Kevin I hope you start reporting again on cnn. Now it seemsthat cnn pulled your picture off the on scene special report from the front lines . Wish someone who tell me what went wrong hope your safe.

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Yes, Kevin, it doesn't look to me as if this woman is happy about you taking her photograph. It makes me wonder if you have bothered to ask for her permission. Her fisionomy shows a person who is being invaded as much as the physical terrotory of Iraq. It can be quite intrusive to be this greedy, to capture her face-message in the middle of war times and expose it as new material to the public. It might be interesting to try and put ourselves in her shoes, try to imagine being her, or even imagine if she was your own mother. Would you care to ask? What sort of ethic values do count in days like these anyway?

A typically western take on 'alien' cultures. Trouble with foreigners is they're not like you, eh Kevin? So they drink Coke, go to university, have dropped their hejabs...and are now beginning to look like us. Makes all those tonnes of bombs that we're dropping on them pretty well worthwhile.

"it's a bit more liberal" than what?
And what's the sign of liberty? a university? or some women dressing Western? As vague as all other CNN reports.

Well, if we're looking to "free" women up to democracy, they might want to hang on to their veils. We have it on paper, but not in the courts. See, http:/.www.familylawcourts.com

or, Harsh Judgment
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-06-19/...w.html/1/index.html

or,
Financial issues...Judge posts a Dog behind a pro-per in family court
http://www.marininjustice.com/PacificSunArticle.html

Further south....it's really whacked in San Diego.

San Diego's nightmare...
March: Cover Story - San Diego Magazine
http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/march02/featurea0302.shtml
 
Readers flooded the phones, necessitating a follow up.
 
San Diego Magazine: November:
http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/november02/frontpage21102.shtml
 
Reaction? After two, local televised exposes, (the Turko files), the County dumped Griffin but not before demanding repayment of $69,000.00.
 
Did Casey Gwinn prosecute her for fraud? (I have copies of receipts from her for counseling). Nope. Gwinn thought she'd be an excellent, "community partner" at his much ballyhooed, "Family Justice Center," instead.
http://www.familyjusticecenter.org/fjcmain_cp_hh.htm
 
Exhibit A, for making a buck off already at risk, kids.
 
So Griffin merely diverted donations to a PR firm, changed the name of her company to "Hannah's House" and partnered with the City of San Diego, self-nicknamed, "Americas Finest City." They Won't prosecute here. If you're interested in reading a copy of a taped interview with the police promising prosecution, (which begins with: "Turn that tape recorder off!") I'm happy to forward it. (I also have a copy of the H&HS report...and other depositions of Family Court Services personnel lying about their credentials. The attorneys know about it...but if they blew the whistle...God knows, some people at FCS might look bad and they won't do that, ever.
 
So, Gwinn continues the practice of putting children at risk by incompetents, for profit, first documented by the 1992 San Diego Grand Jury in their letter to Senate Pro Tem, John Burton requesting urgent action. http://www.liftingtheveil.org/burton.htm

I don't know why people don't put it together that the same kind of people who work in the dependency side...also work in family court.
 
"Domestic violence" is the operative phrase for federal funding; and there's too much federal funds available to end it. Consider the stats at http://www.familylawcourts.com/domestic.html

Domestic violence isn't. It's murder, assault and battery and, after forty years, deliberately mislabeled.

Thinking about calling a cop? Rethink that. Sixty-six cases of LA cops not prosecuted for domestic violence, (although the whistle-blower was). http://www.familylawcourts.com/badcop.html

Any number of men, including cops, are killing, rather than divorcing, their spouses.

The Killing Fields: Men Killing Women at Home or at Court...Scroll for a hundred
articles http://www.worldcrossing.com/WebX?13@@.ef20d76

Bad Company. Cops and Judges we wouldn't allow in our homes....Scroll for
close to one hundred articles
http://www.worldcrossing.com/WebX?13@44.Ctrmcn9T3wB^4@.ef146d9

Judges in family courts figured out how to make misogyny profitable...feel free to contact me for names in most states.

As bad as this is, women attempting to protect themselves and their children are being severely punished, often losing custody of the children in physical abuse cases.

Greetings,

I have found another blog of what appears to be an Iarqi wanting Democracy in Iraq. He/she tells of day to day life in Iraq. You may find it quite interesting.

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

-Ravon

Of course, the woman is a bit leery, did you ask her permission to take her photograph? Just wondering...

Great images. Hearing there are surrenduring Iraqi soldiers already...is this true? God bless you and keep you safe..

In listening to the BBC I have heard reports of some hostility, but many many Iraqis seem to understand where the coalition is coming from and they see liberation on the horizon, but they are terribly frightened of war, and of dying and watching their loved ones die.

Following up on Ravon's question, do the Iraqi people you have met want to be "liberated" from Saddam?

Kevin, keep up the excellent work!

Dave in Dayton, OH

As you are the only direct connection between us, state side, and a world many miles aways, what do the people in this area think of us?

Short of the death that will come from war, do they believe we are doing the right things? Will any of this make a difference to them?

ravontus@yahoo.com - Indiana, US