tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25049877607315026432012-02-16T11:30:05.951-08:00"Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert EinsteinAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578123223843089702noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504987760731502643.post-47564211306491736912010-09-06T15:19:00.000-07:002010-09-07T09:14:50.934-07:00

At the age of 15 he had his own uniform,Every line of track was burned into his mind,And the tire track crews are smiling to seeDarius McCollum coming down the line.-- Alexis Harte, "Ballad of Darius McCollum" The legendary Darius McCollum was arrested again last week - reportedly for the 27th time - for a transit-related offense. He allegedly took a Trailways bus from a maintenance garage in

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"To be frank, I was shocked when I was reading the report," said Manfred Nowak, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Torture. "What I did, on the 11th of May, was to send an urgent appeal to the U.S. government asking them to investigate." -- ABC News, June 30, 2010As I recently mentioned in my post about the Nicholson v. Freeport Union Free School Dist. case, Mental Disability Rights International

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Ideology is not science – which it pretends to be. Science accepts the results of the experiments it devises, whereas ideology systematically rejects empirical evidence.... All ideologies are aberrations. A sound and rational ideology cannot exist.- Special Master Richard B. Abell in Veryzer v. HHS, quoting Jean-François RevelIn a decision filed on June 15, 2010 - Veryzer v. HHS, US Court of

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While the infliction of severe pain on children and adults at JRC has been challenged in the courts time and time again, the legal system of the United States has failed to provide basic human rights protections for this population.-- From "Torture Not Treatment," an Urgent Appeal to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on TortureAntwone Nicholson has lost his case against the Freeport Union Free School

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But for the occasion of the 17-A proceeding belatedly commenced by petitioner, Mark would, most likely, still be an entirely isolated institutional resident. Although his basic needs were met, he lacked the resources to reach his best potential and to thrive — even as significant monies left to care for him increased, unspent in his trust, from which both trustees presumably took their annual

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The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusets - the notorious School of Shock - was in the news again. On April 20, 2010, the Stoughton Journal reported:A 16-year-old resident of the Judge Rotenberg Center on Kevin Clancy Way was issued a summons for multiple assault charges following an incident last week.Staff at the center called police Tuesday, April 13, at 8:41 p.m. and

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Here was neither education nor attempt at education. Here was a return to the bleak black days of Dickensian England.-- Hon. John Thomas Noonan, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge, dissentingIf you repeatedly lock a seven year old child in a dark closet until he becomes emotionally traumatized, is that abuse or education? According to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, it's education - special

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"He lost touch with the real world. He did not understand what he was doing and he could not control himself."-- Jonathan Shapiro, defense attorneyTrial started today in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the case against John Odgren, a teenager who is accused of murdering 15 year old James Alenson three years ago. According to news reports of today's opening statements, Odgren's attorney is arguing an "

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