Ummm, not sure why that qualifies for a "Guess the State" when the prosecution failed to meet the required burden. It is terrible but the law isn't about "knowing" it is about proving.
(The Texans are always pissed that their piddling middle-sized county doesn't count for Guess The State privileges. Sometimes, I have to throw their overcompensating compact-State asses a bone to shut them up.)
Speaking of great travesties, did you see the the US Military Tribunal head for the Omar Khadr trial has been removed?
He seems to have been a genuinely good person who wanted to do things properly instead of having a kangaroo court. First he dismissed the case saying that the military didn't have jurisdiction to try him and when he was told that he really did have the jurisdiction to try him because the US government said so he demanded that the military prosecutors turn over the interrogation documents as it has been claimed Khadr was abused and forced to confess by May 22nd which never happened. As it turns out, Khadr's interrogators were convicted for killing a prisoner three weeks after Khadr confessed.
The judge's name was Col Peter Brownback. Canoe has a bit on info on him and the case at this lunk ~> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/05/29/5716026-cp.html
You're welcome. I have been following it as well. I am trying to learn more about Brownback's history, hopefully even before these military tribunals were set up. It almost looks like he was picked because he was a good soldier with faultless integrity so it would give an air of legitimacy to the proceedings and then when people found out that he really had integrity everyone got confused and tried to bully him. Failing that, he was replaced.
Texas still has nothing on Florida (http://www.wpbf.com/news/16374042/detail.html). (The video of the girls-in-question is even worse than the article makes it sound (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/470f7bf1c2))
Every time I think other states like Texas are getting close to Guess-The-State status, Florida goes and lowers the bar.
I think they just didn't want to spend the time/money sorting out this case and said fuck it, let the parents deal with it and continue to raise fucked up kids. *sigh* humanity scares me...
God, I got into this with someone else-site. They posted a link to the court ruling with a heading like, "HA HA, THEY HAVE TO RETURN THE KIDS," and I couldn't help myself.
Their point of view was that the law had overstepped their bounds / grossly violated law / etc. in order to remove the kids, and so it was delicious shadenfreude to watch the cops get slapped down and facing lawsuits from the MORMON CHILD-RAPE CULT.
My point of view was that I felt a little sick that someone was happy over anything that resulted in these kids having to go back.
He then said something along the lines of, "You can get legally married in Texas at 16, so if they're 16 and married they got married of their own free will," and it was about then I had to close the browser window before blood started shooting from my eyes.
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 01:23 am (UTC)(The Texans are always pissed that their piddling middle-sized county doesn't count for Guess The State privileges. Sometimes, I have to throw their overcompensating compact-State asses a bone to shut them up.)
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:31 am (UTC)He seems to have been a genuinely good person who wanted to do things properly instead of having a kangaroo court. First he dismissed the case saying that the military didn't have jurisdiction to try him and when he was told that he really did have the jurisdiction to try him because the US government said so he demanded that the military prosecutors turn over the interrogation documents as it has been claimed Khadr was abused and forced to confess by May 22nd which never happened. As it turns out, Khadr's interrogators were convicted for killing a prisoner three weeks after Khadr confessed.
The judge's name was Col Peter Brownback. Canoe has a bit on info on him and the case at this lunk ~> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/05/29/5716026-cp.html
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 01:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 04:37 am (UTC)Every time I think other states like Texas are getting close to Guess-The-State status, Florida goes and lowers the bar.
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Date: 2008-05-30 01:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-30 02:48 pm (UTC)Their point of view was that the law had overstepped their bounds / grossly violated law / etc. in order to remove the kids, and so it was delicious shadenfreude to watch the cops get slapped down and facing lawsuits from the MORMON CHILD-RAPE CULT.
My point of view was that I felt a little sick that someone was happy over anything that resulted in these kids having to go back.
He then said something along the lines of, "You can get legally married in Texas at 16, so if they're 16 and married they got married of their own free will," and it was about then I had to close the browser window before blood started shooting from my eyes.
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Date: 2008-06-02 03:04 am (UTC)