I'd recently accepted what amounted to a volunteer journalist position with a Toronto-based Web news source. Little did I know that while the editor claimed to like my style & attitude, the articles I'd written up have yet to be uploaded to his site. He continues to ask for more pieces -- & he even likes my stuff so much he allows me to pick my own stories -- but I feel it wasted effort if my work doesn't get published. What's more, he refuses to even address my queries concering bylines. Not one of his writers is credited on the site. Am I asking too much?
In any case, so these two articles won't go entirely to waste, I add them here:
In any case, so these two articles won't go entirely to waste, I add them here:
18 April
G20 Storm Trooper Beats Bystander To Death
Ian Tomlinson, 47 year old newspaper vendor, was simply on his way home from work. His path took him not only right through the site of the G20 protests in London the afternoon of 3 April, but had also brought him face to face with destiny.
As can be seen in The Guardian video, Tomlinson was walking away from the police when one of the storm troopers had violently forced him to the ground with his baton. Tomlinson had been helped by two of the protesters, got up and walked away. Within minutes, he had collapsed, was attended to by emergency personnel and taken away.
An initial post-mortem had by an unnamed forensics examiner determined that Tomlinson had died as a result of a heart attack. Clearly, this seemed suspicious due to the unprovoked attack. A second post-mortem was then performed. Dr Nat Cary found that an abdominal hemorrhage was the cause of death.
An officer, presumedly the officer in the video beating Tomlinson, involved in the incident has since been questioned for manslaughter, confirmed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Tomlinson's son Paul King said: "First we were told that there had been no contact with the police, then we were told that he died of a heart attack.
"Now we know that he was violently assaulted by a police officer and died from internal bleeding."
23 April
Cheney Violates Patriot Act Provision
In a move which clearly violates the Patriot Act, former US Vice President Dick "Go fuck yourself" Cheney attempting to influence political policy said "...The White House should release papers showing 'the success' of harsh methods of questioning terror suspects."
Last week the Obama administration had released Justice Department memos prepared during the administration of former President G. W. Bush that provided legal justification for interrogation methods including waterboarding and slamming subjects' heads against the wall, methods which always work in Hollywood movies.
President Obama said the United States will not use the techniques in the future.
In an interview with Fox News, Cheney said he was troubled by the release of the Justice Department memos.
"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort.
"I've now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was," Cheney said.
G20 Storm Trooper Beats Bystander To Death
Ian Tomlinson, 47 year old newspaper vendor, was simply on his way home from work. His path took him not only right through the site of the G20 protests in London the afternoon of 3 April, but had also brought him face to face with destiny.
As can be seen in The Guardian video, Tomlinson was walking away from the police when one of the storm troopers had violently forced him to the ground with his baton. Tomlinson had been helped by two of the protesters, got up and walked away. Within minutes, he had collapsed, was attended to by emergency personnel and taken away.
An initial post-mortem had by an unnamed forensics examiner determined that Tomlinson had died as a result of a heart attack. Clearly, this seemed suspicious due to the unprovoked attack. A second post-mortem was then performed. Dr Nat Cary found that an abdominal hemorrhage was the cause of death.
An officer, presumedly the officer in the video beating Tomlinson, involved in the incident has since been questioned for manslaughter, confirmed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
Tomlinson's son Paul King said: "First we were told that there had been no contact with the police, then we were told that he died of a heart attack.
"Now we know that he was violently assaulted by a police officer and died from internal bleeding."
23 April
Cheney Violates Patriot Act Provision
In a move which clearly violates the Patriot Act, former US Vice President Dick "Go fuck yourself" Cheney attempting to influence political policy said "...The White House should release papers showing 'the success' of harsh methods of questioning terror suspects."
Last week the Obama administration had released Justice Department memos prepared during the administration of former President G. W. Bush that provided legal justification for interrogation methods including waterboarding and slamming subjects' heads against the wall, methods which always work in Hollywood movies.
President Obama said the United States will not use the techniques in the future.
In an interview with Fox News, Cheney said he was troubled by the release of the Justice Department memos.
"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort.
"I've now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was," Cheney said.
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