Monday, August 31, 2009

N.C. native wrongly deported to Mexico

Federal investigators ignored evidence the man is an U.S. citizen, documents show. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/917007.html

This dude is an U.S. born citizen and NOT even of Mexican descent----WOW, I guess I better start carrying my birth certificate or brush up on my Spanish!

NE Law Tip of the Week:

"Early Leaving Incentive Program” (ELIP) moneys should have been considered marital property and included in the property division.
Simon v. Simon, 17 Neb. App. 834 (2009) A-08-1292,

Gay Man's Title VII Suit is revived by 3rd Circuit

The U.S. 3rd Circuit has ruled that an effeminate gay man must be allowed to pursue a Title VII claim alleging that he was targeted for harassment because he failed to conform to "gender stereotypes." The Circuit Court decided that a lower court erred when it declared that plaintiff Brian Prowel's sex discrimination claim was nothing more than "an artfully pleaded claim of sexual orientation discrimination."
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202433449001&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=NW_20090831&kw=3rd%20Circuit%20Revives%20Gay%20Man's%20Title%20VII%20Suit

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Son to his Father - Teddy Kennedy remembered by his son

Edward Kennedy, Jr., remembering his father, "I love you dad and I always will. I miss you already."

As all of America will....Teddy you will be sorely missed but our Dream lives on. RIP


http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/08/ted_kennedy_jrs.html

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

RIP - Senator Edward Kennedy

RIP, the great liberal lion has passed - Edward Kennedy joins John, Bobby and Martin in heaven #kennedy

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Iran confronts rape, murder & torture allegations

"Troubling news of kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder is flooding out of Iran.
Neda Aqa Soltan was murdered point-blank in the streets of Tehran for the whole world to see; while Sohrab Arabi was killed far from any global attention and his body given to his mother quietly to bury, as was the tortured body of Mohsen Ruholamini. These names have assumed symbolic significance for many more innocent young men and women murdered by the custodians of the Islamic Republic with a wanton disregard for the lives and liberties of its own citizens. Not just murder, but the rape of young men and women also is on the shameless roster of the Islamic Republic. . .Hamid Dabashi beleives the allegations of murder, rape and torture are testing Iran's Islamic Republic as never before."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/22/dabashi.iran.morality/index.html

Hamid Dabashi is the author of "Iran: A People Interrupted." He is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His Web site is http://www.hamiddabashi.com/.

Iranian boy who defied Iranian hardliners exposes his prison rape ordeal

". . . Reza’s ordeal began in mid-July when he was arrested with about 40 other teenagers during an opposition demonstration in a large provincial city. Most were too young even to have voted. They were taken to what he believes was a Basiji militia base where they were blindfolded, stripped to their underwear, whipped with cables and then locked in a steel shipping container. That first night Reza was singled out by three men in plain clothes who had masqueraded as prisoners. As the other boys watched, they pushed him to the ground. One held his head down, another sat on his back and the third urinated on him before raping him.
“They were telling us they were doing this for God, and who did we think we were that we could demonstrate,” Reza said. The men told the other boys they would receive the same treatment if they did not co-operate when interrogated the next day. . ."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6805885.ece

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Testimony of an innocent man, Farhad M., among us there were some whose colons had been ripped because of rape.

Report from Farhad M., who was imprisoned from July 9-27, 2009, he witnesses other men who were raped. On the 18th of Tir (July 9), I was walking not far from Fatemi street. The street was busy, but no one was chanting at that time. It was about 5:30 when two guys in plainclothes approached me from either side. It was interesting that at that moment I had no sense of being part of a demonstration and was just walking normally in the street. Still, I was nabbed and put into a car and left there until about 9 pm. Everyone in the car was blindfolded the whole time, and then we were driven somewhere. Three days later, I figured out that we had been driven to Motahari Street. There we were randomly assigned to an interrogator. My interrogation went on until 1 am, but I was not asked any questions. I was beaten with a cable and with other things without being asked a single question. Unfortunately, I had things in my backpack that made things worse for me: films of demonstrations on my mobile phone and a notebook of writing for my weblog. After three days, I was transferred to Evin. Others were sent to Kahrizak. I was lucky to be sent to Evin where I was kept in solitary for one week. Twice a day, I met with an interrogator. They did everything to get me to confess. To demonstrate to me that they had no belief in anything, they even burnt the Koran in front of me. When I was put in the cell with others, I understood that what happened to be was much better than what happened to the others. I was not raped.

Among us there were some whose colons had been ripped because of rape. In any case, I understood that all my conversations during the past three months had been recorded, and that they had everything. When they arrest someone and get their telephone number, they look at all of their email, all of their facebook activity, and all of their weblog activity. Because I had political posts on facebook, in my weblog, and in private correspondence, the accusations in my file are extremely serious: breaching national security and plans to overthrow the government, for which the worst punishment is execution. If you confess you get a lighter sentence, but still you have to have patience and wait for your court date, which has not been announced.
http://www.voteforiran.com/2009/08/the-arrest-beating-and-interrogation-of-farhad-m/

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Iran conservatives reject prisoner rape claims

Iran's powerful conservative camp rejected on Wednesday claims that election protesters were raped in custody and issued a stern warning to opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi for raising the allegations. However, others highlight jail rapes and abuses, "a number of detainees have said that some female detainees have been raped savagely. Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped," Karroubi said in a letter dated July 29... "
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090812/twl-iran-politics-unrest-575b600.html

Monday, August 3, 2009

85 year old protester--such an Iranian Lioness!

A 85 year old protester demands her vote back and says she wants to take it back fr0m Khamenei. A Must SEE...check it out!!!!! Pure Courage!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnTmQ7OFNBA