AboutLaws in Minnesota seem to lean toward protecting mothers while they abuse drugs and harm their unborn child.Minnesota has Laws in place to charge the Mother with child abuse,But from my personal experienceIt does not seem to get done.To civilly commit a Mother is a policy in Minnesota But there againI have tried to see why that is failed to get done also,You can place a Mother on hold if she test positive for narcotics while she is pregnant,But there again I have fought to wonder why theselaws and policies are not enforced. In Minnesota Health Care professionals are required to report this kind of drug abuse to the welfare system ,if the Mother And child test positive.After The Welfare system is involved they take the child into protective custody and can terminate your parental rights ,But although I have seen the welfare system work,they have never attempted to commit or charge the Mother with child abuse,or even child endangerment.The Laws Should be Harsher and they should be enforced.I know the state is afraid the mother will not get the prenatal care she or the baby needs If she is afraid she will be charged with a crime.But on the other hand these Mothers hardly seek the prenatal care they need any way and if they do, what is the point when they can walk out of the clinic freely to use drugs and there are no real consequences.And this can go on and on In the State Of Minnesota,The Mother can walk away from the poor little baby that she had who is suffering from withdrawl symptoms because of the effects of being on drugs for 9 months.Left to care for these Babies are the Grandparents, Fathers or any one the Welfare system chooses.The child Is Called Special needs Then.The cant walk or talk or play like other children their own age,and alot of the time they spend in the Doctors Office now.And guess what Mom is pregnant again and will harm one more child.When will this change? The Harsh Reality is : There has to be Harsher Laws :Step It UP Minnesota; South Carolina,Wisconsin and South Dakota Have laws and they work,it says come to South Carolina pregnant and do drugs you will be arrested Minnesota should join them on the right path of protecting these unborn babieswho will be born with a life time of problems to look forward to, and the cost of Health Care is Astronomical ,That is if the Baby even lives at all.
Here is a Babies Point of View,Please think about what you are going to do to Enforce Harsher Laws. Thank You For Making A Difference.
Heaven Will Cry Tears,
I hear your voice everyday,every word that you say ,Sometimes its loud and I cant Sleep.I hear your voice, Can you hear me
“Mommy Please”
I really wonder whats that smell,
I feel so cold and all alone,In this water of my own.If you love me I cant tell I am really scared’ Whats That Smell
Shylyns Law
Category: Crime
The ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a class action lawsuit in federal court this week alleging that GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest private prison operator, was subjecting young prisoners to “barbaric, unconstitutional conditions” at a Mississippi facility.
The lawsuit presents a laundry list of abuse at the 1,400-bed Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in north Mississippi. And it goes straight after GEO for allowing assaults and denying medical care and education while racking up healthy profits at the prison. The facility was built with $41 million in taxpayer dollars, while GEO has now earned more than $100 million in profit from its management, the suit estimates. The 1,400 boys and young men held there were all sentenced as adults, but two-thirds of them were convicted of non-violent crimes.
Homer Simpson put it best: “People can come up with statistics to prove any point. Fourteen percent of people know that.” Lately, we have good reason to heed his sage wisdom as a new round of death penalty polls, with an accompanying round of superficial analysis, is distorting public perceptions of the death penalty.
On November 8, Gallup released their annual death penalty poll followed by the release of a similar poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion the next day, both of which sparked headlines across the country about how much Americans seemingly support capital punishment: Gallup says 64 percent of Americans support the death penalty, while Angus Reid cranks that number all the way up to 83 percent.
But support for the death penalty drops when respondents are asked to consider alternatives – and it drops a lot depending on which one is presented. Gallup asks about the death penalty every year, but occasionally they also ask if people prefer the death penalty over “life imprisonment, with absolutely no possibility of parole.” This year, when given the alternative of life without parole, support for the death penalty falls from 64 percent to 49 percent – just 3 percent higher than those who prefer the alternative, within the margin of error. The last time Gallup asked about the alternative of life without parole was 2006, and at that time support for permanent imprisonment was actually higher than support for the death penalty, again within the margin of error.
Police in Muncie, Indiana, say that Central High School administrators undermined their ability to investigate a rape charge by failing to report the incident to law enforcement.
When a 16-year-girl told an assistant principal on Tuesday that she had just been dragged into a school bathroom and raped, administrators had her sit in the principal’s office for over two hours and told to write down what had occurred. They didn’t bother calling the police or a victim’s advocate, to the dismay of the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault (InCASA). When administrators did call the girl’s guardian, she was taken to the hospital and staff there finally called the police. It was then about four hours since the assault had been reported.
Superintendent Eric King defended the school’s irresponsible decision in a television interview by claiming that the girl’s story wasn’t completely consistent and school administrators doubted the allegation, that “the facts in the case were somewhat vague,” and they wanted to investigate themselves. Nothing like attacking rape victims for making up their story without any evidence except that they’re female and girls lie, right? The school officials didn’t even bother notifying any one of the four school police officers. Why bother having school police if you don’t tell them anything? It’s so much better to play make-believe detective and screw up the real investigation.
School administrators had no business deciding not to report a student’s rape charge because they were “vague” on the details. Rape is a serious crime and should be reported to police immediately: the student also should have been transported straight to the hospital, rather than made to wait in the principal’s office for hours. Delaware County deputy prosecutor Eric Hoffman commented that he was “uncomfortable” with school officials deciding to usurp the role of police, which is perhaps a massive understatement. And Detective George Hooper pointed out that there was a serious cost to the unwarranted delay: other students and probably a cleaning crew had been through the bathroom since the rape occurred, so any evidence that could have been available at the crime scene was lost to police.
Well, Washington, D.C. will soon join the ranks of cities who like to make the homeless someone else’s problem.
Local government, trying to mitigate a $175 million budget shortfall, has determined that about 10 percent of those who apply for shelter and other homeless services in the city are from elsewhere — and officials want them to go back to “elsewhere.”
People from neighboring Prince George’s County have been known to come to D.C. looking for shelter, in some cases claiming to have been sent by service providers in Silver Spring, Maryland. In response, D.C. Councilman Tommy Wells introduced legislation that would require all people seeking homeless services in the District to produce city identification. He later withdrew it in an effort to avoid creating any unintended consequences.
Washington, D.C. gave the homeless a “right to overnight shelter” in 1984 and rescinded it in 1990, due to the financial burden that it put on the city. (This is reminiscent of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s recent claim that he was saving taxpayers money by sending New York’s homeless elsewhere.) Now homeless Washingtonians only have a right to shelter if the temperature is 32 and below or 95 and above.
However, D.C.’s “low-barrier” shelters have traditionally allowed people to enter without showing identification and even allowed them to give a false name. Those who are on the lam, undocumented or avoiding family need not worry about having the police called, so long as they don’t commit any new crimes while in the shelter. The same is true for those who enter the shelter drunk or high. The city has, in effect, removed all barriers to entry in an effort to encourage people who might otherwise stay outside and freeze to come in, thus saving their lives. Tell D.C. to provide winter shelter to people in need!
The first and highly controversial conviction of a Guantanamo prison detainee under President Obama’s watch occurred today, with Canadian Omar Khadr’s confession at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The strange outcome of this extended ordeal has created a human rights and international law conundrum that is likely to lead to more confusion when it comes to bringing terrorists and militants to justice. Few single events bring together so many of our gravest concerns.
There is much to do, and your actions on this trial matter now because it is setting a precedent for the future.
Here are just four of the many troubling issues the trial has raised.
We the undersigned, respectfully request that the UN and the WHO hold transparent investigations into media references and allegations ?that the USA bio-weapons research on Plum Island or elsewhere, lead to the world wide dissemination and the increased virulence of Lyme Disease. ?If such a connection exists, we also request the UN proceed with “Crimes Against Humanity” charges against those knowledgeable and responsible of perpetrating this crime, and those responsible for the continued concealment of this crime.?http://www.federaljack.com/?p=17546#more-17546
Investigation of the USA bio-weapons/Lyme connection
“Dear ladies, if you’ve had sex before, you can’t be raped! You’re probably faking it anyways because you’re just mad about that abortion you allegedly had. Vote for me, Ken Buck!”
No thanks, buddy.
The upcoming election has brought us some seriously sexist shit, and it looks like the trend is continuing. GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck didn’t say those exact words, but he came close. Buck is in a bit of a pickle over his refusal as a Weld County District Attorney to prosecute an obvious rape case in 2006, along with offensive comments he made about the victim.
The victim had asked a former lover over to her apartment because she was intoxicated and scared. He arrived and raped her while she, slipping in and out of consciousness, said “no” and tried pushing him away. Despite the fact that both the victim and suspect agree upon what happened and police recommended prosecution, Buck publicly called the case facts “pitiful” and claimed that, due to their consensual sexual encounters over a year prior, reasonable juries would see this as a case of “buyer’s remorse.” In a private meeting with the victim, Buck lays blame squarely on her shoulders, telling her, “It would appear to me that you invited him over to have sex with him. Whether that you, at that time, were conscious enough to say yes or no … the appearance is of consent.”
Stephen West, aged 48, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday November 9th 2010 in the US state of Tennessee.? The United States Supreme Court has refused to review his case despite new evidence being available which clearly shows that Stephen is not guilty of the crime for which he is to be put to death.?? Please support his request for clemency by signing this petition and also by writing to :-
Governor Phil Bredesen
Governor's Office
Tennessee State Capitol
Nashville, TN 37243-0001
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Fax: 615.532.9711
Email: Phil.Bredesen@tn.gov
Hold onto your hat, grab onto your knickers, and prepare to be thrown for a loop. Because if the rumors are true, then Ken Mehlman, the architect of the Bush/Cheney ‘04 re-election campaign and one of the GOP officials who helped orchestrate anti-gay ballot measures across the country … is about to come out as a gay man.
Man, we all have baggage in our past. But Mehlman’s might take the cake.
Mike Rogers, who writes over at Blog Active and starred in a documentary about closeted GOP politicians, Outrage, is breaking the story. According to Rogers, Mehlman is planning on coming out of the closet in an article in The Atlantic. Mehlman will couple it with a fundraising appeal, apparently, for marriage equality.
Though official confirmation from Mehlman is still up in the air, Rogers has been reporting on Mehlman for close to six years, and has noted multiple times that while Mehlman was plotting an anti-gay political strategy with the national GOP, he was in his own personal life completely and totally gay.
So how should the gay community react to this? Is Mehlman the latest Republican Party official to turn over a new leaf when it comes to gay rights? Or is he a man that has had such an unforgivable past, that even his coming out of the closet and supporting marriage equality can’t undo the harm that his political work has done to the LGBT community?
