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Policy: 529 - STUDENT CONDUCT Section: 500 Date Adopted: 07/9/1997
Policy: 529 - STUDENT CONDUCT
Section: 500
Date Adopted: 07/9/1997
529.1 Introduction
The California Education Code (section 66300) requires every community college governing board to adopt specific rules governing student behavior along with applicable penalties for violation of such rules.
Students enrolling at College of the Canyons assume an obligation to abide by all College regulations.
529.2 Grounds for Disciplinary Action
A student may be disciplined for one or more of the following causes which must be College/District related. This list is not intended to be exhaustive , but are examples of good and sufficient causes for disciplinary action.
A. Any theft, conversion, or damage or destruction of and/or to any property, real or personal, belonging to the College, a member of the College staff, a student, or a campus visitor.
B. Forgery, alteration or misuse of College documents, keys, records or identification, or knowingly furnishing false information to a college.
C. Cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and other forms of academic dishonesty, and/or facilitating academic dishonesty.
D. Physical or verbal abuse, including sexual assault, sexual harassment and stalking, or any threat of force or violence directed toward any member of the College or a campus visitor.
E. Manufacture, use, possession, distribution, or being under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, or other dangerous drugs on campus, or off campus at any College-sponsored event.
F. Unauthorized entry into, unauthorized use of, possession of, or misuse of, College property.
G. Disorderly, lewd, indecent, obscene or offensive conduct on College-owned or controlled property or at College-sponsored or supervised function.
H. Possession or use of any firearms, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or other potentially harmful implements or substances while on the College campus or at a College-sponsored function without prior authorization of the College President or designee.
I. Failure to identify oneself to or failure to comply with directions of College officials acting in performance of their duties including, but not limited to, the provisions of the Penal Code Sections 626.6 and 626.8.
J. Obstruction or disruption, on or off campus, of the College's education process, administrative process, or other College function.
K. Violation of any order of the College President, notice of which has been given prior to such violation and which order is not inconsistent with any of the other provisions of this policy. This notice may be given by publication in the College newspaper, or by posting on an official bulletin board designated for this purpose.
L. Soliciting or assisting another to do any act which would subject a student to expulsion, suspension, probation, or other discipline pursuant to this policy.
M. Abusive behavior directed toward, or hazing of, a member of the College community.
N. Any other cause not listed above which is identified as good cause by Education Code Sections 76032 and 76033.
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The University of Miami Hurricanes club baseball team finished the season with the most wins in program history with 15. The 15-9 season ended in a one game playoff vs the Gators for the final playoff spot in the conference. The season included breakout performances from new comers up and down the lineup who had to replace key losses from last year's 12 win team (the previous record). While the future looks bright for the Canes in 2014, they will be moving on without team president Ryan Solow who will be graduating this week and look to contribute as a member of the Canes coaching staff next season. Other key losses due to graduation include: Chris Curcio, Gavin Good, Miguel Michelangi, and Matt Corrigan.
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Batting Champion: Tommy Harrignton (.410)
RBI: Tommy Harrington (15)
Runs: Jalen Eutsy (17)
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ERA: Sal Maffei (2.89)
Wins: Dan Briggi/Sal Maffei (4)
Saves: Doug Cristoph (2)
Complete Games: Sal Maffei (3)
Muraco was efficient through 4 innings and then turned the game over to Christoph who has moved from the rotation to the pen in 2013 and nailed down the 3 inning save. The Canes put together better at bats in game two and "Tommy Baseball" drove in two runs while going 2 for 4 out of the cleanup spot.
Working on a pitch count, Sal Maffei threw 5 strong innings allowing just the one run. The Canes defense stumbled late in the game allowing UCF to tack on a couple of insurance runs that would prove to be enough despite a last inning rally. Jalyn Eutsey banged out a couple of hits leading the Canes offense in his debut.
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Portsmouth police made the following arrests this week.
Woman allegedly fights with hot chocolate, kitchen stool
Brittnay Davis, 20, of 561 Park Ave., was arrested on Jan. 16 at 12:30 a.m. at a Park Avenue residence.
Police were called to the residence for an apparent domestic disturbance. Davis apparently became involved in an argument with a 39-year-old Portsmouth man around 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 15.
During the argument, she allegedly threw a coffee mug filled with hot chocolate at the man. The mug shattered against a wall. She also allegedly threw a kitchen stool, which also broke.
Davis left the residence, but was arrested after returning to the home an hour later. She was charged with domestic, vandalism; domestic, simple assault; and domestic, disorderly conduct.
Man allegedly bites man's leg, swears in front of children
Christopher Kearns, 25, of 97 Easton Ave., Portsmouth, and Allison Voner, 23, of Framingham, MA, were both arrested on Jan. 15 at 8:15 a.m. after an unusual wakeup call.
According to police, Voner attempted to wake up Kearns on Tuesday morning at an Easton Avenue residence. When he didn't wake up, she allegedly punched him in the head.
Kearns apparently then woke up and became involved in an argument with a 21-year-old Portsmouth man at the residence. During the argument, Kearns allegedly struck the man with his fists and bit the victim on his upper thigh.
Kearns also allegedly threw a dog gate against a wall, causing damage to both the gate and wall.
He then went outside the residence. He allegedly began to shout and yell profanities, according to police.
He apparently refused after being asked by police to stop yelling profanities. Children were waiting for their school bus at a nearby stop, police said.
Kearns was arrested and charged with domestic, simple assault; domestic vandalism; and disorderly conduct.
Voner was also arrested and charged with domestic, simple assault.
Man allegedly steals gas from home
Stephen Alix, 34, of 2701 East Main Road, was arrested on Jan. 15 at 2:15 p.m. after allegedly stealing gas-filled cans from a Portsmouth residence.
Residents of a Green Street home reportedly saw a man running besides their home on Tuesday with four, partially-filled gas cans. The man then entered his vehicle and drove off.
Alix later turned himself in to police. He was charged with larceny under $1,500.


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An improved Millennium Park would be a great place for young people to meet and play as well as provide a recreation area for the wider community. The project will provide a programme of events and activities within the park for everyone, thereby returning the park to its place at the centre of the community involving schools, businesses, volunteers and the general public.
It is proposed to set up, deliver and install the individual parts of this community programme project and, with the support of PARKLIFE, the associated action group, local councillors and volunteers, oversee the running of its various activities, to improve the recreational amenity of the park and simultaneously improve social cohesion. The installation of CCTV will promote a safer environment in the whole park area, improving quality of life for the wider neighbourhood.
There will be programmes for all age groups, the length and frequency to be determined by demand and the Park Plan. Management of the park grounds will remain the responsibility of the Town Council.
Extensive efforts have been made to involve the wider public. Many client groups have been included as beneficiaries of the plan whilst others such as people living in the immediate neighbourhood have been widely consulted through a community survey and public meetings.
The Charities commission has agreed to the plans submitted by Fakenham Recreation Ground Charity in support of the Park Life action group. Existing amenities will remain with some improvements and popular features such as a skate park are planned.
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Having been fortunate enough to follow this year's Amgen Tour of California, it's easy to see why this cycling Mecca has earned the nickname 'The Golden State'. Seemingly endless sun, sparkling blue waters and of course, perfectly tanned bodies abound. Over the course of the week, we headed south and watched as the San Francisco fog melted away to reveal a shimmering landscape full of photographic, musical and riding possibilities.
And what better way to enjoy tracking the peloton, than a soundtrack inspired by California's geographical diversity, its people and vibrant culture. Over the decades these elements have combined to form a melodic maelstrom from which inspired jams are often produced. From the Bakersfield sound of the '50s led by Buck Owens, to San Francisco's psychedelic folk-rock scene with bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane; and more recently playing host to several music festivals including Coachella, California's musical contribution to the world is legendary.
It is for this very reason a play list has been created that pays homage to this incredible part of America, and the musicians that helped make it famous. From classic country, to psych-rock and hip-hop, each track reflects the drama and excitement of this year's Amgen Tour of California.
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Dick Dale - Surf Buggy
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
Sic Alps - L. Mansion
Sly & The Family Stone - Free as a Bird
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - We're All in Love
Mazzy Star - Happy
The Oh Sees - Block of Ice
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer
Ty Segall - Girlfriend
Geographer - Kites
Papercuts - Unavailable
Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way
2Pac, Dr. Dre - California Love
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The Smart Step Literacy Lab Project is a rigorous 14 day staff development designed for all teachers (content English/reading/language arts, resource), media specialists and principals of students in grades 4 - 12. The training covers a two-year period. Seven days in year one cover the material and research needed for teachers to implement a reading workshop environment in their classrooms. Those days address the need for creating engaging literate environments in classrooms, as well as instruction in fluency and comprehension strategies in that moving culture. Seven days in year two are designed to instruct teachers to use assessment as the driver of instruction and to implement writing workshops in their classrooms along with vocabulary and word study instruction. An additional benefit of the Smart Step program is acquiring graduate degree credit.
Both courses can be applied to a Master's Degree in Reading.
The Goal of the Program
The goal of the project is to fully implement the model. It is not to be used as an "addition to" piece for teachers. Though no controlled quantitative experimental study has been conducted, evidence from the observation of the large number of fully implementing schools and classrooms shows significant increases in student achievement in the areas of fluency, comprehension, motivation, and vocabulary development as measured on state NRT's and CRT's.
Program Schedule
Literacy Lab requires a two-year commitment. It consists of seven days of training each year. Both years are broken into three days of training in the summer and two days of training in both the fall and spring. The State Department of Education determines the groups as new registration forms are submitted Literacy Lab assigns the group names.
Year I - Smart Step Literacy Lab
Day 1 - The uniqueness of adolescent literacy; our five goals for adolescent readers; the role of motivation; creating engaging literate cultures
Day 2 - The role of access to appropriate reading materials; educating students' choices
Day 3 - The role of and research into reading practice; the reading workshop classroom– elements (independent reading, guided reading, literature study) and procedures
Day 4 - Fluency instruction in a reading workshop environment; designing, maintaining and perpetuating classroom libraries
Day 5 - Introduction to Comprehension Strategy Instruction; review of research and identification of the strategies and best practices in teaching; Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
Day 6 - Modeling of Comprehension Strategy Instruction; done with actual classes of students
Day 7 - Modeling of Comprehension Strategy Instruction; done with actual classes of students
Year II - Smart Step Literacy Lab
Day 1 - Assessment and its implications on teaching practice; learning to administer the Flynt-Cooter Informal Reading Inventory (fluency and comprehension);Motivation and Engagement Assessment.
Day 2 - Learning to administer the Developmental Reading Assessment 4-8 (fluency, comprehension, access to appropriate text, motivation); Benchmark (CRT) Test Strategies
Day 3 - Vocabulary/Word Study (This day will be conducted at your local Co-op plus a touch back session with your Co-op Literacy Specialist one day in the fall)
Day 4 - Writing Workshop Classroom - elements (independent writing, guided writing, and investigations) and procedures; the teaching of craft in context
Day 5 - Writing Workshop Classroom (cont.)
Day 6 - Writing Workshop Classroom (cont.)
Day 7 - Inquiry Writing
To see the required texts for the Lit Lab please review the following booklist.
To register for Lit Lab, please fill out both the Registration Form and the Commitment Forms.
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This tool will transparently hijack HTTP traffic on a network, watch for HTTPS links and redirects, then map those links into either look-alike HTTP links or homograph-similar HTTPS links. It also supports modes for supplying a favicon which looks like a lock icon, selective logging, and session denial. For more information on the attack, see the video from the presentation.
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Associative Word List Generator (AWLG)
"The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) is a tool that generates a list of words relevant to some subjects, by scouring the Internet in an automated fashion.
Inclusion Example: A search string including the words (without quotes): "steve carell" would give us a word list with lots of words associated with the actor Steve Carell. This includes all of the words from his MySpace page, words from the Wikipedia article on him, etc.
Exclusion Example: We know that Steve Carell is an actor for lots of things, including a show called "The Office". A search string: "steve carell" with omissions: "office" and "michael scott" would find words from websites that mention Steve Carell, but do not mention the word "office", "michael", or "scott".
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Mac users beware! Clever Trojan on the loose...
"One of the ways in which the OSX/RSPlug-F Mac Trojan horse is being distributed by hackers is in the form of a poisoned HDTV/DTV program called MacCinema.
As you'll see in this video, visiting a website that gives many of the signs of legitimacy, can lead to you downloading a Trojan horse. Even for the Apple Mac.
And don't try and tell me that this couldn't affect Mac OS X users because they would have to enter their administrator username and password to install the package. If they were prepared to download this program from this website, I feel pretty confident that they would enter their administrator details to allow installation too!
Mac users are no different to Windows users in this regard - this is social engineering, plain and simple.
Oh, and Windows users shouldn't feel too smug about this either. If you visit the site on a Windows computer, it will serve up a malicious Windows executable from the Zlob family of malware rather than a Mac OS X Trojan horse.
By the way, we tried this on both Firefox and Safari on the Apple Mac. It makes no difference. The attack does not depend on a browser vulnerability - it works by the user being convinced that this is a program that they would like to run on their computer." Read more...
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"Ministers have been forced to order an emergency shutdown of a key Government computer system to protect millions of people's private details.
The action was taken after a memory stick was found in a pub car park containing confidential passcodes to the online Government Gateway system, which covers everything from tax returns to parking tickets.
An urgent investigation is now under way into how the stick, belonging to the company which runs the flagship system, came to be lost." Read more...
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Spies Want to Scan Your Iris From Afar
There's software that's smart enough to recognize people by their faces, or by their irises. But those algorithms are finicky. To work properly, subjects usually have to be willing to play along -- looking straight into the camera, when the light is just right.
The new uber-geek arm of American spy agencies, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, is looking to change that. Researchers there want to do iris and face-scans from far away, and "under uncontrolled acquisition conditions." So they're launching a new project, "Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology" (BEST) to find new ways to get this face and eye data, even when the subject is moving and the lighting is all wrong. "The minimum objective is to exceed by a factor of three what is commercially available today, with recognition performance similar to that achieved with the cooperative or conditioned individual under controlled acquisition," a recent announcement to industry notes.
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Epic Social Engineering Example
A teenager impersonating a Chicago police officer played a minor role in an arrest on January 24, according to Police Superintendent Jody Weis.
On Tuesday, Supt. Weis called on the U.S. Secret Service for a review of the security breach, which he called "outrageous, angering, disturbing and unforgettable."
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Weis said an internal investigation shows seven Chicago police officers broke department rules during the incident. All districts will be re-trained, according to Weis.
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NSA's smart phone could become government issue
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Question: From North Carolina, USA:
I have a 7 year old son who I am concerned may be showing symptoms of diabetes. My father is diabetic and I am glucose intolerant, which I watch carefully. I checked my son's glucose with my home monitor and his fasting level was 87. Are children's normal blood ranges different than adults?
The blood sugar levels to be expected for a 7 year old are the same as for adults. See Classification and Diagnosis of Diabetes for more information.
By the way, the blood sugar levels of newborn babies are lower those of older kids and adults.
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For the last three years, Apple has had the tablet market all to itself, ringing up sales of more than 10 million iPads. No wonder Apple stock recently zoomed past $700 a share.
Now, Google has teamed up with Android to produce the Google Nexus 7, a smart, smaller alternative to the iPad that has tekkies buzzing. Others have tried the 7-inch market, notably Samsung's Galaxy series, but the Google Android pairing is the first to feature a new entertainment platform, Google Play. This puts the Nexus 7 not only in competition with the iPad, but with Amazon's Kindle Fire series.
Half the Weight and Price
At about half the weight–and half the price–of the iPad, the Nexus 7 is sure to attract a lot of interest this holiday season. Walmart and other big box retailers were recently selling the Nexus 7 for $249, but Google has a $199 offer on the 'Net.
Opening an account at Google Play nets a $25 credit toward the purchase of apps, music and other media.
Powered by Jellybean software, the Nexus 7 is an ideal surf the Internet and receive your email device. Still need to carry around a phone too. But, once consumers get used to browsing the 'Net on a seven-inch screen, reading Websites off a phone screen may become passe.
The screen has a bright, clear 16×9 aspect ratio, which makes watching movies and videos a treat in such a small package. The music player is a beast, though it may seem quite vanilla out of the package. The secret is in the player's equalizer, which boosts frequencies according to music type–rock, classical,etc.–or by the user's individual preferences. The speakers on the Nexus 7 are adequate for casual listening, but the output of the Nexus 7 will be best enjoyed through some sort of outboard system. The equalizer in the Nexus 7 makes it a slightly zippier player than itunes.
Since nobody gets the advertised battery life from most any device, the Nexus 7 is advertised to generate enough juice for ten hours of Web browsing or reading. Out of the box, battery life seems to be closer to six or seven hours; charging takes about two hours.
It's not surprising that the Nexus 7 lags behind both Apple and Amazon in content. Android and Google are obviously new players here, and a look through the Google Play app store looks remarkably like the first offerings for Apple's iPad three years ago.
One glaring omission is the lack of a recognized word processing program like Word or Pages. The Nexus 7 does offer a number of business software suites which have basic word processors built in such as the Kingsoft Office Suite which comes in a free version. The on screen keyboard is adequate for writing emails and taking casual notes, but writing a novel on the Lexus 7 is probably not in the cards absent a major league word processor.
There are already options on the keyboard front, from USB keyboards built into cases to a full size Logitech model.


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The top-seeded Jayhawks trailed 16th-seeded Western Kentucky at halftime Friday and held off the Hilltoppers 64-57 despite going 0-for-6 from 3-point range, the first time Kansas hasn't hit a 3 since its championship season in 2008. The Jayhawks entered February with a 19-1 record but lost their next three games, including back-to-back road contests against TCU and Oklahoma. Since that skid, Kansas is 11-1.
Can we call it a push between Jeff Withey (top) and Ben McLemore (above)? Withey, a 7-foot center, averages 13.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.9 blocks. McLemore, a 6-5 freshman who sat out last season as a partial qualifier, averages 16.2 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting 50.5 percent from the field. He erupted for 36 points against West Virginia in early March, but he has totaled 26 points in the last three games.
Kansas, with Withey protecting the rim, ranks first nationally with a defensive field-goal percentage of 35.9. In coach Bill Self's 10 seasons with the Jayhawks, they have led the Big 12 in defensive field-goal percentage eight times and ranked in the top eight nationally nine times.
North Carolina has shot 24-for-50 from 3-point range in its last two games, and teams are more likely to fire away from deep with Withey in the middle. He had 17 points, seven blocks and six rebounds against Western Kentucky, which went 3-for-20 on 3s and finished at 31.8 percent from the field. Triangle fans should remember Withey blocking 10 shots in a Sweet 16 win against N.C. State last season, and he had three blocks in an Elite Eight victory against the Tar Heels. They shot 2-for-17 on 3-pointers in that 80-67 loss, with Reggie Bullock (above) going 1-for-5.
North Carolina hit five of its first eight 3-point attempts against Villanova, which fell behind 32-12, but the Tar Heels' shot selection suffered once the Wildcats started playing more physically on defense.
"We always say you have to face the fire," UNC coach Roy Williams said. "I think we backed up away from the fire for a long, long time. Some of our 3s were not very good shots. I remember jumping on P.J. (Hairston) and Leslie (McDonald) in a four-possession swing when both of them shot a shot when they didn't have a grip on them."
The Sprint Center should be packed with Kansas fans, and North Carolina has struggled in some hostile environments, notably at Indiana, N.C. State and even Miami. Of course, the Tar Heels played well at Duke and prevented Maryland fans from having much reason to cheer. The Jayhawks have a 21-4 record in the Sprint Center, including a 7-0 mark this season. It played three regular-season games there, including two that were part of the CBE Classic, and went 3-0 in the Big 12 tournament. Kansas lost twice in the same building last season, falling to Davidson in a mid-December game and Baylor in the Big 12 tournament final.
"I don't really see after 10 years that it's near as big a deal as what maybe the storyline would be. I mean, 10 years is a long time. I could go back to Champaign and they wouldn't even know if I was in town for a month if I was there." - Kansas coach Bill Self (below), who left Illinois in 2003 to replace Roy Williams.
Late Saturday afternoon, UNC's Reggie Bullock tweeted, "I haven't seen the sun since we've been here."
He wasn't exaggerating.
It started snowing again in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon, and forecasts are calling for up to a foot of snowfall in the area, with it finally lightening up close to today's tip time.
On Friday, the NCAA released a lengthy statement about the incoming weather, saying, "We do not anticipate any game delays."
Asked if the weather will be a distraction, UNC coach Roy Williams responded, "No, it's no distraction. Unless the roof comes off, we'll still be able to play."
It's a good thing the Tar Heels are playing at the Sprint Center, not the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
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All over Benelux, facilities are available for the safe storage of goods and chattels in clean, password pin-numbered/secure units - a 6'x8' garden shed sized unit for example costing around 700 Euros per annum.
Final advice from settled exiles is that, unlike the British, the Continentals act with commonsense and interact as they see fit even to the extent of 'getting around the rules in various ways'.
Advice and even local assistance in re-settling are available to genuine potential exiles who must first be cleared through the editor of this web site and then by settled exiles. It need hardly be said that no information will be given to members of the British media, from whom most of them are fleeing anyway.
Two final points may be that those in their still working years not wanting to make the move could think about it as a retirement option and prepare now by studying or brushing up on a language, the second of which could be the trigger to make the move. And perhaps of great relevance is that they will be moving closer to Strasbourg where the court of human rights has now been petitioned about their plight.
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To be accused, even falsely, is to be criminalized also
It is said elsewhere on this web site that to be accused, even falsely and even when cleared by the police or courts, is to be guilty – to be guilty of being accused. A reply to the above story demonstrates how this is also driving good men to seek asylum away from British shores.
Alan writes in response.
Dear Editor.
An excellent and hope giving article about UK/ Irish exiles living in the safer havens of the Benelux states on the European continent.
I know from my own relatively recent experiences that the need /desire to identify and locate to a safe haven outside of the UK, beyond the reach of the life destroying media, police, probation service and potential vigilantes etc, was foremost on the 'survival list' I drew up in the event I was found guilty in a criminal court of law for a crime I had not committed.
Fortunately for me I was found not guilty, with the CPS offering no evidence against me in relation to their charge that I was in possession of two indecent CP images contained on a CD.
Nonetheless, following the acquittal I commissioned a second independent computer forensic expert to examine the images and to provide a report.
Turns out the two images were received as unsolicited incoming emails back in 2001 and the entire email cache in which the two images resided was copied to the CD during a back-up procedure of the entire Internet software application program (some 150Mb in size) in which the email cache was stored.
Furthermore, the forensic expert stated that neither of the images had been viewed and could not have been viewed due to the need for special software to open and view them.
Finally, the forensic expert stated that in his opinion the images contained persons aged 16 years and 'probably older'. This was important in that the age a person was deemed to be a child in 2001 was under 16 years. As I'm sure you are aware the law changed in 2004 when that age was increased to 18 years of age. In 2001, when the images were received and copied to a CD, they were legal images.
So, in a nutshell, I was charged by the police with possession of two mages that had never been viewed, could not have been viewed due to the absence of the required software to view them and were legal when received.
As you may or may not know, to be charged with possession of such images the police/CPS must be able to prove that I had knowledge that the images existed and that I had control over them.
As the above information clarifies, none of those essential ingredients were present. So, in a sense, I was falsely charged since the legal argument was invalid.
Anyway, to the point of this email. With regards to your article, you state: "Those suffering under the repressive British regime forcing them to seek such a haven include both individuals with criminal convictions for illegal activities such as the possession of certain images and inappropriate sexual activities and those falsely accused, because of identity theft, under Operation Ore and all those who found it impossible to obtain a fair trial because of the absence of objective computer forensics experts prepared to act for the defence."
I'd just like to point out that even individuals charged but successfully acquitted of such crimes endure many of the same obstacles faced by those found guilty.
Firstly, in my case, despite being acquitted I still carry the stigma of malicious PNC data that is incorrect. Recently stopped by a traffic cop, I could hear on the cop's radio the person back at the police station stating "There is a record," and "Is it safe to talk?" At which point the cop turned off his radio loudspeaker and listened through his earpiece. Clearly the PNC record in question related to my previous charge of possession of CP.
Secondly, my enhanced CRB will forever more contain a comment in the 'additional information' section that will state I was once arrested and charged with possession of CP. I am a marked man for life despite being cleared and despite being able to provide forensic evidence that no crime had even actually taken place. I'll never be able to return to my former profession and will never be able to obtain employment again where a clean enhanced CRB certificate is required.
Any future occasion where I am required to provide my name and date of birth to the police, such as a routine traffic stop, I run the risk of the cop being nasty to me (believing I am a paedophile) as a result of the 'record' stored on the PNC. The idea of my wife and myself eventually leaving this backward and paranoid country for a sunnier climate remains appealing and is something we have planned for.
The EU havens you have mentioned in your article are not just of interest to those who were convicted of 'abusing a child all over again' by simply looking at coloured pixels on a computer monitor, they are also of interest to those who were found not guilty but are required to live with the no smoke without fire on-going stigma of being associated with a CP investigation.
If I can legally be of any assistance with your 'clearing process' concerning applicants who contact you for more information on moving to any of the locations you mention in your article please do not hesitate to contact me. I live in the (area removed here).
Despite having no interest in CP and despite having feelings of anger and outrage towards any person who interferes with a child, I believe that those individuals who have simply 'looked' at such material do not deserve the 'punishment' imposed on them for such an action. The punishments themselves are in my opinion a crime against humanity. Indeed, the very people who passed these absurd laws have themselves previously enjoyed the assets of Samantha Fox, with many an MP and judge 'jacking off' to her photos in the Sun newspaper pre 2004 change in legislation. Hypocrites one and all!
My mind still cannot fathom how an image that was legal to look at and possess previously, that was openly and legally sold in newsagents across the land (in newspapers) and which adorned the lockers and garden sheds of many men will now result in a death sentence if possessed.
Perhaps the answer to the question in Alan's last paragraph is that the society that suddenly wants to criminalize others for activities it too formerly (and perhaps now only secretly) enjoyed is very confused about its own sexuality.
Legal advise on the situation
What follows is from a legal adviser.
I was reading your article 'Safe Haven for British Exiles'. I thought you might welcome a bit of elaboration on the very good points you make. The free movement of persons is one of the four fundamental freedoms instilled in EU Community law. A major step in carrying this forward was the creation of the EU citizen, with rights compatible to such status. So, it is well respected in practice.
There is indeed free movement throughout the EU but limitations can be justified for instance under Article 39 (paragraph 3) especially in relation to residency. This allows restrictions on grounds of: 'public policy, public security or public health.' However, a string of important European Court of Justice (ECJ) cases point firmly to this being criteria only to be applied in genuinely exceptional cases. We are talking terrorists and mad-axe-men here.
Directive 2004/38 relates to workers, and again cases from the ECJ reflect that the definition of 'worker' enjoys a fairly broad meaning, and the residency protections extend to the worker's family. It also includes the self-employed - something that might be of interest to your readers, since that too, has a fairly broad meaning. Also covered are job-seekers, who have certain protections as well.
This is by necessity quite a crude broad brush description, but I hope it's helpful. There are also things of a perfectly lawful nature that could be done on the UK side to help someone's prospects of obtaining a smooth residency in another EU member state. But with a little common sense, this probably wouldn't be necessary in most cases.
What is emerging here is a clear indication that on the Continental side of the Channel there is not only a safe haven for British exiles and an absence of the kind of persecution carried out against certain offenders in the UK, but a positive demonstration of tolerance and justice where they are due.
When all this is considered in the context of a part of Europe where the European Court of Human Rights, in Strasbourg, is a little over 100 miles from the border of Belgium, one may more easily accept that there is a place of justice not far from UK shores. Especially as it is to Strasbourg that those denied the most basic human rights of safe residency and work are appealing. Finally, the growing rift between the British and Continental Europeans can mean that the climate is actually improving for those wishing to flee from the British Isles.
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The legal expert who supplied the information above is available for any further specific advice where he might have the knowledge.
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Despite a tightening in the marketplace, disability insurance is still the "designated hitter" when it comes to protecting baseball talent in the major leagues. By Dan Aznoff
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner isn't one to be pushed around, not by the competition, not by stellar ball players with outsized egos, not by the steroid scandals, not even by the commissioner of Major League Baseball and certainly not by the tightening marketplace for specialty disability insurance.
Based on his experience over the past five years, Steinbrenner and the Yankees believe in the use of disability insurance more than ever, despite the fact that coverage is getting harder to find at an affordable price, according to Yankees spokesman Howard Rubenstein.
The Yankees, for example, used a provision in their disability policy to file a claim in 2004 on the $70 million still owed to first baseman Jason Giambi. The claim was filed after the former Most Valuable Player admitted to using steroids before he signed his seven-year, $120 million contract with New York before the 2001 season.
Giambi missed the majority of the 2004 season with a variety of ailments, culminating with the treatment for a tumor. Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said any money recovered from the insurance claim would have been used to sign another player to replace or back up Giambi.
As it turns out, the Yankees eventually withdrew their claim when the controversial first baseman reported for spring training in 2005 with a renewed commitment to the team. Giambi has remained relatively healthy over the past two seasons.
In light of the fact that player salaries are guaranteed, it's no surprise that the Baseball Players' Association has no formal policy on the use of disability insurance. "It's a nonissue for our members," said MLBPA spokesman Greg Boris. "But from strictly a player's standpoint, management would be foolish to be without this type of insurance."
On the West Coast, the Los Angeles Dodgers had relied on disability insurance even before signing pitcher Kevin Brown to baseball's first contract valued at more than $100 million in 1999. The Dodgers did so even though the policy that safeguarded the right-hander's seven-year contract included numerous exemptions and restrictions over the final three years of the agreement.
And still, the team continues to depend on disability insurance, said Camille Johnson, the Dodgers' director of communications. The coverage is especially attractive to teams with veteran players, such as the Dodgers, Johnson also said.
The business side of America's pastime has changed in many ways since the Boston Red Sox sold the rights to Babe Ruth in 1920 for $125,000 to underwrite cost of the Broadway musical, "No, No, Nanette." Specialty disability insurance has become a staple of the business plan for team owners who make use of risk management to protect the financial integrity of their investment.
Lately, the disability insurance marketplace, particularly for top stars, has tightened, brokers say. Stratospheric salaries, due in part to expensive television contracts and bloated corporate endorsements, have contributed to the trend. Shrinking capacity for reinsurance in this specialty marketplace has also played a part.
To cope, Major League Baseball teams have in the past tried to reduce the price of coverage by increasing the qualifying deductible from 90 to 182 days--the length of a full season. In recent years, however, this provision has disappeared.
Disability insurance coverage is popular not only with teams in the nation's biggest markets, but in smaller markets too.
The Atlanta Braves, who have won 14 consecutive championships in the National League East, swear by it for the team's most valuable players, according to the Braves Executive Vice President and General Manager John Schuerholtz. He pointed out that the cost of disability premiums jump in direct relation to the length of the contract.
"Whether it's a new contract, or an extension given to a player on your own roster, insurance speaks directly to the length of the contract," Schuerholtz emphasized. "We look for policies that will fit into our annual budget, especially on contracts of two, three or more years. We consider the cost of premium just another element in the expense of running a competitive major league team."
He said sharing the financial responsibility with a third party has been the team's basic philosophy since salaries began their inflationary spiral 15 years ago. He noted that the team continues to purchase disability insurance despite the nearly impossible task of finding affordable policies.
"Only once in my quarter of a century with the Braves can I remember a player signing a significant contract without an insurance policy in place," he said.
Schuerholtz added, "We swallowed very hard when the insurance company refused to cover a pre-existing condition for one of the most popular players on the team."
Pittsburgh Pirates' General Manager Dave Littlefield described disability insurance as an integral part of commerce in today's competitive environment. Small-market teams like the Pirates depend on disability insurance to guarantee that a single injury will not cripple the team's ability between the white lines, and to ensure the financial integrity of the franchise.
"There is no way we could afford to sign a player for longer than one year without knowing his salary would be replaced if we lost his services for any length of time," he said.
Littlefield went on to explain how specialty insurance gives his ownership group the confidence to invest in other aspects of the game, including responsibility for the operational costs of PNC Park. The new ballpark is located on the shores of the Allegheny River, just across the Roberto Clemente Bridge from downtown Pittsburgh.
Opened in 2001, it hosted Major League Baseball's 2006 All-Star Game in July.
Disability insurance also gives management leverage in signing younger players. Such is the case with the Cleveland Indians, for whom the coverage plays a major role in the team's desire to sign many of its younger players to long-term contracts, buying out the first few years of free agency.
"We utilize disability insurance to safeguard the overall baseball operation," said Chris Antonetti, assistant general manager of the Cleveland Indians. "Insurance, by definition, is a great way to manage risk. The Indians have used insurance for more than 10 years, and received some significant payouts during that period. We have used those funds to obtain replacement players, thereby avoiding financial hardships for the team."
Antonetti also said the Indians will get a number of quotes from insurance brokers before finalizing any long-term player contracts. The team considers disability coverage on short-term contracts for higher-priced players, especially those with a history of spending time on the disabled list.
"We are extremely selective on which players we approach with the possibility of long-term contracts," said Antonetti. "The availability of insurance plays a major factor in that decision. The qualification process for disability insurance provides the team with insights into a player's history of injury. That's helpful regardless of the length of the contract."
The Indians don't consider self-insurance, as it does not fit "our long-term equation," he said. The Seattle Mariners, by comparison, choose self-insurance to protect their high-priced talent. Doing so is almost unheard of in Major League Baseball.
DAN AZNOFF, a former insurance editor, lives in Bellevue, Wash.
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The newly engaged actress was spotted showing a little bit of skin on the set of her new movie, We Are The Millers, in North Carolina. Jen wasn't shy about showing her bra but when it came to a racy lingerie scene, a body double was called in.
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9:00am Thursday 5th September 2013 in News By Adrian Kibbler
SCORN has been poured on the suggestion that a smaller facility might be salvaged from the wreckage of the Ludlow Hospital and Health Village.
Pat Hansen, who, a decade ago, was at the forefront of the battle to save the existing hospital but has always been a strong opponent of the Eco Park project, has dismissed talk of a smaller scheme being salvaged.
This has been suggested as a possibility by, among others, Philip Dunne MP and Peter Corfield, chairman of the Ludlow Hospital League of Friends.
She said: "We need to know exactly what additional services would be provided at a new hospital."
And Pat added that the existing hospital already includes 40 in-patient and seven maternity beds, a minor injuries unit, x-ray, dialysis, physiotherapy, a continence clinic, occupational therapy, foot care and a cafe.
"There are several consultantled outpatient clinics including ear, nose and throat, rheumatology, orthopaedics and I am sure there are more," she added.
"It's my understanding that neither chemotherapy nor surgery could take place.
"So would a smaller scheme be anything other than new premises for the existing hospital?
"Incidentally, the new hospital scheme only calls for 36 beds – already smaller than the existing hospital – so how much smaller could it be?" she asked.
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Book reading focuses on motherhood and loss
Melissa Miles McCarter, of Ironton, Mo., will read selections from "Joy, Interrupted: An Anthology on Motherhood and Loss," a book presenting various perspectives on maternal loss by authors and artists, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.
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Detectives in southeast Missouri are working to solve a kidnapping, arson and murder.
Southeast Missouri babysitter faces sentencing for infant's death
IRONTON, Mo. a A southeast Missouri woman will be sentenced in May for the 2009 death of an infant at her home babysitting business.
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Tweet Share on Facebook May 5, 2008 Comment (1)Moms Weekend at Ohio University was not all tea and crumpets and watching chorale concerts: Some mothers hit up the bar scene with their kiddies, too, the Post reports. One mother has an explanation for the "crazy mom" debauchery and inappropriate dance moves: "It's like they sit in their house all year except for this one night."
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Tweet Share on Facebook May 2, 2008 Comment (3)* Two students from the University of Colorado-Boulder, who police say were "visibly intoxicated," were arrested early Wednesday morning after allegedly carting bows and arrows and hunting raccoons on campus, the Campus Press reports. The pair were found around 2:50 a.m. near the school's chemistry building "literally, like hiding behind bushes and things like that," a police officer said. They were held for possessing a deadly weapon on university property.
*Two Keene State University students have been charged with reckless conduct after taking an inflatable kiddie pool over waterfalls last month, the Keene Equinox reports. One of the "rafters" got trapped underneath the falls and was rescued by Keene firefighters, who also had to retrieve a woman who jumped in to try to save him.
Penn State Investigates Hate Graffiti
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2008 Comment (1)An infrequent yet steady stream of hate graffiti has been reported on white boards and doors in a Penn State dorm this year, the Daily Collegian reports. Campus police are making a final end-of-the-school-year push for more info on the graffiti, which have been about race and sexual orientation.
Perpetrators could be charged with criminal mischief for defacing property, or harassment if the remarks are directed toward an individual.
At SUNY-Geneseo: Make Naked Peace Signs, Not War
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2008 Comment (4)With temperatures barely hitting 50 degrees, 18 SUNY-Geneseo students formed a human peace sign on the campus lawn. Naked. Really naked (see the pic).
More than 100 onlookers came to look (gawk?) at what one unadorned participant called "an artistic expression of what's important," the Lamron reports. Said the event organizer: "For people to step out of their comfort zone...really proves that they're committed to peace."
Apparently indifferent to indecent exposure laws, the school's dean of students voiced his support for the demonstration: "As far as I can tell, it's protected political expression. We have a group of students who want to take a stand on something—I'm supportive of that."


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Could the next President be even scarier?
Luiza CH. Savage – macleans.ca October 31, 2007
As part of her job at an influential national security think tank, Julianne Smith brings politicians and senior policy-makers from all over Europe to Washington for candid closed-door meetings with the policy advisers to the candidates vying to replace President George W. Bush. The Europeans usually arrive eager to discuss the coming era that some are dubbing "AB" — "After Bush." That is the highly anticipated period beginning on Jan. 20, 2009, in which a newly sworn-in American president, chastened by the troubles in Iraq and by the scorn of allies who say the Bush White House flouted international law, will turn his or her back on the militaristic and unilateralist ways of the preceding seven years, contritely embrace multilateral institutions and international treaties, bring home U.S. troops, and perhaps even rename the "war on terror" as something other than a "war."
But by the time the meetings end — be they with advisers to Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, or Republicans such as Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney — the visitors usually have the same reaction, says Smith, the director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "The response is usually a little bit of shock and awe and disappointment. They say, 'What do you mean? We thought this would be a new era!' "
Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of Americans are sick of the Iraq war, while many worry that through its counter-terrorism policies, the U.S. has squandered the goodwill it once enjoyed abroad. When the current presidential season began in earnest a year ago, it was widely expected that the aspirants to the White House would be campaigning against the swaggering foreign policy associated with Bush. But precisely the opposite has happened. To the great surprise of the Europeans, and to many Americans, the leading presidential candidates are talking just as tough as the current occupant of the White House — and some even tougher.
The candidates who have risen to the top in the presidential race happen to be the biggest hawks in each party. Both former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads the Republican field nationally, and New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who dominates the Democratic primary contest, have a vision of muscular American diplomacy, are actively raising the stakes in the confrontation with Iran, surround themselves with advisers who believe that unilateral American military might can be right, and have no intention of allowing the United Nations or some judge sitting in The Hague to tell them otherwise.
"There is this expectation that the U.S. will retreat entirely from the posture that we've had for the last years," says Smith. "But we're not going to roll back the clock. I try to drill home the message that yes, things will change, but probably not the way you hope they will." Smith finds she can't deflate international expectations enough. "I had someone from the Netherlands say, 'I can't wait until 2009 when you join the International Criminal Court,' " she recalls. "I thought, are you on crack? There is no way that is going to be a top priority for anyone."
The most hawkish and heated candidate as far as foreign policy rhetoric goes is Giuliani, who sounds more and more like Bush the longer he campaigns. "We have learned that evil must be confronted — not appeased," he wrote last month in the journal Foreign Affairs. Like Bush, Giuliani envisions a long-term presence in Iraq. "The commitment is to Iraq and to the region and to policies and strategies that are very long-lasting and have a long-term horizon," his chief foreign policy adviser, Charlie Hill, told Maclean's. "Iraq has been portrayed in the media as a stand-alone question. But it has got to be seen as part of the larger war on terror, and is essential to the health of the international system overall."
Hill is a former diplomat and speech writer for Henry Kissinger who now teaches a cultish course at Yale on the finer points of wielding power, unapologetically entitled "Grand Strategy." In her biography of Hill, The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, author Molly Worthen tracks his evolution, from a critic of the Vietnam War, to a hawk, to one of the most hardline pro-Israel officials in the State Department. He was against the Vietnam War until he was sent to Saigon in the early 1970s, where he concluded that the U.S. could have won if only Congress had had the stomach to stay and fight. Ditto Iraq. Asked if he is optimistic that the U.S. will win this conflict, Hill says simply, "Yes."
Giuliani has been the most bellicose candidate when it comes to the rising tensions with Iran, which he calls "a greater danger than Iraq." On Oct. 16, he offered voters a "guarantee" that Iran will not obtain nuclear arms on his watch. On Monday, he mocked Democrats who have talked about negotiating with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He has also made it clear that he does not believe the president need consult Congress — not to mention foreign allies — if he decides to launch a military attack on Iran. When his chief rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, said in a debate on Oct. 9 that he would consult lawyers before deciding whether to seek congressional authorization for war with Iran, Giuliani later attacked him, saying he need only worry about consulting "the generals," and lectured Romney that he should "tell the American people, 'I made a mistake.' "
As well as Hill, Giuliani has assembled a hardline team of advisers that includes Norman Podhoretz, the writer and neo-conservative magazine editor who recently wrote an essay entitled, "The Case for Bombing Iran: I hope and pray that President Bush will do it." Podhoretz's new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, is an impassioned defence of the "Bush Doctrine," including the use of unilateral and preemptive military force and the conceptualization of terrorism as a military problem rather than a law enforcement task. Giuliani's foreign policy team also includes Michael Rubin, a former adviser on Iran and Iraq to former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has argued against negotiating with Iran. Another adviser is former Bush speech writer David Frum, a Canadian who worked on the famous "axis of evil" speech.
That said, you won't hear Giuliani adopting Bush's high-minded rhetoric about delivering freedom to souls who yearn for it. Perhaps the biggest difference between his foreign policy and Bush's is that Giuliani is focused on the war on terrorism and is jettisoning all that flowery language about bringing democracy to the world. "It's a practical, pragmatic approach," Hill says. "You can say democracy is an ideal that is a God-given right, or you can say that you are not going to get good governance without some kind of democratization. The hoped-for outcome may be the same, but it's a different thing."
Giuliani also talks about the need for new diplomacy — but he wants ambassadors evaluated for how effectively they take on anti-Americanism around the globe. "Too many people denounce our country or our policies simply because they are confident that they will not hear any serious refutation from our representatives," he wrote. "The American ideals of freedom and democracy deserve stronger advocacy. And the era of cost-free anti-Americanism must end."
Giuliani calls himself a supporter of the "international system," and wants to strengthen it. But what he means by that is the traditional system of sovereign states, and not new supra-national institutions. He does support security institutions like NATO — he wants to expand it to include "any state that meets basic standards of good governance, military readiness, and global responsibility, regardless of its location." And Giuliani wants to transform the regional defence alliance into what sounds like a global police force, which would take on "threats to the international system, from territorial aggression to terrorism."
But don't expect him to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol or the International Crimincal Court in the Hague. "In the 1990s," says Hill, "it was a fad among the intelligentsia of western Europe to say that the international system was outmoded and you wanted to invent more grandiose organizations and supra-national institutions that would leave the fundamentals of the international system in the dust. A lot of people wanted to run it off the rails." The Kyoto Protocol, one of the results of that trend, was "not sustainable," and another, the International Criminal Court, "was going too far," Hill says.
Giuliani also wants to maintain U.S. military supremacy, and has pledged to expand the U.S. Army by 10 new combat brigades (a brigade has 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers). He also wants to press ahead with the missile defence system. In total, his policy package has led liberal blogger Josh Marshall to declare that, "at least on foreign policy and presidential power — two pretty big issues at the moment — Rudy is Bush without the soft edges."
Meanwhile, other GOP candidates are trying to match Giuliani's tone. Romney famously declared in a May debate that "Some people have said we ought to close Guantánamo [the U.S. naval base in Cuba where terrorism suspects are being held]. My view is we ought to double Guantánamo." As Romney explained, when it comes to prisoners in the war on terror, "I want them on Guantánamo, where they don't get the access to lawyers that they get when they're on our soil." Romney has chosen Cofer Black, a former State Department official and the vice-chairman of Blackwater USA, the private security company that has come under investigation for killing civilians in Iraq, to advise him. While he was Massachusetts governor, Romney refused to provide any security for former Iranian president Mohammed Khatani when he came to the state to deliver a speech at Harvard University; more recently, he made a show of criticizing Columbia University for allowing Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus. And on Oct. 25, he listed "bombardment" among the military options he would consider to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. "I really can't lay out exactly how that would be done, but we have a number of options from blockade to bombardment of some kind," if Iran continues to pursue it's nuclear program, Romney said while campaigning in New Hampshire. "And that's something we very much have to keep on the table, and we will ready ourselves, because it's unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons."
Latecomer GOP contender, former senator and actor Fred Thompson, is also following the Bush-Cheney foreign policy lead, including hiring as one of his advisers the vice-president's daughter, Elizabeth, who until recently held a job at the State Department aimed at promoting democracy in Iran and Syria. At the Oct. 9 debate, he made it clear that even though he played a prosecutor on TV's Law and Order, the threat he sees cannot be met with a law enforcement operation. "It is a global war — Islamic fascism has declared it upon us," said Thompson. "They play by no rules and they are intent on bringing down Western civilization and the United States." And of the top GOP contenders, only John McCain has taken a clear position against harsh and coercive interrogation techniques.
On the other side of the aisle, the biggest hawk is also leading the field. Hillary Clinton voted in favour of the congressional resolution that authorized the use of force against Saddam Hussein, and unlike her rival John Edwards, refused to apologize for her vote. Like other Democratic contenders, Clinton has not ruled out military strikes against Tehran. But Clinton is the only one who on Sept. 26 voted in favour of a Senate resolution that labels the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Her vote is being portrayed as helping to pave the way for a military attack by the Bush administration.
It has made her something of a target among her rivals. Barack Obama, who was not in town to vote against the resolution, argues that it is at best redundant because the U.S. has long classified Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. In a mailing to voters in the early primary state of Iowa, Obama wrote, "Why is this amendment so dangerous? Because George Bush and Dick Cheney could use this language to justify keeping our troops in Iraq as long as they can point to a threat from Iran, and because they could use this language to justify an attack on Iran as part of the ongoing war in Iraq." One of Obama's foreign policy advisers, Ivo Daalder, told Maclean's: "Those who voted for it are either being duped because they don't understand what is going on here, or are willing to move in that direction with regard to Iran. Obama has made it clear he would keep every option on the table; he is at this point not prepared to contemplate military action because there is no need for it."
Former North Carolina senator Edwards also criticized Clinton's vote as a failure of judgment. "I learned a clear lesson from the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2002: if you give this president an inch, he will take a mile and launch a war," Edwards said. "Senator Clinton apparently learned a different lesson." Another rival, Chris Dodd, called the move "a dangerous step toward armed confrontation with Iran." Clinton responded with a letter to her supporters in Iowa claiming that her vote is just a toughening of diplomacy. "It was clearly a vote for stepped-up diplomacy, not military action," she wrote. She noted that she has co-sponsored a bill that would require Bush to consult Congress before attacking Iran.
But the fact is, Clinton is working hard not to look like a foreign policy wimp. "For many years the Democrats have been perceived as weak on national security, and they are determined not to be perceived that way again," says Richard Betts, a professor of political science and director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. "With Clinton, she has the added problem of suspicions that a woman may be less tough, and she may be compensating for that. She seems to have decided that at least in an election her main vulnerability will be on the national security side, and any softness would be something the Republicans could exploit." Or as Eli Lake, a columnist in the conservative New York Sun, predicts, "Mrs. Clinton will sprout wings and talons and screech for the blood of every Iranian terrorist as soon as she receives her party's nomination."
But Clinton's Iraq war vote and her posturing on Iran can't be easily dismissed as ploys. In July 2006, a former envoy of her husband's administration, Richard Holbrooke, now described as a close adviser to Clinton, talked about her foreign policy views to New York magazine: "She is probably more assertive and willing to use force than her husband. Hillary Clinton is a classic national security Democrat. She is better at framing national security issues for the current era than her husband was at a common point in his career."
In one 2000 speech, Clinton made clear that she supported military interventions, even if they were messy: "There is a refrain that we should intervene with force only when we face splendid little wars that we surely can win, preferably by overwhelming force in a relatively short period of time. To those who believe we should become involved only if it is easy to do, I think we have to say that America has never and should not shy away from the hard task if it is the right one."
"From the Middle East to the Arab-Israeli conflict to Afghanistan, Iran, and China — on virtually every major challenge facing the U.S. — she has a fairly aggressive posture," says Julianne Smith. "She has surrounded herself with some of the most hawkish members of the Democratic foreign policy community."
One of Clinton's closest foreign policy advisers, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, has long been hawkish on the use of force. In his memoirs, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Colin Powell recounted that Albright nearly gave him "an aneurysm" during the Bill Clinton administration with her constant requests to sprinkle U.S. forces for missions around the world. (Hillary Clinton lobbied her husband to promote Albright from UN ambassador to secretary of state. They were also the first two people in the administration to speak out against the Taliban.)
Holbrooke also supported the Iraq invasion — although he wanted to see a bigger coalition. In a 2002 speech he argued that leaving Hussein in power after the Gulf War was the U.S.'s biggest mistake since the Vietnam War, and he criticized the Bush administration for seeking an explicit mandate from the UN for invading Iraq — which was bound to be rejected. He argued that "would leave the clear impression than any military action that follows is in violation of the Security Council's will, rather than being derived logically from the long trail of Iraqi defiance." And, he added, "The U.S. cannot and will not accept the UN as the sole legitimizer of force."
Clinton herself has said as much. Last spring, Michael Crowley of the New Republic asked her about the influence of her husband's Balkan military interventions on her Iraq vote (the U.S. and its NATO allies bombed ethnic Serb positions during the Bosnian War in an effort to end that conflict, and in 1999, without UN approval, NATO bombed Serbia to stop Serb aggression in Kosovo). "It certainly did influence my thinking," Clinton replied. "What many of us thought was, the use of diplomacy backed up by the threat of force — that is a credible position for America to take in the world." But, she added, "there were those in the Congress who thought that the United States should never even threaten force — or certainly take force — in the absence of UN Security Council approval. Well, I had seen during the Clinton administration that sometimes that's not even possible. Sometimes, it's not even possible for the president to get congressional approval to pursue vital national security interests."
In her 2002 floor speech before the vote on authorizing military force against Iraq, Clinton said, "Perhaps my decision is influenced by my eight years of experience on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House, watching my husband deal with serious challenges to our nation. I want this president, or any future president, to be in the strongest possible position to lead our country in the United Nations or in war."
In this regard, Clinton's position is not that different from Giuliani's. "Democrats at least rhetorically put more emphasis on multilateralism," says Betts, "but there is a fair amount of similarity about what the U.S. should be doing on leadership in the world and shaping the world on democratic values. Nobody wants to tell the American voters that we'll wait for a permission slip."
When Clinton does criticize the Iraq war and calls for a gradual reduction in troops, she is careful to lay much of the blame on the Iraqi government for failing to resolve its sectarian differences. "American credibility is held hostage by an Iraqi government that will not fulfill its pledge to seek a political resolution of the rights and role of the Sunni minority and to determine how oil revenue is allocated," she said in a speech in October 2006. Reducing troop levels, she said, would send a message to the Iraqi government that "makes it clear that American forces will not be there to prop up their denials and refusal to deal with the problems at hand."
Clinton's tough talk poses both a risk and an opportunity for her main rival, Obama. It gives him an opening to appeal to the anti-war wing of the Democratic party — but requires him to show that he too can protect Americans from foreign threats. Obama raised eyebrows in August by vowing to send troops into Pakistan if he had intelligence about terrorists hiding there. His top foreign policy adviser is Tony Lake, another veteran of the Clinton-Gore adventures in the Balkans, who has been called Wilsonian for his activist view of foreign policy. He agitated within the Clinton administration to bomb Serb positions in Bosnia, despite the objection of some European allies on the ground and officials at the Pentagon who were reluctant to put U.S. troops in harm's way. And Lake was eager for the Clinton administration to send troops into Haiti to reverse a coup against democratically elected leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a move that was averted by an 11th-hour negotiated agreement.
Not everyone who served in the Bill Clinton White House learned the same lessons. Obama adviser Daalder, who sat on Clinton's National Security Council, says the Balkan wars left him more skeptical about military intervention. "I'm more sober about the use of force than I was then," he says. "The ability to influence societies from outside is more limited than even people thought in the 1990s. The experiences in Kosovo and Bosnia are pretty sobering." And, Daalder adds, "I think the larger reality about Bosnia and Kosovo is that it's easier to fight splendid little wars we can win in the first instance than to build an enduring peace."
Clinton's other chief rival, Edwards, has taken the softest tone, talking about the U.S. "reclaiming the moral high ground," dropping the "war on terror nomenclature," and turning enemies into "friends." But even he won't rule out military strikes against Iran, and has called for sending UN forces into Sudan.
Of course, campaigns are all about getting elected. How any individual will ultimately govern is not easy to predict. "Unfortunately, political campaigns are not the right vehicle to develop foreign policy positions," says P.J. Crowley, director of homeland security at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington. In the 1992 presidential campaign, Crowley notes, Bill Clinton "was very critical of president [George H..] Bush on his China policy." But when it came to warming relations with China in the face of human rights concerns, Clinton, after winning office, "went further than any of his predecessors since Nixon." The current occupant of the White House is also a case in point. He campaigned on a humble foreign policy and said he had no interest in "nation-building." "I'm going to be judicious as to how to use the military," Bush said in an October 2000 debate. "It needs to be in our vital interest, the mission needs to be clear, and the exit strategy obvious." Or maybe not.
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