Posted on 02/16/2002 3:08:38 PM PST by T'wit
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEW HAVEN -- The prosecutor stood before the judge and bluntly described the defendant's crimes: former Yale professor Antonio Lasaga had repeatedly raped a little boy and had obsessively collected tens of thousands of images depicting the sexual torture of children.
The crimes are not in dispute. They were horrific enough that Lasaga's family wept in court Friday when they heard them recounted.
They were horrific enough to merit, in the judge's view, a 20-year sentence.
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These arrogant and criminal perverts should NEVER reach trial.
Surely, justifiable homicide.
Semper Fi
Heinrich D. Holland
Harry C. Dudley Research Professor of Economic Geology
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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Lasaga's hands must have slipped while he was playing with the boy and the mistake was misconstrued as fondling
Boy, these professors sure are a high-IQ bunch, aren't they? Good thing we're not trusting the future of our entire economy to a bunch of professors. Oh, wait a second, I just remembered Global Warming. Yes, I guess we are trusting our entire economic future to a bunch of professors. Yeah, but that's different. They wouldn't put their own careers above the truth in that case, would they?
We have elevated belief in science to replace belief in G-d, and the tragic result is an amoral gang. Science certainly has its place, but if absolute morality does not keep it in check life itself is in danger.
Hiroshi Ohmoto Ph.D., Princeton, 1969
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I guess Harris knew the amorality of academia better than anyone would have guessed.
An interesting point. The book, of course, is blameless, and evidently useful. Nor has it any connection with the crimes. I don't see any legal basis for taking away the professor's royalties. The only "option" left -- and let's be clear that I am joking <g> -- is to snub his copyright and flood the market with zillions of cheap pirated copies.
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence.
Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.
They just love it so, it's above questions like that.
Children are being used for funding, sexual pleasure, and political power. Nothing more.
Think what they WILL do with him.
Spoken like a true, bedwetting, drooling, leftist bleeding-heart liberal.
The scary thing is, they are educating our young. Be afraid....be very afraid!
.45MAN: barf-bag alert {{{{PING}}}}
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