An peaceful and legal immigration rally turned into a nightmare for many when police officers used clubs to hit people and fired rubber bullets into a crowd, hitting women, children, and journalists. Due to the controversy, 60 police officers have been taken off the streets. LA is lucky that Latino immigrants were a lot more peaceful than those who rioted after the Rodney King verdict, but it seems not much has changed in the police force since then.
In the area of Kansas torn apart by tornadoes, 4 uniformed soldiers from Fort Riley Army Base and a uniformed reserve police officer who had not been called to duty after the disaster were arrested for looting.
Governor Corzine of New Jersey is back to work today, only weeks after his driver, a State Police Officer, slammed the car into a guardrail at 91 miles an hour. The Governor would have been in better shape if he had been wearing a seat belt (as required by state law).
So, if we cant trust the local police, the state police, the soldiers who are supposed to defend us, state officials, and those running our federal government, who can we trust?
3,377 US troops killed in Iraq
25,090 US troops wounded in Iraq
Monday, May 07, 2007
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Don't forget this gem:
WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms.
Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.
In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen.
Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat."
"As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word 'suspect' has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties," Cox wrote.
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So we can violate the first, and fourth ammendment rights in the name of the "war on terror" but not the second... THAT makes sense.
Are you kidding me? This country has lost its collective mind.
& Now, James McGreevey is enrolled in an Episcopalian "discernment" program to help prospective candidates discover whether becoming a priest is their true calling. Lock up your sons!
McGreevy is gay, NOT a child molester, and those who do not make a discernment between the two are a large detriment for civil rights for EVERYONE in our country. I believe what he's doing is making sure that young men aren't entering the priesthood because they are gay and afraid to come out of the closet, as has been the case. Part of the problem with religion is that it is absolutist, and some of those who believe in it devoutly feel caged by its teachings. McGreevy is trying to prevent what he went through happening to other young men. He hurt a lot of people by hiding who he really was, and though he cannot correct his own mistakes, he can attone for them. Part of that attonement is trying to make sure others don't get hurt.
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