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  • Naked Men: The ManKind Project and Michael Scinto

    10/06/2007 5:53:22 AM PDT · by i_dont_chat · 21 replies · 1,969+ views
    The Houston Press ^ | 10-04-07 | Chris Vogel
    The organization was supposed to make him a better man. Instead, his parents say, it made him a dead one. The ManKind Project offers trainings which support men in developing lives of integrity, accountability and connection to feeling." — From The ManKind Project Web site "They had three naked men bring out two chickens that they hit with a ­hammer." — Michael Scinto in a letter to a ­Madison County sheriff's deputy. Michael Scinto was literally scared to death. On an isolated 11-acre compound down a winding, country dirt road 110 miles north of Houston, Scinto watched as the leader...
  • Charge Tossed on Texas Business Lobby's Election Ads

    07/01/2006 5:15:25 PM PDT · by anymouse · 1 replies · 361+ views
    Dallas Morning News / Associated Press ^ | June 30, 2006 | JIM VERTUNO
    Group didn't violate state campaign funding law, judge decides AUSTIN – A state district judge threw out a felony indictment against the Texas Association of Business on Thursday, ruling that the group's ads in the 2002 legislative elections did not expressly advocate the defeat or election of candidates. The ruling is probably a significant blow to Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle's prosecution of the state's largest and most powerful business lobby. (snip) Judge Lynch's order said prosecutors' theory of illegal campaign expenses, while innovative, cannot be found in the state election code. Even if it were, it would be...
  • The truth about Tom Delay's charges

    10/04/2005 7:15:50 AM PDT · by rwtruthteller · 1 replies · 247+ views
    The Truth Report ^ | rwtruthteller
    It seems that District Attorney Ronnie Earl hasn’t heard of the ex post facto provision that the framer put in our constitution. For those who do not know, the constitution prohibits prosecution of an act that was legal when it was done, but later a law was passed making it illegal. A hypothetical example: someone commits a brutal murder, but people think the existing laws will not punish the murderer severely enough; so the legislative powers enact laws that will more severely punish those who have committed the crime of murder ensuring that this specific murderer will get a prison...
  • Travis prosecutors pursued new charge to fix problem with last week's conspiracy count.

    10/03/2005 10:29:57 PM PDT · by YaYa123 · 18 replies · 960+ views
    The Austin Statesman ^ | Monday October 3, 2005 | Laylan Copelin
    Travis County prosecutors rushed Monday to fix problems with an indictment against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay by charging the Sugar Land Republican with the first-degree felony of money laundering. Last week a Travis County grand jury ended its term by indicting DeLay on a charge that accused him of conspiring to violate state campaign finance laws. The problem with that indictment, according to DeLay's lawyers, was that the conspiracy law did not apply to the election code in 2002. The Texas Legislature changed the law, which went into effect Sept. 1, 2003. That left Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle...