You know it's funny how the death of someone that
you've only had a glimpse of can affect you. I only
knew of Benzir Bhutto by occasional stories on the
networks evening news or in the newspapers. I never
paid much attention to the reports about her and yet
yesterday(Thursday) when I'd heard she'd been
assassinated I was quite saddened. Why? Because
Ms Bhutto had that kind of charm and charisma on
people. After reading the below story please share
with us your thoughts of the Muslim worlds first
female Prime Minister.
She was, by her own account, a "daughter of destiny," a pampered girl from an aristocratic Pakistani family who inherited her father's political mantle and went on to become the Muslim world's first female prime minister. But in the end, that destiny proved a tragic one: Like her father, Benazir Bhutto was killed for her political ambitions.
The assassin who cut short Bhutto's life on Thursday brought to a close a remarkable biography encompassing a privileged childhood, degrees from Harvard and Oxford, stints in jail as a political prisoner, and mass adulation and contempt alike for her two terms as Pakistan's prime minister. After eight years of self-imposed exile, Bhutto, 54, had returned to her native land in October to try for a third term.
Bhutto's triumphal return was marred from the start by violence, when a suicide bomber struck her motorcade and killed more than 140 people in the southern port city of Karachi.
"I have many enemies -- I'm a security target," Bhutto told The Times in June. "But this is a most critical time for the country."
A defiant and strong-willed figure, instantly recognizable in her trademark white scarf, Bhutto never flagged in her belief that she was the best person to lead her nation to democracy and prosperity. That confidence led her to declare herself "chairperson for life" of her Pakistan People's Party and to an imperious style that rewarded loyalists but alienated many others.
Her charisma and skillful political maneuvering were undeniable -- and sometimes masked the fact that her double stint as prime minister was at best a mixed bag, dragged down by allegations of massive corruption and criticism of her lavish lifestyle.
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
New Rules May Help Aikens
Baseball Great Willie Mays Aikens is hoping that
the new rules laid down by the Supreme Court
will allow him to get back his freedom. The former
star baseball player has been incarcerated for more
than 10 years in federal lockup for possessing a small
amount of crack cocaine. Read his story below and let
us know how you feel about this miscarriage of justice.
Willie Mays Aikens is a part of baseball lore. As a member of the 1980 Kansas City Royals, he became the only man to hit more than one home run in two games of the same World Series.
But 27 years after his feat, Aikens languishes in a federal prison in Jessup, Ga., brought low by cocaine addiction and a federal law that mandated long prison sentences for crack cocaine offenses.
From a face on a baseball card, Aikens is now a poster child for what some jurists and civil rights activists say is the absurdity of the difference between the way federal law treats people convicted of crack cocaine offenses and those found guilty of crimes involving powder cocaine.
Aikens received more than 15 years for possession of 64 grams of crack -- about the weight of a large Snickers bar. To receive an equivalent sentence, he would have had to possess nearly 6 1/2 kilos -- more than 14 pounds -- of powder cocaine.
"You can supply a whole neighborhood with 6 1/2 kilos," Aikens said by telephone from prison, where he is in the 13th year of his sentence.
Activists, lawyers and many federal judges say cases such as Aikens's demonstrate the inequity of cocaine sentencing laws and validate the U.S. Sentencing Commission's recent decision to ease prison time guidelines for crack offenders. The new guidelines will apply retroactively to about 19,500 inmates.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Super Criminals?
According to a recent report the creation of
a super criminal is now underway. This may
sound a bit far-fetched but after you read
the article below you'll begin to understand,
then drop us a line on what you think.
Riddle us this dear reader, what do the violent situations that have taken place in the Sudan, Uganda, Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda and Liberia all have in common? These are situations in which African people or people of African descent are being killed by other people of African descent in staggering numbers for one reason or another.
And if you're into riddles then you're going to love this one. What do you get when you take film footage of the atrocities that are occuring abroad and put the footage on super slow motion? You get the genocidal, sometimes gang-related, automatic weapon powered skirmishes that occur in depressed black neighborhoods across the US. All too often these "battles" result in the yet another death of a young black male.
Oakland, California, a locale of seemingly endless musical and athletic talent is also the second most murderous city in the California behind Compton, California.
On December 9, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Meredith May visited the plight of Oakland's desensitized and sometimes brain washed young black male populous and the familial/cultural circumstances that can cause them to become killers in a piece titled "Many young black men in Oakland are killing and dying for respect."
She writes: "Along with the Christmas trees and family gatherings, there's another end-of-the-year ritual in Oakland - a candlelight vigil for the murdered. The body count is woven into the civic consciousness here - a number chased by homicide inspectors, studied by criminologists, lamented in churches, reported by journalists. Every mayor leaves City Hall on broken promises to quell the violence, and the killings continue. An additional 115 have been killed this year, putting Oakland on pace for another gruesome record. In the last five years, 557 people were slain on the city's streets, making Oakland the state's second-most murderous city, behind Compton. Most victims are young, black men who are dying in forgotten neighborhoods of East and West Oakland."
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a super criminal is now underway. This may
sound a bit far-fetched but after you read
the article below you'll begin to understand,
then drop us a line on what you think.
Riddle us this dear reader, what do the violent situations that have taken place in the Sudan, Uganda, Haiti, Somalia, Rwanda and Liberia all have in common? These are situations in which African people or people of African descent are being killed by other people of African descent in staggering numbers for one reason or another.
And if you're into riddles then you're going to love this one. What do you get when you take film footage of the atrocities that are occuring abroad and put the footage on super slow motion? You get the genocidal, sometimes gang-related, automatic weapon powered skirmishes that occur in depressed black neighborhoods across the US. All too often these "battles" result in the yet another death of a young black male.
Oakland, California, a locale of seemingly endless musical and athletic talent is also the second most murderous city in the California behind Compton, California.
On December 9, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Meredith May visited the plight of Oakland's desensitized and sometimes brain washed young black male populous and the familial/cultural circumstances that can cause them to become killers in a piece titled "Many young black men in Oakland are killing and dying for respect."
She writes: "Along with the Christmas trees and family gatherings, there's another end-of-the-year ritual in Oakland - a candlelight vigil for the murdered. The body count is woven into the civic consciousness here - a number chased by homicide inspectors, studied by criminologists, lamented in churches, reported by journalists. Every mayor leaves City Hall on broken promises to quell the violence, and the killings continue. An additional 115 have been killed this year, putting Oakland on pace for another gruesome record. In the last five years, 557 people were slain on the city's streets, making Oakland the state's second-most murderous city, behind Compton. Most victims are young, black men who are dying in forgotten neighborhoods of East and West Oakland."
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Al Caught With Hands In Cookie Jar?
Well it looks like Rev. Al Sharpton may have violated
campaign finance laws in 2003. Let's hope not as this
story will continue to unravel. Check out the article
below and let me know your take on the latest caper
of Rev. Sharpton.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Al Sharpton was caught on tape in 2003 offering to help a fund-raiser win a multimillion-dollar business deal in exchange for helping him raise $50,000 for his presidential campaign.
FBI agents tapping White's phones in 2003 recorded more than 20 conversations between Sharpton and Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White, most of them related to fund-raising for the presidential campaign and an effort to secure a $40 million pension-fund deal in New York.
Instead of offering to help raise the requested $50,000 for Sharpton's campaign, White offered $25,000, according to the Inquirer.
"If you bring my guys up on this hedge fund, and I have the right conversation," White said on the tape, "I'll give you what you need."
"Cool," Sharpton replied.
The Inquirer obtained an account of the May 9, 2003, conversation, which was recorded as part of the Philadelphia City Hall corruption case. The tape helped spark a separate inquiry into Sharpton's 2004 campaign and his civil-rights organization, the National Action Network. The FBI-IRS probe resurfaced publicly Wednesday, when Sharpton aides received subpoenas.
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campaign finance laws in 2003. Let's hope not as this
story will continue to unravel. Check out the article
below and let me know your take on the latest caper
of Rev. Sharpton.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Al Sharpton was caught on tape in 2003 offering to help a fund-raiser win a multimillion-dollar business deal in exchange for helping him raise $50,000 for his presidential campaign.
FBI agents tapping White's phones in 2003 recorded more than 20 conversations between Sharpton and Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White, most of them related to fund-raising for the presidential campaign and an effort to secure a $40 million pension-fund deal in New York.
Instead of offering to help raise the requested $50,000 for Sharpton's campaign, White offered $25,000, according to the Inquirer.
"If you bring my guys up on this hedge fund, and I have the right conversation," White said on the tape, "I'll give you what you need."
"Cool," Sharpton replied.
The Inquirer obtained an account of the May 9, 2003, conversation, which was recorded as part of the Philadelphia City Hall corruption case. The tape helped spark a separate inquiry into Sharpton's 2004 campaign and his civil-rights organization, the National Action Network. The FBI-IRS probe resurfaced publicly Wednesday, when Sharpton aides received subpoenas.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Hats Off To New Jersey!
Let's hope that this is a trend that will continue
in this country. The death penalty has done
nothing to deter crime in this country and only
serves those seeking legal revenge. So my hat is
of for New Jersey for having thee courage to do
the right thing. What do you think?
The New Jersey Assembly voted today to abolish the death penalty, poising the state to become the first since 1965 to eliminate capital punishment.
The state Senate earlier this week also voted to end executions and replace them with sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a longtime foe of the death penalty, said today before the vote that he would sign the bill into law within a few days; aides said it would happen most likely early next week.
At a news conference in Trenton, Corzine said, "We would be better served as a society by having a clear and certain outcome for individuals who carry out heinous crimes. And that's what I think we are doing -- making certain that individuals will be in prison without any possibility of parole."
He acknowledged that by signing the bill he could be opening himself to political attack, but said that the current system clearly was not working and "for lots of different reasons, I think the state is taking a painful but constructive step."
Although New Jersey has not had an execution since 1963, the campaign has drawn attention around the country. Sister Helen Prejean, whose work against the death penalty was dramatized in the film "Dead Man Walking," has made a dozen trips to New Jersey in support of the measure and predicted that other states will follow its lead.
However, attempts to abolish the death penalty in several other states have failed in recent years although it now seems possible that Maryland, whose governor opposes capital punishment, will go the same route as New Jersey. Currently, there is a nationwide de facto moratorium on executions, spurred by legal challenges contending that lethal injection, which is used in most states, is excessively painful. The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue in January.
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in this country. The death penalty has done
nothing to deter crime in this country and only
serves those seeking legal revenge. So my hat is
of for New Jersey for having thee courage to do
the right thing. What do you think?
The New Jersey Assembly voted today to abolish the death penalty, poising the state to become the first since 1965 to eliminate capital punishment.
The state Senate earlier this week also voted to end executions and replace them with sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a longtime foe of the death penalty, said today before the vote that he would sign the bill into law within a few days; aides said it would happen most likely early next week.
At a news conference in Trenton, Corzine said, "We would be better served as a society by having a clear and certain outcome for individuals who carry out heinous crimes. And that's what I think we are doing -- making certain that individuals will be in prison without any possibility of parole."
He acknowledged that by signing the bill he could be opening himself to political attack, but said that the current system clearly was not working and "for lots of different reasons, I think the state is taking a painful but constructive step."
Although New Jersey has not had an execution since 1963, the campaign has drawn attention around the country. Sister Helen Prejean, whose work against the death penalty was dramatized in the film "Dead Man Walking," has made a dozen trips to New Jersey in support of the measure and predicted that other states will follow its lead.
However, attempts to abolish the death penalty in several other states have failed in recent years although it now seems possible that Maryland, whose governor opposes capital punishment, will go the same route as New Jersey. Currently, there is a nationwide de facto moratorium on executions, spurred by legal challenges contending that lethal injection, which is used in most states, is excessively painful. The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue in January.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Vick Given Time To Think About Actions!
Micheal Vick has had his day in court and
it is probably the worst day of his life. The
judge in the case spared no leniency for Vick
who has no criminal record and has done
much for charities. Now the former star quar-
back of the Atlanta Falcons has plenty of time
to think his actions. So what do you think?
Should Vick have been given so much time or
should he have been give probation?
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison today for running a "cruel and inhumane" dogfighting ring and lying about it.
The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback could have been sentenced up to five years by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson. Vick, who turned himself in Nov. 19 in anticipation of his sentence, was wearing a black-and-white striped prison suit.
After Vick apologized to the court and his family, Hudson told him: "You need to apologize to the millions of young people who looked up to you."
"Yes, sir," Vick answered.
The 27-year-old player acknowledged using "poor judgment" and added, "I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions."
Although there is no parole in the federal system, rules governing time off for good behavior could reduce Vick's prison stay by about three months, resulting in a summer 2009 release.
"You were instrumental in promoting, funding and facilitating this cruel and inhumane sporting activity," Hudson told Vick.
Before the hearing, Michael Vick's brother, Marcus Vick, sat with his right arm around their mother, comforting her as she buried her head in her hands and wept.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank called the sentencing another step in Vick's "legal journey."
"This is a difficult day for Michael's family and for a lot of us, including many of our players and fans who have been emotionally invested in Michael over the years," Blank said. "We sincerely hope that Michael will use this time to continue to focus his efforts on making positive changes in his life, and we wish him well in that regard."
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it is probably the worst day of his life. The
judge in the case spared no leniency for Vick
who has no criminal record and has done
much for charities. Now the former star quar-
back of the Atlanta Falcons has plenty of time
to think his actions. So what do you think?
Should Vick have been given so much time or
should he have been give probation?
Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison today for running a "cruel and inhumane" dogfighting ring and lying about it.
The suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback could have been sentenced up to five years by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson. Vick, who turned himself in Nov. 19 in anticipation of his sentence, was wearing a black-and-white striped prison suit.
After Vick apologized to the court and his family, Hudson told him: "You need to apologize to the millions of young people who looked up to you."
"Yes, sir," Vick answered.
The 27-year-old player acknowledged using "poor judgment" and added, "I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions."
Although there is no parole in the federal system, rules governing time off for good behavior could reduce Vick's prison stay by about three months, resulting in a summer 2009 release.
"You were instrumental in promoting, funding and facilitating this cruel and inhumane sporting activity," Hudson told Vick.
Before the hearing, Michael Vick's brother, Marcus Vick, sat with his right arm around their mother, comforting her as she buried her head in her hands and wept.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank called the sentencing another step in Vick's "legal journey."
"This is a difficult day for Michael's family and for a lot of us, including many of our players and fans who have been emotionally invested in Michael over the years," Blank said. "We sincerely hope that Michael will use this time to continue to focus his efforts on making positive changes in his life, and we wish him well in that regard."
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Judges Get More Power
The Supreme Court has given lower court judges
more latitude in sentencing people caught with
crack cocaine. The issue was that people caught with
crack cocaine(mainly minorities) got more time
than those caught with powder cocaine (mainly
whites). This should bring an end to this issue
that has nagged minorities for years. What do you
think? Let us hear your thoughts.
The Supreme Court today gave federal judges more leeway to set lower prison terms for drug dealers, ruling they need not follow strict sentencing guidelines if they want to reduce the disparity between sentences for crack and cocaine powder.
In one ruling, the court upheld probation, not prison time, for an Arizona man who admitted to selling Ecstasy while he was in college in Iowa. The federal guidelines called for a three-year prison term for this crime.
In a second ruling, the justices upheld a 15-year prison term for a Gulf War veteran from Norfolk, Va., who was arrested with a gun and crack cocaine in his car. Federal guidelines called for a prison term of 19 to 22 years.
Bush administration prosecutors had defended the longer prison terms and said sentencing judges must generally follow the federal rules.
Both decisions came on 7-2 votes, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissenting.
In the Virginia man's case, the high court voiced its skepticism of the so-called 100-to-1 ratio for crack and powder cocaine offenses. But the justices added that they are not in a position to strike it down entirely, since the formula is written into federal laws.
For example, a person who is convicted of having 5 grams of crack cocaine, or 500 grams of powder cocaine, receives a mandatory five-year prison term. This sentence is set in law and is not subject to the decision of the trial judge.
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more latitude in sentencing people caught with
crack cocaine. The issue was that people caught with
crack cocaine(mainly minorities) got more time
than those caught with powder cocaine (mainly
whites). This should bring an end to this issue
that has nagged minorities for years. What do you
think? Let us hear your thoughts.
The Supreme Court today gave federal judges more leeway to set lower prison terms for drug dealers, ruling they need not follow strict sentencing guidelines if they want to reduce the disparity between sentences for crack and cocaine powder.
In one ruling, the court upheld probation, not prison time, for an Arizona man who admitted to selling Ecstasy while he was in college in Iowa. The federal guidelines called for a three-year prison term for this crime.
In a second ruling, the justices upheld a 15-year prison term for a Gulf War veteran from Norfolk, Va., who was arrested with a gun and crack cocaine in his car. Federal guidelines called for a prison term of 19 to 22 years.
Bush administration prosecutors had defended the longer prison terms and said sentencing judges must generally follow the federal rules.
Both decisions came on 7-2 votes, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissenting.
In the Virginia man's case, the high court voiced its skepticism of the so-called 100-to-1 ratio for crack and powder cocaine offenses. But the justices added that they are not in a position to strike it down entirely, since the formula is written into federal laws.
For example, a person who is convicted of having 5 grams of crack cocaine, or 500 grams of powder cocaine, receives a mandatory five-year prison term. This sentence is set in law and is not subject to the decision of the trial judge.
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Cooper Moves Closer To Death!
Kevin Cooper Convicted twenty some years ago for killing
four people in Chino Hills Ca. is one step closer to being
executed for those murders. He maintains that he's been
framed but the federal appeals court in San Francisco does
not agree with him. Read the article below and your com-
mentary is welcomed.
Calling the evidence of his guilt "overwhelming," a federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Kevin Cooper, who was convicted of a rampage 25 years ago that left a Chino Hills couple and two children dead.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments from Cooper's appellate lawyers that he was framed and that prosecutors withheld evidence that could have cleared him.
The ruling upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff in San Diego, who considered new blood and hair evidence tests ordered in the case after the 9th Circuit in 2004 granted a last-minute stay of execution.
Huff wrote that she was convinced that Cooper "is the one responsible for these brutal murders," noting post-conviction DNA testing that linked Cooper to a drop of blood in the hallway outside the bedroom of two of the murder victims, to saliva from cigarette butts found in the hallway and to blood smears on a T-shirt found outside a bar near the murder scene.
The 9th Circuit, in a 3-0 ruling written by Judge Pamela A. Rymer, agreed.
"As the district court, and all state courts, have repeatedly found, evidence of Cooper's guilt was overwhelming," the decision said.
Judges Ronald M. Gould and M. Margaret McKeown concurred in the decision.
But McKeown, in a separate, concurring opinion, expressed her dismay that the court, because of limits on habeas petitions imposed by Congress in 1996, could not examine the "integrity of the evidence".
"Significant evidence bearing on Cooper's culpability has been lost, destroyed or left un-pursued, including, for example, blood-covered overalls belonging to a potential suspect who was a convicted murderer, and a bloody T-shirt, discovered alongside the road near the crime scene," McKeown wrote.
McKeown noted that the criminalist in charge of the evidence was a heroin addict who was fired for stealing drugs seized by police.
The judge said she was "troubled that we cannot, in Kevin Cooper's words, resolve the question of his guilt 'once and for all.' "
According to evidence presented at trial, Cooper had faked a medical condition in 1983 to escape from the Chino state prison, where he was serving a sentence for burglary.
He broke into the home of Douglas and Peggy Ryen and used a hatchet, knife and ice pick to kill the couple, their daughter Jessica, 11, and houseguest Christopher Hughes, also 11.
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four people in Chino Hills Ca. is one step closer to being
executed for those murders. He maintains that he's been
framed but the federal appeals court in San Francisco does
not agree with him. Read the article below and your com-
mentary is welcomed.
Calling the evidence of his guilt "overwhelming," a federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Kevin Cooper, who was convicted of a rampage 25 years ago that left a Chino Hills couple and two children dead.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments from Cooper's appellate lawyers that he was framed and that prosecutors withheld evidence that could have cleared him.
The ruling upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff in San Diego, who considered new blood and hair evidence tests ordered in the case after the 9th Circuit in 2004 granted a last-minute stay of execution.
Huff wrote that she was convinced that Cooper "is the one responsible for these brutal murders," noting post-conviction DNA testing that linked Cooper to a drop of blood in the hallway outside the bedroom of two of the murder victims, to saliva from cigarette butts found in the hallway and to blood smears on a T-shirt found outside a bar near the murder scene.
The 9th Circuit, in a 3-0 ruling written by Judge Pamela A. Rymer, agreed.
"As the district court, and all state courts, have repeatedly found, evidence of Cooper's guilt was overwhelming," the decision said.
Judges Ronald M. Gould and M. Margaret McKeown concurred in the decision.
But McKeown, in a separate, concurring opinion, expressed her dismay that the court, because of limits on habeas petitions imposed by Congress in 1996, could not examine the "integrity of the evidence".
"Significant evidence bearing on Cooper's culpability has been lost, destroyed or left un-pursued, including, for example, blood-covered overalls belonging to a potential suspect who was a convicted murderer, and a bloody T-shirt, discovered alongside the road near the crime scene," McKeown wrote.
McKeown noted that the criminalist in charge of the evidence was a heroin addict who was fired for stealing drugs seized by police.
The judge said she was "troubled that we cannot, in Kevin Cooper's words, resolve the question of his guilt 'once and for all.' "
According to evidence presented at trial, Cooper had faked a medical condition in 1983 to escape from the Chino state prison, where he was serving a sentence for burglary.
He broke into the home of Douglas and Peggy Ryen and used a hatchet, knife and ice pick to kill the couple, their daughter Jessica, 11, and houseguest Christopher Hughes, also 11.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
One Mistake-Five Lives
As the result of one botched up burglary five
lives have been ruined. And as indicated in the
story below for what? A few dollars! Black on
black crimes continue to be a major problem
in our community as well as a leading cause of
death. Read the article below and then ring in
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Four young men charged with unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor have not been strangers to police. Still, nothing came close to what they faced Saturday.
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lives have been ruined. And as indicated in the
story below for what? A few dollars! Black on
black crimes continue to be a major problem
in our community as well as a leading cause of
death. Read the article below and then ring in
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Four young men charged with unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor have not been strangers to police. Still, nothing came close to what they faced Saturday.
Eric Rivera, 17; Charles Wardlow, 18; Jason Mitchell, 19; and Venjah Hunte, 20, were charged with Taylor's slaying, home invasion with a firearm or another deadly weapon and armed burglary. Police said the suspects were looking for a simple burglary, but it turned bloody when they were startled to find Taylor home.
"They're terrified," said Sawyer Smith, who along with his father, Wilbur, represent Rivera and Mitchell. "These are young boys who are absolutely terrified about the position in which they find themselves."
Police and attorneys for two suspects have said some of the young men confessed, though they wouldn't elaborate. All were arrested Friday in southwest Florida, about 100 miles from here, and all but Mitchell had their first court appearance Saturday and were denied bond. Mitchell was expected to have a hearing at 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
Taylor, the 24-year-old Pro Bowl safety, died Tuesday, one day after being shot at his home in an affluent Miami suburb.
"It's more than greed. Greed is one thing," said Richard Sharpstein, Taylor's former attorney. "They're looking for a quick hit, a couple of thousand bucks here, a couple of thousand there. And for what?"
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Trouble Seems To Follow Rodney
Trouble-That's something Rodney King knows something about.
Seems he can't even ride his bike down the street minding his own
business then trouble rears it's ugly head. The story below
explains it all and after reading it let us know what ya think.
The troubles of Rodney King -- whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers and their subsequent acquittal touched off riots in 1992 -- continued late Wednesday night when he was shot in shoulder with pellets likely fired from a shotgun while biking in San Bernardino, police said today.
After interviewing King at the hospital this afternoon, police said he reported that two suspects, a man and a woman, approached him and demanded his bicycle. When King rode away, he was shot.
FOR THE RECORD:
Earlier versions of this article said King was shot in Rialto, and with a pellet gun.
odney KingbR
He was recovering from a minor shoulder injury today, according to San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson. Initially, Rialto police said King was shot in the face, upper torso and back.
King called Rialto police at 11:40 p.m. and told them he had been shot at 5th Street and North Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino before pedaling his bike home, according to Rialto police Sgt. Don Lewis.
"We sent a couple of officers out to his address here in Rialto, but he didn't really tell us a whole lot other than he'd been shot," Lewis said. "It looked like birdshot, looked like long-distance shot."
Lewis said Rialto police turned the incident over to police in San Bernardino when King said he had been shot in that community.
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The troubles of Rodney King -- whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers and their subsequent acquittal touched off riots in 1992 -- continued late Wednesday night when he was shot in shoulder with pellets likely fired from a shotgun while biking in San Bernardino, police said today.
After interviewing King at the hospital this afternoon, police said he reported that two suspects, a man and a woman, approached him and demanded his bicycle. When King rode away, he was shot.
FOR THE RECORD:
Earlier versions of this article said King was shot in Rialto, and with a pellet gun.
odney KingbR
He was recovering from a minor shoulder injury today, according to San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson. Initially, Rialto police said King was shot in the face, upper torso and back.
King called Rialto police at 11:40 p.m. and told them he had been shot at 5th Street and North Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino before pedaling his bike home, according to Rialto police Sgt. Don Lewis.
"We sent a couple of officers out to his address here in Rialto, but he didn't really tell us a whole lot other than he'd been shot," Lewis said. "It looked like birdshot, looked like long-distance shot."
Lewis said Rialto police turned the incident over to police in San Bernardino when King said he had been shot in that community.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Congress Battles Over English Only
Well I for one think that if I must work with someone
then we must be able to communicate for safety reasons.
Another good reason would be to prevent alienation in
the work place. I could probably go on and on but after
all this is America and the language of the land is English.
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A government suit against the Salvation Army has the House and Senate at loggerheads over whether to nullify a law that prohibits employers from firing people who don't speak English on the job. The fight illustrates the explosiveness of immigration as an issue in the 2008 elections.
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then we must be able to communicate for safety reasons.
Another good reason would be to prevent alienation in
the work place. I could probably go on and on but after
all this is America and the language of the land is English.
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A government suit against the Salvation Army has the House and Senate at loggerheads over whether to nullify a law that prohibits employers from firing people who don't speak English on the job. The fight illustrates the explosiveness of immigration as an issue in the 2008 elections.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are pushing hard to protect employers who require their workers to speak English, but Democratic leaders have blocked the move despite narrow vote tallies in the GOP's favor.
For more than 30 years, federal rules have generally barred employers from establishing English-only requirements for their workers. But Senate Republicans have won passage of legislation preventing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing the rules.
House Democratic leaders, meanwhile, have promised Hispanic lawmakers that the language issue is a nonstarter and the resulting impasse has stalled the underlying budget bill, which lawmakers had hoped to send to President Bush this week.
The EEOC has come under assault from lawmakers such as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., after the agency filed suit earlier this year against a Salvation Army thrift store in Massachusetts that had fired two Hispanic employees for speaking Spanish while sorting clothes.
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California Supreme Court Wants Speedy Executions
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
California Supreme Court Wants Speedy Executions
The California Supreme Court is calling for lower courts
to help it assist in speeding up the appeals of those condemned
to be executed under the states death penalty. This will most
certainly affect those of color on death row. Read the article
below and ring in with your comments on this issue,
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
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to help it assist in speeding up the appeals of those condemned
to be executed under the states death penalty. This will most
certainly affect those of color on death row. Read the article
below and ring in with your comments on this issue,
The California Supreme Court on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to ease the backlog in the state's death penalty system, which takes an average of 17 years to execute a condemned convict -- twice the national average.
The amendment would permit the state's high court, which has had exclusive oversight of capital appeals since California became a state in 1850, to transfer review of some death penalty cases to lower courts. Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who announced the proposal, said he wanted the Legislature to put the amendment on the November 2008 ballot.
The system's delays and ensuing backlogs are bad for the condemned inmates, prosecutors and the public interest "in finality and enforcement of the law," George said in a phone interview Monday.
Currently, the state's seven Supreme Court justices spend about 20% to 25% of their time and resources on capital cases, he said. The "ever-increasing backlog . . . threatens to overwhelm the Supreme Court's docket," George said.
The proposal follows a small but significant chorus of voices calling for change in what they describe as a "dysfunctional" system that renders capital punishment as little more than an illusion.
The state has the nation's largest death row population, with 667 inmates -- 652 men at San Quentin and 15 women at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla -- but only a few have exhausted their appeals, which can last decades.
California has executed 13 inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978. In the meantime, more than 50 condemned prisoners have died of old age, suicide or prison violence.
The state would have to execute five prisoners a month for the next 11 years to clear inmates now on death row. And the backlog is likely to grow: Thirty people have been on death row more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Battle On Two Fronts!
The battle against hate crimes and housing foreclosures is
being waged on two fronts by the Reverend Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton. The two will take their latest causes to
Washington D.C. and New York. Check out the article below
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Two civil rights activists are attempting to call attention to two prevailing problems affecting the black community. Rev. Jesse Jackson will march on Wall Street next month to protest subprime adjustable-rate mortgages that have sent many poor Americans – of all races – into foreclosures. Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton plans to march in the Nation's Capital today against the rise of noose hangings and other hate crimes following the Jena 6 incidents in Louisiana.
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being waged on two fronts by the Reverend Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton. The two will take their latest causes to
Washington D.C. and New York. Check out the article below
and tell us what you think about these issues.
Two civil rights activists are attempting to call attention to two prevailing problems affecting the black community. Rev. Jesse Jackson will march on Wall Street next month to protest subprime adjustable-rate mortgages that have sent many poor Americans – of all races – into foreclosures. Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton plans to march in the Nation's Capital today against the rise of noose hangings and other hate crimes following the Jena 6 incidents in Louisiana.
Rev. Jackson hopes his New York rally, scheduled for Dec. 10 with similar marches the same day in other cities, will press the financial community and the government to relax terms of subprime adjustable-rate mortgages to head off a massive wave of home foreclosures he says will likely hit poorer communities hardest.
Jackson, who has long accused the finance industry of steering minorities to subprime loans, told the Sun-Times that a rally of "borrowers marching on lenders" will be held under the banner "Save our houses -- choose restructuring over foreclosing."This Article Continues Here
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Thousand May Soon Be Released!
It looks as if thousands held in federal prison will be
released as a result of having their sentences reduced.
Federal sentencing laws regarding powder cocaine and
rock cocaine have been flawed by the fact that those
possessing rock cocaine (Mostly minorities) got more
time than those possessing powder cocaine. (Mostly
whites) Read the following article and let us know
your thoughts.
Under pressure from federal judges, inmate advocacy groups and civil rights organizations, federal authorities are considering a sweeping cut in prison sentences that could bring early release for thousands of federal inmates.
The proposal being weighed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission would shave an average of at least two years off the sentences of 19,500 federal prisoners, about 1 in 10 in the 200,000-inmate system. More than 2,500 of them, mainly those who have already served lengthy sentences, would be eligible for release within a year if the rule is adopted.
Such a mass commutation would be unprecedented: No other single rule in the two-decade history of the Sentencing Commission has affected nearly as many inmates. And no single law or act of presidential clemency, such as grants of amnesty to draft resisters and conscientious objectors after World War II and the Vietnam War, has affected so many people at one time.
The far-reaching move is aimed at addressing what is seen as an unfair disparity in federal cocaine laws dating to the mid-1980s that have imposed much harsher punishment on crack cocaine users and dealers than in powder cocaine cases. About 80% of those sentenced on federal crack charges every year are African American.
The Justice Department is warning of dire consequences if the proposal goes through, including the possibility that returning thousands of serious drug offenders to the streets would compound a recent increase in violent crime across the country.
"The unexpected release of 20,000 prisoners . . . would jeopardize community safety and threaten to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods," the department said in a letter to the commission this month.
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released as a result of having their sentences reduced.
Federal sentencing laws regarding powder cocaine and
rock cocaine have been flawed by the fact that those
possessing rock cocaine (Mostly minorities) got more
time than those possessing powder cocaine. (Mostly
whites) Read the following article and let us know
your thoughts.
Under pressure from federal judges, inmate advocacy groups and civil rights organizations, federal authorities are considering a sweeping cut in prison sentences that could bring early release for thousands of federal inmates.
The proposal being weighed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission would shave an average of at least two years off the sentences of 19,500 federal prisoners, about 1 in 10 in the 200,000-inmate system. More than 2,500 of them, mainly those who have already served lengthy sentences, would be eligible for release within a year if the rule is adopted.
Such a mass commutation would be unprecedented: No other single rule in the two-decade history of the Sentencing Commission has affected nearly as many inmates. And no single law or act of presidential clemency, such as grants of amnesty to draft resisters and conscientious objectors after World War II and the Vietnam War, has affected so many people at one time.
The far-reaching move is aimed at addressing what is seen as an unfair disparity in federal cocaine laws dating to the mid-1980s that have imposed much harsher punishment on crack cocaine users and dealers than in powder cocaine cases. About 80% of those sentenced on federal crack charges every year are African American.
The Justice Department is warning of dire consequences if the proposal goes through, including the possibility that returning thousands of serious drug offenders to the streets would compound a recent increase in violent crime across the country.
"The unexpected release of 20,000 prisoners . . . would jeopardize community safety and threaten to unravel the success we have achieved in removing violent crack offenders from high-crime neighborhoods," the department said in a letter to the commission this month.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
P-Diddy Skated On This One
What is it with P-Diddy that he has to be puttin hands
on folks? The guy has proven himself as a money maker
so why does he have to prove that he's tough too? Because
he believes his own press and has become a legend in his
own mind. My bet is that when he was coming up as a
youngster he had very few fades because he was your
typical wallflower, you know, the laid back type that
kept his mouth shut and his head in a book. Yeah, he
got bullied at times but more than likely someone was
there to bail him out.
So now that he's got fortune and fame and not to mention
a staff of hired guns now he can be the big bully on the block.
Well Mr. Combs you need to wise up cause you can only skate
so much before the judicial system nails you and remember
the ice is getting mighty thin baby! Check out the article below
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Sean "Diddy" Combs is no longer under investigation by the NYPD following allegations that he roughed up longtime friend Steven Acevedo during an incident last month at Manhattan's Kiosk nightclub.
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on folks? The guy has proven himself as a money maker
so why does he have to prove that he's tough too? Because
he believes his own press and has become a legend in his
own mind. My bet is that when he was coming up as a
youngster he had very few fades because he was your
typical wallflower, you know, the laid back type that
kept his mouth shut and his head in a book. Yeah, he
got bullied at times but more than likely someone was
there to bail him out.
So now that he's got fortune and fame and not to mention
a staff of hired guns now he can be the big bully on the block.
Well Mr. Combs you need to wise up cause you can only skate
so much before the judicial system nails you and remember
the ice is getting mighty thin baby! Check out the article below
and feel free to comment.
Sean "Diddy" Combs is no longer under investigation by the NYPD following allegations that he roughed up longtime friend Steven Acevedo during an incident last month at Manhattan's Kiosk nightclub.
"I've been informed by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office that after a thorough investigation, they have made a decision not to authorize any arrests in connection with the incident involving Mr. Combs and Steven Acevedo on Oct. 13," Diddy's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement to E! News.
"I want to commend the D.A.'s office and the New York City Police Department for conducting a thorough and very fair investigation into this incident and not allowing this private disagreement between two acquaintances to turn into a criminal charge."
Acevedo, 31, had filed a police report accusing Diddy of punching him in the face during an argument over a woman. Acevedo reportedly suffered a bloody nose and swollen lip, according to the New York Post.
Meanwhile, Diddy is still the subject of a $5 million lawsuit brought by hip-hop promoter James Waldon, who claims he was assaulted by Diddy's bodyguards at a New York club last June.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
NAACP Sues Restaurant!
Looks as if the NACP has hooked it's self a live one this
time. Seems that a Myrtle Beach Floridia restaurant has
decided to ignore the law and continue the practice of
racial discrimination. Read the article below an feel free
to put in your cents.
*The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of a Friendly's Restaurant in Myrtle Beach claiming they close shop and serve a limited menu from the sidewalk during an annual black biker rally, but keep the doors open with a full menu during a biker rally attended mostly by whites.
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time. Seems that a Myrtle Beach Floridia restaurant has
decided to ignore the law and continue the practice of
racial discrimination. Read the article below an feel free
to put in your cents.
*The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of a Friendly's Restaurant in Myrtle Beach claiming they close shop and serve a limited menu from the sidewalk during an annual black biker rally, but keep the doors open with a full menu during a biker rally attended mostly by whites.
"The limited and substandard services available on the sidewalk in front of the Friendly's only reinforced the message that African Americans are separate and unequal," said the lawsuit, filed Tuesday (Oct. 30) in U.S. District Court in Florence.
Other issues raised in the lawsuit include the fact that food served outside the restaurant and advertised by a handwritten sign did not mirror the menu available inside; and that the owners of the restaurant did not offer ice cream for sale during the black biker weeks, which are held around Memorial Day.
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Whites Get Richer-Blacks Get Poorer!
The economy has gotten better but for whom?
Recent data is showing that whites are getting
richer and blacks are getting poorer and I'm sure
that this is just not occurring In the nations capitol.
Something must be done to spread the wealth of
this nation or times of the sixties will rear it's ugly
head. Check out the article below and feel free to make
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Over the last decade Washington, D.C. has been undergoing an economic boom which ironically appears to have made the nation's capital whiter and whiter while increasing numbers of Blacks remaining in the city have become poorer and poorer.
In 1957, Washington, D.C. became the first major American city to achieve a majority Black population. By 1970, the African American percentage of the city's population had reached 70 percent.
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Recent data is showing that whites are getting
richer and blacks are getting poorer and I'm sure
that this is just not occurring In the nations capitol.
Something must be done to spread the wealth of
this nation or times of the sixties will rear it's ugly
head. Check out the article below and feel free to make
suggestions on this grave situation.
Over the last decade Washington, D.C. has been undergoing an economic boom which ironically appears to have made the nation's capital whiter and whiter while increasing numbers of Blacks remaining in the city have become poorer and poorer.
In 1957, Washington, D.C. became the first major American city to achieve a majority Black population. By 1970, the African American percentage of the city's population had reached 70 percent.
However, according to 2006 Census data the percentage has now declined to 57 percent. Meanwhile, in a report released last week by the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, nearly one of every Black five residents of the city lives in poverty - the highest percentage in nearly a decade.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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.
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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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Monday, October 29, 2007
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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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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Friday, October 26, 2007
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.
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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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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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Monday, October 15, 2007
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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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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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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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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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Friday, September 28, 2007
No Show - No Vote
That's the attitude minority voters need to take at
election time for those major GOP candidates that were
a no-show in last nights debate in minority issues. Now
is the time to speak out on those candidates that have
given us no respect.
The lesser-known Republican presidential candidates condemned their top rivals Thursday for skipping a debate on minority issues and said their absence hurt the party's image and amplified racial divisions.
Four empty lecterns highlighted the decisions of former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee to skip the debate at historically black Morgan State University.
"Frankly, I'm embarrassed," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in the debate, broadcast on PBS. "I'm embarrassed for our party, and I'm embarrassed for those who did not come, because there's long been a divide in this country, and it doesn't get better when we don't show up."
The missing candidates -- the top four Republicans in the 2008 presidential race -- cited scheduling conflicts in skipping the forum, which was designed to address issues of interest to blacks.
Their absence sparked criticism from some Republicans, particularly after the Spanish-language network Univision had to postpone its Republican forum this month because only McCain accepted its invitation.
"I apologize for the candidates that aren't here," said Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas. "I think it's a disgrace for our country, I think it's bad for our party, and I don't think it's good for our future."
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election time for those major GOP candidates that were
a no-show in last nights debate in minority issues. Now
is the time to speak out on those candidates that have
given us no respect.
The lesser-known Republican presidential candidates condemned their top rivals Thursday for skipping a debate on minority issues and said their absence hurt the party's image and amplified racial divisions.
Four empty lecterns highlighted the decisions of former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee to skip the debate at historically black Morgan State University.
"Frankly, I'm embarrassed," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in the debate, broadcast on PBS. "I'm embarrassed for our party, and I'm embarrassed for those who did not come, because there's long been a divide in this country, and it doesn't get better when we don't show up."
The missing candidates -- the top four Republicans in the 2008 presidential race -- cited scheduling conflicts in skipping the forum, which was designed to address issues of interest to blacks.
Their absence sparked criticism from some Republicans, particularly after the Spanish-language network Univision had to postpone its Republican forum this month because only McCain accepted its invitation.
"I apologize for the candidates that aren't here," said Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas. "I think it's a disgrace for our country, I think it's bad for our party, and I don't think it's good for our future."
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
White Supremacists On The Move!
Looks as if white supremacist aren't going to take the
Jena, La. situation sitting down. Nasty threats have
been made on the six black teenagers at the center
of the demonstrations prompting the intervention
of the F.B.I. Check out the story below and by all
means feel free to comment.
No sooner did thousands of African American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived injustices than white supremacists started calling for violence.
First a neo-Nazi website posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center of the Jena Six case, as it has come to be known, and urged followers to find them and "drag them out of the house," prompting an investigation by the FBI.
Then the leader of a white supremacist group in Mississippi published interviews that he conducted with the mayor of Jena and the white teenager who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by the six black youths. In those interviews, the mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised efforts by pro-white groups to organize counterdemonstrations; the teenager, Justin Barker, urged white readers to "realize what is going on, speak up and speak their mind." `
Over the weekend, white extremist websites and blogs filled with invective about the Jena Six case, which has drawn scrutiny from civil rights leaders, three leading Democratic presidential candidates and hundreds of African American bloggers. They are concerned about allegations that blacks have been treated more harshly than whites in the criminal justice system of the town of 3,000, which is 85% white.
LaSalle Parish Sheriff Carl Smith said that deputies had increased patrols in the area amid concerns over the safety of the defendants' families.
David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, last week announced his support for Jena's white residents, who voted overwhelmingly for him when he ran unsuccessfully for Louisiana governor in 1991.
"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. "I also think it's more widespread than may be obvious to most people. It's not only neo-nazis and Klansmen -- you expect this kind of reaction from them."
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Jena, La. situation sitting down. Nasty threats have
been made on the six black teenagers at the center
of the demonstrations prompting the intervention
of the F.B.I. Check out the story below and by all
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No sooner did thousands of African American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived injustices than white supremacists started calling for violence.
First a neo-Nazi website posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center of the Jena Six case, as it has come to be known, and urged followers to find them and "drag them out of the house," prompting an investigation by the FBI.
Then the leader of a white supremacist group in Mississippi published interviews that he conducted with the mayor of Jena and the white teenager who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by the six black youths. In those interviews, the mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised efforts by pro-white groups to organize counterdemonstrations; the teenager, Justin Barker, urged white readers to "realize what is going on, speak up and speak their mind." `
Over the weekend, white extremist websites and blogs filled with invective about the Jena Six case, which has drawn scrutiny from civil rights leaders, three leading Democratic presidential candidates and hundreds of African American bloggers. They are concerned about allegations that blacks have been treated more harshly than whites in the criminal justice system of the town of 3,000, which is 85% white.
LaSalle Parish Sheriff Carl Smith said that deputies had increased patrols in the area amid concerns over the safety of the defendants' families.
David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, last week announced his support for Jena's white residents, who voted overwhelmingly for him when he ran unsuccessfully for Louisiana governor in 1991.
"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. "I also think it's more widespread than may be obvious to most people. It's not only neo-nazis and Klansmen -- you expect this kind of reaction from them."
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Protest Is What We Do!
Do we sometimes have lapses in judgment? Perhaps-take
in the case of the story below. Six black kids beat a white
youth unconciouis and are first charged with attempted
murder. The charges were eventually reduced. Unless I
missed something why are these people protesting for six
kids that broke the law? My quess is it's been a slow month
for Al Sharpton.
Thousands of protesters from across the United States converged today in this population-3,000 town to protest what they say are disproportionately harsh criminal charges against six black teenagers who beat a white youth.
Before dawn, cars and buses began to course down the two-lane highway that runs through the rural town about 230 miles northwest of New Orleans. The protesters, almost all of whom wore black T-shirts, congregated around the LaSalle Parish Courthouse before walking to Jena High School."I want my children to be part of history," said A.J. Walker, 33, a black police officer who had traveled from Houston, Texas, and took photographs of her two sons and daughter outside the high school. "I want to show them they have to stand for something."
The demonstrators filed through a town essentially shut down. The courthouse, the high school and almost all the businesses -- from the barber to the bail bondsman -- were closed for the day. Local protesters had vowed not to spend money in the town.
Outside the courthouse, civil rights leaders emphasized that the protest was not against the inhabitants of the town.
"This is a march for justice," Al Sharpton, the leader of the New York-based National Action Network had said Wednesday. "This is not a march against whites or against Jena."
Most residents of the town, which is 85% white, remained indoors. Those who sat outside to watch the procession said they felt frustrated by the protesters -- some of whom were blasting Bob Marley from car stereos and carrying banners reading "Enough is Enough" and "Get to the Root of the Problem."
"I actually heard a girl shout 'Shame on Jena'," said Pam Sharp, 43, a local resident who sat in a plastic chair in her driveway as the marchers walked past her house. "I shouted back 'No, shame on you!' How can they include the whole town? That's the shame."
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in the case of the story below. Six black kids beat a white
youth unconciouis and are first charged with attempted
murder. The charges were eventually reduced. Unless I
missed something why are these people protesting for six
kids that broke the law? My quess is it's been a slow month
for Al Sharpton.
Thousands of protesters from across the United States converged today in this population-3,000 town to protest what they say are disproportionately harsh criminal charges against six black teenagers who beat a white youth.
Before dawn, cars and buses began to course down the two-lane highway that runs through the rural town about 230 miles northwest of New Orleans. The protesters, almost all of whom wore black T-shirts, congregated around the LaSalle Parish Courthouse before walking to Jena High School."I want my children to be part of history," said A.J. Walker, 33, a black police officer who had traveled from Houston, Texas, and took photographs of her two sons and daughter outside the high school. "I want to show them they have to stand for something."
The demonstrators filed through a town essentially shut down. The courthouse, the high school and almost all the businesses -- from the barber to the bail bondsman -- were closed for the day. Local protesters had vowed not to spend money in the town.
Outside the courthouse, civil rights leaders emphasized that the protest was not against the inhabitants of the town.
"This is a march for justice," Al Sharpton, the leader of the New York-based National Action Network had said Wednesday. "This is not a march against whites or against Jena."
Most residents of the town, which is 85% white, remained indoors. Those who sat outside to watch the procession said they felt frustrated by the protesters -- some of whom were blasting Bob Marley from car stereos and carrying banners reading "Enough is Enough" and "Get to the Root of the Problem."
"I actually heard a girl shout 'Shame on Jena'," said Pam Sharp, 43, a local resident who sat in a plastic chair in her driveway as the marchers walked past her house. "I shouted back 'No, shame on you!' How can they include the whole town? That's the shame."
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Not This Time Fred!
The Goldman's continue to be a thorn in the side of
O.J. Simpson or like one of his old football injuries
that will not go away. In their latest bid to collect
on a multi-million dollar jury award a superior court
judge has denied the Goldman's action on the memorabilia
that's the center of O.J.'s latest brush with the law. I myself
don't think the Goldman's should get a penny but thats my
opinion and you know what they say about opinions. But
still let's hear yours.
A Superior Court judge tentatively denied a request today by the father of murder victim Ron Goldman to take O.J. Simpson's earnings from everything from autograph signings to video games to satisfy a multi-million-dollar legal judgment awarded 11 years ago.
Instead, Judge Gerald Rosenberg gave Fred Goldman's lawyer, David Cook, one week to come up with a list of sports memorabilia items the former football star was accused of stealing last week from a Las Vegas hotel room.
Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Goldman, but a civil court jury found him liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. The award remains largely unpaid.
Simpson, who has been in and out of the spotlight since he was acquitted of murder, was in jail in Nevada on Tuesday on the robbery charges. Another man facing similar charges in the case said he believes the former football great was set up. He said the memorabilia dealer who tipped Simpson off that he may have had some of his collectibles recorded the hotel-room confrontation that led to Simpson's arrest.
"It sounds like a setup to me," Walter Alexander, 46, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. He said Simpson had thought the memorabilia belonged to him after getting a call from the dealer.
Meanwhile, one of the memorabilia dealers who spoke publicly about the incident on Monday, describing Simpson and a group of men coming into a hotel room "commando style," was hospitalized with chest pains.
Bruce Fromong was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where a hospital spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a call seeking information about his condition.
Simpson was arrested on six felonies, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon. If convicted, he could receive up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count.
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O.J. Simpson or like one of his old football injuries
that will not go away. In their latest bid to collect
on a multi-million dollar jury award a superior court
judge has denied the Goldman's action on the memorabilia
that's the center of O.J.'s latest brush with the law. I myself
don't think the Goldman's should get a penny but thats my
opinion and you know what they say about opinions. But
still let's hear yours.
A Superior Court judge tentatively denied a request today by the father of murder victim Ron Goldman to take O.J. Simpson's earnings from everything from autograph signings to video games to satisfy a multi-million-dollar legal judgment awarded 11 years ago.
Instead, Judge Gerald Rosenberg gave Fred Goldman's lawyer, David Cook, one week to come up with a list of sports memorabilia items the former football star was accused of stealing last week from a Las Vegas hotel room.
Simpson was acquitted in criminal court of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Goldman, but a civil court jury found him liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. The award remains largely unpaid.
Simpson, who has been in and out of the spotlight since he was acquitted of murder, was in jail in Nevada on Tuesday on the robbery charges. Another man facing similar charges in the case said he believes the former football great was set up. He said the memorabilia dealer who tipped Simpson off that he may have had some of his collectibles recorded the hotel-room confrontation that led to Simpson's arrest.
"It sounds like a setup to me," Walter Alexander, 46, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday. He said Simpson had thought the memorabilia belonged to him after getting a call from the dealer.
Meanwhile, one of the memorabilia dealers who spoke publicly about the incident on Monday, describing Simpson and a group of men coming into a hotel room "commando style," was hospitalized with chest pains.
Bruce Fromong was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where a hospital spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a call seeking information about his condition.
Simpson was arrested on six felonies, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon. If convicted, he could receive up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
New Orleans: A Bit More Whiter?
There has been a decline in the black population of
New Orleans since Katrina according to government
census. But before you decide to make a move there,
the city is still 58% black. But even with the shift in
numbers how will this effect the city in the future?
New Orleans' black population dropped 57% a year after Hurricane Katrina, while the white population declined 36%, according to an analysis by three demographers of new U.S. census data that confirm the disaster's disproportionate impact on the city's racial composition. Billed as the "first full picture" of the mass migration after the hurricane, the analysis also found that New Orleanians displaced to Houston and other cities were more likely to be black, uneducated and poor. By contrast, those who relocated to the city's suburbs were more likely to be white, educated and well off.
Though many New Orleans leaders had lamented the uneven toll on black citizens when the levees broke and flooded much of the city, demographer William H. Gray of the Brookings Institution, one of the study's authors, said it was still surprising to see the data show it in such stark terms.
"The fact that it really is the case is what's surprising," Gray said. "The flow of migration shows there is a fairly clear pattern."
The analysis painted a picture of post-Katrina New Orleans as a city notably whiter, older and less populous than it had been during the 2000 census, with fewer children, fewer renters and a more educated citizenry.
However, it also noted that the city was still a "majority minority"city, with African Americans making up roughly 58% of the population when the federal government's data snapshot was taken last summer.
"The census estimates make plain that the city of New Orleans sustained a much more substantial loss of its black population than of its whites," the demographers concluded. They added, "The black loss, however, was not sufficient to shift the racial composition of the city."
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New Orleans since Katrina according to government
census. But before you decide to make a move there,
the city is still 58% black. But even with the shift in
numbers how will this effect the city in the future?
New Orleans' black population dropped 57% a year after Hurricane Katrina, while the white population declined 36%, according to an analysis by three demographers of new U.S. census data that confirm the disaster's disproportionate impact on the city's racial composition. Billed as the "first full picture" of the mass migration after the hurricane, the analysis also found that New Orleanians displaced to Houston and other cities were more likely to be black, uneducated and poor. By contrast, those who relocated to the city's suburbs were more likely to be white, educated and well off.
Though many New Orleans leaders had lamented the uneven toll on black citizens when the levees broke and flooded much of the city, demographer William H. Gray of the Brookings Institution, one of the study's authors, said it was still surprising to see the data show it in such stark terms.
"The fact that it really is the case is what's surprising," Gray said. "The flow of migration shows there is a fairly clear pattern."
The analysis painted a picture of post-Katrina New Orleans as a city notably whiter, older and less populous than it had been during the 2000 census, with fewer children, fewer renters and a more educated citizenry.
However, it also noted that the city was still a "majority minority"city, with African Americans making up roughly 58% of the population when the federal government's data snapshot was taken last summer.
"The census estimates make plain that the city of New Orleans sustained a much more substantial loss of its black population than of its whites," the demographers concluded. They added, "The black loss, however, was not sufficient to shift the racial composition of the city."
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Whoopi Shouldn't Have To Give An Explanation
One of the biggest problems in this country is that one
culture thinks that all cultures should be modeled after
theirs. The white race is probably responsible for
the extinction of more species than any other culture.
So It's about time that America wake up and face the
truth and that is no one race in this country is the same.
Read the article below as Whoopi explains herself and
then feel free to comment.
The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg used the first part of the show’s Hot Topics segment Wednesday to address the misleading headlines that followed her comments about Michael Vick’s involvement in illegal dogfighting.
culture thinks that all cultures should be modeled after
theirs. The white race is probably responsible for
the extinction of more species than any other culture.
So It's about time that America wake up and face the
truth and that is no one race in this country is the same.
Read the article below as Whoopi explains herself and
then feel free to comment.
The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg used the first part of the show’s Hot Topics segment Wednesday to address the misleading headlines that followed her comments about Michael Vick’s involvement in illegal dogfighting.
“I repeated several times that I wasn’t condoning it,” Goldberg told viewers. “I said it was horrible. And somehow – I don’t know how this happened – if you read the papers today, I’m eating dogs, I’m swinging them by the tail, I mean it’s ridiculous.”
On Tuesday’s show – her first as an official co-host – Goldberg said that in some parts in the South, dogfighting is as common as cockfighting in Puerto Rico, and if Vick grew up within the subculture, it would be difficult for him to understand how people find the activity morally reprehensible.
“I have 12 horses – big horses, little horses, miniature horses – I have cats,” Whoopi explained Wednesday. “I’ve adopted cats from various shelters. I love my animals, but I also believe that if there’s a problem out there that we can address by checking out where it stems from, that we need to take a look at this in this high profile area so we can market for the future. That was my point.”
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Friday, August 31, 2007
The Survey Says...Go To Jail!
And just who are these fans that want to send Vick
prison? Chances are they are white suburbanites
that don't want to see a black man succeed in the NFL.
How would they have voted had Vick been white? Well
I think we know the answer to that story. So what do you
think about this bruha, lets hear from ya.
According to a Gallup Poll survey released Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of fans want Michael Vick to do prison time after pleading guilty to a federal dogfighting charge this week.
Fans also want the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback to receive a permanent ban from the National Football League, according to the survey that polled 1,001 adults via telephone interviews from Aug. 23 to 26.
According to the poll, taken after widespread news reports that he would plead guilty in the case, 58 percent said he should not be allowed to play in the NFL anymore. Only 22 percent said they would want the team they root for to try to acquire him should he return.
In addition, 35 percent said they believe he should serve a long prison sentence, 51 percent said they favored a short one, and 12 percent said they believe he should not serve any time.
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According to a Gallup Poll survey released Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of fans want Michael Vick to do prison time after pleading guilty to a federal dogfighting charge this week.
Fans also want the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback to receive a permanent ban from the National Football League, according to the survey that polled 1,001 adults via telephone interviews from Aug. 23 to 26.
According to the poll, taken after widespread news reports that he would plead guilty in the case, 58 percent said he should not be allowed to play in the NFL anymore. Only 22 percent said they would want the team they root for to try to acquire him should he return.
In addition, 35 percent said they believe he should serve a long prison sentence, 51 percent said they favored a short one, and 12 percent said they believe he should not serve any time.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Immigration Coverup?
Looks as if the Immigration Department is playing
a game of hide and seek with potential witnesses
in a case involving the death of an inmate. After
you read the article below give us your take on
the issue.
Two civil rights groups have urged the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the death of a transgender inmate at a San Pedro immigration detention center on grounds that the 23-year-old with AIDS was denied vital medical treatment.
In a letter sent to the department's Office of Inspector General on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and New York-based Human Rights Watch also called for an inquiry into the apparent transfer to other immigration facilities of more than 20 detainees who saw the events leading up to the death of Victor Arellano on July 20.
The transfers, according to the organizations, occurred less than 24 hours before a Human Rights Watch official went to the San Pedro facility to interview some of the detainees.
Two of the witnesses were moved to an immigration facility in Texas, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown, the organizations said.
"The transfer of those witnesses not only affects their ability to defend themselves by disrupting access to family and legal counsel, but makes it more difficult to interview them for an investigation into Arellano's death," said Megan McLemore, the Human Rights Watch researcher.
She visited the facility on Aug. 22 and was one of the letter's authors. McLemore said she visited the San Pedro facility to interview two other HIV/AIDS patients and Arellano's cellmates as part of a report on medical care for such patients in detention.
But upon her arrival, she said, she discovered that more than 20 witnesses, all of whom had signed a petition protesting Arellano's treatment, had been transferred. Arellano's death has sparked an outcry among immigration rights officials and organizations that monitor the health of prisoners in federal and state facilities nationwide. About 30,000 illegal immigrants are in detention facilities throughout the country.
Two other unrelated deaths of detainees earlier this year triggered an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General into the quality of medical care at federal detention centers, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) confirmed Tuesday.
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a game of hide and seek with potential witnesses
in a case involving the death of an inmate. After
you read the article below give us your take on
the issue.
Two civil rights groups have urged the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the death of a transgender inmate at a San Pedro immigration detention center on grounds that the 23-year-old with AIDS was denied vital medical treatment.
In a letter sent to the department's Office of Inspector General on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and New York-based Human Rights Watch also called for an inquiry into the apparent transfer to other immigration facilities of more than 20 detainees who saw the events leading up to the death of Victor Arellano on July 20.
The transfers, according to the organizations, occurred less than 24 hours before a Human Rights Watch official went to the San Pedro facility to interview some of the detainees.
Two of the witnesses were moved to an immigration facility in Texas, and the whereabouts of the others are unknown, the organizations said.
"The transfer of those witnesses not only affects their ability to defend themselves by disrupting access to family and legal counsel, but makes it more difficult to interview them for an investigation into Arellano's death," said Megan McLemore, the Human Rights Watch researcher.
She visited the facility on Aug. 22 and was one of the letter's authors. McLemore said she visited the San Pedro facility to interview two other HIV/AIDS patients and Arellano's cellmates as part of a report on medical care for such patients in detention.
But upon her arrival, she said, she discovered that more than 20 witnesses, all of whom had signed a petition protesting Arellano's treatment, had been transferred. Arellano's death has sparked an outcry among immigration rights officials and organizations that monitor the health of prisoners in federal and state facilities nationwide. About 30,000 illegal immigrants are in detention facilities throughout the country.
Two other unrelated deaths of detainees earlier this year triggered an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General into the quality of medical care at federal detention centers, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles) confirmed Tuesday.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Canada Makeds It Difficult For Rappers!
At least that's according to a record executive so he's
subpoenaed a number of celebrities to testify at his
upcoming lawsuit if federal court. Your comments
are always welcomed.
*Oprah Winfrey, Condoleezza Rice, Snoop Dogg and Diddy are among the list of celebrities who have been subpoenaed in a racial profiling case in a Michigan Federal Court, reports TMZ.com.
subpoenaed a number of celebrities to testify at his
upcoming lawsuit if federal court. Your comments
are always welcomed.
*Oprah Winfrey, Condoleezza Rice, Snoop Dogg and Diddy are among the list of celebrities who have been subpoenaed in a racial profiling case in a Michigan Federal Court, reports TMZ.com.
The stars were commanded to appear for depositions in a lawsuit filed by Jerome Almon, who claims that Canada unfairly detains black rappers at the border. Almon alleges that Canadaian officials blame rappers for the increase in gang crime and gun violence in Toronto and Vancouver.
Other celebs subpoenaed for the case include Paris Hilton, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, DMX, Diddy, Jenna Jameson, Jay Z, 50 Cent, Eminem, Kobe Bryant, Spike Lee, Tom Sizemore, Martha Stewart and Heidi Fleiss.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Atlanta Wants To Outlaw Baggy Pants
It's been tried before and failed so Atlanta wants
to give it a shot. But when you consider the current
conservative justices on the Supreme court this law
may have a chance. Do you think that the law goes
a little to far? After reading the article below feel free
to put in your two-cents on this issue.
Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws.
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to give it a shot. But when you consider the current
conservative justices on the Supreme court this law
may have a chance. Do you think that the law goes
a little to far? After reading the article below feel free
to put in your two-cents on this issue.
Baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws.
The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" around the country.
"Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it's the in thing," Martin said Wednesday. "I don't want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future."
The proposed ordinance would also bar women from showing the strap of a thong beneath their pants. They would also be prohibited from wearing jogging bras in public or show a bra strap, said Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
The proposed ordinance states that "the indecent exposure of his or her undergarments" would be unlawful in a public place. It would go in the same portion of the city code that outlaws sex in public and the exposure or fondling of genitals.
The penalty would be a fine in an amount to be determined, Martin said.
But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge. She said the law could not be enforced in a nondiscriminatory way because it targets something that came out of the black youth culture.
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Vick May Face Prison
Micheal Vick has agreed to a deal and prison time may
be part of the package. After reading the article below we
ask should Vick spend time in prison? Your comments are
welcomed.
Michael Vick has agreed to plead guilty to the federal dogfighting charges against him under a deal reached today between his attorneys and prosecutors, his lawyer said.
"Michael is prepared to take full responsibility for allowing any and all of this to happen," Vick's Washington-based attorney, William R. (Billy) Martin, said in a telephone interview. "He needs to put all of this behind him. He's 27 years old and he has a full life ahead of him. He wants to get back to the life he had before these issues."
Martin said that the Atlanta Falcons quarterback decided to accept the plea deal after talking to family members over the weekend. He declined to comment on the terms of the plea agreement.
But a source familiar with the case, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the terms of the deal were to be kept confidential, said that Vick likely will serve 12 to 18 months in prison.
Vick and his attorneys are scheduled to appear in federal court in Richmond next Monday. The deal still must be approved by the judge in the case and could collapse at any point until then.
Vick's three co-defendants in the case previously agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with the prosecution.
Vick was charged with helping to operate a dogfighting ring based at a property owned by him in southeastern Virginia. He had been scheduled to go on trial Nov. 26.
State charges against Vick remain possible, and a source said that this deal with federal prosecutors does not address the issue of state charges.
NFL discipline against Vick is pending and likely will be determined, a source said, after Vick meets with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Last month, Goodell ordered Vick not to report to the Falcons' training camp and announced that Vick's playing status would be determined by a review being conducted by Washington attorney Eric Holder.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Imus Is Bigger Than Ever!
When we came out in protest against Don Imus for
his sarcastic remarks about the Rutgers Women's
basketball team we really thought that we were
doing something good for our people. Well it looks
as if this whole Imus issue has backfired on us and
all we really did was give the man a paid vacation
and made him more in demand. After reading the
article below what should we do the next time an
issue like this arises?
NEW YORK -- U.S. broadcaster CBS has settled its termination dispute with fired radio shock jock Don Imus, the company said today, a possible step toward Imus going to work for a rival broadcaster.Imus was fired in April after referring to a mostly black university women's basketball team with a racial slur, generating a storm of controversy that led CBS Radio to cancel his popular "Imus in the Morning" show.
The Imus show was produced and broadcast by CBS-owned WFAN radio station in New York and syndicated on some 60 other stations across the United States. The show was also simulcast on cable television's MSNBC.CBS and MSNBC first decided to suspend Imus' show for two weeks after he said the Rutgers University women's basketball team looked like "nappy-headed hos."
"Nappy" is an antiquated term referring to coarse, curly hair, and "ho" is slang for whore.As calls to fire Imus grew, notably from New York civil rights leader Al Sharpton, MSNBC canceled the Imus show and CBS did so the next day."Don Imus and CBS Radio have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding the Imus radio program on CBS. The terms of the settlement are confidential and will not be disclosed," CBS said in a statement.
WFAN announced today that former NFL quarterback and CBS sports broadcaster Boomer Esiason, and Craig Carton, an afternoon FM talk radio host, would host a show that takes over Imus's former weekday morning time slot from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.Imus had threatened to sue CBS for breach of contract and hired famed lawyer Martin Garbus, who once represented politically incorrect comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1960s.
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his sarcastic remarks about the Rutgers Women's
basketball team we really thought that we were
doing something good for our people. Well it looks
as if this whole Imus issue has backfired on us and
all we really did was give the man a paid vacation
and made him more in demand. After reading the
article below what should we do the next time an
issue like this arises?
NEW YORK -- U.S. broadcaster CBS has settled its termination dispute with fired radio shock jock Don Imus, the company said today, a possible step toward Imus going to work for a rival broadcaster.Imus was fired in April after referring to a mostly black university women's basketball team with a racial slur, generating a storm of controversy that led CBS Radio to cancel his popular "Imus in the Morning" show.
The Imus show was produced and broadcast by CBS-owned WFAN radio station in New York and syndicated on some 60 other stations across the United States. The show was also simulcast on cable television's MSNBC.CBS and MSNBC first decided to suspend Imus' show for two weeks after he said the Rutgers University women's basketball team looked like "nappy-headed hos."
"Nappy" is an antiquated term referring to coarse, curly hair, and "ho" is slang for whore.As calls to fire Imus grew, notably from New York civil rights leader Al Sharpton, MSNBC canceled the Imus show and CBS did so the next day."Don Imus and CBS Radio have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding the Imus radio program on CBS. The terms of the settlement are confidential and will not be disclosed," CBS said in a statement.
WFAN announced today that former NFL quarterback and CBS sports broadcaster Boomer Esiason, and Craig Carton, an afternoon FM talk radio host, would host a show that takes over Imus's former weekday morning time slot from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.Imus had threatened to sue CBS for breach of contract and hired famed lawyer Martin Garbus, who once represented politically incorrect comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1960s.
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It's the 3-Hour Docudrama that
tells the story of the Civil Rights
movement and the life of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
To learn more and hear
excerpts from this treasured
program,click here:
http://www.kingprogram.net/
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