JUSTICE NOT SERVED?.............................Maybe this has been done to death, then again can it be pointed out too much, can enough be said about miscarriages of justice? I don't think so. How can the legal system allow for a person charged with a relatively minor crime, be sentenced harshly, set free, then have that freedom yanked away? Can anyone who has not experience this Kafkaesque nightmare even begin to relate?Genarlow Wilson can. The application of law in a Draconian manner such as this, in the present climate and the fiasco of Nifong in the Duke case, has to be heard as a cautionary tale. Genarlow Wilson is now a 20 year old prisoner of the state of Georgia, or maybe more precisely, the Attorney General of the state of Georgia. He is the prisoner of Attorney General Thurbert Baker because a lot of, if not most, people including Judge Thomas H. Wilson disagree with his prosecution of the honor student and star football player. Judge Wilson, in ruling, said "The fact that Genarlow Wilson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanor, and without assistance from this court will spend eight more years in prison, is a grave miscarriage of justice."
BENCHMARKS NOT BEING MET................................It's painfully obvious that the promised light at the end of the tunnel is yet another oncoming train. With the violent, blood soaked, stalemated nightmare only getting worse it's inevitable that the progress reports due in September will show that Iraq is irretrievable as is. Smart money will tell you that this administration will tell you that things are getting better and it just needs more time.
LIES OF OMISSION......................... are, really, no better than an outright lie. Both seek to distort facts and misrepresent an issue to benefit the teller of said lie. E.D. Hill and her writers and producers at Fox perpetrated a lie of omission on their viewers on the morning of 13 June 2007. While presenting what was said by a guest lecturer of a Boulder, CO, high school viewers where shown a quote as follows; I'm going to encourage you to have sex and I'm going to encourage you to use drugs appropriately. What was omitted was; Why I'm going to take that position is because you're going to do it anyway, so my approach to this is to be realistic, and I think as a psychologist and a health educator, it's more important to educate you in a direction you might actually stick to. - speaker was Joel Becker, associate clinical professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles Shameful, deceitful and dishonest.
IRAN ENCOURAGES YOU NOT TO HAVE SEX............................................ maybe the good folks at Fox would agree with the Iranian Parliament in that the producers, participants and purveyors of adult entertainment should simply be killed. True to the human condition, though, the Iranian man-on-the-street has a thirst for porn. From the article, "However, porn material is easily accessible through foreign satellite television channels in Iran. Bootleg video tapes and CDs are also available on the black market on many street corners." Even in the face of ancient thinking and barbaric punishments people will be people.
