Fayner Posts: Now we’re getting somewhere with this fighting to preserve our rights! Not to say murdering Bush is good or right or something I would ever wish to happen…but it feels nice knowing those brave men are in battle so that movies like this can be made if somone wants to make it.

FROM HERE: This is the dramatic moment when President George Bush is gunned down by a sniper after a public address at a hotel, in a gripping new docudrama soon to be aired on TV.

Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.

Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on America in light of its ‘War on Terror’.

The 90 minutes feature explores who could have planned the murder, with a Syrian-born man wrongly put in the frame.

Peter Dale, head of More4, which is due to air the film on October 9, said the drama was a "thought-provoking critique" of contemporary US society.

He said: "It’s an extraordinarily gripping and powerful piece of work, a drama constructed like a documentary that looks back at the assassination of George Bush as the starting point for a very gripping detective story.

"It’s a pointed political examination of what the War on Terror did to the American body politic.

"I’m sure that there will be people who will be upset by it but when you watch it you realise what a sophisticated piece of work it is.

"It’s not sensationalist, or simplistic but a very thought-provoking, powerful drama. I hope people will see that the intention behind it is good."

The film will premier at the Toronto Film Festival in September and was written and directed by Gabriel Range.

‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case to U.S. Supreme Court?

Former Clinton prosecutor Ken Starr asks court to hear free-speech case

UNEAU, Alaska – Former Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Alaska’s “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case, a dispute involving a high school student, a banner and a tough school policy.

Starr, who gained national prominence while investigating former President Clinton’s Whitewater land deal and relationship with Monica Lewinsky, filed the petition Monday on behalf of the Juneau School District in response to a March ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The appeals court sided with a high school student who displayed a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” during an Olympic torch relay in 2002. It ruled former Juneau-Douglas High School principal Deborah Morse violated former student Joseph Frederick’s free speech rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court petition must receive a minimum of four of the nine justices’ votes to be heard.

Frederick, then a senior, was off school property when he hoisted the banner but was suspended for violating the school’s policy of promoting illegal substances at a school-sanctioned event.

“The principal’s actions were so outrageous, basically leaving school grounds and punishing a student for a message that is not damaging to the school,” said his attorney, Doug Mertz.

Superintendent Peggy Cowan said clarification is needed on the rights of administrators when it comes to disciplinary action of students who break the district’s drug message policy.

“The district’s decision to move forward is not disrespectful to the First Amendment or the rights of students,” she said. “This is an important question about how the First Amendment applies to pro-drug messages in an educational setting.”

Cape police target pot, porn in ‘07
Budget seeks 40 more officers to track grow houses, perverts

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Cape Coral is on track to become the state’s marijuana grow-house capital, a police captain said Wednesday while explaining the need for 40 more officers in the 2007 city budget.

"We anticipate we are going to become the number one location in the state," Rivers said.

The city is taking an aggressive stance by forwarding the cases to the U.S attorney for prosecution and for seizing the properties involved.

"We take their house. We take their cars," Rivers said. "If they come into Cape Coral we’re going to take them for everything they own."

Police also are recovering more guns, finding automatics and AK-47s along with the marijuana plants.

More than 1,000 computers in the city have been identified as being used to download child porn or entrap children, Rivers said.

The council agreed to fund the department’s $37.4 million budget request, and may even spend more to increase the search for sexual predators.

"I agree with everything you’re doing. I think there are a lot more out there," Councilman Tim Day said.

Day is a former policeman and he sponsored ordinances that require the city to notify residents of sexual predators living near them and controlling where sexual predators can live in Cape Coral. The public wants to see more law enforcement, Day said.

Grow houses are easier to find thanks to the public, said Councilwoman Dolores Bertolini.

"People are noting what’s going on around them and feeling free enough to call us," she said.

The council reviewed all of the departmental budgets proposed for 2007.

The group trimmed about $356,000 from the proposed $188.5 million general fund budget and supplemental requests. Most of that came from four positions, including an assistant director, requested by the human resources department. The council also shifted $675,000 for a wall separating the Everest Parkway public works compound from the neighborhood to the paving budget.

All of the decisions Wednesday are tentative and could be changed before the budget is adopted. Public hearings on the budget are scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Sept. 6 and Sept. 20. The council is expected to approve the budget after the second public hearing.

The city’s budget year begins on Oct. 1.

City Manager Terry Stewart warned the council at the start of the review to be aware of the impact of the city’s changing economy on the budget.

"Regardless what the tax revenues are next year, you’re still going to have growth issues for years to come," Stewart said.

"If we get a five or 10 percent increase in property values next year I would feel very fortunate," Stewart said.

Lingerie wrestling video causes queen to resign

GREENVILLE — Posing with her court Aug. 12, the newly crowned Danish Festival queen looked the part: beaming, proud, holding a flower bouquet.

The reign of Carissa Akkerhuis ended less than two weeks later as word leaked she had appeared in videos clad in lingerie and fighting or wrestling with men or other women.

The 19-year-old’s resignation Thursday is the first time in anyone’s memory a festival queen has quit under such circumstances. The four-day festival — Aug. 17-20 this year — annually draws as many as 75,000 people to Greenville.

"I don’t believe it has happened before," Danish Festival President Norice Rasmussen said.

Rasmussen would not comment on the reason for Akkerhuis’ resignation, but noted pageant contestants sign a contract agreeing to represent the festival and community as a role model.

The local contest is affiliated with the Miss Michigan pageant, with the winner competing at the state level for the chance to compete in the Miss America competition.

The loss of the crown also means Akkerhuis relinquishes more than $2,000 in scholarships.

Greenville resident Kim Akkerhuis said he stands by his daughter "100 percent."

"She did absolutely nothing wrong," said Akkerhuis, who considers the videos a legitimate way to teach self-defense techniques. "If it’s immoral to protect ourselves in martial arts, then where are we going with this?"

The videos are produced by a Grand Rapids company and distributed through various Web sites.

"Who’s your friend and who’s your foe
Who’s your Judas you don’t know"

ac/dc "Night of the long knives"