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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (212751)	12/25/2001 12:20:31 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Transcript: First Lady Laura Bush on Freedom WASHINGTON — TONY SNOW, HOST, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: As we close this Sunday before Christmas, we're going to share part of an interview conducted earlier this week by Fox News senior White House correspondent Jim Angle. He joined First Lady Laura Bush for a White House tour. And in an interview that will air in its entirety for the next three nights on Fox News channel, he began by asking what America has lost and found since September 11. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: I think we lost, certainly, our feelings of — we felt very — like we weren't vulnerable, I guess I would say. We lost that feeling. But I think we found so much. We found how important our freedoms are. All the freedoms that we've taken for granted, I think we don't take for granted now. And we found how great our American people are, the way the firefighters and the policemen and all the people who literally sacrificed their lives. I think that let us know how strong we are as a country, the kind of real internal strength we have, and that really comes from from our people. JIM ANGLE, FOX NEWS: You know, sometimes you don't really appreciate what you have... BUSH: Until you've lost it. ANGLE: ... until it's threatened... BUSH: That's right. ANGLE: ... and you have to fight for it. BUSH: That's right. And I think that's what happened. I think we were sort of in a — in our country, we were — first, we were quick to complain and we took everything for granted. And I think now we are a lot slower to complain and we're a lot kinder to people that we see, certainly to strangers. We're more willing to stand in line at an airport or whatever. ANGLE: It now seems that everything that's happened to us in some ways is making the American people the "us" generation. BUSH: I think that's right, and I really like that. That's the one silver lining, if there is a silver lining out of losing so many people. But that is certainly one good thing that's come out of it. ANGLE: People get impatient with things and tend to get caught up in little, I think it's fair to say, meaningless details. This year will not be remembered for that. BUSH: I think that's right. We all know now that all that was so trivial, and now we know what's really important. And we learned in a hard way. We certainly did learn in a hard way. But I'm so proud of Americans. I'm so proud to be an American because of the way our whole country has responded to the attack. ANGLE: Beyond what you've said, do you have a special message for Americans at this time of year? BUSH: Well, certainly, I hope everyone has a very happy and safe holiday. And I know I join every American in praying and hoping for peace on Earth. foxnews.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (212751)	12/25/2001 2:48:09 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 769667

Jury recommends death for man who molested, killed boy Associated Press SANTA ANA -- Jurors recommended the death penalty Thursday for a one-armed butcher they convicted of molesting and killing a 12-year-old boy, then encasing his dismembered body in concrete. "This was such a terrible, heinous crime the defendant committed," said Orange County deputy district attorney David Brent. "The killer of a child who molests that child often is going to get this kind of penalty." On Dec. 11 the jury convicted John Samuel Ghobrial, 31, of murder and committing a lewd act in the March 1998 death of sixth-grader Juan Delgado. In the penalty phase, jurors learned that Ghobrial also fled his home country of Egypt after allegedly molesting his 7-year-old cousin and stabbing him repeatedly with a penknife. Brent said he believed that was the most important factor in the jury's decision to recommend the death penalty. Ghobrial stared ahead as an interpreter repeated the jury's recommendation, which it reached after a day of deliberations. Ghobrial was granted religious asylum in this country because he said he was persecuted in Egypt for being a Coptic Christian in a Muslim culture. Throughout the trial, defense attorney Denise Gragg said Ghobrial killed Juan but denied it was a premeditated act or involved sexual assault. Prosecutors claimed Ghobrial -- a butcher by trade -- used a meat cleaver to carve up Juan's body and encase it in concrete in a La Habra neighborhood. Authorities said they identified Ghobrial as a suspect after witnesses said they saw a man with one arm holding a basketball with Juan shortly before he disappeared. examiner.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (212751)	12/25/2001 9:55:10 PM
From: JEB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Church leaders' depositions to be made public Boston Archdiocese loses court appeal in Geoghan abuse case By Globe Staff, 12/25/2001 A Massachusetts Appeals Court judge has denied an appeal by the Archdiocese of Boston, which sought to overturn a Superior Court order requiring pretrial documents to be made public in 86 sexual molestation lawsuits against former priest John J. Geoghan. The appellate decision sets the stage for the public disclosure next month of thousands of pages of documents, including the pretrial depositions of church leaders who supervised Geoghan for more than three decades. Cardinal Bernard Law and five bishops are among the defendants in the lawsuits; attorneys for the alleged victims argue that they were negligent for letting Geoghan stay in several Boston-area parishes despite his lengthy history of abusing children. Judge Cynthia J. Cohen issued her ruling on Friday. At a hearing two days earlier, Wilson D. Rogers Jr., the archdiocese's attorney, argued that the Catholic Church's First Amendment protections should shield the institution from oversight by secular courts. He also said that release of the documents would make it difficult for Church leaders to receive a fair trial. The legal action to reverse a year-old confidentiality order in the civil lawsuits was initiated in September by attorneys for The Boston Globe. The newspaper's attorney, Jonathan M. Albano, argued that documents in civil lawsuits are rarely sealed from public view, and that there is a substantial public interest in the actions taken by Geoghan's superiors. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney, who is presiding over the 86 lawsuits, ruled on Nov. 20 that the confidentiality order could have had an ''unintended effect'' of preventing public access to the case. Sweeney called for the confidentiality order to be lifted. In rejecting the Church's appeal, Cohen wrote that she found neither errors of law nor abuse of discretion by Sweeney. Sweeney's ruling, Cohen wrote, ''is consistent with the well-established policy favoring the right of public access to the judicial records of civil proceedings.'' Cohen also noted that Sweeney's order contains a provision allowing the archdiocese to ''seek individualized protection for any discovery request or response which is legitimately entitled to be kept from public scrutiny.'' Donna M. Morrissey, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said yesterday that the Church's attorneys have not yet seen the decision and were therefore unable to comment. Mitchell Garabedian, who represents the plaintiffs in the 86 cases, applauded the ruling yesterday, saying that the Church ''fails to understand that there is a well-established policy for the public to have access to records of civil proceedings.'' In addition to the civil lawsuits, Geoghan is scheduled to be tried in Middlesex and Suffolk counties on criminal charges of sexually abusing children. Because of the time it took for the appeal to be filed, heard, and decided, Cohen added 30 days to the Dec. 26 deadline that Sweeney had set for the documents to be filed. boston.com