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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:11 PM
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U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales visits Houston
Source: Channel 11

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales visits Houston

12:03 PM CDT on Wednesday, March 28, 2007

From 11 News staff reports

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made a stop in Houston Wednesday.

Gonzales was in town to promote Project Safe Childhood, a program being used locally and across the nation.

Project Safe Childhood works to coordinate efforts by federal, state and local law enforcement officials to track down those who seek to sexually abuse and exploit children through the Internet.


Read more: http://www.khou.com/news/local/politics/stories/khou070328_tnt_gonzales.c47250a.html



ALBERTO GONZALES IN IN HOUSTON TODAY PROMOTING, "PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD"

NO, THIS IS NOT THE ONION!
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:15 PM
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1. Hope he had some time to fit in a little house hunting
for when he is forced to resign and moves back to Texas.
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TexasLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 09:33 PM
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11. hey, we don't want him!!!
Bush, Rove, Karen Hughes and the other quasi-Texans can stay away too. We're working too hard on turning this state blue.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:18 PM
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2. Maybe he got mixed up...maybe Bush really wanted him to visit Dallas.
:blush:
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Mend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:22 PM
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3. hope he swings by Florida and checks in with his friend Mark Foley
also while in Texas, he might look into the cover-up of the sexual abuse in juvie. What a pathetic shit of a hypocrite this man is.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:38 PM
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5. Bravo!
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:27 PM
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4. Hopefully, he had time to read this DU post on the plane

Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

And, how much does this PR event cost us? Did he fly economy class?
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 04:43 PM
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6. Well, folks here are up in arms
about how the Juvi Detention system had/has pedophiles staff and uses torture techniques on these kids AND SAY ....wasn't Gonzales the AG over that when he was here and doesn't this date back to the time he was in office
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 05:01 PM
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7. Tell them to get their pitchforks and storm the castle....
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gimama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 09:15 PM
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10. WHY is this NOT a "BIG STORY"??
I just read this overnight,& on NPR..I am just shocked/
I am so sad about how a few can have such DEVASTATING effects,
'domino' effects, exponential effects. These gop-extremists have messed up EVERY thing they touch. EVERY dang Day, another AWFUL,UGLY policy or person scandal.
I have to say a little prayer of thanks that "as bad as it is, at least the TRUTH is coming OUT"..but DANGGG...

'Course texas is into some privatizing, the prison system,& schools; then WE have "immigration raids & detentions", where FAMILIES are split up,detained or shopped away, putting CHILDREN in danger & COMMUNITIES left confused & affected.So many daily tragedies, I cannot follow up on where these Workers were sent, where the Families,kids,went, were the Corp.employers charged? In the panhandle, a raid swept up Workers,in the early a.m.,detained about 1,200,eventually I think 200-300 were charged(arrested,detained?deported?)but the insane part was the town's schools had no idea why no One was coming to pick up their kids after school..10 pm, Teachers were scrambling to provide shelter for kids who had no relatives to pick them up. I can't forget watching this unfold on local news,or the 'messages' it sent.

And the detention centers & these "systems" are jobbed out, sub-contracted,at huge cost & lousy standards & accountability.
Well, these 'systems' are the INFRASTRUCTURE of the SOCIETY
in the United States.
These are not meant to be for-profit corporate boys-clubs.
These are the Structures that MUST be done right,WE cannot play around, or 'job it out'.These are OUR CHILDREN, OUR PEOPLE, being used & abused.
Well, now I'm sad but mad,too,

I know every day I am consumed with PEACE-Makin's,but the TX Youth Commission TRAGEDY has just come to MY attention,& I've written dc & a few msm-types on this today,HOPING Others CARED & were speaking OUT.
Thanks for the Spirit of Your post.
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AnneD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-29-07 08:32 AM
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12. I am just as shocked as you are...
I take it as further proof that MSM is bought and sold. Our free press is not so free.


The Texas Legislature is up in arms over this. These kids may be JD, but they are still kids and they do not deserve this. They are firing folks left and right. And those they don't fire have to reapply to be screened. Remember, there are a number of DEM's in this legislature that were part of the group that refused to attend the session when they tried to cram DeLay's redistricting plan through. Remember, the group that Tom tried to sic the FBI on.

Texas may look red on the surface but it is seething blue:mad:
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 05:22 PM
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8. Lookin for job Gonzo? n/t
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:28 PM
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9. Bet he's looking for wingnut millionaires to contribute to the AG Legal Defense Fund
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