Stuart Parnell Is A Killer!

Stuart Parnell is the owner of Peanut Corporation of America. The company that killed at least eight people. I just found out he owns a plant in Texas that was shipping salmonella laced peanut butter until yesterday. He knew he was doing it from the Georgia plant and now the Texas plant how many people must he kill before the government arrests the man. He should get life in prison.
To make grolaw at They Gave Us A Republic happy Stuart Parnell is a rat bastard. I think you should click through and read his take on Mr Parnell.

Total Scumbags!

Two judges plead guilty to sending kids to a private prison for cash. Of course, the article says that is not in their plea deal. But that is what the scumbags did. So far none of the corporate assholes have been charged. They need to go to prison too. It should be illegal to have private prisons. One girl got three months for a mock website that made fun of a school administrator. It is not clear if prosecutors were involved. I predict law suits. Put that company out of business.
Via TPM

Once Again

If you are going to commit a crime, do not post the details online. Typo vigilantes are now paying for their crimes.

Jeff Michael Deck, 28, of Somerville, Mass., and Benjamin Douglas Herson, 28, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Flagstaff after damaging a rare, hand-painted sign in Grand Canyon National Park. They were sentenced to a year's probation, during which they cannot enter any national park, and were ordered to pay restitution.

According to court records, Deck and Herson toured the United States from March to May, wiping out errors on government and private signs. On March 28, while at Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim, they used a white-out product and a permanent marker to deface a sign painted more than 60 years ago by artist Mary Colter. The sign, a National Historic Landmark, was considered unique and irreplaceable, according to Sandy Raynor, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix.

They maintained a website that had details of their activities. The pictures and prose were used to convict the two men.

The Bird Man Of

Marilia.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne.

Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced.

How Bizarre

Fourth severed foot found.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Another severed human foot has been discovered washed ashore on Canada's Pacific coast, but police are no closer to solving the gruesome mystery.

The foot, still wearing a shoe, was discovered on Thursday on a small uninhabited island south of Vancouver in the Strait of Georgia, and is the fourth discovered in the region in the past 10 months.

The previous cases all involved right feet still in sneakers, and each was found on a different island.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have not said if the latest discovery was a right or left foot.

DNA testing has failed to link the earlier discoveries to any missing person cases.

Police State

This should be hard to believe,but sadly it is not.

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.

But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer.

The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties. It has gained fame on YouTube.com.

Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.

The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol."

Suspended for drinking out of red cups. Get a life school officials. The police should be able to tell if the kids are drinking. But they had to be assholes.

Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.

Freedom

The video is of Ritchie Havens sing the song Freedom/Motherless Child.

In honor of Don Siegalman being released from prison. It was Bush league justice that got him convicted.

Help Stop Crime

I always get a big kick out of it when one of the the big bloggers, a congressman or a senator e-mails me. Today, I got an e-mail from Jane Hamshire of Firedoglake and Kos of dailykos. It seems John McCain is breaking the law on a daily basis. He agreed to FEC spending limits and has now spent more a criminal act. Please sign this petition.

Lawless George

A New York Times Editorial. This is what the FISA bill is all about.

Finally, Mr. Bush said it was vital to national security to give amnesty to any company that turned over data on Americans without a court order. The purpose of this amnesty is not to protect national secrets — that could be done during a trial — but to make sure that the full damage to Americans’ civil liberties is never revealed. Mr. Bush also objects to a provision that would create a committee to examine his warrantless spying program.

Mr. Bush wanted the House to approve the Senate’s version of the bill, which includes Mr. Bush’s amnesty and does not do nearly as good a job of preserving Americans’ rights. We were glad the House ignored his bluster. If the Senate cannot summon the courage and good sense to follow suit, there is no rush to pass a law.

The president will continue to claim the country is in grave danger over this issue, but it is not. The real danger is for Mr. Bush. A good law — like the House bill — would allow Americans to finally see the breathtaking extent of his lawless behavior.

Read it all.

Prison Industrial Complex

I am sure everybody saw that the US is the worlds biggest jailer. 1 in 100 in prison. I liked Libby's response.

This harebrained policy is driven largely by the new prison-industrial complex that contributes heavily to politicians and is supported by small communities whose economic security depends on housing the prisons.

What's missing in the reactions to this story is the nexus between the war on marijuana and prison overcrowding. The root of the problem and the solution both lie there. Non-violent marijuana offenders make up a large percentage of the population. The communities who benefit from prison expansion are largely those who formerly thrived on agricultural enterprises. The obvious fix would be to legalize marijuana and industrial hemp.

These communites could then make a living on raising farm crops again instead of on caging their fellow Americans. Furthermore, the industry would be contributing revenue to the tax base, rather than sucking tax dollars out of the municipal coffers simply to punish our citizens for non-violent, non-infringing lifestyle choices.

Indicted

Gary Hilton has been indicted in Florida.

A Florida grand jury indicted Gary Michael Hilton on Thursday on charges he killed a nurse and Sunday school teacher, beheading her as he did a young woman he met hiking in the North Georgia Mountains on New Year's Day, according to the Leon County, Fla., Sheriff's Office.

Sgt. Tony Drzewiecki of the Leon County Sheriff's Office in Tallahassee said a grand jury indicted Hilton on one count each of murder and kidnapping and two counts of grand theft. The indictment came less than a month after Hilton pleaded guilty to the murder of hiker Meredith Emerson in North Georgia.

The case against him in Florida is in the death of Cheryl Dunlap, 46, who disappeared Dec. 1. A hunter found Dunlap's decapitated body in Apalachicola National Forest near Tallahassee on Dec. 15. In the days between her disappearance and the discovery of her body, a masked person tried to use her ATM card on three separate occasions, another aspect of the case involving Dunlap that was similar to events in Emerson's abduction and death.

Florida prosecutors could not be reached Thursday evening, so it was not immediately known whether they planned to seek the death penalty against the 61-year-old transient.

Charm City's Finest

Ah, Baltimore's police force at work. It is good to see the police harasiing teenagers. It is not like they have anything better to do in Baltimore.

IDK

Mukasey: No, I Will Not Enforce Citations for Contempt of Congress

Mukasey: The Law Is What The Justice Department Says It Is

Political Prosecution

Scott Horton of Harpers discusses the prosecution of Sue Schmitz. It would be hard to believe except we as a country have been Bushed. It really is a great article.

Let’s just pause and look at what’s going on here. A massive federal case has been launched, at a likely taxpayer cost in excess of $2 million, against a social studies teacher, who it is alleged (on the basis of sharply disputed evidence) was not putting in as many hours as she should have in teaching her classes. This has to count as one of the more absurd (if not malicious) cases I’ve seen in recent years. And remember, this is a Justice Department that can’t spare an FBI agent to look into, or a prosecutor to handle, a gang rape case involving Jamie Leigh Jones, or any of the dozens of other cases involving rape, assault and homicide in Iraq. They’re not “priorities.” On the other hand, bringing charges against Democratic office holders has been a very high priority from the day Bush took office, and it continues to be so today.

Stop Crime Ban College Football

Over at Freakanomics they have a post about college football and crime. It seems drunk people on the street cause crime. Pissed drunk people cause more crime.