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Three wrongful rape-convictions

I don’t know what is going on, but it seems to me that these cases were not being reported in the US mainstream media, quite possibly because they are an embarassment.

MailOnline
Jan. 30, 2011

Convicted rapist allowed to walk after DNA tests cast doubt on case… after serving all but five months of 25 YEAR sentence

….Sims, who missed the death of his mother as he was in prison, will have to register as a sex offender and is not eligible for any services or funds that the state gives to the wrongly convicted….Full Story)

You think that things cannot get any worse than that with wrongful convictions?  Check this:

MailOnline
Jan. 28, 2011

Wrongfully convicted rapist is freed after 17 years.. and hit with a $110,000 bill for backdated child maintenance

….Northrop was told he owed $111,000 in back child maintenance payments. About half of that sum was owed to the mother of his children and half to the state, which helped support the family while Northrop was incarcerated.

The state’s Department of Social and Health Services has a programme for writing off child support bills in hardship cases, and it waived its share of Northrop’s balance in November.

But Northrop still owes tens of thousands of dollars to his former partner, and the state has now enforced mandatory monthly payments of $100 out of his wages….Northrop’s co-accused has also fallen on hard times, working for just three days since his release….(Full Story)

“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience.”

— Catherine Comins, Vassar College,
Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p. 52
— From: Feminism and Society — As seen through feminists’ eyes (and as seen through the eyes of others who still use common sense) A collection of quotes by Bill Wood)

And what exactly is it that these three men gained from their experience?

Link between vaccines and miscarriages

It looks like anyone concerned about whether certain vaccines pose a greater risk to individuals than the diseases they are to prevent may have good reasons for being apprehensive.

  • H1N1 Miscarriages: Hundreds of women claim miscarriage after taking vaccine, December 2nd, 2009 6:44 pm ET

Continue reading on Examiner.com

  • H1N1 vaccine linked to 700 percent increase in miscarriages, Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Continue reading at Natural News

However, that is not all.  H1N1 vaccinations do not pose the largest risks.

MedAlerts Blog, October 2010

…the H1N1 Flu vaccine has appeared in miscarriage events more often than almost any other vaccine. Of the 1115 VAERS events [VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] that mention the abortion/stillbirth symptom, 203 are cases where the H1N1 Flu vaccine was given (200 with the FLU(H1N1) vaccine code and 3 with the FLUN(H1N1) vaccine code). This ignores the current Flu vaccine being given which has the H1N1 strain in it (the FLU(10-11) vaccine code). By contrast, there are only 63 abortion/stillbirth events associated with the Seasonal Flu Vaccine (vaccine codes FLU and FLUN) and this vaccine has been administered to millions of people over 21 years of data collection!

If you consider that the H1N1 Flu vaccine has been associated with 3 times as many abortion/stillbirth events, and that it has been given for just 5 percent of the time that Seasonal Flu vaccines have been given, then it appears that the H1N1 Flu vaccine is 60 times more likely to cause a miscarriage than the Seasonal Flu vaccine.

But the graph has more shocking results for us. The H1N1 Flu vaccine appears in many of the abortion/stillbirth cases, but not the most. The “winner,” appearing in 297 of the VAERS records associated with miscarriage, is Gardasil (vaccine code HPV4)! Once again, this vaccine is a newcomer, having only existed for 4 years.

So pregnant women should read the product manufacturer’s insert for the vaccine they are considering and speak with one or more trusted health care professionals before making a decision about vaccination during pregnancy. (Source: http://medalerts.org/analysis/archives/263)

Considering how governments all over the world push to make HPV vaccinations mandatory for girls, the first thing that came to my mind when reading the news items on vaccines, miscarriages and a considerable number of even more serious incident reports (a good number involving fatalities) was the claim that the following is one of the most-often-told lies: “I am from the government, and I am here to help you.”

Men’s activism — Men’s power

A lot of mail comes my way each day.  In many of my responses I recommend to read certain books.  The reason why I do that is because I get the impression that those to whom I recommend those books don’t have a clue that they exist.

About ten years ago or even earlier, that was hardly ever necessary.  Men’s rights activists, then, knew the authors whose books I must now point to because many of today’s activists need to be told about those books , that they need to be read and learned from.

I don’t know why that is, although we could all speculate a lot about how anyone can possibly know much about men’s rights activism without knowing the basics of what to be active about.  Here (in no particular order) are links to information on some books that are essential reading for anyone who is or claims to be a men’s rights activist:

Feel free to add to the list, but stick to the blog rules.

Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison

statesman.com; Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011

By JEFF CARLTON

The Associated Press

DALLAS — A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison had at least two chances to make parole and be set free — if only he would admit he was a sex offender. But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in a 1979 rape and robbery, in the process serving more time for a crime he didn’t commit than any other Texas inmate exonerated by DNA evidence.

“Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with it,” Dupree, 51, said Tuesday, minutes after a Dallas judge overturned his conviction….(Full Story)

Psych studies ordered for jailed homeschooling dad

WND Exclusive
NEWS OUTRAGE!

Psych studies ordered for jailed homeschooling dad

Just wanted to spend time with state-napped son

Posted: January 01, 2011
10:40 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily

Unspecified psychological studies or evaluations have been ordered for a jailed father who, in violation of the procedures of the government-run social services that instructed police officers to abduct his then-7-year-old son because he was being homeschooled, took him home for a visit….(Full Story)
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The more things change, the more they are the same.  “Psychological studies or evaluations” is what the prisoners of the KGB in the Lubyanka were being subjected to.  The government held those prisoners for “psychological examinations and treatment”, not that they were being detained for any crimes that they had committed.  If the prisoners had committed any crime, it was then as now most likely that they were not thinking and acting along politically-correct outlines, such as that they insisted upon their individual rights and freedoms.

The government in Nazi-Germany was not quite so sophisticated or fortunate in its choice of reasons for the detention of citizens whom it considered enemies of the state.  The Germans used the device called “protective custody”, to “protect its political prisoners against harm” from sources other than the government, I guess — harm by the government being quite as alright then in Germany as it is now in Sweden.

So, just to jog my memory and to bring it into line with the program, how is the present totalitarian system in Sweden an improvement over what was in place in the USSR and in Nazi Germany to circumvent and abrogate anyone’s civil rights then?

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