RSSDaily Commentary – Thursday, October 26th, 2006
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Who Said Its Not a Man’s World … Now they are Allowed in the Ladies Room
Ok, now this is just plane wrong. The NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority now 
allow men who live as woman can legally use the woman’s rest rooms in New York’s transit system. Yes ladies, the line to the woman’s room just got longer.
Men who live as women can now legally use women’s rest rooms in New York’s transit system under an unprecedented deal revealed yesterday.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed to allow riders to use MTA rest rooms “consistent with their gender expression,” the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund announced yesterday. (New York Daily News)
Police Strip Search Indiana Woman, Video Tape It, and Share It With Friends
While we are big fans of law enforcement and the police most of the time, when they do stupid and horrific things like they did in Hammond, Indiana, they deserve to be held accountable. A woman was arrested on shoplifting charges. She was placed in a cell and was strip searched. Fine, that is legitimate in my eyes.
But then we find out the room that she was in had a video recorder going and that afterwards copies of her strip search were shared with others. Now we are in the very wrong category if this is true, and the police should be held accountable for their actions.
The woman is seeking the maximum amount of damages allowed against a municipality, $300,000, and cites the city of Hammond on 10 counts, including intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and violation of the Fourth Amendment.
The complaint was filed Tuesday at Lake Superior Court by the woman’s attorney, Todd M. Conover. The woman’s name is not included in the complaint.
The lawsuit states that on Oct. 31, 2004, police arrested the woman for shoplifting in Hammond and the she was subjected to an illegal strip search. She was held for more than 24 hours without any charges being filed, and was not able to communicate with her father, the lawsuit says.
It also alleges that the strip search was videotaped or electronically recorded and that the illegal recording was copied and distributed by police officers. via AP Wire
Rooney Officially Charged in Gardner-Quinn Murder
Brian Rooney has been officially charged in the death of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, the University of Vermont student. Court documents filed this afternoon show Rooney being charged with aggrevated murder and will be arraigned on Thurdays at 10:30 AM.
Court papers show that blood found on Rooney’s blue jeans and semen recovered from Gardner-Quinn’s body came from the same man.
Rooney will be arraigned on the charges in Vermont District Court in Burlington at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Aggravated murder carries a penalty of life in prison and nothing less.
Tom Tremblay, Burlington Police Chief, verified the charges in a news conference moments ago. “The cause of Michelle’s death was strangulation and blunt force trauma,” Tremblay said. via the Burlington Free Press
While our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, we are glad they will have closure on this horrific crime to their daughter. When the police and judicial systems works effectively, crimes like these can be solved quickly and with certainty.
For more and past stories on this case go to Missing & Exploited.
Terrorist on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List — DEAD —
Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, the terrorist that was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, was killed in Pakistan last April the government revealed today. The terrorist was wanted in connection with the bombings of 3 US Embassies in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the border with Afghanistan.
DNA testing confirmed the Pakistani government’s claim, U.S. officials said, and Atwah’s name was removed from the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
Atwah, 42, was born in Egypt. He was indicted in connection with al Qaeda’s suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
There was a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Atwah, who also went by the alias Abdel Rahman al-Muhajer, had been a member of al Qaeda since at least 1990 and provided explosives training in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, according to his indictment. via CNN.com.
Others covering this story:
And those on the left see a big conspiracy.
