Serial Butt Slasher on the Loose



California Governor, Jerry Brown, signed a bill Thursday July 14th, making his state the first in the nation to teach lessons about the gay and lesbian community in public social studies classes.
Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill requiring public schools to include the contributions of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people in social studies curriculum.
When defending the bill against a conservative uproar, Brown stated, âHistory should be honest. This bill revises existing laws that prohibit discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and all walks of life are included in our history books.
Republican lawmakers and an assortment of churchesâwho oppose the bill because it subjects to students to teachings that parents find objectionableâlabeled the bill as well-intentioned, but horribly conceived.
Although the two sidesâthose supporting the bill and those vehemently against itâface ideological differences, supporters of the law applauded the social evolutionary nature that the bill will inevitably institute.
The billâs primary author, State Senator Mark Leno, hailed the bill, claiming it as a significant step towards social equality and teaching tolerance. Supporters state that the bill will teach students to be more accepting of others, particularly the gay and lesbian communities.
The law, labeled SB48, will require the California Board of Education and its local school districts, to adopt textbooks and other resources that cover the contribution and roles of sexual minorities as soon as the 2013-2014 school year.

Tyrie Davis, aged 17, was heading home from his Manhattan high-school when he smelt something foul. In response to the odor, Davis said aloud, âit smells like doo-doo.â A fairly routine comment; however, was not taken so lightly by a New York police officer, who thought the remark was directed towards him.
Following the comment, Davis claims that a number of officers exited a nearby unmarked van to scold the student and place him under arrest. Davis was then brought to the local police station where he was summoned for disorderly conduct.
The peculiarity of this story did not stop with the arrest. Following Davisâs release (at 3 a.m.), arresting officer, Joseph Murphy and fellow cop, Jose Ocasio, accosted Davis when the teen exited the police station. Seemingly incensed by the comments, Murray and Ocasio, according to the criminal report filed by teenâs mother, struck Davis repeatedly âwith closed fists and kicks.â
The incident, which took place on February 18th of this year, made headlines this week as both Ocasio and Murphy were charged with third-degree assault, harassment and official misconduct. Currently, the two officers await trial.




Arizona State is taking unusual measures to fix the effect that
they are having due to a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug. To
increase their supplies, Arizona is looking towards other countries for the
drug.
This option to do so, not only raises questions about the
thoroughness and effectiveness of the drug, but it also allows for the inmates
to be able to challenge the use of the drug that may or may not be inspected by
the U.S Federal inspectors.
Arizona officials have said that they got their lethal injection
drug, sodium thiopental, from Britain. They have done so to continue the rate
of executions; since spring 2010, the executions have been at a slower rate.
Currently there are 35 states in the United States which
legalized executions by lethal injections. The drug used in the lethal injections,
which is from the U.S, is FDA-approved; there are no other FDA-approved drugs
from overseas currently being manufactured. Many prosecutors have said that since the
delay of executions, the public has lost faith in the criminal justice system.
Soon
after the signing of the new Arizona immigration law, Senate Bill (SB)
1070, in April 2010, protests were reporting breaking out against the
legislation, which puts new enforcement measures in the hands of state
law-enforcement authorities against illegal immigration. According to
reports issued from the Capitol as Governor Jan Brewer was affixing her
signature to the Arizona immigration law, some 1500 demonstrators had
assembled, either in support or opposition, and did not hesitate to make
their views known as the merits of a piece of legislation which has
been both championed and denounced.
The
Arizona immigration law breakout of protests led, in some cases, to
arrests, as with the disorderly conducts charges pressed against nine
people, all college students. They had affixed themselves to the stateâs
old Capitol building to symbolize the oppressive detentions which they
asserted would result from the passage of the Arizona immigration law.
The Arizona immigration law breakout of protests also included public
declarations of opposition from recognized community leaders, from both
within and without Arizona, and from such various areas as activists,
political officeholders, and religious leaders. The Arizona immigration
law breakout of protests was encouraged, for one, when Los Angeles
Cardinal Roger Mahoney compared the then-proposed, now-implemented
legislation to âRussian Communistâ and âGerman Naziâ tactics, raising
the specter of a âpolice stateâ being created by SB 1070, an assertion
hotly disputed by the lawâs supporters in the legislature and throughout
the state. Clarence Dupnik, Sheriff of Pima County, also criticized the
immigration law.
Katrina
law reforms and initiatives have been launched since the 2005 hurricane
devastated much of the Gulf Coast area of the United States, notably
including the city of New Orleans. As such, Katrina law efforts have
been passed into effect in the form of the creation of the Gulf
Opportunity Zone, as well as other tax measures intended to encourage
economic activity in the area. Katrina law measures have thus aimed at
restoring quality of life for areas which, in some cases, have
historically been noted for high degrees of poverty and social
deprivation, even preceding the particularly harmful of Hurricane
Katrina. Supporters of such Katrina law initiatives have raised
concerns, however, in the context of heavy Democratic losses in
Congress, incurred in the November 2010 elections. Democratic
legislators had hoped to pass through extensions for the Katrina law
provisions, but even prior to the partyâs reversals of fortune, had been
preventing from doing so by Republican figures.
Recommendations
for the continued enforcement of Katrina law provisions have also been
launched by Housing Authority of New Orleans head David Gilmore, who
announced that tax credit extensions would be necessary for his agency
to carry out planned projects for residential, low-income construction.
In general, the continued maintenance of Katrina law measures is
believed to have been threatened by an anti-spending mood currently seen
throughout the country, and tied to high budget deficits. The continued
need for Katrina law measures has also been tied to the fall in credit
available during the economic recession.
AZ immigration law breakout
The
AZ immigration law breakout of protests, launched specifically against
the new legislation of SB (Senate Bill) 1070, began as soon as it seemed
likely that this law, in its initially proposed form, would be passed
through the legislature and then approved by Governor Jan Brewer. At the
same time, supporters of the bill were equally vociferous in defending
the law, particularly against the criticism that it would create new
opportunities for ethnic profiling on the part of the stateâs law
enforcement authorities. The AZ immigration law breakout of protests has
turned on, in part, the lawâs inclusion of language allowing police to
use a personâs ethnicity as a factor when making the judgment of whether
or not to stop that person. Despite criticism that this provision
amounted to discrimination against the stateâs many Latino residents,
Governor Brewer signed SB 1070 on April 23, 2010, thus allowing the
legislation to go into effect on July 29 of that year.
The
AZ immigration law breakout of protests has been reported as a
grassroots-level reaction against the legislation that has been matched,
in some cases, in the halls of government power, and from other areas.
Expressing similar concerns to those which prompted the AZ immigration
law breakout, the Justice Department lobbied a legal challenge against
the legislationâs constitutionality. Some religious organizations issued
statements showing agreement with the AZ immigration law breakout of
protests, including from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the
office of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney, while others abstained
from comment.