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Body-worn cameras.
http://www.spycentre.com/body_worn_video.htm

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.


--Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

Hey fka, Not to worry!

I was glad to see the stories. (and thanks for the search tip, too) I was just taken aback by  my own reaction to seeing and reading them all in one place at one time.

Like a big fat bolus of  time-long-gone shot into the vein.

Psychedelics often produce psychotic and even violent behavior in those who have never used them.
--Timothy Leary

On 2005-04-09 05:55:00, miseducated wrote:

"Erinys, could you put up the link to where VA has court papers online? Thanks!"

OK, here's the links to VA courts:

Start here
http://www.courts.state.va.us/cc/circuit.htm

Good informative page on types of cases, civil,  criminal and chancery.  I think it would be  Farquier County Circuit Court

My next step took me here:

http://208.210.219.132/vacircuit/select ... Q:ulnfn1uq

Then here:
http://208.210.219.132/vacircuit/select ... Q:ulnfn1uq

Found nothing and abandoned the project.

The Anon above is probably correct. The case was filed in Utah.  I tried to search Utah cases but it's a lotta web slogging.

You know, if Mama Cass Elliot would have shared that damn sandwich
with Karen Carpenter, they would both still be alive today!!!!!!!

--chongo

On "Desperate Housewives" Teen boy awakened by parents "it's to help you -It's just a few weeks"  Then the bruisers come in.
Caught the scene late last night while surfing channels.
I don't follow  "Desperate Housewives" so I don't know if this is a continuing thread.

But the the issue coming to light!

Just my .02

Every man has a property in his own person.
This nobody has any right to but himself.
The labor of his body and the work of his
 hands are properly his.


--John Locke

[ This Message was edited by: Erinys on 2005-04-04 11:53 ][ This Message was edited by: Erinys on 2005-04-04 11:54 ]

I posted this in "Free for All"  but it's worth another go
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It started out innocently enough.

I began to think at parties now and then --just to loosen up.

Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon

I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.

Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.

That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

I began to think on the job.

I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

This gave me a lot to think about.

I came home early after my conversation with the boss.

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"

"But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"

"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently.

She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche.

I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors... They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.

Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting.

At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.

Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.

I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure.
-- Albert Einstein

Chi3, I think you should write one!  Tell your story exactly as it happened!

PS I wish to offer my services to Warbis Holistic Educational Enterprises (WHEE) As a Fine Arts teacher.

Students will participate in an Art In The Community project.

Students will be expected provide some of their own tools and equipment including:

36 cans of spray paint in assorted colors
2 gallons exterior house paint , any color
Acetylene torch
Bolt cutters
Night vision goggles

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826400035/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'> Gandhi

More:

http://stpetetimes.com/2005/03/23/Neigh ... reli.shtml

Chapel leaves up religious symbols


Christ at the Sea Foundation hasn't met conditions set at a hearing. One resident threatens to sue.
By SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA
Published March 23, 2005
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MADEIRA BEACH - A controversial private chapel is again in violation of city codes and faces a potential fine of up to $500 a day unless its owners remove all exterior religious symbols.

The city has formally cited Christ at the Sea Foundation for failing to comply with conditions set during a hearing last month before Special Master Herbert Langford Jr.

Chief among those conditions were removal of the church's roof-top cupola and cross, as well as all other religious symbols and signage on the exterior of the building, located at 13280 Fourth St. E.

None of those conditions have been met, Director of Community Development Paula Cohen says.

Now, the foundation and its leader, Dr. Miller Newton, will have to appear once again before Langford, this time sitting as the city's special master for code violations. The hearing is set for 2 p.m. April 13 at City Hall.

If no resolution can be reached, the city could levy fines of up to $500 a day - and even a jail term of up to 60 days, according to Cohen.

Only two things could stop this process - compliance with the conditions set by Langford or a court injunction.

Meanwhile, residents in the area, who originally protested conversion of part of a single family home into a private chapel, are not pleased.

An e-mail sent by resident James Kelley to Mayor Charles Parker two weeks ago castigated the city for failing to take action against Newton and the foundation.

"I am considering suing the city for failure to enforce its zoning laws," wrote Kelley, who accused Parker and City Manager Jill Silverboard of favoring Newton and his church.

However, Parker said Friday that he "believes in the legal process" and approves the code violations filed against Newton.

"Mr. Newton had his day in court (the special master hearing) and he has apparently refused to comply with that ruling. He will have to bear the consequences," Parker says.

But, Newton may be seeking a different kind of "day in court." His attorney, Rena Lindevaldsen of Liberty Counsel, wrote to the city recently declaring Newton's intent to fight the special master ruling in federal court.

"It is unconstitutional for a government entity to impose a land use regulation on a religious organization," Lindevaldsen wrote. "(The order) has created a substantial burden on the ability of Christ at the Sea to use its property in furtherance of its mission."

She asked the city to halt its code violation hearing process until the issue could be decided in federal court.

No federal lawsuit has yet been filed. The deadline for appealing Langford's conditions in state Circuit Court has passed.

Silverboard said the city's attorney instructed her not to postpone the code hearing unless a court stay or injunction is issued.

The home on the property was expanded, with city permitting, in 1998 to include a recreation structure that has since been used, in violation of city code, as a private chapel for the Orthodox Church of Antioch. Newton is a priest in the church and originally owned the building before turning it over to the foundation.

The controversy began months ago when neighbors protested the building of a cupola with a cross on the roof of the foundation's building, which is in a residential neighborhood. The foundation uses the building as a temporary residence and prayer center for members of the church.

Newton then applied for a special exception to use the property as a church to resolve the dispute.

Langford's final ruling in February not only required the removal of all religious symbols on the exterior of the property, but also restricted the use of the building, as well as the type and number of services and the number of people who could participate in those services.
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Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds.
--Emily Bronte

Just posted today on  Wes Fager's site

update 3/29/05 Father Cassian Newton (formerly known as Reverend Doctor Miller Newton), Straight's former national clinical director, has motion filed against him to revoke his final decree of bankruptcy. Father Cassian, a board member of a DFAF subsidiary, was recently in the news applying for a permit to run a chapel in Florida. After Newton and his team settled with former clients for $11.5 million for abuse in New Jersey he filed for bankruptcy. You were probably wondering along with us where he got the money to buy and operate a chapel. So is his bankruptcy trustee Stephen Meininger. On July 24 Meininger filed a motion with Bankruptcy Court in Tampa to revoke the final decree. The motion will be heard before Judge Glenn on April 29 at 9:00 AM.

Everybody's lost just waiting to be found. Everyone's a thought just waiting to fade.
-- Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins