Sightings

More Globe Propaganda on ‘Protection of Marriage’

The Globe continues its efforts to make “Protection of Marriage” into a gay issue. A headline last month said, “Ballot effort eyes gay marriage ban.” The first sentence in the story said the law would make the state the 36th to “ban same-sex marriage.” But it would do a lot more than that. It would guarantee that we have an official definition of marriage that is the same as what everyone has always assumed it to be. We never needed a definition before because everyone knew what marriage is.

The new law would stop bigamous marriages, prevent cohabiting straight couples from receiving the benefits of marriage without assuming the responsibilities and many other things. But the radical feminists at the Globe want it to look like gay-bashing.

Newton Superintendent Fails to Come to Grips with Bus Tragedy

When the crash of a school bus killed four Newton students in Canada this spring, the news stories were clear that most schools do not send children off on all-night trips with tired bus drivers. They drive in the daytime. So who was responsible for the tragic decision to have all-nighters, if not Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Young? Didn’t he know about it? If not, why not?

But Young was bowing and taking accolades last month in the Boston Globe for his handling of the sorrow that occurred after the deaths. “Have a crisis team in place,” was his advice to other school districts. “Set up a command center...”

But nowhere did he talk about making sure that the safety of the students was assured so that a crisis team would not be needed.

Concern About Sex and Rolling Stone Remains at Wellesley

“[I]t’s so hard to know” if the Rolling Stone’s article about sex at Wellesley College was damaging, President Diana Chapman Walsh has told the college newspaper. She opined that it didn’t seem to affect applications. But her statement appears to be a premeditated falsehood because the scandal did not break until March, long after applications had been filed for this year’s entering class. It was impossible to affect applications.

But Walsh did acknowledge damage to the college. “The other kind of evidence you have,” she said, “is a lot of angry, negative feedback from constituencies...a lot of letters sent to me and emails [would be] sent to me, that sort of thing.” [This sentence and the next are exactly how they appeared in the newspaper.]

“I guess the thing to say – and this will sound old fashioned – [is that] damage to your reputation is very hard to repair. If you do something reckless and your good reputation is damaged in some way by doing it, you almost never get the chance to undo it. The damage is very hard to repair. It takes a minute to lose trust; it takes years to build it up.” The student reporters should have asked their President what was done at Wellesley that was “reckless.”

MassNews wondered at the time of the scandal, where were the adults? Why were the adults allowing this sex to occur? Didn’t Mrs. Walsh realize that 17- and 18-year-old girls were being sent to her in good faith and being required to live in her dorms with the assurance that nothing harmful would happen to them? There’s no question she violated that trust and continues to violate it – because she has done nothing to change what is happening on the campus.

It appears that Ms. Walsh heard from many of our readers at the time of the scandal.

Why There’s a Housing Shortage

The poverty lawyers in Framingham are teaching tenants how to avoid being evicted from their homes. We all agree it’s not enjoyable having to pay the rent. But if a landlord isn’t paid, he’s going to have to raise the rent for the other tenants. Why should the ones who do pay have to subsidize those who don’t?

Who would want to be a landlord today? And the politicians wonder why there is a shortage of housing. The poverty lawyers don’t help. And it’s our tax dollars that pay for them.

These lawyers are holding twice-a-week seminars in Framingham, every Monday and Friday, on how to cheat your landlord.

We told the story in our February 2000 issue about the owners of a two-family house in Waltham who were forced into bankruptcy after the poverty lawyers kept a battle going for two-and-a-half years before the non-paying tenants moved and hid without paying a cent.

Blacks Against Affirmative Action

An overwhelming majority of blacks continue to “reject giving outright preferences to blacks and other minorities in employment or admissions to college,” according to a story in the Washington Post about a Harvard survey. More than 80% of blacks, Hispanics and Asians believe that these decisions “should be based strictly on merit and qualifications other than race or ethnicity.” Only 12% of blacks and 7% of other minorities “believe race or ethnicity should be a factor.”

ACLU Defends Men Who Molest Boys

The ACLU is defending men like Christopher Reardon who molest boys. They’re protecting the North American Man/Boy Love Association for their responsibility in the murder of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley in Newton. They will say, “Everyone is entitled to a good lawyer in America.” But the problem is we all know that is impossible. There are many good people out there who are being cheated and gouged and even losing their children without any protection. And the ACLU never represents them.

Among many other things they’re asking the judge to do is issue a “gag order” on the boy’s parents and to suppress a large training manual issued by NAMBLA on how to molest children. Why doesn’t the ACLU want the public to hear about the manual?

Black Female Prof Sues Wellesley for Discrimination

A black female professor has sued Wellesely College for discrimination. A “world-renowned” philosopher and artist, Prof. Adrian Piper, told the school newspaper, “I think there is overt racism at Wellesley.” She believes the college “has used my public visibility [since her arrival in 1990] to enhance its multicultural public image, while in reality actively preventing me from doing the multicultural work it publicly claims to welcome.”

Prof. Piper is seeking permanent funding for 60 hours/week of professional administrative assistance and research support, a permanent teaching load of one course per semester and a fully paid one-year sabbatical every three years.

Difficult Year in Newton Schools?

In the story about the Newton bus tragedy, the Globe said the year has been a “difficult one for the Newton schools and Superintendent Jeffrey Young, including contentious debates over teacher contracts, and whether homosexuality should be discussed in the classrooms.”

No official has ever revealed before that there is opposition to the homosexual agenda in the Newton schools. And it’s as important as teacher contracts? We’ve always heard that everyone approves of the agenda except for a few oddballs.

But more important, the Globe was wrong again. the debate is not about whether homosexuality should be “discussed.” The debate is about whether students will be taught everything about homosexuality or just what the activists want them to hear.

Concern over Injurious Baby Vaccines

Unnecessary vaccinations for babies (such as hepatitis B) were questioned in the first issue of MassNews in a front-page story in June 1999. The Globe finally began its catch-up last month with its own front-page story, “Fears raised over preservative in vaccines.” But it’s not just the mercury preservative that concerns mothers. It’s the vaccines themselves that are damaging and killing children. We reported that in 1996 there were only 279 cases of hepatitis B reported in children under 14 in the entire United States. However, there were 214 reports of serious reactions and 13 deaths in children receiving the hepatitis B vaccine alone. For those receiving it in combination with other vaccinations, there were 872 serious reactions and 48 deaths. There is now a bill on Beacon Hill (H1936) which would allow the parents to decide whether to give the shot.

The Perfect Family, According to Globe

The sad story of the half-white, half-black young man who planned to blow up a Jewish or black landmark in Boston has really perplexed the Boston Globe. How could this possibly happen, they ask, to a boy who was raised in a “liberal, progressive household headed by his mother and her female partner?”

The baffled radical feminists wondered, “[T]o those who know of the 30-year-old [man’s] upbringing in a household that both preached the virtues of tolerance and lived them, the case has become a mystery larger than the alleged crime itself...”

Domestic Violence Likely from Irish Women

Women are more likely than men to perpetrate domestic violence, according to new research on Irish couples who seek marriage counseling, according to the Irish Times.

In a survey of 530 clients of the largest counseling service in the country, the researchers found domestic violence occurs in 48 per cent of all relationships which are sufficiently troubled for one or both partners to seek counseling.

Where there is violence, about one-third of the couples (33 per cent) inflict violence on each other. Female violence occurs in about four out of 10 couples (41 per cent) and male violence in a quarter of couples (26 per cent). This caused the researchers to conclude that “women are more likely than men to be the perpetrators of domestic violence.”

They cite research from the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand which, they say, shows that the “prevalence of domestic violence among men and women, both as victims and as perpetrators, is broadly similar for all types of violence, both psychological and physical, minor and severe. In addition, both men and women are about equally likely to initiate domestic violence and seem to give broadly similar reasons for doing so.

“However, it needs to be emphasized that the outcomes of domestic violence in terms of physical and psychological injuries tend to be considerably more negative for female victims than for male,” they add.

International studies suggest “domestic violence probably occurs in about 10 to 20 per cent of all heterosexual relationships - with considerably higher prevalence rates for younger cohabiting couples who are not married - and tends to be severe in about one-third of all cases.”

Civil Rights Commission Continues Attacks Against Thernstrom

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is continuing its attacks on Abigail Thernstrom, Lexington, and another dissenting Commissioner.

After it used a Gore consultant to write its report about the Florida election and it withheld information from the two Republican members, the Commission is now trying to suppress the dissenting members’ views.

Commission attorneys claimed that the minority report cannot be published because the Republican members used work by an unpaid volunteer, Harvard law professor John Lott, Jr., the Washington Times reported.

“This censorship seems outrageous to me, and I would think it would embarrass the commission to do this,” Prof. Lott said.

The Commission’s web site has the majority’s 188-page report, but not the dissenting report.

Westford Schools Violate State Law on Home Schooling

The Westford schools are violating state law about home schooling, the Home School Legal Defense Association has charged.

It says that at the beginning of July, the school district sent a letter to home schoolers informing them that parents must “file a written letter of intent,” as well as present “a written application.” The new policy also requires a meeting with the Superintendent to discuss the educational plan.

The home schoolers say they have written to Westford explaining that in 1987 the Supreme Judicial Court, in the case of Care and Protection of Charles, ruled that a superintendent or school committee can impose only such requirements as are “essential” to state interests.

A policy requiring two separate filings every year is definitely not essential, the association claims. Additionally, it says, a meeting with parents cannot be considered essential, because a simple exchange of written correspondence is sufficient to handle all administrative matters.

The group has offered to help the town revise its policy.

Cheryl Jacques Has Hands Full at WRKO

Sen. Cheryl Jacques had her hands full last month on WRKO’s “Morning Show.”

She said when talking about her Congressional race, she wanted to do something about gay teens who have “attempted” suicide. A woman caller named Susan picked up on that and said the majority of teens who actually commit suicide don’t have a father at home.

“Cheryl Jacques is known as the most anti-family legislator in the State House,” said Susan. “She does not support that every child has a right to a father and a mother. She does not support the father-child relationship after divorce and separation. She has done nothing to reverse custody in cases where the custodial parent, who are mostly women, has deliberately made false allegations of abuse against the non-custodial parent.” Jacques then jumped in to quickly change the subject, saying in a scoffing way that in cases of abuse she would uphold the law. But she didn’t want to talk any more with Susan.