"Pa. school cancels play about Muslim poet" September 21, 2011|Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a musical about a Muslim street poet after community members complained about the timing so soon after the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
You know, I have ABOUT HAD IT with PIN-HEADED and PEA-BRAINED Amerikans who have REFUSED TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES around that day. I don't care what you think happened; buildings don't fall down that way because of jet fuel fires. You can start there, and with WTC 7 dropping later that day. That's one moment I will never forget. I had just bailed on a corporate gig and went back to school to get a worthless history degree. I remember turning towards the TV and seeing 7 go down and thinking to myself (maybe even saying it out loud)"what a bloody mess down there today," and went back to doing my homework. I'm sure I had seen controlled demolitions on TV before, but that day I didn't make the connection.
Then you can delve into the darker reality of false flag attacks by government intelligence agencies and the overlapping connections regarding 9/11 -- or the missing links you never heard about.
The Richland School District in Johnstown had planned to stage “Kismet’’ in February, but Superintendent Thomas Fleming said yesterday that it was scrapped to avoid controversy.
And if educators will not stand up to official dogma.... sigh.
“Kismet’’ is an Aladdin-style love story set in Baghdad more than 1,000 years ago.
He must have been a terrorist, sigh.
“We’re not saying there’s anything bad about the musical. We may potentially produce it in the future,’’ Fleming said.
The play has no inappropriate content, its director said, but he and other members of the performing arts committee decided to switch to “Oklahoma!’’ after hearing complaints.
Didn't they have a bomb blow up a building in their city, too?
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"Pa. judge gets 17 1/2 years in kickbacks case" Associated Press / September 24, 2011
SCRANTON, Pa. - A former judge who orchestrated a massive kickback scheme involving for-profit youth detention centers was sentenced yesterday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison, closing a major chapter on a scandal that prosecutors said shook Pennsylvania’s judicial system “to its very foundation.’’
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Michael Conahan, 59, former Luzerne County president judge and once-powerful man who regularly met for breakfast with the reputed boss of a northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia family, offered a direct apology to the children who spent time in a pair of youth lockups from which he and another former judge derived millions of dollars.
“My actions undermined your faith in the system and contributed to the difficulty in your lives,’’ said Conahan, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy last year. “I am sorry you were victimized.’’
Not good enough, judge.
You $tole their you, you f***!!!!!!!!!
Federal prosecutors said Conahan and Mark Ciavarella Jr., a former Luzerne County judge, took more than $2 million in bribes from the builder of the PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care detention centers and extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the facilities’ co-owner....
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FLASHBACK:
"Judge pleads guilty in kickback scheme" by Associated Press | July 24, 2010
PHILADELPHIA — A former judge in northeastern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty yesterday to a racketeering conspiracy charge for his role in a kickback scheme that put juvenile defendants, many without lawyers, behind bars for sometimes minor offenses.
Michael Conahan, 58, faces up to 20 years in prison after his plea in Scranton federal court. No sentencing date was set.
Court documents do not indicate if Conahan will testify against the other former Luzerne County judge charged in the case, Mark Ciavarella Jr. Conahan’s lawyer, Philip Gelso, declined to comment yesterday.
Ciavarella has maintained his innocence and will go to trial.
Prosecutors accuse the pair of taking $2.8 million in kickbacks from two private detention facilities. Conahan, as president judge, shut down a county-owned juvenile center while Ciavarella, the juvenile court judge, filled beds at the for-profit facilities, they charged.
The indictment was part of a federal corruption investigation in Luzerne County that has so far ensnared more than two dozen people, including a school superintendent and a court administrator.
Ciavarella, 60, shackled children, denied them legal counsel, and removed them from their ings, juvenile advocates said.
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Also see:
Incarcerating Children is Big Business
Then puts them right back in one. It's called a school.
