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Only reading the headlines so I can enjoy my morning coffee, noon Propel, afternoon tea, and evening nightcap, OK as equally outraged as the Herald-Standard and with you on the open records and accountability of our state's legislature and judicial system.
Herald-Standard, Uniontown, PA Wows & Scowls
Scowl: Anyone predisposed to thinking poorly of the state court system (see "Pay Raise, July 2005") could find plenty of fodder in a ruling by Commonwealth Court against this newspaper. That court earlier this year dismissed our right-to-know lawsuit against state Rep. Larry Roberts, regarding disclosure of this taxpayer-subsidized telephone records.
Acting like a collective Quick-Draw McGraw, that court did so without holding a fact-finding hearing or taking into consideration Roberts' testimony during a January deposition. It's your money and we think you deserve to know how it's spent by state legislators like Roberts. But guess what? The state court system, like the legislature, is exempt from the state's open records law.
Because we believe strongly in the principle of public accountability of tax dollars, we're appealing to the state Supreme Court for a second time, spending our own money in the process. You're paying for Roberts defense in this six-year legal struggle. Clap if you think that's a good and appropriate use of your tax dollars...
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.asp?brd=2280&pag=460&dept_id=468517
Not with you on this - Should John Murtha and the media prove wrong, they should suffer consequences. The situation is that Iraqi witnesses in Haditha have accused Marines of killing innocent civilians. Haditha is a stronghold of so-called Insurgents, and one group has been deemed terroristic. What do you think poor and fearful Iraqis are going to say? Are they going to say, by the way, the terrorists have put the fear of death in us, holding guns and bombs to our heads, so we better not tell you what happened here that makes the U.S. Marines look like heroes.
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Net the Truth Online: Should the Iraqis' Accounts of Marines Killing Innocents Prove False Rep. Murtha and Media Using anonymous sources should suffer
Herald-Standard
Bad situation: Marines accused of killing Iraqi civilians
War is a messy business where mistakes can be made, but if it's true that U.S. Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians last November, including women and children, that misstep will only serve to further undermine an increasingly shaky U.S. mission.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.asp?brd=2280&pag=460&dept_id=468517
