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Court rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education

 

http://michigancitiz...blic-education/

 

 

 

"In 1993, the New Hampshire Supreme Court interpreted Part II, Article 83 of the New Hampshire Constitution to guarantee students a right to a public education. In 1997, the New Hampshire school funding system was found unconstitutional and the legislature and governor were ordered to define the components of a constitutionally adequate education, cost them out and pay for them with taxes that were equal across the state."

 

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The other side of the story...

 

Exclusive: Police Officer Darren Wilson Explains How He Feared for His Life

 

https://gma.yahoo.com/exclusive-police-officer-darren-wilson-explains-feared-life-233000976--abc-news-topstories.html

 

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson has spoken out to ABC News for the first time publicly since fatally shooting a black teenager, Michael Brown, and he said that he would not do anything differently.

 

Speaking exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Wilson said that Brown reached into his police car and grabbed for his gun, causing Wilson to fear for his life.

 

"All I wanted to do was live," said Wilson, who the grand jury declined to indict in connection with the fatal shooting in August.

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“In November 1998, with House Republicans weighing whether to impeach President Clinton, ABC News asked Americans who they would rather have as a Thanksgiving dinner guest, Monica Lewinsky or Kenneth Starr. The narrow winner was the volunteered response "neither" (35 percent). Those respondents with a preference divided evenly (32 percent each) between the former presidential intern and the special prosecutor.â€

 

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In Ferguson, blacks say racial bias is fact of life

 

 

Ferguson, US - When Sean Jackson became a father, he says he knew he needed to teach his son how to interact with police so as to avoid arrest -- or worse. Such is the life of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

 

Ferguson is at boiling point over a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager, and African Americans here are furious over police brutality, racism and what they say is daily profiling.

 

"Listen. This is what most white people don’t understand," says the 45-year-old Jackson, standing outside the burnt-out ruins of a store after the worst night of violence the St Louis suburb has seen since Michael Brown, 18, was killed in August.

 

"Any black man driving through Ferguson is a nervous man because he’s worried about the police pulling him over.

 

"You’re nervous about getting killed or getting locked up, or a ticket -- you’re hoping for a ticket. When every day you’re living your life and you have to be nervous -- it’s not fun."

 

Local residents have staged protests ever since Brown was shot dead. On Monday, they degenerated into looting and arson after a grand jury cleared officer Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing.

 

Jackson says he has been harassed by police multiple times. He taught his son, now 25, to keep put his hands up, and say "yes sir, no sir" if he is ever stopped.

 

"We do have to teach our sons how to deal with the police so they don’t get killed," he said, describing St Louis as one of the most prejudiced cities in the United States.

 

"People here get so in tune with that we don’t even notice it -- people from outside are hollering about it. Man, you know what? Time for change."

 

The US Bureau of Justice Statistics says of the 2,931 "arrest-related" homicides from 2003 to 2009, almost all were men and more than half aged 25 to 44.

 

Blacks suffer disproportionately. Blacks made up 32 per cent of the casualties, yet just 13 per cent of the population.

 

According to a Justice Department report, blacks and Hispanics are three times more likely to be searched during a traffic stop than whites, and four times as likely to experience the use of force in encounters with police.

 

One in three African-American males can expect to spend time in prison, while black high school students are far more likely to be arrested than white classmates, the liberal Center for American Progress think tank has noted.

 

Men here say they know they could have been in Brown’s place on August 9. "I understand it as a black male, to know that could have been me shot," said Darrell Alexander, 56, a retired registered nurse, touring the riot-hit area.

 

"Justice is still not being served so the young people are mad, and they have every right to be. This was blatantly racism, the whole situation."

 

Alexander is a supporter of Copwatch, an organisation that researches complaints against police officers in a bid to promote public safety and ensure officers remain accountable.

 

Two summers ago, he says he was pulled over by St Louis County police at midnight as he drove into his affluent neighborhood, his hair in dreads, on a bogus insurance call, which was later thrown out in court.

 

"It was because it was 12 am, I didn’t look like I lived in that neighborhood... I didn’t look the part so I was ticketed and these are the kind of unnecessary things that we have to go through," Alexander said.

 

"These are the types of things that white privileged America can’t understand because they don’t see it. It doesn’t happen to them."

 

MZ Tay, a nurse wearing a "no justice, no peace" T-shirt who was so upset she was nearly in tears, warned that Ferguson was in for a bumpy ride in the coming days.

 

"This is not going to fly. This is going to get so much worse before it gets better. I can see other places getting burned down," she told AFP.

 

"This is just the beginning because everyone is still hurting. Everyone is just so in uproar, how is it we still live in slavery days."

 

She also said she now kept a camera in her car to record the number of times she has been pulled over in her expensive vehicle.

 

Ferguson’s police department is overwhelmingly white, even though its population over two decades has grown to become two-thirds African-American.

 

Terrence Williams, 23, spent Tuesday picking up trash from the side of the road. He said he had been out volunteering since 7:00 am.

 

Williams has a degree in criminal justice and dreams of joining the police force -- "anything to be a positive role model at such a negative time," he said.

 

 

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Ted tells it like it is...

 

http://www.inquisitr.com/1637118/ted-nugent-sounds-off-on-ferguson-disses-the-entire-black-community/

 

“Here’s the lessons from Ferguson America- Don’t let your kids growup to be thugs who think they can steal, assault & attack cops as a way of life & badge of black (dis)honor. Don’t preach your racist bullsh*t “no justice no peace†as blabbered by Obama’s racist Czar Al Not So Sharpton & their black klansmen. When a cop tells you to get out of the middle of the street, obey him & don’t attack him as brainwashed by the gangsta a**holes you hang with & look up to. It’s that simple unless you have no brains, no soul, no sense of decency whatsoever. And dont claim that “black lives matter†when you ignore the millions you abort & slaughter each & every day by other blacks. Those of us with a soul do indeed believe black lives matter, as all lives matter. So quit killin each other you f*ckin idiots. Drive safely.â€

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In my humble opinion what ever the critics said at the time and now .......... Whatever the means justified the end result.

This was probably America's proudest moment in history and it's greatest achivement.

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Another president that I believe did what he could was JFK, who tried to control the power of the banking system ...... directive 11110

But got shot as did Abraham Lincon ... wonder why maybe that's what happens to presidents of vision in America.

 

Who has been the best president for it's own people, and not dominace for world power ?

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Andrew Jackson...fought the bankers and won!

Abraham Lincoln...fought the bankers and got shot

 

JFK...fought the CIA, mafia, his own generals (who wanted a nuclear war with Russia!), at times the FBI, was seeking to get out of Viet Nam, had a working relationship with Khrushchev (Russia) and wanted to end issues with Cuba...his plate was overflowing

and JFK was gaining ground until they murdered him!!!

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In my humble opinion what ever the critics said at the time and now .......... Whatever the means justified the end result.

This was probably America's proudest moment in history and it's greatest achivement.

 

 

Lincoln didn't abolish slavery. The 13th Amendment did that, and it was ratified on 18 December 1865, 9 months after Lincon was dead and gone. What Lincoln did do was declare all the slaves free who happened to be in Confederate-held territory. He freed not one single slave in Union-controlled territory. They had to wait nearly another 3 years.

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