Lotus’ Discrimination Against Marrieds

Lotus Software, Cambridge, has confirmed that they are receiving calls from incredulous readers about the employee who was ordered to remove a family photograph which was next to his computer monitor. Such pictures are considered offensive to singles and homosexuals. The company has not yet commented on the matter.

Newton Police Slow to Arrive at Scene of Hate Crime

Newton residents are upset that their police were slow to arrive at the scene of a hate crime last month.

After a group of residents showed up at a meeting of the Newton Human Rights Commission to question them about their policies, the members became visibly annoyed. Instead of letting the citizens talk, the Commission dragged on with a long discussion about how they needed to be vigilant for graffiti in the form of swastikas.

Finally, one of the exasperated residents scribbled a swastika on some paper, held it up and said, "Here’s one, now can we get on?" To everyone’s amazement, one of the commission members started screaming and the chairman immediately adjourned the meeting. Several commission members then ran out of the room and called the police. The woman who held up the paper is Jewish and had family members in concentration camps. She said that the commission’s hysteria about "hate crimes" was out of control and simply inciting more incidents.

When the police finally arrived at the scene a half-hour later at 9:06 p.m., Wednesday, July 12, they were bewildered. The rumor is that Mayor David Cohen is the one who placed the call. (This really did happen.)

Globe Violates Privacy of Women Victims

Although the Globe is terribly concerned about the privacy of rape victims, this doesn’t apply to a 16-year-old whose throat was slit by a former boyfriend who left her to die. The paper printed a full-face photo of this girl with a six-inch scar which was taken while she sat in the courtroom. How can the Globe be so thoughtless? Have they no compassion? How can the courts allow it? The Globe is constantly full of pictures of victims sitting in courtrooms. Haven’t these people suffered enough?

Bay Windows Upset With Globe

The editors at the homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows, are even more upset with the Globe than we are. They say "the apparently more intelligent folks at the New York Times who own the Globe [should] decide to finally oust the intellectually limited leadership at the Globe, as they should have done long ago." Maybe we have even more in common with Bay Windows than we thought. They’re angry because the newspaper printed a feature story about Brian Camenker on July 4 with the headline, "Crusader Stands His Ground."

Just think about that! The Globe called Camenker a "Crusader." Not a "nut" or a "homophobe," but a "Crusader." Jeff Jacoby better warm the coffee. There’s going to be more heads rolling on Morrisey Boulevard.

Racial Bias in Massachusetts Courts?

A large headline in the Globe stated, "Bias is still a problem in Massachusetts courtrooms." The article was written by a black lawyer who was concerned that a woman lawyer friend of his was treated rudely by a court clerk. He speculated that it might have happened because his friend was black.

How many times a day are you treated rudely? It appears as though it’s time for Atty. Robert V. Ward Jr. to grow up. He writes that his friend was trying to obtain court documents about a client and the clerk asked to see the attorney card, which every lawyer has. Well, good for the clerk! The court can’t distribute information about criminal defendants to just anyone who asks. But Ward’s friend "was left with the distinct impression that had her racial identity been white, the conversation would never have taken place. She concluded that the challenge was driven by racial animus."

We’re now living in a global village. Instead of worrying about whether the village of New England did enough in 1789 to stop slavery hundreds of miles away in the South, why doesn’t Atty. Ward worry about the terrible slavery of blacks that is occurring in our global village, over in Africa today? If he started worrying about someone else, he wouldn’t have time to be so introspective. He might even be grateful to be blessed to live in a country where he has become Dean of the Southern New England School of Law. (We also hear he is a good little league coach.)

Planned Parenthood Killing Babies?

Although some will debate whether Planned Parenthood is killing babies in Massachusetts, no one could debate it when we’re talking about partial birth abortion.

This is what a doctor is doing. He dilates a pregnant woman’s cervix, initiates delivery of the baby, reaches into the uterus so the child will enter the birth canal feet first, coaxes the feet and the torso into the world, then plunges scissors into the base of the child’s skull, opens the cranial cavity, inserts a tube, sucks out the brains, collapses the skull and yanks out the limp corpse.

A shaken nurse told Congress about her experience with the procedure: the baby’s tiny fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startled reaction.

Although we are very concerned about the "Constitutional rights" of the woman, who is representing the rights of the baby? Isn’t this the ultimate defenseless person? We must wonder what Chief Justice Margaret Marshall believes. Would she like to debate it?

Channel 7

Channel 7 News called our publisher last month and asked if they could send a sound truck to interview him. They said there were complaints about our reporting graphic details of what the children had been taught at Fistgate. We talk to a lot of people all the time and we knew the TV station was not telling the truth. The only people they had heard from were the Governor’s office (and possibly Sen. Cheryl Jacques). So we agreed to do the interview, but we also made it quite clear that we would not be passive; no matter how much they chopped and edited, the interview would not further their goals. It would not suit their goals. They called back a few minutes later to say they had a breaking story and they couldn’t come that day. They never called back.

Primary Elections

The U.S. Supreme Court has cast a jaundiced eye at our primary elections in Massachusetts. It has held that a similar California system is unconstitutional.

Our primary elections are a joke in Massachusetts where anyone can vote in any party he wishes in a primary election. All he needs to do is become an Independent, at any time, even for just one election. It is almost impossible to build a strong opposition party when this is allowed to happen.

In California, every ballot used to list every candidate regardless of party affiliation, allowing the voter to choose freely among them. This is not exactly the same as Massachusetts where only Independents are allowed to do so. Our system may not be illegal but it is unfair and absurd. It only helps the politicians who are in power. The Supreme Court held that California’s "blanket primary" violated a political party’s First Amendment right to free association. Very likely our system is also unfair and illegal.

Was Jacoby’s Punishment Fair?

The ombudsman of the Globe has decided that Jeff Jacoby’s punishment was not excessive. But he, Jack Thomas, doesn’t inform us that in 1997 he said that a column that Jacoby had written was "offensive," a "high price to pay for freedom of the press" and that his future columns would be judged "case by case." Do you think Thomas is ( ) happy or ( ) sad to have Jacoby in this position?

The ombudsman admitted that the brouhaha has hurt the newspaper’s image. "This has been a public relations disaster," he wrote. Therefore, the paper is promising to "appoint a columnist with conservative credentials." That will be interesting. The one to make the decision will be the editor of the editorial page, Renee Loth, who used to be political editor at the only paper in the state which is to the left of the Globe, the Boston Phoenix.

Thomas’ words of advice are to put Jacoby on the city desk as a reporter for four months after he returns, where "he might learn something about life."

Globe Goes After the Army

"Army substantiates sex harassment claim," screamed a Globe headline which was followed by the news that the case "spotlighted sexual harassment at the highest ranks of the military" and that it "followed a long line of sex scandals that revealed wide-spread sexual harassment in the armed services."

Wow!

You have to read over 600 words before you finally discover the details of the "sex scandal." But don’t get too excited. A female general claimed that a male general had given her a hug and a kiss back in 1996. The two generals were in "total disagreement" over what happened. According to the Globe, he claims, "He hugged [her] and possibly gave her a ‘cheek kiss,’" while she says, "[He] grabbed her, held her against her will, and kissed her."

The Globe did not reveal that the Army report said there were no witnesses and the male "could not provide any reason why the complainant would make false allegations against him….There was no motive for the complainant to make a false allegation. They were not in competition for the same job. The two officers had never been assigned together except for a two-month overlap at one installation. There was no evidence to indicate they had ever been more than friends….There was no apparent incentive for her to ruin his unblemished career and destroy their friendship with false allegations."

Be sure you read that carefully.

If a man in the Army is accused by a woman of something that did not happen, he has to prove it did not happen or else he is guilty. That’s how far the harassment has gone against men in the military since Bill Clinton took office and another reason why the military is in such terrible shape.

It’s another victory for the far-left feminists, one of whom was quoted by the Globe, an unidentified officer in the Navy, "In this case, the system worked….There are still men getting away with it out there."

One of those men is the general’s commander, William J. Clinton. We thought we had decided that a little sex in the office was good for morale. I guess a peck on the cheek doesn’t qualify as sex. That’s just "harassment." Now if the general had really gotten sexy like Commander William J. Clinton, maybe that would have been okay.

What’s that expression about "a woman scorned?" Do you think the woman general felt a little scorned by the general if he only gave her a peck? After all, she was 52 and divorced. Why do you think she might have lied?

Sex Education Is Working ? ? ?

"Sex education is working" in the public schools said a large headline in the Globe. You’ll be happy to know that 47% of our high school students report they have been "taught how to use a condom correctly." The article was written by the Executive Director of the "Alliance for Young Families," Susan Lovelace. Although it is a nonprofit organization, it would appear from reading the list of 100 groups that belong that much of the money is coming from taxpayers. Even when you see names such as Catholic Charities and Salvation Army, you have to remember that they are all receiving money from the state nowadays and who knows what strings are attached.

You will be even happier to know that 93% of the high school students said they had received information about preventing HIV/AIDS. After hearing about Fistgate, one must wonder whether they, too, were taught all of the graphic wonders of sex. There is cause for alarm, however, according to Ms. Lovelace, "Washington is experimenting on America’s children" by encouraging the use of abstinence-only programs.

Surprisingly, she did not attack parents. She reported that "parents are an important influence on whether and when their teenagers become sexually active and whether they become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. Parents have a unique opportunity to convey sexuality information as well as to share with children their values, beliefs and family expectations." How did Renee Loth allow that to be printed?

Another Globe History Lesson

The Globe gave another two-line history lesson last month in a front-page story about Clinton’s expected visit to Vietnam. The reporter, David M. Shribman, said that "two generations of French and US military personnel tried but failed to defeat [the Communists.]" If he wants to know what he’s writing about, why not read Vietnam by the liberal Stanley Karnow, which was a companion book to a PBS series in 1983. Karnow has many insightful comments, including that the attitude of most Americans was, "It was an error for us to have gotten involved in Vietnam in the first place. But now that we’re there, let’s win – or get out." However, the ultraliberals who made the terrible mistake of sending our boys there in the first place panicked, betrayed the troops they had sent and the Vietnamese people who had helped us while we were there

But Shribman probably shouldn’t read it. He’ll discover disturbing things such as, the problem wasn’t that American military personnel weren’t winning the war. They were winning; it was the ultraliberals in Washington who lost their desire when things didn’t go as easy as they thought. He’ll even discover that Bobby Kennedy assured us on a trip to Saigon in 1962, "We are going to win."

Unitarians Cheating On Their Neighbors

The Unitarians have been using an historic Beacon Hill house as a bed-and-breakfast in violation of an agreement they made with the city in the 1960s. Their actions came to light during a two-year battle with neighbors over a proposal to use the building as a boarding house and conference center, according to the Globe. "UUA says the neighbors forced them to sell, but that’s wrong," said a spokesman for the neighborhood. "We wanted them to comply with the law, which doesn’t allow them to run a business in a residential neighborhood, tax free."

More Communists Coming to UMass

Marxist intellectuals from around the world will be gathering at UMass/Amherst during September. This is an international conference where Marxists will be rethinking their strategy for socializing the world.

‘Time’ for New Management at Globe

In a column about the Jeff Jacoby brouhaha, a columnist for Time magazine says it’s time for new management at the Globe.

"I wonder when it is going to occur to the bosses of the New York Times, which owns the Boston Globe, that it may be time for a change in management up there, wrote Lance Morrow, who says that Jacoby was "forced to leave" for "spurious" reasons.

He opined about the paper, "The Globe – not only on its editorial page but also in its news columns – is an abscess of smug, unexamined left-wing assumption, which is just as unhealthy as smug, unexamined right-wing assumption."

Some observers cautioned, however, that any change by the New York owners will still leave Massachusetts’ most powerful medium with a left-wing orientation.

Trees Are Danger to Children?

An 11-year-old is suing his teacher and the City of Boston because he was climbing a tree at school and fell and broke his wrist while in second grade, reports the Boston Globe. But he has a terrible lawyer. They’re missing the "deep pocket." He should be suing God. This obviously is a "defective product" that God has manufactured and put in Massachusetts, and we keep hearing that more and more of these plants are appearing everywhere. We must put an end to this.

Some wiseacre is going to ask how can the lawyer serve a Complaint on God? If the lawyer were any good, he’d have figured an answer to that detail by now. He must not be too concerned about this serious problem.

You think he’s only concerned about . . . his fee? We can’t believe that. If that were true he’d be looking for the "deep pocket" instead of suing only the City of Boston.

Why, if you think about it, trees might be more dangerous than guns. Why hasn’t Sen. Kennedy had a study done as to how many children have been injured or killed when their family car hit a tree? The Senator could have the study done by a university in the state for less than a million of our dollars. A bargain! Do you think this might be a feminist conspiracy because it is mostly boys who climb trees and are injured therein? Are we allowing all these defective products to remain so that more boys will be hurt? There’s a lot to think about here.