A Revolution is the Solution
Not wishing to diminish your own response to the blog article, now deleted, I believe this stinging response also deserves to be preserved:
Frank Krasicki said...
Enough? Oh how you must be suffering. Poor thing. Did you lose your job, your dignity, your ability to work, your self-esteem, your savings,...?
No? You're just tired of professionals looking at the so-called factual evidence and finding it misleading, fraudulent, and unjustly perverse. How magnanimous you are.
Hey, so what? The judge will never give an innocent woman 40 years. Maybe just 30 or 25. Norwich will feel good about that. It shows real compassion and understanding.
You claim Julie Amero showed these kids the porn - that's according to a police report. As a journalist does it ever occur to you to investigate the veracity of the claims? Try it sometime.
It is true that content filters cannot stop every porn site from getting through but you imply that the Federal Law the school violated by not having up to date filters is not even a misdemeanor yet the victim of the oversight is a felon. Curious logic.
I have never heard of anyone blame the school, police, or administrators for what Julie Amero "did". In fact, Julie Amero's behavior remains honorable and wholesome compared to the hysteria and total absence of reason exercised by just about everyone else involved in this sordid affair.
The affidavit's assertion that the sites recorded on the computer logs were viewed sounds speculative. How do they know this? Who sat around looking at them? Maybe the same children who were oh so traumatically harmed by the experience that they couldn't even identify Julie Amero in court. Yeah, Julie's irresponsible behavior was so outrageous that, well... the kid's don't remember a thing. Geez, I'm so outraged myself I'm getting sleepy.
And not even a delusional crack addict would believe the assertion that porn sites ask viewers to click a disclosure consent form to activate the site. Did the affidavit contend that the porn site asked if children were present as well?
And you end on such a cheery note. That you, the judge, and jury all were hoodwinked by fraudulent evidence claims is of no consequence because the judge will use prudence! That's right, never mind there is no crime so we'll go lightly on you this time. Aren't you glad we're all about justice in Norwich?
Frank Krasicki
http://region19.blogspot.com
(Found on Google cache)
Nice!
I tried pulling up the replies on cache but they wouldn't work for some reason.
Well that just About sums up my Feelings on this,
What planet were the Judge and Jury on ? i have no idea
..come on people, get stuck in.
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When I first read this tragedy I thought of something that happened when I took an adult ed web design class at the local high school. I was poking into everything on the machine I sat in front of and noticed a strange looking site in the favorites. It was a porn site. I pointed it out to the instructor who blanched and stuttered that any number of people could have placed it there etc. I agreed and deleted it. At that time it never occurred to me that the instructor had any "guilt" nor does it now. I am fairly sure some horny high school boy managed to place the site in favorites of that machine and brag about it to all his buddies.
What happened to Julie is along this same line and the ignorance of people who don't know how this kind of crap gets on PC's without the user doing it shouldn't be used against an innocent person.
I hope the powers that be come to their senses and see the errors of their ways.
I know there's nothing funny about this issue but I howled at your "Im in ur Amerika, eatin ur foodz", so along that theme, here's another take especially for Julie: http://members.shaw.ca/landcruis...r/
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FJA!
I'm so glad I haven't blogged this case because it is going way over the top.
Why can't some people stick to real busting like PG and other known fighters. Or at least learn from them. There is more important stuff to find and abuse.
Some people also need to learn the basic stuff infections or pop-ups or exploits can do. Now I haven't read ALL of the articles about this case. But common sense seems to have gone out of the window here along the line.
The people accusing Julie should be ashamed of themselfs PERIOD!
Andy
PG,
Did you read this?
http://region19.blogspot.com/200...rican-
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"...One of those incidences involved Julie Amero. On April 14, 2004, Julie was a substitute teacher when a fight broke out in the school. The regular staff all closed their doors and pretended nothing was going on. A janitor warned Julie not to get involved. Julie ignored him and arrived too late. A thirteen year old girl was badly beaten up by another girl at the school. Julie arrived in time to comfort the bleeding child. Julie was the last person the girl would see before she slipped into a coma.
A few months later, Julie is again substituting and is accused of cruising the internet all day instead of engaging the students.
I cannot comprehend why we choose to spend pennies on education and demand draconian accountability of schools that need security, training, and 21st century technology to function yet we ask no accountability for billions of wasted dollars on toys for police who abuse our trust.
But the more I learn about teachers like Julie Amero the more I think that America's real heroes are not just those wearing uniforms but those who serve in the trenches of our school systems that are often more violent than our streets and far more complex than busting merchants for serving under-aged customers.
In a future blog posting I will revisit our earlier assumptions about what happened in Julie's classroom and the pornography allegations."
And the teachers said they had no Axe to grind over Julie Amero,
Given what i have just read i do doubt that .The regular staff all closed their doors and pretended nothing was going on.?
.accused of cruising the internet all day instead of engaging the students.
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None of this was evidence at her trial ??
I find this all a little suspect
I was once a certified public school teacher, in other states from the one in the story. Let me assure you, none of this surprises me. Sickens me, but I'm not the least surprised. Obviously, I'm no longer working in that disgusting atmospher. It's beneath me.
I'm glad you are on this. I published a brief post about Axelman's blog, intending to update it later and then just got busy and never got back to it.
Link here
http://lizditz.typepad.com/
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I also did not Grab screen shots (I try to do this for pages I think will change). Phooey.
He hounded Amero -- and in my opinion, the rest of his school reporting was more like serving as a PR flack for the district, rather than an investigative reporter.
What I didn't get around to: looking at the district's AYP scores for kids with LDs and seeing what he had been writing about special education in the district.
Why? Strong districts do well with their SpEd kids.
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