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To: Lane3 who wrote (9922)	1/27/2006 9:43:29 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541490

Here's a Sarasota melodrama that has surfaced in this past week. In a local community, where many Nouveau Riche have ensconced themselves and provided an excellent high school, the father of a teenager attended a school conference called by the principal about allegations that this mans's daughter had been molested by a male teacher. The girl had made the charges. When the charges were read the father, in a rage left the conference, went down the hall to the room where the teacher was in front of a class of students and punched the teacher... who did not hit back. Immediately the media picked up the story. The Father was on the Bill O'Reilly show where his actions were lauded.. There were offers from the Fox News to appear.. He was getting praise for having defended his daughter's honor. Well, the rush to judgement against the teacher proved to be false. The cameras that are in the school for security proved that that teacher was not even in the room at the time the girl accused him of molesting her. What that teacher had done was reprimand her for spitting coke out of her mouth from the third floor of the school down over the head of a student on a lower floor...And for popping bubbles with her gum which made noise in a classroom. The girl making the accusations got her girl friends to lie.. Two later recanted and said they were trying to do her a favor. The father is now being prosecuted on charges of assault and though he still says he did the right thing, with all the evidence pointing to his daughter having fabricated the entire event. The aside of all this ruckus.. and swarms of those who thought vigilante behavior was warranted is.. The teacher is black... If anyone here can draw a parallel between this story and the tenor of the times... I would appreciate comments. This story in my words was taken from today's Sarasota Bradenton Herald..

To: Lane3 who wrote (9922)	1/27/2006 9:46:44 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541490

Majorities Disapprove of Bush on Ethics abcnews.go.com Most folks may not realize that I voted for Mr. Bush the first time around -- and he has been a MAJOR disappointment...He promised to be "a uniter and not a divider" and he promised "a humble foreign policy"...And of course he said he WOULD NOT engage in nation building. By 2004 Mr. Bush had broken all of his major promises and it was clear he was NOT a fiscal conservative (which is very important to me)...Bush gutted crucial environmental safeguards and the way he went into a reckless war in Iraq has eroded our nation's credibility around the world. Bush can not be trusted -- it's almost as if we have Ken Lay running this country right now...Cheney is the Jeff Skilling and Karl Rove is the Andy Fastow (he does whatever it takes to achieve "the desired results")...The majority of the country now is starting to realize that we are dealing with an Administration that is more secretive than the Nixon Administration - what are they trying to hide.??..The world's best companies are NOT run like this...Many conservative Fund Managers and business leaders that I know in Chicago and up in Michigan now laugh at our President. Congress has failed to hold Mr. Bush accountable for his actions -- they are NOT acting as an effective board of directors for our country. This started with the decision to give Bush a blank check to go into an elective war and has gotten worse since then...What a sad situation our country is dealing with...A course correction is needed or future generations will suffer in some ways that we can't even imagine. -s2@ConcernedCitizen.com btw, I miss Aaron Brown too...we need more serious news journalists on TV...Right now the networks too often chase after ratings and provide us with "tabloid journalism".