Legal System

I left the headline as KING 5 had it.  I always disliked the mainstream press labelling Rachel "protester". USA Today had a photo of Rachel burning a mock flag at an earlier demonstration which they ran with their single column inch story at the time. Reduce it so people can feel they understand it and go on to the next story. -Rick 

by ERIC WILKINSON / KING 5 News

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM

The link to the video:   read more »

By William Fisher

NEW
YORK, Feb 28, 2010 (IPS) - Legal headaches are growing exponentially
for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater – once the darling
of the military-industrial community.

In separate
developments, two former employees of the company charged that the
security firm committed "systematic fraud" under its contracts with the
U.S. State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan; the Iraqi government
announced it would seize heavy weapons from foreign security firms and
expel ex-Blackwater contractors still in the country; and a U.S. Senate
hearing learned that Blackwater employees stole more than 500 assault  read more »

Leana Stormont became (as noted here earlier) the third person subpoenaed by that grand jury in Davenport, Iowa which is out to get animal rights activists however they can. One man, Scott DeMuth has been indicted and is free on bond. One woman, Carrie Feldman, has been locked up since before thanksgiving for heroically refusing to cooperate with the grand jury.

Leana was a graduate student at the University of Iowa at the time of the ALF raid on a lab on campus. That action saw the rescue of 401 animals from the Spence psychology labs in an overnight raid by the ALF. She was a visible animal rights activist at the time and has been on the Feds radar screen ever since.  read more »

Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/

Well now. How will the British respond to the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Britain's stop and search policies in the six counties of northern Ireland are illegal and a violation of human rights. I'll tell you how. They'll ignore it. AFP reports reacting to the ruling, London's Metropolitan Police said that, as the British government is seeking to appeal the ruling, Section 44 "remains in force in specified locations across London". I'd guess that would apply to the occupied north of Ireland as well.  read more »