Hey ya'll. I just thought you might want to take a look over at the (relatively) new
http://www.caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MA ... mails2.htmhttp://www.caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MA ... mails3.htmhttp://www.caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MA ... ls%204.htmhttp://www.caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MA ... ls%205.htm From the article (copied below)
"Bush said he would meet Tuesday with Tunnell but did not indicate whether they would discuss the e-mails."
::blushing:: Uh ohhhhh! Guy has already lost his responsibilities. Now it's time for the comedown rap where anything could happen. He might be started over or placed on refresher for clicking and talking behind backs.
How do you think that might go?
"E-mail is a very difficult thing," Bush said. "It's a means of public communication and on matters that relate to investigations, I think making sure that people stay focused and disciplined on these things protects the folks that are being investigated, and is also more respectful for the people who are grieving."
That's so fucked up, Guy! Where in the hell was your awareness at, up your ass!?!? Do you even care about this group at all!? I think you're just selfish! You don't care about anybody but yourself. Do you even care what this does to Group? To Frankie? I think you're fucking up! How long have you been clicking, Guy? Come on, how long!? Your selfishness just disgusts me!
How do you think that makes me feel, Guy? How do you think Frankie feels right now, Guy!? You know, he looked up to you. He thought you were his friend! Yeah, right! Druggie friend is more like it! How are you going to feel, Guy, when Frankie goes out and dies with a needle in his arm?! All because you had your awareness up your ass!
You both lose all of your responsibilities as of now. Now you just sit and think about what you've done till Tuesday when we dicide what to do with you.
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Seriously, folks. If anybody's serious about actually doing something instead of sitting and griping, here's your chance. Read up on this issue at the above link. Post any related articles that don't turn up there.
http://www.caica.org/ has a really good collection too. Consider writing to the various newspapers if the spirit moves you. Here's a really good media contact list.
http://www.mapinc.org/resource/email.htmlHave lots of good fun! :wave:
full article
Gov. Bush: Official Shouldn't Have E-Mailed
By BRENT KALLESTAD
The Associated Press
Tuesday, March 28, 2006; 8:45 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's top investigator should not have communicated privately with a county sheriff while the state investigated the death of a teenager who was punched and kicked by guards at the county's boot camp, Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday.
Guy Tunnell, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, exchanged several e-mails with Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen and others about the investigation and the department's effort to withhold a video showing the beating of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.
Tunnell started Bay County's boot camp at Panama City when he was Bay County's sheriff. He also is a friend of McKeithen's.
"E-mail is a very difficult thing," Bush said. "It's a means of public communication and on matters that relate to investigations, I think making sure that people stay focused and disciplined on these things protects the folks that are being investigated, and is also more respectful for the people who are grieving."
Bush said he would meet Tuesday with Tunnell but did not indicate whether they would discuss the e-mails.
In several e-mails, Tunnell criticized people who questioned the effectiveness of the boot camp concept, according to the documents obtained by The Miami Herald.
He also forwarded to McKeithen an e-mail detailing the agency's effort to withhold the video showing guards hitting Anderson, who died several hours later on Jan. 6.
After two lawmakers asked to see the video, Tunnell wrote in an e-mail to department staffers: "Ain't gonna happen."
Tunnell acknowledged Tuesday that it has been difficult to remain neutral.
"I am a Bay County native and I'm proud of it, but I think FDLE's reputation (of) being straightforward, professional and calling it like it is is well-known," he said. "I don't see any tarnish."
Bush said Tunnell's agency has played a secondary role in the case since he brought in a state attorney.
The Panama City boot camp has since been closed.
Anderson collapsed while doing exercises during his first day at the camp. The Bay County sheriff's office, which runs the camp, has said the guards were trying to get him to participate after he became uncooperative.
An initial autopsy found the boy died from complications of sickle cell trait, but a nationally known pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, said after observing a second autopsy that Anderson likely was suffocated during the confrontation at the camp.
© 2006 The Associated Press
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