"Principal: Let students hurl canned food at intruders" AP January 14, 2015
VALLEY, Ala. — An Alabama middle school principal wants to stockpile cans of corn and peas in classrooms for students to hurl at possible intruders as a last-resort defense.
In a letter Friday, W.F. Burns Middle School principal Priscella Holley asked parents to have each student bring an 8-ounce canned item.
‘‘We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that would catch an intruder off guard,’’ she wrote.
‘‘The canned food item could stun the intruder or even knock him out until the police arrive,’’ she said, giving students “a sense of empowerment to protect themselves and making them feel secure.”
Teachers are taught to barricade classroom doors if an intruder is in the school, but if that fails, the cans and items such as textbooks could be used.
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This when Sandy Hook and all the other school shooting have been shown to be either filmed drills gone "live," or completely fictional events, folks.
That is where we find ourselves with the agenda-pushing Amerikan media today. There is not one thing they report that is real or true.
"Former Alabama governor denied bail while awaiting appeal" by Alan Blinder, New York Times December 19, 2014
NEW YORK — A federal judge on Thursday refused to release Don E. Siegelman, a former governor of Alabama, from prison as he continues to appeal a prosecution that Republicans say exposed pervasive corruption in state government but Democrats regard as a case pursued for political retribution.
Wasn't he also accused of domestic violence?
Siegelman was all part of Attorney-gate, remember that?
All down the memory hole now.
Siegelman’s lawyers contended that he should be free while a federal appeals court again considers his case. The decision by the judge, Clay D. Land, came after he heard about an hour of oral arguments Monday in Montgomery, the state capital, as Siegelman looked on, his wrists and ankles manacled.
“Although defendant raises significant issues that deserve serious consideration, it is this court’s judgment that the court of appeals is unlikely to resolve those issues in a manner that would likely result in a new trial or in a reduced sentence to a term of imprisonment less than the total of the time already served plus the expected duration of the appeal process,” Land wrote in a 31-page decision.
Siegelman was convicted in 2006 of accepting a $500,000 bribe from Richard M. Scrushy, the chief executive of HealthSouth Corp., in exchange for a gubernatorial appointment to a regulatory board. Although Siegelman and his lawyers argued that the money, which went toward the governor’s effort to create a state lottery, was a contribution that is common in the highest levels of US politics, federal prosecutors persuaded a jury to convict Siegelman of charges that included bribery and mail fraud.
He was sentenced to more than seven years in prison; that punishment was later reduced on appeal to 78 months. He is currently scheduled for release in August 2017.
But Siegelman has not abandoned his push for vindication after what he condemned as a political prosecution, and the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hear his case again in mid-January. Siegelman’s latest appeal focuses in part on allegations of misconduct by Leura Canary, who was President George W. Bush’s nominee for US attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
Canary, whose husband is active in GOP politics, ultimately recused herself from the prosecution, but Siegel-man’s lawyers say her actions were incompatible with those of a prosecutor who had officially stepped aside. On Monday, a Justice Department lawyer told Land that Canary had acted appropriately.
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