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Police Officers In Urbana Schools a Bad Idea -- here's the facts. |
by Sascha Meinrath
meinrath (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified) |
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16 May 2001
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Many people have asked that I make public the document I entered into the public record at last Monday's City Council meeting. The transcript of what I read is below along with references where I collected these facts. The end conclusion is that placement of police officers in Urbana (or any public) schools is detrimental to the school's social climate, and has no proven positive effects. I have been told that Champaign has already done away with the program, hopefully Urbana will follow suit. |
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Oh No Not Another Coverup "Senators Criticize the F.B.I. Over McVeigh Documents |
by J.C.
Warrior1777 (nospam) msn.com (unverified) |
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16 May 2001
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"Any kind of failure at the F.B.I., anything that happens at the F.B.I. that calls into question something they did or failed to do, leads to a lot of mistrust with the American people," said Senator Richard C. Shelby, a Republican from Alabama and chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, after his panel met in a closed session with Louis J. Freeh, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The CIA's Contract Employees |
by Commandante Lucas
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15 May 2001
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Since these folks have showed up in the news lately in connection with the shooting down of a missionary plane in Peru that killed a woman and her daughter with one shot, I thought you might want to know more about the not-officially CIA people that complicate our lives. The comments about use by the CIA of contract employees in penetrating academia and the Peace Corps is particularly interesting. |
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IMC network proposals presented at SF conference |
by Guy Berliner
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15 May 2001
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These are some urls for proposals that were presented at the Press Freedom Conference in San Francisco, April 27-29. About 70 people from many IMCs in the US and elsewhere attended. |
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May 15, 1969: People's Park, Berkley, California |
by Mike Lehman
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15 May 2001
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Here is another one of the May holidays that are a part of the history of the masses. "Bloody Thursday," May 15, 1969, was the result of police firing on people in an indiscriminate manner, killing one citizen and blinding another. The time line below is from the People's Park website. The link will take you to extensive coverage about the events surrounding this small piece of earth. Follow link to "Young Girl's Diary: Planning -- Excerpts from Wendy Schlesinger's diary" for a particularly interesting story about the park. |
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Federal Judiciary's On-Going Contribution To Secret Government |
by Steven Aftergood via ML
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15 May 2001
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The American judicial system is becoming increasingly unpredictable due to the widespread practice of withholding appellate court decisions from publication. Because court rulings cannot be cited as precedent unless they are published, critics say that unpublished decisions undermine judicial consistency, erode litigants' expectation of equal protection under the law and encourage ad hoc rulings by judges. |
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