[GPSCC-chat] Violence and Rape ... In California

[alexcathy at aol.com]

    "We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."-- Martin Luther King   
 Dear Old Santa Clara Green Friends,

Saratoga is a very affluent upscale suburb in California's so-called Silicon Valley. Just goes to show thesick cult of mindless violence and rape is not just "over there" in India, Palestine, or Africa and not just the "inner city" of "those people."

Needless to say, these monstrous goings-on in the context of "Silicon Valley" are a violation of just aboutall of our 10 Key values, even though, for reasons I do not understand, these kinds of stories never see tomove what 'ole Alex Cockburn used to call the "pwogwessive" activist class. Well,I have 4 grandchildren growing up in California -- 2 down here in L.A. and 2 up in Silicon Valley.At this stage of my life, I am not ashamed to say that making a better community for them IS my first priority.

Alex Walker
Los Angeles Greens

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Published by The San Jose Mercury News, Friday, April 12, 2013
    Teens arrested in rape case tied to Saratoga High student's suicide

    By Eric Kurhi     

SARATOGA -- Three 16-year-old boys were arrested Thursday in the sexual battery of an intoxicated and unconscious 15-year-old Saratoga High School student, who killed herself last fall after photos of the assault went viral.s Angeles Community College District's Seat 6 was the only one with an incumbent candidate running in the March elections. It was also the most vigorously contested of the three races. Perhaps in the wake of The Times' 2011 series exposing waste and ethical lapses in the district's expenditure of billions of dollars of bond money on new construction, opponents sensed that longtime board member Nancy Pearlman, one of the building program's main advocates, was vulnerable.

When digital photos showing what had happened "spread like wildfire," the aftermath was so humiliating and torturous the gifted and well-loved Audrie Pott could no longer take it, said Robert Allard, the attorney for her family.

"Poor Audrie was terrorized by cyberbullying," Allard said.

She posted on Facebook, calling it the "worst day in her life," a life she now wanted to end -- which she did Sept. 10, eight days after the assault...



Link to Original Story:
    http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_23008220/south-bay-teens-arrested-rape-case-tied-girls

 
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