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Judge Paid to Send Kids Away!

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The Associated Press reported today:

A former juvenile court judge defiantly insisted he never accepted money for sending large numbers of children to detention centers even after he was convicted of racketeering for taking a $1 million kickback from the builder of the for-profit lockups.
Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella was allowed to remain free pending sentencing following his conviction Friday in what prosecutors said was a “kids for cash” scheme that ranks among the biggest courtroom frauds in U.S. history.

As the judge left the courthouse today, he was confronted by the mother of one of the boys he had sentenced to a detention facility on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. The boy had committed suicide, an act his mother attributes to the trauma of his detention. The video of that confrontation got a lot of airplay today, and the judge was demonized.
The judges actions were inexcusable and the mother’s reactions completely understandable. He deserves the harshest sentence possible. Such scandals are inevitable in a system in which the government turns the means of administering justice over to private entities.
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Stop this Dangerous Rhetoric

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A drive for signatures on a petition from Credo says that in his new book FOX News contributor Newt Gingrich compared President Obama’s administration to Nazi Germany saying that his “secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.”
If anyone has read this book, I’d be interested in knowing how Gingrich defines socialism. It is an oft repeated charge, and I don’t understand it, because this country has a long way to go before it even become a “mixed” economy. Even the health care reform measures that passed recently will work through private insurance! Essentially the new policies of the administration check the excesses of capitalism, no more and no less. It has been acknowledged since the first recession of the Modern era that this is necessary.
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