An excellent example of journalism chronicling the abuses by the Iranians.
Lasala, 33, is one of 10 young employees and interns at the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center who are collecting videos, photos and news reports as they wait to arrange interviews with eyewitnesses to the violence.
Below is a list of the patriots who protest in Iran against a useless and oppressive government. Please take a moment to remember the fallen.
With all of the chaos over in Iran, government stupidity always manages to shine through. The government has “asked” members of the soccer team to resign for wearing green wristbands, showing support for the protesters. Since they effectively fired a good portion of their soccer team without consideration for how it would affect the team’s performance and as a byproduct, national glory, we can conclude that Iran is run by losers. That’s right. They decide to put symbolism ahead of building a winning team. It’s a Dilbert cartoon with turbans which means Elbonia is a good analogy here. If they can’t build a winning soccer team, then how can they expect to build a winning economy or military?
They also said that they plan to clear the country of hooligans. Which is pretty easy to do when you don’t have a serviceable soccer team anymore. I had no idea there were that many British soccer fans in Iran, but if the Supreme Leader doesn’t like them trashing his stadium then he’s well within his right to make a losing soccer team so the Brits don’t destroy the place after they lose the match.
Poor planning is one many reasons Iran will fail and Asians will end up ruling that part of the world. We understand the value of building a winning team at all levels. We also understand that winning at all levels is important. But Iran has yet to produce a Supreme Leader that rivals the skills of Mao Zedong or Ho Chi Minh. Not that the current Supreme Leader has any math skills to speak of since he only realized this week that more than 100% voter turn out is not normal.
WNEP says it appears that the evil moron District Attorney George Skumanick has defeated is primary opponent Deborah Albert-Heise. He will be going on to face democratic candidate Jeff Mitchell in the fall.
Lai Jiansheng is a hero. Chen Fuchao decided he was going to ruin everyone’s day by threatening to jump off a bridge. Well Lai was not going to have any of that. He walked past the police barricade, shook hands with Chen, and then pushed him off the bridge.
“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest,” Lai was quoted as saying by Xinhua. “They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities’ attention to their appeals.”
Unfortunately Chen survived the fall, so this means he is going to have to try again later. Lai should be getting a medal from the police for quickly resolving a situation that could have impeded commerce for a long time. We should take Lai’s example in the US and legalize pushing jumpers off their objects. After all it is being a good samaritan when you help others attain their goals.
The rampant Talabinisation of America continues. The zoning board of Reading, OH has told a restaurant owner he has to cover up his mannequin mascot. This sort of silliness is something that only goes on in Iran, well until now it only goes on in Iran. Is the zoning commission going to require that women cover up next? The restaurant owner claims that his sales have gone up by 40% since he put the mannequin on display. Does this mean that the zoning board is also anti-capitalist as well as clueless? I’ll explain for those people reading this that work for a zoning board. When business sales go up, the amount of taxes they pay goes up as well. This means that the city is turning down money in favor of covering up a mannequin. With todays world of budget cuts and shortfalls it must be nice to live in a city that doesn’t need the extra revenue.
Apparently Muslims won’t get swine flu because they don’t eat pork. I admire their faith, though I believe they should test it like Christians do when they handle rattlesnakes. Flu virus injections for all who claim to be of faith. After all if the virus was created by Muslims to kill Christians it shouldn’t hurt them, right?
As always, when such big news spread all over the world, the rumor mills in the Arab world start to work around the clock. The most popular rumor in this regard is that the Muslims themselves created this swine flu virus with the aim reducing the world’s Christian population….
The Talibanisation of America continues. This time we have a Priest who thinks a statue of a female pirate at an antique store that is scantily clad is inappropriate.
“I believe that it’s indecent. I guess it would categorized as soft porn. If there is a definition of that I would call it soft porn,” said Father Edward Commolly.
The statue is more dressed than people at the beach. Apparently Father Commolly has not been outside of his church too often or he simply thinks that there is a lot of soft porn out there. This is where you end up creating idiots like District Attorney George Skumanick. The misguided belief that not being covered up 100% is pornographic is another slippery slope that threatens to turn our culture into that of the Taliban. Father Commolly and Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali have too much in common and too much against what makes America great. Watch the video and see if you think the statue needs a burka.
The ACLU of Pennsylvania has launched a legal strike against some clueless District Attorney in Wyoming County for attempting to shake down parents and students in his district. The skinny (no pun intended) here is that a few teenage girls took had some provocative photos of themselves distributed. Great, so the DA seems to think that is distribution of child pornography, and he’s trying to extort money out of everyone involved.
According to Ars Technica, DA George Skumanick decided to protect young people by threatening to charge them with child pornography unless they submitted to reeducation programs and go on probation. So basically he’s attempting to shake down people and make money for his district by collecting probation fees and by charging $100 to attend a reeducation program. He’s also attempting to copy the Vietnamese by ripping off our reeducation camps. Sorry but nobody does reeducation like Charlie.
What is silly about the whole thing is these girls took pictures of themselves in their underwear. No full frontal nudity at all.
But the parents of Marissa Miller and Grace Kelly were less than scandalized when they saw the snapshot for which their daughters had posed: both were shown wearing opaque white bras no more revealing than a bikini top—one on the phone, the other flashing a peace sign. Skumanick averred that it was nevertheless child pornography because the girls were posed “provocatively.” The pseudonymous Nancy Roe was a bit more exposed in her photo, which showed her fresh from the shower with a towel wrapped around her torso, below her breasts. But her mother doubted whether a bit of nudity was all it took to make a picture “pornographic.”
From the ACLU complaint filed in court excerpt from the INTRODUCTION
One photo shows Marissa and Grace, from the waist up, lying side by side in their bras, with one talking on a telephone and the other making a peace sign. The other photo shows Nancy Doe standing upright, just emerged from the shower, with a white towel wrapped tightly around her body just below the breasts. The two photographs, which depict no sexual activity or display of pubic area, are not illegal under Pennsylvania’s crimes code and, indeed, are images protected by the First Amendment.
Skumanick nevertheless persists in threatening to prosecute the girls because he has deemed the photos “provocative.” Since there is no basis to prosecute the girls for posing in photographs that plainly are not child pornography, in terms of content or production, Skumanick’s threat to prosecute the girls must be considered retaliation against the plaintiffs for asserting their constitutional rights – the parents’ right to direct their children’s upbringing and the girls’ rights both to free expression and against compelled speech – in refusing Skumanick’s demands. Accordingly, plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin Skumanick from bringing the retaliatory criminal charges against plaintiffs based on their refusal to accede to his demand that they submit to probation and participate in the re-education program.
It gets even more interesting on page 8 where the ACLU alleges that Skumanick did not pursue those who distributed the photographs, but only those who were in the pictures or who possessed them. That’s like saying it’s ok to traffic cocaine, but you can’t produce it or consume it. Way to go idiot Skumanick. To show what an asshat this guy really is check out page 10.
29. One parent stood up during the meeting and asked how Skumanick could be prosecuting his daughter because, according to him, she was in the photograph wearing a bathing suit. Skumanick told the assembled crowd that she was posed “provocatively,” which made her subject to a childpornography charge.
30. In response to Skumanick’s comment, Marissa’s father stood up and asked who was deciding what was provocative. Skumanick replied that he was not going to argue and that he could charge all of the minors there that night but was instead offering them a plea deal. Skumanick also told Mr. Miller
This jerk is a real winner. He doesn’t have to provide any reason or justification beyond “because I said so”. He apparently has the mentality of a 5-year old. He also rubbed it in their faces that minors are not eligible for jury trial. I would assume that the juvenile judge is a good golf buddy of his would be the sole juror, judge, and executioner in such a situation.
Does the ACLU have a good case against this guy?
48. The three plaintiff minors have committed no crime by simply having allowed themselves to be photographed, either in their underwear or topless.
49. The provisions of 18 P.S. § 6312 prohibit depicting, possessing or disseminating images of “sexual intercourse…., masturbation, sadism, masochism, bestiality, fellatio, cunnilingus, lewd exhibition of the genitals or nudity if such nudity is depicted for the purpose of sexual stimulation orgratification of any person who might view such depiction.”
50. The images of plaintiffs do not fall within the definition of the materials prohibited by § 6312.
It seems to be pretty straight forward to me. I wonder how he could have messed that up. Oh, wait. We had come to the conclusion based on evidence at hand that he has the mentality of a 5-year old. Silly us!
The other nice thing the ACLU went on to say is that :
55. Moreover, Skumanick’s decision to prosecute the subjects of the photographs, the three plaintiff minors, is unprecedented and stands anti-child-pornography laws on their head. Anti-child-pornography laws are intended to protect the children shown in the photos and videos, and plaintiffs’ counsel has found no published Pennsylvania or federal court decision sustaining such a prosecution against minors shown in such pictures.
In case you missed it earlier, Skumanick has done nothing to find out who took the pictures and who distributed them. Yes, that’s right. Based on everything in the media and the court papers I can find nothing that shows he expended any effort at all. At least the ACLU has some logic here. How can you be a perp and a victim at the same time? I guess if you appear to have the mentality of a 5-year old you don’t have logic as evidenced by Judge Munley’s smack down on Attorney Hailstone who is representing Skumanick
“It seems like the children seemed to be the victims and the perpetrators here,” the judge, James M. Munley, told a lawyer for the district attorney, George P. Skumanick of Wyoming County. “How does that make sense?”
The lawyer, A. James Hailstone, said state law “doesn’t distinguish between who took the picture and who was in it.”
Hats off to Judge Munley for detecting use of the Chewbacca Defense. I guess this explains even more. Apparently Skumanick is a mindless automaton who only knows how to follow literal directions. So in fact our assumption that he has the mental capabilities of a 5-year old was vastly out of bounds.
Skumanick must also have some problem against free speech, swimming pools, cameras, and swimwear.
57. Skumanick’s threatened prosecution chills Plaintiffs’ First Amendment right of expression, causing them concern about whether they may photograph their daughters, or whether the girls may allow themselves to be photographed, wearing a two-piece bathing suit.
58. The plaintiff minors will in the near future want to be photographed in their bathing suits, for instance during the summer when they go to a swimming pool or the beach, to which the respective parents have no objection. They are, however, chilled in their ability to take such photographs because of concern whether Skumanick will find them “provocative.”
Mr. Skumanick is now our personal nanny. YAY! I’m sure he’s going to go far under John Ashcroft with the Bush Administration’s PATRIOT ACT to help him. Oh wait!
60. Skumanick’s demand that the girls participate in the re-education program, which requires them to write a homework paper explaining “how [their] actions were wrong,” violates the plaintiff minors’ right to be free from compelled speech.
65. Skumanick’s threat to file felony charges against the plaintiff minors, charges for which there is absolutely no evidence or cause, unless the girls participate in a program that requires them to write a paper explaining “how [their] actions were wrong,” constitutes retaliation against the girls for exercising their right to be free from compelled speech, a right protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Can’t argue with any of the First Amendment points the ACLU is making here. But it gets even better
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION (RETALIATION AGAINST PLAINTIFF PARENTS FOR EXERCISING THEIR FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS RIGHT AS PARENTS TO DIRECT THEIR CHILDREN’S UPBRINGING)
66. Skumanick’s illegitimate use of government authority to coerce the plaintiff parents to send their daughters to a re-education course that, among other things, would direct the girls to “[g]ain an understanding of how [their] actions were wrong,” “gain an understanding of what it means to be a girl in today’s society,” and “[i]dentify non-traditional societal and job roles,”
infringes on the plaintiff parents’ Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process right to direct and control their children’s upbringing.
Skumanick must have some strange male inferiority issues, which makes him a prime candidate for a job with the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Afghanistan. From reading the entire ACLU complaint this guy seems to have a problem with freedom and liberty and he abuses his authority in a way that allows him to become moral dictator.
From the not so bright department comes this statement from Skumanick
On the other hand, Skumanick stated he will fight the lawsuit. He said, “Frankly, we just wanted to protect these kids, and say, ‘Doing this is not right.’ We wanted to offer this course to educate them, and make them understand the long-term ramifications of having photos like this out there.”
And another
Skumanick, however, remains unfazed. The New York Times quotes the campaigning crusader as saying: “I’m simply giving them an option. We’re not forcing anybody to do anything. Frankly, it’s sad to me that their parents don’t realize this is wrong and they should be encouraging them to take the classes.”
Much like the idiot PIG in Dallas Texas who killed Ryan Moats mother this moron believes that putting teenage girls in jail for 20 years on child pornography unless they agree to be coerced into a reeducation camp is the right thing to do. If his intentions were genuine he would have made attendance at the reeducation camp an option rather than forcing it at the point of a gun.
According to the records from Wyoming County this idiot makes $157,127.88 a year. The detective makes $39,862 and the Assistant DA makes $71,294.28. The parts that don’t look right are the fact that the line item titled Secretaries is $30,667 and Paralegal is $22770.00. Since I could only turn up one Assistant DA on the website, one would assume that you only need one secretary and one paralegal. So why is the secretary making more money than the paralegal? The second largest item is Ins. Fraud Tsk. Force (REIMB) at $92,000. What expenses does the Insurance Fraud Task Force have that need reimbursing that costs more than the Assistant DA’s salary? His entire budget is $467,253.22. He doesn’t have a lot to spend on prosecuting violent criminals so he’s aiming for low hanging fruit by targeting teenagers. This brings into question what is really going on in the Wyoming County DA’s Office and since he was going to pawn off 3 girls to the prison system for a minimum of 20 years each at an estimated $50,000 per year that comes to $3,000,000 that he would inflict on the taxpayers because he wants to make a point. All things considered I would think he has failed in his fiduciary duty to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania.
The good news is that he has opposition in the 2009 election. So head on over to Deborah Albert-Heise’s website and make a campaign contribution. I have chipped in to make sure this ass hat doesn’t have a job and to make sure that Paralegals get fair pay in the future.
I’m not really sure what is up with Texas, but Brother Grim really hits it on the head. MSNBC covered the story where a PIG decided he was going to murder NFL star Ryan Moats mother. Dallas PD Officer Robert Powell made a routine traffic stop and then detained the people in the parking lot of the hospital while preventing them from entering the emergency room.
“I can screw you over,” he said at one point in the videotaped incident. When another officer came with word that Moats’ mother-in-law was indeed dying, Powell’s response was: “All right. I’m almost done.”
Even after another COP (notice that good policemen are COPS and bad ones are PIGS) pointed out that there was a problem, the retarded PIG continued to write a ticket while this woman was dying.
In a statement to the press DPD Chief Knuckle demonstrated his ability in understatement
“When we at the command staff reviewed the tape, we were embarrassed, disappointed,” Kunkle said. “It’s hard to find the right word and still be professional in my role as the police chief. But the behavior was not appropriate.”
“His behavior, in my opinion, did not exhibit the common sense, the discretion, the compassion that we expect our officers to exhibit,” Kunkle said.
Not appropriate? Lack of common sense? When you have a dying woman in the car you tell the driver,
“Shut your mouth,” the officer said. “You can either settle down and cooperate or I can just take you to jail for running a red light.”
When the exchange was at its most contentious, Powell said he could tow Moats’ SUV if he didn’t have insurance and that he could arrest him for fleeing because he didn’t immediately stop when Powell turned on his sirens. The pursuit lasted a little more than a minute.
That’s just bull that a case like this would be considered fleeing. This guy obviously forgot his training where people are allowed to not stop until they get to a safe location. Maybe he also likes to help rapists out as well as kill innocent mothers.
The scary thing to keep in mind is this excerpt from the article.
Police officials said Powell told his commanders he believed he was doing his job,
That’s right ladies and gentlemen. This PIG thought that murdering a woman was part of his job. This PIG believed that revenue was more important than a person’s life. Do you really want these people protecting you? For the record I am using the word murder since he continued to deny the dying woman medical care after a real police officer, who is sworn to tell the truth, informed him that the woman was dying. If it didn’t cross the line from negligence into premeditated murder before that point it certainly did after.
This isn’t the first time a Texas PIG has caused the death of a loved family member through detaining a driver seeking medical care.
After some other fuck ups where cops break into people’s home and shoot family members in the back and then realize they got the wrong address, I believe it’s time to correct this problem with some serious legislation. I’m calling for the death penalty for any police officer who willingly allows his gun and badge to extend his inadequate manhood where it results in the death of a person or harm to any member of their family. This may be a burden on good COPS, but we need some serious weeding out of the undesirables. The collateral damage from creating a shortage of police officers and the risk to good COPS is far more than acceptable. It is needed to only have people who put their lives on the line for others wearing that badge. If you don’t want to do that, then you really don’t understand what it is to be a police officer or a firefighter.
