THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† Eco-Terrorist Firebug Causes $5 Million In Property Damage: Eco-terrorist Frank Ambrose, 33, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison for setting a New Year's Eve fire at Michigan State University’s Agriculture Hall in 1999, with his ex-wife Marie Mason, 46, who will be sentenced in February, reports The Associated Press. The group, affiliated with Earth Liberation Front. U.S. Chief District Judge Paul Maloney also ordered Ambrose and Mason to pay $4.14 million in restitution for that fire, along with fires at four homes being under construction in the Detroit area.
† Updates To Previous Posts (fifth item, Is The Iraqi Criminal Justice System More Efficient Than Ours?): It took three years and a $2 million state-funded defense that nearly bankrupted GA’s public defender system, but Brian Nichols, 36, has been convicted of murder for a rampage that began when he grabbed a gun from a bailiff during his rape trial and killed a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent began at the Fulton County Courthouse, reports The Associated Press. Rejecting his insanity plea, the jury took just 12 hours to convict him on 54 counts, reports
† Updates To Previous Posts (third item, Never Mind Marxism. Will An Obama Administration Be Totalitarian?): OH Gov. Ted Strickland (D) has placed Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the state’s Department of Job and Family Services, on paid administrative leave because a state computer or state E-mail account may have been used to assist in political fundraising, reports The Associated Press. You’ll recall that Jones-Kelley directed an underling to pry into the records of Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (“Joe the Plumber”) after he became notorious for getting Barack Obama to describe his tax plan in socialistic terms. State Inspector Tom Charles is investigating both matters. the search.
† Updates To Previous Posts (last item, Another Cockamamie Lib Idea Fails The Real World Test): In the past week two girls, one 15 years old and one 11 years old, and an 8-year-old IN boy have been abandoned by their parents or guardians at NE hospitals under the state’s defective safe haven law, reports The Associated Press. A special session of the state legislature is scheduled for Nov. 14 to address the unintended consequences of the law, which failed to specify that it was applicable to parents of babies up to 72 hours after birth.
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