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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8893)	6/30/2006 11:28:25 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

If there were more people like Bernie Goetz, things like this would be much rarer. I am not an advocate of violence, but I certainly am for justice. And the "official" justice system fails rape victims all too frequently.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8893)	6/30/2006 11:30:42 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

House vote slaps news organizations Resolution blasts stories on terrorist tracking program Thursday, June 29, 2006; Posted: 8:51 p.m. EDT (00:51 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Thursday approved a Republican-crafted resolution condemning news organizations for revealing a covert government program to track terrorist financing, saying the disclosure had "placed the lives of Americans in danger." The resolution, passed 227-183 on a largely party-line vote, did not specifically name the news organizations, but it was aimed at The New York Times and other news media that last week reported on a secret CIA-Treasury program to track millions of financial records in search of terrorists. Most Democrats opposed the measure, protesting language in it that asserts that the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program was "rooted in sound legal authority" and that members of Congress had been appropriately briefed on the program. While the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal also carried stories on the program, Republicans singled out The New York Times. "The recent front-page story in the aforementioned New York Times cut the legs out from under this program," said the Financial Services Committee chairman, Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio. "Now the terrorists are well-informed of the details of our methods and will find other ways to move money outside of the formal financial system." The administration and the 9/11 Commission "went to The New York Times and asked them in the interest of national security not to release the details of this program," said Rep. Peter King, R-New York, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. "They went ahead and did it anyway." The Times has defended its reporting, saying publication has served America's public interest. Its executive editor, Bill Keller, said in a statement after the House passed the resolution that the paper took seriously the risks of reporting on intelligence. "We have on many occasions withheld information when lives were at stake," Keller said. "However, the administration simply did not make a convincing case that describing our efforts to monitor international banking presented such a danger. Indeed, the administration itself has talked publicly and repeatedly about its successes in the area of financial surveillance." The resolution "condemns the unauthorized disclosure of classified information" and "expects the cooperation of all news media organizations in protecting the lives of Americans and the capability of the government to identify, disrupt and capture terrorists by not disclosing classified intelligence programs such as the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program." Democrats reacted angrily to the GOP majority's refusal to allow them to offer an alternative that would also have expressed concerns about the unauthorized leak of classified information but would have left out language defending the legality of the program. "What you have done is to hijack the virtually unanimous support for tracking terrorist financing into an endorsement of the way the Bush administration has conducted itself," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, author of the alternative. "It is a campaign document," said Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "There's never been any oversight of the program," she said. "You are asking us to vote on something that we absolutely cannot attest to."

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8893)	6/30/2006 12:03:53 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

more info from KWTX.... URL Source: kwtx.com Bonds are $1 million for two illegal immigrants arrested and charged Thursday in connection with a brutal attack on a recent Mexia High School graduate who was run off a rural road, raped, beaten, stabbed and left to die in a ditch. The victim was in stable condition Thursday in Scott & White Hospital in Temple. The girl is “very very fortunate to be a survivor,” Limestone County Sheriff Dennis Wilson said Thursday. Investigators said they have identified three separate crime scenes related to the attack. A tip from a Mexia resident led authorities to the two men who were charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping Thursday. Javier Guzman Martinez, 17, of Mexico was arrested in Limestone County and Noel Darwin Hernandez of Honduras was arrested at a bus station in Waco as he tried to leave the country, Wilson said. Both men had Mexia addresses, authorities said. The attack happened late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning on a rural road near Coolidge. The attackers evidently intended for their victim to die, but bleeding profusely, the girl somehow made her way to a house a half-mile away where she awakened residents with a faint knock on the front door. “We want to make sure this young lady knows that she and our family are certainly in our prayers and our thoughts, Wilson said.” Mexia school officials were shocked by news of the attack. “The community is devastated because she is such a sweet girl,” Mexia School Board President Don Corbitt told News Ten. “We don’t understand how anyone could do anything like that to a girl at all, much less someone as sweet as she is.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8893)	6/30/2006 1:40:34 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

And the list goes on...... Teacher assistant jailed on sex charges recordnet.com ^ \| today \| staff Published Thursday, Jun 29, 2006 STOCKTON – A Stockton teacher assistant was booked into San Joaquin County Jail early this morning after a security guard told police he saw her having sex with a 15-year-old boy on Wednesday. Vickie L. Kerby, 50, was arrested in connection with the incident and is being held on charges of committing a lewd act upon a child and oral copulation with a child. She is to be arraigned Monday at 1:30 p.m. and is being held on $225,000 bail. Kerby, who has provided sign-language services for the Stockton Unified School District since 1990, has been placed on paid administrative leave. District spokeswoman Dianne Barth said the boy involved in the alleged incident was not one of Kerby’s students. Read Friday's Record for the full story.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8893)	7/3/2006 8:36:32 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Yep, this will solve all the problems:rolleyes: The money would be better spent on getting food to the people in the gulags of the North. Bill Clinton Pushes 'Peace Park' at Korean Demilitarized Zone Human Events Online ^ \| 3 July 2006 \| Amanda B. Carpenter DaimlerChrysler has pledged $500,000 to help former President Bill Clinton and Ted Turner build a “peace park” designed to “promote regional peace and stability” in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. The pledge is part of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which is a global program to fund projects that focus on such things as “religion, conflict and reconciliation.” It is unclear how the park will inspire North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who is now poised to test a missile that can reach the United States, to embrace “peace and stability.” The CGI revolves around an annual high-stakes networking conference. The first conference, held last September, secured more than 300 pledges valued at more than $2 billion to fund projects such as the peace park. Roughly 1,000 hand-picked corporate and non-profit CEO’s and government leaders are asked to participate in the conference and each make a “commitment” to one of Clinton’s causes: poverty alleviation, climate change, religious conflict and reconciliation, governance, enterprise and investment. Most of the pledges Clinton raised in the first year, according to CGI’s annual report, are concentrated in two areas: alleviating world poverty, which raised $798,153,000, and climate change, which raised $657,408,000. “Religious reconciliation” took in 15% of the pledges, or $327,356,000. Non-profits were the most generous donors, pledging $970,309,000. Corporations were second, giving $751,783,000, or 30%. Individuals and foundations gave a combined total of $146,882,000. Entities described as “governments” pledged $118,899,000. The September meeting, which was held in New York City, has been compared to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CGI’s website said the event was designed to “coincide with and complement” the Millennium conference at the opening of the UN General Assembly. Individuals become members at Clinton’s request and must pay a $15,000 fee to attend the conference. Among the headliners at last year’s conference were: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.), former Vice President Al Gore, Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson, King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein and Queen Rania of Jordan and George Soros. Corporate sponsors included: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Google, Nokia, Starbucks, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Corporate spokesmen were hesitant to discuss their company’s involvement with CGI. A Goldman Sach’s spokesman refused to speak on the record about commitments Goldman Sachs made to CGI and would tell me only that their activities were being carried out independently of CGI. Starbucks only directed me to its website’s section on environmentalism when I asked specifically about the company’s commitment to Clinton’s group.