Friday, September 27, 2013

Idaho Teacher Gets In Kid's Face

"Teacher in Idaho face-drawing case keeps job" Associated Press, July 04, 2013

DECLO, Idaho — A southern Idaho teacher who allowed her fourth-grade students to use markers to draw on the faces of six classmates who failed to meet their reading goals will return to the Declo school for the 2013-2014 school year.

Haven't you ever heard of face painting?

Cassia County school board member Steve Lynch told The Times-News that Summer Larsen’s contract was renewed based on teacher evaluations performed by principal Rebecca Hunsaker. The newspaper could not reach Hunsaker for comment.

Cindy Hurst said her 10-year-old son came home from school Nov. 5 with his entire face scribbled on with green, red, and purple markers.

‘‘He was humiliated, he hung his head, and wanted to go wash his face,’’ Hurst said at the time. ‘‘He knows he’s a slow reader. Now he thinks he should be punished for it.’’

An investigation found nine students who did not meet their reading goals were allowed to choose between staying in during recess or having their faces marked.

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I don't know what it is with the kids these days, whether it be the chemicals in our air, soil, and water, the poisonous pills shoved down their throats to benefit a certain indu$try, or the unending mind-manipulation by media and educational institutions, but we got a real crop of dumbed-down doozies on our hands. 

Something else shoved in your face:

"Idaho man from Uzbekistan faces terrorism charges" by John Miller |  Associated Press, May 18, 2013

BOISE, Idaho — He was a Russian-speaking truck driver who came to Idaho in 2009 to join hundreds of other Uzbekistan refugees for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country.

But federal officials said in an indictment that Fazliddin Kurbanov also was teaching people to build bombs that would target public transportation.

It’s unclear whether those alleged targets were domestic or abroad — or how far Kurbanov would have gone. Prosecutors said Friday only that they believe he is no longer a threat.

Kurbanov, 30, was arrested Thursday during a raid of his small apartment south of Boise’s downtown.

Prosecutors charged him with felonies in Idaho and Utah after an extensive investigation into his activities late last year and this year. They allege those activities included assisting a militant group in his home, Uzbekistan, a Central Asian country with a southern border with Afghanistan.

‘‘Given his arrest, we believe any potential threat he posed has been contained,’’ US Attorney Wendy Olson said. She noted the investigation is ongoing but declined to say whether federal agents are pursuing additional arrests.... 

Kurbanov is among about 650 Uzbeks living in Idaho. He was admitted to the United States as a refugee in August 2009, the same month he moved to Boise, said Jan Reeves, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees, citing immigration records. Kurbanov was here legally, federal officials said.

Here we go again!

Uzbeks began coming to Idaho’s two refugee settlement centers, in Boise and Twin Falls, in 2003, Reeves said. The centers connect refugees with services such as language classes and help finding work.

The flow of Uzbeks to the state escalated around 2005, when a violent clash between protesters and the government left hundreds dead.

Translation: It's a CIA evacuation of assets and agents.

Kurbanov told authorities he had a job driving trucks and listed his only assets as used cars and a small amount of cash in checking and savings accounts.

On Friday, the apartment where he is believed to have lived had a sign on the door saying ‘‘Please respect our privacy.’’ Nobody responded to a knock. Many immigrants from numerous countries live in the apartment complex, a series of two-level buildings across from a public high school.

Olson said she has seen Internet comments blaming Muslims living in Idaho since Kurbanov’s arrest, something she called inappropriate. ‘‘These charges shouldn’t be seen as a reflection on that community,’’ Olson said.

This patsy plot, 

About 90 percent of Uzbeks in their home country are Muslim. Representatives of the Islamic Center of Boise, a meeting area for the region’s Muslim community, didn’t immediately return a phone call Friday.

The Idaho indictment charges Kurbanov with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of conspiracy to give material support to terrorists and possession of an unregistered explosive device.

It alleges that between August and May, he knowingly conspired with others to provide resources, including computer software and money, to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has identified as a terrorist organization. The group’s purpose is to overthrow the government of Uzbekistan, said David B. Barlow, US attorney in Utah. The alleged coconspirators were not named.

Because they were FBI instigators, 'er, informants??

The indictment also alleges Kurbanov provided material support to terrorists, knowing it was to be used in preparation for a plot involving the use of a weapon of mass destruction.

On Nov. 15, Kurbanov possessed a series of parts intended to be converted into a bomb, including a hollow hand grenade and aluminum powder, according to the indictment.

A separate federal grand jury in Utah charged Kurbanov with distributing information about bombs. For 10 days in January, Kurbanov taught and demonstrated how to make an ‘‘explosive, destructive device and weapon of mass destruction,’’ the document states.

The Utah indictment, to be handled separately after the Idaho prosecution is resolved, alleges Kurbanov provided recipes for how to make improvised explosive devices and went on instructional shopping trips in Utah to help illustrate how to make the devices, Barlow said. Kurbanov also showed Internet videos on the topic, Barlow said.

That was probably a dumb idea since it went straight to the NSA.

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And he left some patsy holding the joint.