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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Child Pornography..Does not Stand for the "Catholic Religion"...Or Does it?
Teacher fired for posting naked pictures online - 19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|Breaking News, Weather, Exclusives
They wonder why..all of the "Catholic Churches" are Closed...In Northeast,Ohio...
They wonder why..all of the "Catholic Churches" are Closed...In Northeast,Ohio...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
It’s Official..Viktor Bout..Is now a Member of “The Half Stupid All The Way Dumb” Blogspot
Posted on April 5, 2012 by Maranda Law 2012 Wordpress.com
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout handed 25-year federal sentence
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 5:58 PM EDT, Thu April 5, 2012
The life of Viktor Bout is considered to have inspired the 2005 Nicolas Cage movie “Lord of War.”
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
■NEW: Viktor Bout is sentenced to 25 years in prison
■Bout was convicted last year on four counts stemming from weapons deals
■His lawyer wanted the conviction overturned and said the prosecution was ‘political’
(CNN) — Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced Thursday to 25 years behind bars by a federal judge in New York.
“I am not guilty,” Bout said through a translator. “I never intended to kill anyone. I never intended to sell any arms to anyone. God knows this is the truth.”
Last year Bout, who was dubbed “the merchant of death” by his accusers, was convicted on four counts of conspiracy to kill Americans, acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles and provide material support to a terrorist organization.
He had faced the possibility of life in prison.
At the trial, the prosecution said that during a 2008 sting operation by U.S. drug enforcement agents in Thailand, Bout believed he was selling weapons to Colombian guerrillas.
Bout guilty conspiring to kill Americans
Viktor Bout atty: ‘We intend to appeal’
His lawyer, Albert Dayan, filed a letter last week asking Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who presided over the trial and who set Bout’s sentence, to set aside the guilty verdict.
Dayan urged the judge not to “become an unwilling party” in what he called a “wrongful prosecution” for “purely political reasons.” He argued that the conviction is a “product of malice” and that Bout has been an “object of private politics” coming from Washington.
The lawyer claimed that Bout was picked out by the United States government and lured into a crime manufactured by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in which the agency played “the role of judge, jury and executioner. “
In his claim, Dayan insisted that Bout did not intend to sell any arms to the agents, that he had not sold any arms for several years and that the only thing he wanted to sell were two cargo airplanes, worth $5 million. Dayan stood by the claim that DEA officers baited his client into illegal activities.
“I do not profess, I do not argue that he’s an angel but he is innocent of these charges,” wrote Dayan. “I felt it was my duty to speak out and let the world know.”
According to the indictment, Bout was suspected of creating front companies that used his planes to deliver food and medical supplies, as well as arms.
After a sting operation in 2008 he was arrested in Thailand and in 2010 was extradited to the United States following a protracted court proceeding.
He was convicted in November after a three-week trial in New York.
Prior to his arrest, the DEA had struggled to draw Bout out of his Russian homeland, which is long thought to have sheltered and defended him.
Undercover agents met with Bout’s associates the world over, from Curacao to Copenhagen, in an attempt to set up a meeting with their target, according to the indictment.
The Russian businessman also has been accused of assembling a fleet of cargo planes to traffic military-grade weapons to conflict zones around the world since the 1990s.
Allegations of trafficking activities in Liberia prompted U.S. authorities to freeze his American assets in 2004 and prohibited U.S. transactions with him, according to the federal indictment.
Bout has maintained that he operated legitimate businesses and had acted as a mere logistics provider. His exact age is unclear, but he is believed to be in his late 40s or 50s, with his age in dispute due to different passports and documents.
The U.S. attorney’s office said it had no confirmed age.
Critics have accused Bout of providing arms to rebels in several countries and fueling bloody conflicts in places such as Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In 2000, then-British Foreign Office Peter Hain branded him “Africa’s chief merchant of death” at a time when Bout is believed to have supplied arms to officials in Sierra Leone, a former British colony then embroiled in civil war.
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout handed 25-year federal sentence
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 5:58 PM EDT, Thu April 5, 2012
The life of Viktor Bout is considered to have inspired the 2005 Nicolas Cage movie “Lord of War.”
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
■NEW: Viktor Bout is sentenced to 25 years in prison
■Bout was convicted last year on four counts stemming from weapons deals
■His lawyer wanted the conviction overturned and said the prosecution was ‘political’
(CNN) — Convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced Thursday to 25 years behind bars by a federal judge in New York.
“I am not guilty,” Bout said through a translator. “I never intended to kill anyone. I never intended to sell any arms to anyone. God knows this is the truth.”
Last year Bout, who was dubbed “the merchant of death” by his accusers, was convicted on four counts of conspiracy to kill Americans, acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles and provide material support to a terrorist organization.
He had faced the possibility of life in prison.
At the trial, the prosecution said that during a 2008 sting operation by U.S. drug enforcement agents in Thailand, Bout believed he was selling weapons to Colombian guerrillas.
Bout guilty conspiring to kill Americans
Viktor Bout atty: ‘We intend to appeal’
His lawyer, Albert Dayan, filed a letter last week asking Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who presided over the trial and who set Bout’s sentence, to set aside the guilty verdict.
Dayan urged the judge not to “become an unwilling party” in what he called a “wrongful prosecution” for “purely political reasons.” He argued that the conviction is a “product of malice” and that Bout has been an “object of private politics” coming from Washington.
The lawyer claimed that Bout was picked out by the United States government and lured into a crime manufactured by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in which the agency played “the role of judge, jury and executioner. “
In his claim, Dayan insisted that Bout did not intend to sell any arms to the agents, that he had not sold any arms for several years and that the only thing he wanted to sell were two cargo airplanes, worth $5 million. Dayan stood by the claim that DEA officers baited his client into illegal activities.
“I do not profess, I do not argue that he’s an angel but he is innocent of these charges,” wrote Dayan. “I felt it was my duty to speak out and let the world know.”
According to the indictment, Bout was suspected of creating front companies that used his planes to deliver food and medical supplies, as well as arms.
After a sting operation in 2008 he was arrested in Thailand and in 2010 was extradited to the United States following a protracted court proceeding.
He was convicted in November after a three-week trial in New York.
Prior to his arrest, the DEA had struggled to draw Bout out of his Russian homeland, which is long thought to have sheltered and defended him.
Undercover agents met with Bout’s associates the world over, from Curacao to Copenhagen, in an attempt to set up a meeting with their target, according to the indictment.
The Russian businessman also has been accused of assembling a fleet of cargo planes to traffic military-grade weapons to conflict zones around the world since the 1990s.
Allegations of trafficking activities in Liberia prompted U.S. authorities to freeze his American assets in 2004 and prohibited U.S. transactions with him, according to the federal indictment.
Bout has maintained that he operated legitimate businesses and had acted as a mere logistics provider. His exact age is unclear, but he is believed to be in his late 40s or 50s, with his age in dispute due to different passports and documents.
The U.S. attorney’s office said it had no confirmed age.
Critics have accused Bout of providing arms to rebels in several countries and fueling bloody conflicts in places such as Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In 2000, then-British Foreign Office Peter Hain branded him “Africa’s chief merchant of death” at a time when Bout is believed to have supplied arms to officials in Sierra Leone, a former British colony then embroiled in civil war.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
United States Mission to the OSCE
A bomb blast inside a crowded theater in Somalia’s capital claimed the lives of at least three people but did not kill the country’s prime minister and other top government officials who were present, media and African military reports said today.
According to an account by the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM), a female suicide bomber managed to blend in to a crowd that had gathered at Mogadishu’s National Theatre for a celebration for Somali TV’s first anniversary. When she detonated the explosive device, at least three people were reportedly killed, including two major sports figures: the secretary of Somalia’s soccer federation and the president of Somalia’s Olympic committee. Somalia’s prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, was standing at a podium to deliver a speech when the bomb went off but was not injured, The Associated Press reported.
An American State Department official told ABC News witnesses had reported the female suicide bomber appeared to be very young. He said it is still unclear what effect the attack will have on security and other planned events in the nation’s capital. The theater had been considered as the meeting place for an upcoming civic event where 800 leaders from across Somalia are expected to gather.
“This was a despicable crime against the Somali people but it will not stop us [from] achieving peace in Somalia,” AMISOM Deputy Force Commander Brig. Gen. Audace Nduwumunsi said in a statement. “I condemn it utterly and AMISOM stands alongside the government and families of the Somali people who have been bereaved.”
Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo
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According to an account by the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM), a female suicide bomber managed to blend in to a crowd that had gathered at Mogadishu’s National Theatre for a celebration for Somali TV’s first anniversary. When she detonated the explosive device, at least three people were reportedly killed, including two major sports figures: the secretary of Somalia’s soccer federation and the president of Somalia’s Olympic committee. Somalia’s prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, was standing at a podium to deliver a speech when the bomb went off but was not injured, The Associated Press reported.
An American State Department official told ABC News witnesses had reported the female suicide bomber appeared to be very young. He said it is still unclear what effect the attack will have on security and other planned events in the nation’s capital. The theater had been considered as the meeting place for an upcoming civic event where 800 leaders from across Somalia are expected to gather.
“This was a despicable crime against the Somali people but it will not stop us [from] achieving peace in Somalia,” AMISOM Deputy Force Commander Brig. Gen. Audace Nduwumunsi said in a statement. “I condemn it utterly and AMISOM stands alongside the government and families of the Somali people who have been bereaved.”
Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo
Somalis collect the body of a man killed in a… View Full Size
Looks Like "Political Studies"is Un-Healthy
A 54-year-old educator found dead in a midtown New York hotel room with blood coming out of his mouth was a dynamic and, at times, controversial figure in French academia.
There was "no evidence of a struggle" and no obvious trauma to Richard Descoings' body, New York police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Wednesday.
"We are awaiting the medical examiner's determination as to cause of death," Browne said.
Security personnel at the Michelangelo Hotel found Descoings dead in his bed Tuesday afternoon after he didn't check out of the hotel. He had blood coming out of his mouth, the city fire department said.
Descoings was the director of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, a prestigious French school -- known popularly as Sciences Po -- that has groomed many prominent officials in government and business in France. He was also a member of the French Council of State, a top government advisory body.
In a statement, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France expressed his condolences to Descoings' family, paying tribute to "the exceptional career of a great servant of the state, who devoted his whole life to his chosen cause of education without distraction."
During his 16 years in charge of Sciences Po, Descoings sought to bring more diversity to the illustrious institution, which is part of the elite group of French higher education establishments known as the "grandes ecoles."
He presided over a large increase in the number of international students attending the school, setting up alliances with leading institutions around the world, like Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
In 2001, Descoings introduced a program to promote the recruitment of students from disadvantaged neighborhoods. The approach was applauded by educational reformers but some commentators said it devalued the school's famously demanding entry requirements.
"France has today lost an eminent representative of the French school of political science -- somebody who worked tirelessly for our country's educational influence in the world," French foreign minister Alain Juppe said in a statement.
Descoings' wife, Nadia Marik, is in charge of strategy and development at Sciences Po.
Descoings was in New York with about 40 other heads of leading universities from around the world to attend the Global Colloquium, an annual event hosted this year by Columbia.
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, addressed the university heads Monday and dined with them, said Martin Nesirky, a U.N. spokesman. He said he believed Descoings was at the event.
The death of Descoings is the second dramatic event involving a high profile figure associated with Sciences Po that the New York police have had to investigate in the past year.
In May, they arrested Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on allegations that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room.
All criminal charges against Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who has taught economics classes at Sciences Po, were dismissed in August.
The accusations, which Strauss-Kahn denied, torpedoed his chances of running in the French presidential election this year.
Strauss-Kahn is under investigation in France over accusations of "aggravated pimping" after it was alleged he participated in a prostitution ring. He has pushed back against the accusations, saying he did not know young women at parties he attended were being paid for sex
There was "no evidence of a struggle" and no obvious trauma to Richard Descoings' body, New York police Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said Wednesday.
"We are awaiting the medical examiner's determination as to cause of death," Browne said.
Security personnel at the Michelangelo Hotel found Descoings dead in his bed Tuesday afternoon after he didn't check out of the hotel. He had blood coming out of his mouth, the city fire department said.
Descoings was the director of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, a prestigious French school -- known popularly as Sciences Po -- that has groomed many prominent officials in government and business in France. He was also a member of the French Council of State, a top government advisory body.
In a statement, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France expressed his condolences to Descoings' family, paying tribute to "the exceptional career of a great servant of the state, who devoted his whole life to his chosen cause of education without distraction."
During his 16 years in charge of Sciences Po, Descoings sought to bring more diversity to the illustrious institution, which is part of the elite group of French higher education establishments known as the "grandes ecoles."
He presided over a large increase in the number of international students attending the school, setting up alliances with leading institutions around the world, like Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
In 2001, Descoings introduced a program to promote the recruitment of students from disadvantaged neighborhoods. The approach was applauded by educational reformers but some commentators said it devalued the school's famously demanding entry requirements.
"France has today lost an eminent representative of the French school of political science -- somebody who worked tirelessly for our country's educational influence in the world," French foreign minister Alain Juppe said in a statement.
Descoings' wife, Nadia Marik, is in charge of strategy and development at Sciences Po.
Descoings was in New York with about 40 other heads of leading universities from around the world to attend the Global Colloquium, an annual event hosted this year by Columbia.
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, addressed the university heads Monday and dined with them, said Martin Nesirky, a U.N. spokesman. He said he believed Descoings was at the event.
The death of Descoings is the second dramatic event involving a high profile figure associated with Sciences Po that the New York police have had to investigate in the past year.
In May, they arrested Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on allegations that he sexually assaulted a maid in his hotel room.
All criminal charges against Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who has taught economics classes at Sciences Po, were dismissed in August.
The accusations, which Strauss-Kahn denied, torpedoed his chances of running in the French presidential election this year.
Strauss-Kahn is under investigation in France over accusations of "aggravated pimping" after it was alleged he participated in a prostitution ring. He has pushed back against the accusations, saying he did not know young women at parties he attended were being paid for sex
Monday, April 2, 2012
These Drugs have become,A "College" War..Across the Universe..
U.S. - US
Federal agents raid California marijuana university
Published April 02, 2012
| Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. – Federal agents on Monday raided a San Francisco Bay area medical marijuana training school at the heart of California's pot legalization movement.
The doors to Oaksterdam University in downtown Oakland were cordoned off by yellow tape and blocked by U.S. marshals. Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration carted trash bags of unknown materials out of the school to a waiting van.
Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, told reporters that agents were serving a federal search warrant but said she could not otherwise comment on the purpose of the raid.
"What we are doing here today is under seal," Lee said.
About a dozen protesters upset over the raid gathered out front of the multistory building adorned with a large mural that makes the school one of the neighborhood's most visible landmarks. Some of them smoked marijuana openly.
The demonstrators held signs demanding an end to federal crackdowns on medical marijuana.
Ryan Hooper, 26, of Oakland, wearing an Oaksterdam hat and sweatshirt, said he had finished taking courses at the school in February.
"This is not in the best interest of the city," Hooper said. "If they close the dispensaries, all of this stuff is going to go back underground."
Oaksterdam University was founded by Richard Lee, the main backer of the California ballot measure defeated in 2010 that would have legalized marijuana in the state for recreational use. The neighborhood has also been home to several medical marijuana dispensaries, including one founded by Lee.
Lee did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The city of Oakland has long allowed four medical marijuana dispensaries to legally operate under city ordinances and recently awarded permits that would allow four more to open.
At the same time, federal prosecutors across California have been working for months to shut down dispensaries by threatening to seize landlords' property if they did not evict marijuana retailers
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/02/federal-agents-raid-california-marijuana-university-1045970345/#ixzz1qvBiMhMQ
Federal agents raid California marijuana university
Published April 02, 2012
| Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. – Federal agents on Monday raided a San Francisco Bay area medical marijuana training school at the heart of California's pot legalization movement.
The doors to Oaksterdam University in downtown Oakland were cordoned off by yellow tape and blocked by U.S. marshals. Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration carted trash bags of unknown materials out of the school to a waiting van.
Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, told reporters that agents were serving a federal search warrant but said she could not otherwise comment on the purpose of the raid.
"What we are doing here today is under seal," Lee said.
About a dozen protesters upset over the raid gathered out front of the multistory building adorned with a large mural that makes the school one of the neighborhood's most visible landmarks. Some of them smoked marijuana openly.
The demonstrators held signs demanding an end to federal crackdowns on medical marijuana.
Ryan Hooper, 26, of Oakland, wearing an Oaksterdam hat and sweatshirt, said he had finished taking courses at the school in February.
"This is not in the best interest of the city," Hooper said. "If they close the dispensaries, all of this stuff is going to go back underground."
Oaksterdam University was founded by Richard Lee, the main backer of the California ballot measure defeated in 2010 that would have legalized marijuana in the state for recreational use. The neighborhood has also been home to several medical marijuana dispensaries, including one founded by Lee.
Lee did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
The city of Oakland has long allowed four medical marijuana dispensaries to legally operate under city ordinances and recently awarded permits that would allow four more to open.
At the same time, federal prosecutors across California have been working for months to shut down dispensaries by threatening to seize landlords' property if they did not evict marijuana retailers
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/02/federal-agents-raid-california-marijuana-university-1045970345/#ixzz1qvBiMhMQ
Can't Say...I'll Miss Them!!Come back When y'all can't stay so long..
Al-Qaeda’s online forums go dark for extended period
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Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days in what experts say is the longest sustained outage of the sites since they began operating eight years ago.
No one has publicly claimed responsibility for disabling the sites, but the breadth and the duration of the outages have prompted some experts to conclude the forums have been taken down in a cyberattack — launched perhaps by a government, government-backed organization or hacking group.
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Al-Qaeda’s main Web forums have been offline for the past 11 days in what experts say is the longest sustained outage of the sites since they began operating eight years ago.
No one has publicly claimed responsibility for disabling the sites, but the breadth and the duration of the outages have prompted some experts to conclude the forums have been taken down in a cyberattack — launched perhaps by a government, government-backed organization or hacking group.
Thank God..
Two suspected cannibals were arrested in two separate murder cases in Russia, officials said Monday.
Alexander Bychkov, 24, is accused of murdering at least six people in the small town of Belinsky, western Russia, then cutting out their livers and eating them, the Izvestia newspaper reported.
Police initially arrested Bychkov over a theft but during the interrogation he suddenly started talking about corpses he had buried near his house.
A disabled man named Alexander Zhuplov was convicted of some of the murders last year, in what may have been a miscarriage of justice, according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile officials in Vladivostok, eastern Russia, announced they had arrested a 35-year-old man who confessed to killing and eating one of his friends after a drinking session, AFP reported.
The suspect said he killed a 41-year-old friend after drinking strong alcohol on March 21. He then ate some of the remains with a friend and stored the rest of the body in the fridge, investigators said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/26/two-suspected-cannibals-arrested-in-russia/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz1qv4lbrun
Alexander Bychkov, 24, is accused of murdering at least six people in the small town of Belinsky, western Russia, then cutting out their livers and eating them, the Izvestia newspaper reported.
Police initially arrested Bychkov over a theft but during the interrogation he suddenly started talking about corpses he had buried near his house.
A disabled man named Alexander Zhuplov was convicted of some of the murders last year, in what may have been a miscarriage of justice, according to the newspaper.
Meanwhile officials in Vladivostok, eastern Russia, announced they had arrested a 35-year-old man who confessed to killing and eating one of his friends after a drinking session, AFP reported.
The suspect said he killed a 41-year-old friend after drinking strong alcohol on March 21. He then ate some of the remains with a friend and stored the rest of the body in the fridge, investigators said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/26/two-suspected-cannibals-arrested-in-russia/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz1qv4lbrun
"A Movie"?Children don't have time,For Movies,Law Makers and Congress..Once again.
Democratic congresswoman Linda Sanchez (Calif.) hopes the controversial new film "Bully" will raise awareness about bullying in schools across the country.
Sanchez is a sponsor for the "Safe Schools Improvement Act", bi-partisan legislation designed to prevent students from being bullied and harassed. The legislation would ban bullying, collect information on harassment, and provide technical assistance to school districts. Sanchez also introduced the "Put School Counselors where They're Needed Act" which creates additional funding for secondary counselors in troubled schools, in an effort to reduce drop out rates. "Bully" chronicles the lives of several children being bullying in school. But it's not the subject matter causing a stir, it is the rating. The film received an "R" rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) because explicit language is used multiple times.
Critics feel the "R" rating will prevent a lot of kids from seeing what they feel is an important movie.
Sanchez told Fox News the MPAA rating is counter-intuitive and counter-productive. "I think there is a fundamental problem with that, because this movie is a documentary it's not scripted it's not somebody else's words being put into student's mouths this is actual reality. This is what happens to kids every single day when they go to school," said Sanchez.Despite petitions for a lower rating, the MPAA would not budge. As a result, the film's studio, The Weinstein Company, has decided to run "Bully" with no rating.
The movie opened in New York and Los Angeles theaters on Friday. Movie industry insiders acknowledge that is unusual for films to run unrated. Since the film has no rating, most movie theaters will treat "Bully" as R-Rated or won't carry the film at all.
Sanchez hopes that despite the treatment of film, parents will take their children to the film.
For its part, the MPAA released a statement that reads, "we believe this film raises an important conversation on the subject of bullying in our nation's schools and respect the right of The Weinstein Company to choose to release this film unrated." The Safe Schools Improvement Act was introduced last April and has been referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/04/02/congresswoman-believes-movie-bully-will-help-pass-laws#comments#ixzz1qv2t9JaR
Sanchez is a sponsor for the "Safe Schools Improvement Act", bi-partisan legislation designed to prevent students from being bullied and harassed. The legislation would ban bullying, collect information on harassment, and provide technical assistance to school districts. Sanchez also introduced the "Put School Counselors where They're Needed Act" which creates additional funding for secondary counselors in troubled schools, in an effort to reduce drop out rates. "Bully" chronicles the lives of several children being bullying in school. But it's not the subject matter causing a stir, it is the rating. The film received an "R" rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) because explicit language is used multiple times.
Critics feel the "R" rating will prevent a lot of kids from seeing what they feel is an important movie.
Sanchez told Fox News the MPAA rating is counter-intuitive and counter-productive. "I think there is a fundamental problem with that, because this movie is a documentary it's not scripted it's not somebody else's words being put into student's mouths this is actual reality. This is what happens to kids every single day when they go to school," said Sanchez.Despite petitions for a lower rating, the MPAA would not budge. As a result, the film's studio, The Weinstein Company, has decided to run "Bully" with no rating.
The movie opened in New York and Los Angeles theaters on Friday. Movie industry insiders acknowledge that is unusual for films to run unrated. Since the film has no rating, most movie theaters will treat "Bully" as R-Rated or won't carry the film at all.
Sanchez hopes that despite the treatment of film, parents will take their children to the film.
For its part, the MPAA released a statement that reads, "we believe this film raises an important conversation on the subject of bullying in our nation's schools and respect the right of The Weinstein Company to choose to release this film unrated." The Safe Schools Improvement Act was introduced last April and has been referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/04/02/congresswoman-believes-movie-bully-will-help-pass-laws#comments#ixzz1qv2t9JaR
Thank God..They Captured This Suspect
(CNN) -- Police captured a suspect in a shooting at a California religious college that resulted in "multiple fatalities" Monday, an Oakland police spokeswoman said.
Several other wounded people were taken to hospitals, police said.
A SWAT team entered Oikos University in East Oakland to make sure no other shooters or wounded people were on the campus building, police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.
"We are interviewing the witnesses right now to try to determine if this person is known to them," Watson said, shortly before confirming that a suspect was in custody.
Aeriel news video showed what appeared to be several bodies covered by tarps on the ground outside of the building.
Gunfire erupted inside the single-story building that houses the private Christian college at about 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), according to Lucas Garcia, who was teaching an English class when it began.
Garcia told CNN affiliate KGO-TV that he counted about six gunshots from a nearby nursing classroom when he heard someone yell, "He's got a gun."
Garcia evacuated his students from the building while the gunfire continued, he said.
The college offers degrees in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine, according to its website.
CNN's Augie Martin contributed to this report.
Several other wounded people were taken to hospitals, police said.
A SWAT team entered Oikos University in East Oakland to make sure no other shooters or wounded people were on the campus building, police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.
"We are interviewing the witnesses right now to try to determine if this person is known to them," Watson said, shortly before confirming that a suspect was in custody.
Aeriel news video showed what appeared to be several bodies covered by tarps on the ground outside of the building.
Gunfire erupted inside the single-story building that houses the private Christian college at about 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), according to Lucas Garcia, who was teaching an English class when it began.
Garcia told CNN affiliate KGO-TV that he counted about six gunshots from a nearby nursing classroom when he heard someone yell, "He's got a gun."
Garcia evacuated his students from the building while the gunfire continued, he said.
The college offers degrees in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine, according to its website.
CNN's Augie Martin contributed to this report.
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