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By Andrew Jones
Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:10 EST
A Republican lawmaker from North Carolina is seeking a return to the days of public hanging, according to WRAL-TV.
Rep. Larry Pittman delivered an email this week to every member of the state’s General Assembly, describing that hangings needed to be reinstated as a “deterrent to crime,” including those who provide abortions.
“We need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually carrying it out,” Pittman wrote. “Every appeal that can be made should have to be made at one time, not in a serial manner. If murderers (and I would include abortionists, rapists, and kidnappers, as well) are actually executed, it will at least have the deterrent effect upon them. For my money, we should go back to public hangings, which would be more of a deterrent to others, as well.”
Pitmman, whose radical position was driven by an inmate bragging about life in prison and delaying his execution date, said he intended the email to be sent to just one colleague instead of the entire chamber.
The last legal public hanging in America occurred in 1936 in Owensboro, Kentucky.
(H/T Think Progress)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/28/nc-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-public-hangings-including-for-abortion-providers/
"I am all for public hangings... You know them folks at Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, Bankers etc, etc..."By Andrew Jones
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Last show of 2011, Season Six of The Big Rock Show.
Interview with Brad Borchers, lead vocalist of Kill Box. Hailing from Covington Kentucky and formed just a few short months ago, Kill Box are already making a name for themselves! Discussions focus on the bands brand new, self-titled debut EP, the writing and recording for the new disk, a bit of history on the band, their signing to Indie label "Rat Pak Records", writing for a full length album (to be released late next year), and much more!
Includes 2 brutal tracks from their as yet unreleased EP: "The Changing" and "Coming Back".
AIR TIME: 31 Minutes.
CLICK HERE TO TUNE IN: http://the-big-rock-show.podomatic.com/entry/2011-12-23T04_00_00-08_00Last show of 2011, Season Six of The Big Rock Show.
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The American Bar Association has announced a study released Wednesday recommending that Kentucky suspend executions due to serious flaws in the legal system. Those flaws include low pay for public defenders, a lack of protections against executing the mentally ill, no rule to preserve evidence for future appeals, confusion amongst the jurors, prosecutorial misconduct and poor police work, especially involving false identifications and false confessions. A recent local case is a perfect example of this flawed and corrupt system.
Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh was charged with two crimes in a short period of time two years ago. Both cases were recently dismissed.
The first case involved the daughter of Detective William Persley, the partner of Detective Elizabeth Adams. Detective Adams had lost several cases in the past where she had charged Kavanaugh with a crime. Kavanaugh was found innocent of these charges after a trial determined many inconsistencies in the testimonies of Persley, Persley's daughter and former Detective Adams. Detective Adams was demoted to officer position after it was determined that she handled this and other cases questionably. Specifically, her procedure for witness identifications in some cases was flawed. It could be argued these flaws were done by choice.
One of the recommendations by the ABA was that videotaping should take place the entire time someone is questioned, not just part of the time. In the Kavanaugh case, Adams claims that the recorder just didn't work this time. The file seemed to be there but she can't get it to play. The defense asked for this file or access to the computer or to talk to the computer tech at the police department. All of these requests were ignored.
The second case was the infamous bus stop kidnapping that made all of the local news. Kavanaugh was announced on all of the local stations as the suspect. The police claimed that he was to be considered armed and dangerous. Kavanaugh turned himself in at a news station and then to the police station to ensure his safety.
After two years, Kavanuagh's defense team was put in contact with the witness or victim in this case. A short interview with her revealed why the prosecution did not want the defense to speak with her. She reveals more improper police work by Detectives Adams and Persley.
Adams, once again, decided in advance that she would pin this crime on Kavanaugh. Immediately while the victim is filing the report Adams tells her that she knows that Kavanaugh is the man they should be looking for. In order to make sure Kavanaugh is arrested she manipulated the eyewitness identification by first showing a drawing of Kavanaugh to her. She then returned with a group of pictures, one of them being Kavanaugh, and asks the victim to pick the assailant. Of course, she picks the one that looks like the drawing she had recently been shown. This was all done at the house of the victim rather than on videotape at the police station.
Days after this interview the prosecutor, Bobby Gullette, surprises everyone just weeks before the trial by dismissing the case at a status hearing with no explanation. No explanation was necessary. Should the case have been allowed to continue, Kavanaugh would surely have beat the charges and claimed his innocence. This would have also allowed the disciplinary file on Detective Persley to become public. Detective Adams' file had already came out in the previous case. Persley's is rumored to be even more damaging.
These two disciplinary files with two recent false arrests, previous false arrests and a witness testimony with damning information combine to set the stage for a costly civil case against the city.
Kavanaugh realized a few days ago that this case was dismissed 'without prejudice'.
Read the rest of the story at the link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/kentucky-justice-with-or-without-prejudice
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A recent interview with the victim of the attempted bus depot attack 2 years ago proves that Lexington detectives decided to 'pin' the attack on Kavanaugh from the very start. The interview was leaked to LexiLeaks and then passed on to me.
Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh has been dealing with false arrests for over ten years. Detective Elizabeth Adams was involved in Kavanaugh's early arrests a decade ago. Adams does not hide her contempt for Kavanaugh after her loss in those cases.
More recently, Kavanaugh was chosen by Adams' partner's daughter, Morgan Persley, as her attacker on October 24, 2009. Detective Adams and Detective Persley have both been demoted to officer after behavior in Persley's daughter's case and other cases showed lack of integrity. Kavanaugh was found not guilty at trial in the Persley case.
The bus depot incident happened just five weeks after the Persley incident. However, the victim in this case has been ignored by the prosecution and hidden from the defense for almost two years. Just prior to the upcoming trial in this case the defense was allowed to interview the victim, Laura Baker. Not long after this interview, the prosecution suddenly, after two years, dismissed the case at a status hearing. An investigation into this interview shows clearly why this case was dismissed.
I have taken the interview and divided it into sections to emphasize each piece of evidence proving that Adams decided to pin this on Kavanaugh from the start and did everything she could, regardless of the evidence, to try to convict Kavanaugh of a crime she knew he did not commit.
In order to show that this interview has not been edited in such a way to change the meaning you may listen to the full un-edited interview here. If you would like to listen to the edited version from beginning to end prior to reading you can listen here.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Leaked witness interview proves Lexington detectives set up Kavanaugh. - Lexington courts | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/leaked-witness-interview-proves-lexington-detectives-set-up-kavanaugh#ixzz1fDqHDk1ZA recent interview with the victim of the attempted bus depot attack 2 years ago... more
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Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh has been dealing with false arrests, violations of his rights, defamation of character and harassment from certain Lexington Police officers for a decade now. Most recently I chronicled the cases of the attempted bus stop kidnapping and the alledged assault on one of these officers daughters. Both cases were dismissed or dropped due to illegal tactics by the officers influencing witnesses during the photo lineup.
These officers have a history with Kavanaugh after he won cases in the past against them. Detective Elizabeth Adams and Detective William Persley have since been demoted to officer position after behavior in this and other cases showed lack of integrity.
Kavanaugh contacted attorney Johnathan Weatherby after his most recent encounters with these two officers which resulted in dismissals. Kavanaugh and Weatherby detail the information and ask to confidentially settle this case in a letter to Mayor Jim Gray dated October 26, 2011.
Here is that letter:
October 26, 2011
Address withheld for privacy
Lexington, Kentucky 40503
Honorable Jim Gray, Mayor
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
200 East Main Street
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
Re: Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh
Dear Mayor Gray:
I have been authorized by Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh to negotiate a confidential resolution to his potential claims against Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Mr. Kavanaugh is an African-American male who has been harassed by the Lexington Police Department for years. Specifically, and most recently, Mr. Kavanaugh has been subjected to a systematic and coordinated effort by the Lexington Police Department to wrongly convict him of crimes that would have caused him to serve up to twenty-five years in prison. This conspiracy, conducted primarily by former Detective Elizabeth Adams, among others, includes documented instances of perjury, witness tampering and evidence tampering. All of which were committed with the obvious goal of framing Mr. Kavanaugh and sending him to prison.
Former Detective Adams and her like-minded colleagues, through the use of the above-referenced illegal tactics, caused two different charges to be brought against Mr. Kavanaugh in 2010. One of these charges has been voluntarily dismissed and the other resulted in an acquittal after Judge Scorsone ruled that the witness identification could not be used at trial because the manner in which it was obtained was unduly suggestive. Prior to the voluntary dismissal in the other case, Special Prosecutor Robert Gullette approached Mr. Kavanaugh’s counsel and offered to dismiss the case in exchange for a stipulation that probable cause existed for Mr. Kavanaugh’s arrest. This offer could only have been made because Gullette became aware of the extreme and illegal police misconduct used to illegally arrest Mr. Kavanaugh.
Mr. Kavanaugh has obtained recordings of witness interviews, grand jury testimony and trial testimony that support the allegations made herein. This voluminous evidence documents perjury on the part of former Detective Adams in grand jury proceedings as well as in a preliminary hearing before Judge Scorsone. Additionally, Mr. Kavanaugh has made contact with at least two police officers who will testify under subpoena regarding the gross misconduct of former Detective Adams among others.
Mr. Kavanaugh knows that you have sought to address some of the issues within the Lexington Police Department and he is aware that I have a friendly professional relationship with you. He therefore has requested that I approach you in order to resolve this issue confidentially and without the necessity of filing suit. Mr. Kavanaugh spent two months in jail for offenses that he did not commit and for charges that were brought against him in bad faith and as a result of the illegal tactics employed former Detective Adams and her like-minded colleagues. Mr. Kavanaugh was forced to surrender to the police while news cameras were rolling. Local news reporters told the public that Mr. Kavanaugh had been twice convicted of sexual assault based upon information provided to them by former Detective Adams who was without question aware of the falsity of this information when she provided it.
Upon information and belief, former Detective Adams is no longer a detective because of other similar misconduct that came to light causing her demotion as well as that of her partner, former Detective William Persely. It would be an understatement to say that the employment files of these two former detectives will not be helpful to you in this matter should it result in litigation. Mr. Kavanaugh and others have been denied copies of these employment files after numerous requests. Litigation in this matter will make these files public record.
Mr. Kavanaugh is prepared to file a federal civil action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to recover actual and punitive damages. I think you will find that similar cases have produced jury verdicts in excess of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00). The evidence to support these claims is clear and devastating. It is also quite clear that additional supporting evidence would be revealed after sufficient discovery.
Mr. Kavanaugh would like to put his issues with the Lexington Police Department behind him and also seeks to leave this area largely because of the lies that were spread about him in the news media as a result of the misinformation provided to them described above. The damage to his reputation and his psyche cannot be overstated. Mr. Kavanaugh would agree to a full and confidential Release, Confidentiality Agreement and Covenant Not to Sue in exchange for the sum of $250,000.00. If you would like to speak to Mr. Kavanaugh or to review the evidence that he has collected, please call me and I will facilitate a meeting. Mr. Kavanaugh has also been approached by members of the news media who seek to publicize his story. He plans to take no action for two (2) weeks in order to give you an opportunity to respond to this correspondence.
Please do not hesitate to contact me regarding this matter at xxxxxxxxxxx. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Weatherby, Esq.
The history of Mr. Kavanaugh's cases is detailed in the articles in the suggested links below.
If the demotion and subsequent denial of the employment files of these officers is any indication of the case the city plans to fight, our tax dollars would be better served with this settlement offer.
Kavanaugh and his attorney will now officially file a complaint and Rico case detailing the harassment he has endured. I will continue to update this case as new information comes out.
Copyright ©Christopher Hignite 2011 All Rights Reserved. This article cannot be copied for email or other websites.
The author grants permission to republish the title and first paragraph of this article provided they are linked to the original article on Examiner. He welcomes emails: Christopher@wearechangeky.com
http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/city-ignores-kavanaugh-s-request-to-settle-corruption-case-confidentiallyPleas Lucian Kavanaugh has been dealing with false arrests, violations of his rights,... more
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Army Spec. William Millay and his family have retained attorney Stephen Karns of Dallas, Texas.
Karns specializes in military law and was involved in the legal proceedings of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal.
Karns has only spoken with Millay by phone but does inform the AP that Millay has claimed his innocence.
"He doesn't sound like he has a malicious bone in his body or malevolent intent," Karns said. He "seems like a really good kid."
The Army and the FBI have said very little about the case, even to Karns.
Charges are now said to be filed early next week. Originally they were to be filed by Friday.
"They're still holding their cards pretty close to the chest," informed Karns.
His father, Byron Kevin Millay, has said he was not at liberty to discuss the case. I have spoken to other members of the family and others in Owensboro. Very little is known except speculation. Family members, understandably, will all refer questions to Karns.
Read the rest at Examiner.com: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/spec-william-c-millay-s-attorney-says-he-s-innocent-of-espionage-chargesArmy Spec. William Millay and his family have retained attorney Stephen Karns of... more
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The economy is hurting everyone. Some more than others. In this series I will talk to the homeless about each individual situation and how they got there.The economy is hurting everyone. Some more than others. In this series I will talk to... more
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Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh has always claimed he was innocent of the two charges filed against him by the Lexington Police. He was able to prove his innocence on one charge. The second charge wreaked of the same corruption as the first.
After a long, expensive and drawn out fight, Kavanaugh's attorneys helped him win a verdict of not guilty on August 24 on the first charge. This case involved the daughter of the partner of the former detective who filed the case against Kavanaugh.
You might remember the second case as the infamous Lextran kidnapping attempt. Kavanaugh, out of fear for his safety, turned himself in to a news station prior to accompanying them down to the police station. The police had put out an announcement that Kavanaugh was to be considered 'armed and dangerous'.
Both detectives involved in these cases have now been demoted down to officer status.
Read the rest of the story at the link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/breaking-news-second-kavanaugh-case-dismissed-at-status-hearingPleas Lucian Kavanaugh has always claimed he was innocent of the two charges filed... more
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Before the Occupy Wall Street movement spurred Lexingtonians to start Occupy Lexington I had already been covering MoveOn.Org, U.S. Uncut and other groups protesting downtown and at Mitch McConnell's office. Then and now the Lexington Police have done an exemplary job of keeping the peace while respecting everyone's rights.
MoveOn.Org sponsored a rally downtown at Phoenix Park last Spring. Many people attended this rally. There were signs, chants and songs. The Lexington Police maintained a presence at a distance and never once interfered with the event. Compare that to videos circulating showing unnecessary violence against protesters in NYC.
Senator McConnell's office was the next time that the police attended a protest. This time it was not to watch but to order the protesters off of the property that McConnell's office occupies. However, unlike other cities, these officers never pushed, shoved, yelled, maced or arrested anyone. The building management's position was explained and options were offered to the protesters.
Follow the rest of the story at:
http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/lexington-police-set-example-for-nation-s-handling-of-protestsBefore the Occupy Wall Street movement spurred Lexingtonians to start Occupy Lexington... more
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I have been attending and filming the MoveOn.Org protests at Mitch McConnell's office because the police tend to get called.
As a court reporter my interests in the protests range from:
Will anyone get arrested?
What are the rights of the protesters?
What are the rights of the landlords?
What are the rights of the tenants?
Has the prison system and our failed court system added to the problems causing the protests?
Will the protests here lead to violence?
Will Lexington, like other cities, dust off archaic laws to repress the protesters?
I went down and filmed the Occupy Lexington movement by Chase Bank downtown on the 13th day. I was able to do an interview with a young man who had been there for several days. Restaurants and businesses downtown have helped out a lot. The police kept a presence at all times in a driveway to the bank. I also witnessed several unmarked cars drive by slowly while I was there.
Only two issues were mentioned to have been dealt with. A complaint was made that the protesters had too much stuff blocking the sidewalk. A business stepped up and offered a storage facility quickly. The only other complaint was that signs were leaning on the flower planters of Chase Bank. The protesters obliged by placing them elsewhere.
MoveOn.Org planned to visit Mitch McConnell's office as they have done several times in the last couple of months. I decided to attend that protest before putting together an article addressing how well Lexington Police have handled the protests.
In the past McConnell's office has banned cameras, closed early and has had the police remove the protesters each time.
This time the police where there to ensure that the protesters left the property immediately. According to the police, recent protests at the building had caused concern for McConnell's office. Anyone appearing to be a protester would now not be allowed in the building at all or face trespassing charges.
Read the rest of the article at the link below:
http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/protesters-from-lexington-are-now-banned-from-mitch-mcconnell-s-buildingI have been attending and filming the MoveOn.Org protests at Mitch McConnell's... more
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But part of the reason I came here is that Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, those are the two most powerful Republicans in government. They can either kill this jobs bill or they can help pass this jobs bill. […] There’s no reason for Republicans in Congress to stand in the way of more construction projects. There’s no reason to stand in the way of more jobs.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/22/obama-at-boehners-bridge-there-is-work-to-be-done-video/But part of the reason I came here is that Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell, those are... more
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Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh has been found not guilty in the assault case that took place on October 24, 2009. The alleged assault took place at 112 W. High St after 1AM. Many suspicious facts caught my attention after Mr. Kavanaugh contacted me and asked that I investigate and write about his case.
I wrote my first article about this case on August 13, 2010. Since then I have written several other articles detailing the shady tactics used by prosecutor Bobby Gullette and Officer Elizabeth Adams. Some of their actions took place prior to Kavanaugh's arrest and some have taken place in the courtrooms. Those articles are linked at the bottom if you'd like to follow the entire story.
Pleas' trial began on Wednesday and ended yesterday with a not guilty verdict by 1 PM.
The victim was Morgan Louise Persely and is the daughter of the partner of Officer Elizabeth Adams. During the trial Ms. Persely's story changed and made little sense. Her story differed from details she gave to the grand jury and changed again from statements given during evidentiary hearing 1 and evidentiary hearing 2.
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/not-guilty-pleas-lucian-kavanaugh-found-innocent-of-chargesPleas Lucian Kavanaugh has been found not guilty in the assault case that took place... more
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Chandler said he was aware of the incident. I asked him if this was normal; using the Bible to refuse access to city owned resources. He said, "I can't say anything about it. I didn't have anything to do with that. Ya gotta call city hall or one of those people down there." I called the city manager and...Chandler said he was aware of the incident. I asked him if this was normal; using the... more
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by Jeff Biggers
Almost ninety years ago, an emergency crisis of unconscionable human suffering, government neglect and coal company lawlessness compelled thousands of coal miners and impoverished World War I veterans to tramp through the back roads of West Virginia and attempt to liberate terrorized mining camps that had been denied any right to union organizing.
While it took another 12 years of tragic deprivation in the coalfields for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, granting all coal miners and laborers the legal right to join a union without repercussions, a group of besieged residents from the central Appalachian coalfields is holding a press conference in Washington, DC today to deliver a similarly urgent message of an emergency crisis of unconscionable human suffering, government neglect and coal company lawlessness to the Obama administration and the US Congress:
If the safety, health and civil rights of all Americans are protected by the same laws, then our nation's President and lawmakers are obliged by the staggering health and human rights crises and mounting deathtoll in the central Appalachian coalfields to call for an immediate moratorium on all mountaintop removal operations.
With that same Blair Mountain battlefield area now threatened by strip-mining destruction, hundreds of marchers are peacefully re-enacting the historic March on Blair Mountain this week in a nonviolent celebration to remind the nation that the safety and health of coal miners and coal mining communities must be placed above the profit interests of union-busting absentee coal companies.
It's time to bring the mountaintop removal war on Appalachia to an end.
While providing less than 5-8 percent of our national coal production, the millions of pounds of daily explosives detonated for mountaintop removal operations in West Virginia, Kentucky, southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee account for the most egregious human rights and environmental violations in our nation--and the unrecognized reality of regulated manslaughter.
While EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has openly acknowledged the unacceptable health consequences of mountaintop removal, the Obama administration has chosen to follow an admittedly failed compliance policy and 40-year rap sheet of criminally neglectful regulatory practices that have left central Appalachian communities in desperate ruin.
"Mountaintop removal is a serious threat to America's water supply," says Coal River Valley resident and Vietnam veteran Bo Webb. Living under the fallout of lethal silica and coal dust explosions, Webb has called for mandated health surveys to measure the impact of strip-mining operations on affected residents prior to any blasting. Webb adds: "Mountaintop removal eliminates jobs. It eliminates entire mountain communities in Appalachia. It is killing real people. In the interest of public health, it is the duty of every member of Congress to end this horrific crime."
The tombstone of 22-year-old Joshua McCormick -- who succumbed to kidney cancer in 2009 in the Prenter Hollow area in West Virginia, one of the most lethal coal slurry-contaminated and Clean Water Act-violated places in the nation -- remains a landmark no less important than Blair Mountain in the government's failure to enforce the Clean Water Act.
As a survivor of the Martin County, Kentucky coal slurry impoundment break in 2000, one of the worst environmental crime coverups in modern history, Mickey McCoy watched 300 million gallons of toxic coal sludge drown his area's waterways and settlements. With violation-ridden mountaintop removal blasting legally taking place near similar faulty slurry impoundments across the region, threatening the lives of thousands of residents like irresponsible accidents waiting to happen, McCoy simply concludes: "Mountaintop removal is annihilating an entire culture, and politicians who support this genocide need to be charged as accessories to murder."
Exaggerated claims? In memory of Jeremy Davidson, who was crushed to death by a boulder dislodged by a mountaintop removal operation in Virginia in 2004, McCoy's fellow Kentuckians and children have written poems begging for the coal companies and government regulators "to show mercy on the culture we love."
With nearly 1.5 million acres of American geography erased from our maps by mountaintop removal operations, Appalachia is dealing with an emergency situation of historic proportions.
Will it take a catastrophic disaster and display of dead bodies for the nation to deal with the mountaintop removal crisis?
As the forced removal of citizens from Twilight and Lindytown in West Virginia and scores of historic coal-rich settlements across Appalachia and the nation testify -- -as the largest forced removal of American citizens since the mid-19th century -- McCoy's charges of historicide and oblivion can be verified by the ruins of razed and abandoned communities.
This is why the protection of Blair Mountain's history is so critical: War veterans and coal miners died on that battlefield in 1921 to protect our nation's most sacred rights of life, liberty and true democracy. After shameless political machinations, the return of the Blair Mountain battlefield to the National Registry must be accompanied by an immediate moratorium of all mountaintop removal operations until the health and safety and human rights of affected citizens today -- like the afflicted coal miners in 1921 -- are guaranteed.
"For generations," says West Virginia filmmaker Mari-Lynn Evans, "Appalachians have been enslaved by the coal industry and their political allies. Our ancient mountains are being destroyed and our people are being sacrificed for corporate greed and political ambition. Our very survival as a culture depends on the EPA. We are here today to call upon them to regulate this rogue industry and save our home -- Appalachia."
Jeff Biggers
article : http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/08-5
Jeff Biggers is the author of The United States of Appalachia, and more recently, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (The Nation/Basic Books).
http://marchonblairmountain.org/by Jeff Biggers
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Why isn't Americans more concerned about what is going on here???? Tornados and now these Floods.........total devastation!!!!!!!!!!!! Do we care???? Are we helping all we can??? Is the Media giving this the coverage it deserves to have?Why isn't Americans more concerned about what is going on here???? Tornados and... more
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Law enforcement officials and prosecutors are concerned that a recent Mass. Supreme Court decision will hamper efforts to prosecute people for driving under the influence of drugs. Another concern is that marijuana drug busts will be harder to justify.
Defense lawyers, however, agree with the Supreme Court decision. Massachusetts, like Kentucky, passed a state ballot in 2008 decriminalizing possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. The court ruled the police need more cause than marijuana odor to order someone to exit a car. The odor of marijuana, the court found, is not indicative of criminal activity.
Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said, “If a police officer smells the distinctive odor of marijuana, if their training and experience tells them something else is going on, they should be able to do their jobs.”
Continue reading on Examiner.com: What effect will Massachusetts Supreme Court pot ruling have in Kentucky? - Lexington courts | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/what-effect-will-massachusetts-supreme-court-pot-ruling-have-kentucky#ixzz1KvjkYfcTLaw enforcement officials and prosecutors are concerned that a recent Mass. Supreme... more
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This April 29th will be the one year anniversary of Officer Bryan Durman's tragic death in Lexington. Lexingtonians, friends, family and officers around the country will be honoring this young man on Friday.
The Officer Down Memorial Page describes the incident:
"Officer Bryan J. Durman was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at the intersection of Limestone and Alabama Streets.
He was investigating a noise ordinance violation at approximately 10:00 pm. He had responded to the location to locate the driver of a vehicle that had been playing music too loudly.
After striking Officer Durman, the driver of the SUV fled to a nearby apartment, where he was taken into custody by members of the agency's ERU team. He was charged with murder and numerous additional charges in connection with the collision and previous warrants.
Officer Durman had served with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Police Department for 2 ½ years."
I've discussed the case and the murder charge in previous articles but today is about Officer Durman.
Officer Durman was a family man, a friend, a son, a brother to his fellow officers and a good officer with a spotless career. Lexington will miss the service and fellowship of this young police officer.
Join others in honoring Officer Durman by joining the Facebook event, Honor Fallen Ofc. Bryan Durman and by changing your Facebook picture to Officer Durman's badge, available at the page, for Friday April 29, 2011.
Copyright ©Christopher Hignite 2010 All Rights Reserved.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Lexingtonians Honor Fallen Officer Bryan Durman on April 29, 2011 - Lexington courts | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/lexingtonians-honor-fallen-officer-bryan-durman-on-april-29-2011#ixzz1Ktjmq2mNThis April 29th will be the one year anniversary of Officer Bryan Durman's tragic... more
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