics say. As a result, too many inmates return home unprepared to do anything but get sent back.

The 200 miles separating the District and Winton creates its own set of problems. Families can have difficulty getting information about relatives' health -- or even their whereabouts -- in a system that imprisons 193,000 nationwide. And the distance drains family resources and isolates inmates from city services that could aid rehabilitation.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has scheduled a hearing tomorrow to ask the Bureau of Prisons about what she considers second-class treatment of District inmates. Rivers is high on her list.





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Caught Between A Rock And Hard Place

They kidnap you take you out of your country bringing
you to America then charge you with terrorism. But to
add insult to injury your told that you have no rights
because you were born outside of this country's empire.
When I read the story below I was shocked that such a
thing could happen to a person in this great land of so-
called rights. The kangaroo court is still very much alive
in this place that says "all men were created equal."



WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the case of a Guantanamo detainee challenging the legality of the military commission system that plans to try him on charges of war crimes.

Detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who once was the driver for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is accused of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

Hamdan had sought to combine his case with a separate challenge the Supreme Court is considering regarding detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The justices will review the cases of detainees who do not face military commission trials and who are challenging their indefinite confinement. Some detainees have been held for more than five years.

A year ago, Hamdan brought a successful challenge in the Supreme Court to the military commission system created by President Bush following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

In response, the White House persuaded the Republican-controlled Congress to pass a law approving the military commissions.

In asking the justices to take up Hamdan's case, his lawyers said the new law violated his rights because it allowed for only a narrow challenge if a defendant was found guilty.

Hamdan's lawyers argued that there was no provision for review of a military commission's factual conclusions. If convicted, Hamdan could face life in prison.





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