http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/ex-cop-anthony-abbate-get_n_219651.html
Watch as a drunken slob of a cop severely beats a 125 lb female bartender when she refuses to serve him...and gets away with it! No technicality or anything, the judge just gave him a slap on the wrist and said, ""If I believed sentencing Anthony Abbate to prison would stop people from getting drunk and hitting people, I'd give him the maximum sentence," Fleming said. As many people have pointed out, it might stop HIM from getting drunk and beating people, which is the whole fucking case.
I'm sorry, beating a woman is not only senseless, it's cowardice. Anyone who disagrees is a coward, and I'll tell you to your face. I don't care how much you've had to drink, that's no excuse. What's worse, is because this ass-face is a cop, he walks. Another reason I believe cops are really just bullies, and I think an overhaul about how we hire police is in order. Fat, hulking women-beating slobs need not apply. I'm fuckin' pissed.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The End Does NOT Justify The Means
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/27/abu-ghraib-abuse-photos-i_n_208430.html
The hard truth is that the Bush Administration and the Military made a mockery of our so-called American values. That they used a tragedy to "go to the dark side" (as Cheney himself put it) and perform horrific acts of vengance against whomever they dragged into their torture chambers. The fact that we actually employ torturers is probably the first problem. Torturers do not have a place in our world, no matter what the intelligence value. Eventually, this all backfires, and we look worse and it creates more formidable foreign policy problems than we started with. And yes, of course rape happened and still likely happens in all those dark places where we keep prisoners without trial. Children, women, men, it makes no difference to those in power and those that seek the cover of those in power to perform their dark arts. Rape and torture go hand in hand, and anyone who doesn't see this is in denial. I'm disgusted that this was done in my name. I'm disgusted that anyone who considers themselves a good person could condone this. I'm deeply saddened that this is the image we've chosen to show the Middle East via the stupidity of the Bush cronies and neo-cons. I'm disappointed in our military that they can't control their soldiers, or that they condone rape as a torture method. Sure, everyone is going to deny everything, because no one wants to go to jail or be thrown out of their church. We all know what happens in war: you take young men, turn them into killers, then release them on unsuspecting civilians. You take backwoods hick national guardsmen, and set them loose on the brown-skinned people, what do you think will happen? I'm ashamed to be in any way involved in this whole atrocity known as the Iraq war.
http://www.aztlan.net/iraqi_women_raped.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=858
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/leaked-torture-photos-published-in-2006-may-be-among-photographs-obama-administration-shielding/
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/151362.pdf
The hard truth is that the Bush Administration and the Military made a mockery of our so-called American values. That they used a tragedy to "go to the dark side" (as Cheney himself put it) and perform horrific acts of vengance against whomever they dragged into their torture chambers. The fact that we actually employ torturers is probably the first problem. Torturers do not have a place in our world, no matter what the intelligence value. Eventually, this all backfires, and we look worse and it creates more formidable foreign policy problems than we started with. And yes, of course rape happened and still likely happens in all those dark places where we keep prisoners without trial. Children, women, men, it makes no difference to those in power and those that seek the cover of those in power to perform their dark arts. Rape and torture go hand in hand, and anyone who doesn't see this is in denial. I'm disgusted that this was done in my name. I'm disgusted that anyone who considers themselves a good person could condone this. I'm deeply saddened that this is the image we've chosen to show the Middle East via the stupidity of the Bush cronies and neo-cons. I'm disappointed in our military that they can't control their soldiers, or that they condone rape as a torture method. Sure, everyone is going to deny everything, because no one wants to go to jail or be thrown out of their church. We all know what happens in war: you take young men, turn them into killers, then release them on unsuspecting civilians. You take backwoods hick national guardsmen, and set them loose on the brown-skinned people, what do you think will happen? I'm ashamed to be in any way involved in this whole atrocity known as the Iraq war.
http://www.aztlan.net/iraqi_women_raped.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=858
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/15/leaked-torture-photos-published-in-2006-may-be-among-photographs-obama-administration-shielding/
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/151362.pdf
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Court says private school can expel lesbians
Read about it here.
This is a California Court, people, with a 3-0 decision! Of course it's SoCal, so the California Supreme Court should be able to overturn this crap.
I'm so disgusted by this ruling, I just can't believe it. These are not students that proclaim to be gay: the principle questioned them and decided that they were lesbians and kicked them out! Now, I'm not in favor of kicking any children out of school, regardless of what they say their sexuality is; but, to rule that a school can decided who they think is gay and who is straight, and then just toss out whomever they like is a thoroughly UN-AMERICAN thing to do. It's like the Christians in this country are no longer Americans, they are just Christians and subject only to the ideals and values their preachers spout.
Now, these girls did not CHOOSE to go to this religious school, their parents sent them there! To pull children into offices, question them about their sexual habits and feelings, and then to toss them out on their asses--I mean, these are PEOPLE here. CHILDREN! What if they aren't gay? What if they are unsure? What if they are experimenting? You just throw them out? Are they less than human? If they are not fornicating in class, what's the big deal? Christians love to spout that it's a choice to be gay, yet they treat them like less-than-human creatures, that somehow deserve less respect, love and now education, than the rest. If it's a choice, then shouldn't you be trying to take the other (ridiculous) road of re-educating them to turn them straight? You're giving up on your students! Could it be that they finally realize that their re-education (camps) don't work and that GOD created them?
I'd also like to reiterate that it is not any of the children's fault for their sexuality. I don't see how someone could punish them for this and call themselves Christian. I think that this should be a wake-up call to all those non-religious parents who send their children to Christian schools to get a better education--Expect a Nazi-esque interrogation by an absurd administrator about their sexuality, and "God" knows what else. Perhaps they will be inspecting your daughters hymens next, and if they find a broken one, they will kick your slutty whore of a daughter out!
Don't you see how this Conservative Christian agenda is the new threat to American Civil Liberties? Anything goes if you scream religion!
Here's what the justice that wrote the opinion said, "The whole purpose of sending one's child to a religious school is to ensure that he or she learns even secular subjects within a religious framework," Justice Betty Richli said in the 3-0 ruling, issued Monday." --How does having gay classmates hurt a child's ability to learn secular subjects within a religious framework? Does having them in the class, and say, having the other students in the class know that the student is gay, does that somehow detract from the teachings in the class? Does their mere presence stifle the learning abilities of the other students? Does having them in the class mean that the school is okay with homosexuality? If Bobby is gay, and the school allows him to attend, that must mean that the school is promoting gay-ness, right? What kind of fucking illogical thinking is this? Why don't you leave them in class to learn the error of their ways, give them an opportunity to see the light? You know why? Because Christians are scared of gay people. They'd put them in internment camps if they could, all because it makes them feel icky.
Check this out: "John McKay, a lawyer for California Lutheran, said he was pleased the court recognized that "a religious school is not a business, and the purpose of a religious school is to teach Christian values." Did the girls refuse to learn the christian values? Did the principle say, "don't be gay or your out?" Did they indeed love one another and refuse to say otherwise, even when interrogated by some jerk in a suit? How can Christian's go around talking about Jesus's love, but throw out 16 year old girls who profess love to one another? Love's okay, as long as it fits in this neat little box?
Basically, this ruling is rife with incompetent interpretations of the law, the spirit of the law, and is fueled by fear and bigotry. I'm disgusted and amazed that we still have such idiots running things. A sad day for California.
This is a California Court, people, with a 3-0 decision! Of course it's SoCal, so the California Supreme Court should be able to overturn this crap.
I'm so disgusted by this ruling, I just can't believe it. These are not students that proclaim to be gay: the principle questioned them and decided that they were lesbians and kicked them out! Now, I'm not in favor of kicking any children out of school, regardless of what they say their sexuality is; but, to rule that a school can decided who they think is gay and who is straight, and then just toss out whomever they like is a thoroughly UN-AMERICAN thing to do. It's like the Christians in this country are no longer Americans, they are just Christians and subject only to the ideals and values their preachers spout.
Now, these girls did not CHOOSE to go to this religious school, their parents sent them there! To pull children into offices, question them about their sexual habits and feelings, and then to toss them out on their asses--I mean, these are PEOPLE here. CHILDREN! What if they aren't gay? What if they are unsure? What if they are experimenting? You just throw them out? Are they less than human? If they are not fornicating in class, what's the big deal? Christians love to spout that it's a choice to be gay, yet they treat them like less-than-human creatures, that somehow deserve less respect, love and now education, than the rest. If it's a choice, then shouldn't you be trying to take the other (ridiculous) road of re-educating them to turn them straight? You're giving up on your students! Could it be that they finally realize that their re-education (camps) don't work and that GOD created them?
I'd also like to reiterate that it is not any of the children's fault for their sexuality. I don't see how someone could punish them for this and call themselves Christian. I think that this should be a wake-up call to all those non-religious parents who send their children to Christian schools to get a better education--Expect a Nazi-esque interrogation by an absurd administrator about their sexuality, and "God" knows what else. Perhaps they will be inspecting your daughters hymens next, and if they find a broken one, they will kick your slutty whore of a daughter out!
Don't you see how this Conservative Christian agenda is the new threat to American Civil Liberties? Anything goes if you scream religion!
Here's what the justice that wrote the opinion said, "The whole purpose of sending one's child to a religious school is to ensure that he or she learns even secular subjects within a religious framework," Justice Betty Richli said in the 3-0 ruling, issued Monday." --How does having gay classmates hurt a child's ability to learn secular subjects within a religious framework? Does having them in the class, and say, having the other students in the class know that the student is gay, does that somehow detract from the teachings in the class? Does their mere presence stifle the learning abilities of the other students? Does having them in the class mean that the school is okay with homosexuality? If Bobby is gay, and the school allows him to attend, that must mean that the school is promoting gay-ness, right? What kind of fucking illogical thinking is this? Why don't you leave them in class to learn the error of their ways, give them an opportunity to see the light? You know why? Because Christians are scared of gay people. They'd put them in internment camps if they could, all because it makes them feel icky.
Check this out: "John McKay, a lawyer for California Lutheran, said he was pleased the court recognized that "a religious school is not a business, and the purpose of a religious school is to teach Christian values." Did the girls refuse to learn the christian values? Did the principle say, "don't be gay or your out?" Did they indeed love one another and refuse to say otherwise, even when interrogated by some jerk in a suit? How can Christian's go around talking about Jesus's love, but throw out 16 year old girls who profess love to one another? Love's okay, as long as it fits in this neat little box?
Basically, this ruling is rife with incompetent interpretations of the law, the spirit of the law, and is fueled by fear and bigotry. I'm disgusted and amazed that we still have such idiots running things. A sad day for California.
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